Chris Plank & Arnie Spanier React Live to Steelers/Ravens & Set the Playoff Table!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now, let's go, stinking genius, let's go, big boy, let's go,
let's go. My my family and I. My son's already
on his way back to West Point after his winner break.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I guess you would say holiday break. Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
So it's just me and the girls and MOI, and
we've always had this agreement for the last weekend of
the football season.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
They kind of leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's like, ah, this is it because they're so used
to the Raiders not having any more games. And I
would just like to report to you right off the top, Arnie,
that what people have been saying about, if An O'Connell
was healthy this year, the Raiders would be in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I think it's true.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh and I think that's the one thing that kept
this team from being what they could be, and that
is not having an o'conna lall season long.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Awre you buying any of that?

Speaker 4 (00:47):
No, not for a second, man, not for a second.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
We sat and I watched and I was just I
was in shock that that was the Raiders and a
Chiefs game.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I mean, would you imagine if that would have cost
you the number one pick on.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
That Claris, I would have been insane.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Oh I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
But can I tell you something It's gonna sound weird
by the way. You have a good holiday. I know
you worked a lot. Yeah, a good holiday with the family.
I know you're not supposed to say, by Larry David rules,
Happy New Year anymore?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Are you not allowed to say that?

Speaker 6 (01:14):
The ya?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't that was just always his Like four days
after New Year's is that too late to say?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Happy New Year?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
But I think it's okay? So yeah, Mary, New Year, Mary,
New Year? But good holiday weekend, Yeah, yeah, good holiday.
You know, did a lot of filling, but everything went good.
A lot of games on, lots to talk about. So
happy New Year to you, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
In the final four teams in the college football playoffs,
exactly right on my bracket, as I'm sure it is
in yours too, right.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I don't think I got one right. I don't think
I got one right in the whole damn thing I got.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I got Oregon right, and I got No that was it.
Holly got Oregon right. I got all the other three wrong.
I thought Alabama was gonna win. I was so dumb,
But it was fun weekend it was a fun weekend.
I'm glad that I got to hang with you. But
I I'm watching the Raiders and the Chiefs game, and
I think think there was a couple of other games
like this. Washington Philly was like this. I mean, heck,

(02:06):
the second half of the cow can we guys, can
those of you that get drunk on Joe Milton the preseason,
can you go back and always have the second half
of this game that he played today that will shut
you up? For goodness sakes, It's hard to imagine that's
an NFL team with all.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
The quarterbacks, all the backup quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
This was Poler was out there at one point.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
This was one step above a exhibition game, is what
it was.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't even know who was that dude. It might
have been a step behind it, right, Yeah, I mean
it was crazy. I And again, when you're when you
have your like you love the Dolphins and like Iowa,
Sam loves Iowa State. I'm just kidding Sam and Siowa, right,
it's not Iowa State. Hey, Hey, it's very competitive up there.
I want to get the Island's mattic that's right, I

(02:53):
but no.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
It's dude, it's so bad it was so.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Bad, and I'm not I'm not sure kind to diminish
any of the fun that we're gonna have tonight talking
about the playoffs, talking about the college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
The matchup is Sunday.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
That football game has been amazing, But hey, I was
happy the Raiders won and still get the number one
pick in the draft. Sucks to be the Giants today,
but you know, the Cowboys didn't really need you too
much of a solid by putting that disaster and at
quarterback after the It's almost one of the more brilliant
trolls that Jerry Jones has ever pulled. If you think
about an army, here's a game that doesn't matter to

(03:27):
either one of them at all except for the potential
of the Giants and where they might draft. So they
kind of go out there and the Cowboys show that, yeah,
you know, they could probably beat him if they wanted to,
and then just sat Dak and then just decided to
let them win the football game so could ruin their
draft stats. I thought that was a brilliant troll. If
the Cowboys were smart enough to come up with that.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
You know, I feel like, as I was gonna say,
with the Cowboys that beat in the playoffs and in
the second year, first time back to back years since
two thousand, so in twenty five years they've not missed
the playoffs back to back. And with Kansas City out
of the playoffs, my Dolphins out of the playoffs, Detroit
out of the playoffs, Mark I did. I just feel

(04:09):
I could. It was just like a blase a year.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
This year, I say, you can say it, and then
you get the final two weeks where even the most
ardent fan is you know, I was laying out. You're
even googling up guys to figure out where did this
guy come from?

Speaker 7 (04:24):
Gee?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
We picked him up last week. Okay, well I guess
they're gonna throwing the ball here. Well, good good luck.
I mean, it's just crazy. So thank you to the
NFL for getting through another season. But I I feel
like maybe this is a conversation. It's it's evergreen for
you know, our May June July shows, aren't he right?
But I'm starting to come around to your side, not

(04:47):
by by no means load management for quarterbacks. I'm not
there yet, but I am coming around to your side
that they need to do something. I don't know what
it is, but they've got to address how. And I
get we're watching a game tonight for a playoff berth
and it's been a fun game to watch. Seven five
to go in the game, Baltimore leads at seventeen thirteen
over Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
The Steelers are driving.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I mean, I feel like we're reaching this point,
especially if we're gonna expand the season to where we
have a week seventeen and eighteen problem, don't we in
the NFL?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
No, I'm overreacting to.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
No, No, not only do we have a week seventeen
and eighteen problem, more likely eighteen, but they already tried
to do something about it. That's why we scheduled in
division games, right because if you were playing in division,
they got to be fighting it up for the.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Divisional site on the line.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, so you know, maybe it was just a one
year thing that it didn't just quite work out. So
maybe that's a possibility, but I mean that's what they
tried to do. That that was their solution. And now
when we go to at another game and we'll have
eighteen games, my goodness man, I mean, with all their
injuries out there, do we still really need the Thursday game?

(05:53):
After three days after you play on Sunday. We're just
pushing it, pushing it with these guys. And that's where
I come in with the load management. Sooner or later,
you you got to have to have two quarterbacks on
your roster. I haven't done the numbers with Chris, but
but how many quarterbacks actually started every game this year
and played it?

Speaker 8 (06:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean it's it's minimal. It's minimal.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, it really is if you think about it. And
I'm sure and I'm sure that someone would push back
on us and say, buddy, what do you see the
TV ratings?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And You're right.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I mean it's not like I'm not watching, but I'm
I'm watching differently. You know, I'm watching red Zone. I'm
not watching every second I'm able to pull away whenever
it's like, oh, there's only one good game left and
it's got a two score lead on it right now,
and it's Josh Johnson out there. I think I think
he's finished the season.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
There's like fifth different team where he started a game
in Week eighteen, and it was always someone else. But
I just I don't know, man, it's kind of gross.
And then oh, big play for the Steelers. They've got
it all the way down to the five yard line,
six minutes to go, first and goal, Pittsburgh. We'll keep
you updated on the Sunday Night thrill or the winner.
Now for me in that terriblew's it fail?

Speaker 4 (07:04):
But I hate it? No, I hate it.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I was telling I was, by the way, I was
Sam lead a lap in tonight. Welcome gentlemen, and of
course to say grown updates. Yes, yes, I was telling,
I was Sam. How mad you are about this that
you're no longer ahead of us, that you actually pull
up game cast so you can still feel like you're
ahead of us.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I have a lame cast out.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
I'm thirty seconds behind you on the television, like twenty
seconds behind you, and it sucks. I just hate that.
It's about time you're on a level playing field, aren't
he ruins, It ruins the whole thing. I can see why.
I see why you guys were mad at me for
the last decade.

Speaker 9 (07:42):
You were like bifft handed back to the future too.
You had like the app the almanac. You know, it
wasn't fair. You could see what was gonna happen. Did
we see coaches miscalculate? Did they did we see coaches
misplay their handed down. I'm gonna give you two one.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Nick Sirianni Philadelphia decides to arrest the starters everyone.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
We'll have these quarterbacks that will spend a lot of
time through the draft process either falling in love with
or seeing them a few times in the preseason, and
we always kind of stump for him, and it's like,
give them an opportunity. Tanner McKee is definitely that we
pipe that down a little bit after watching him today.
It was not pretty. Washington ends up beating the Eagles
twenty four to seventeen. I wonder if there was a

(08:23):
miscalculation from Nick Sirianna on that part, and then from
Jim Harball today too. And I think de Segre laid
it out eloquently because we knew at this point last
week that hardball wasn't gonna play justin Herbert or wait,
was that during one of our filings last week out
everything ran together. Bottom line is I mean, it's not
really gonna affect you in the first game, but what

(08:44):
about if you're in that position to where you could
have home field advantage over a team that you decided
to punt on the final week you lose, you dropped
a little bit in the seating, and now you gotta
go on the road for an AFC or an NFC
championship game that maybe you could be fighting for at home.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
You were up a seat higher.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
It never used to be like this. If your team
had any chance to move on down, you were playing
every It didn't make it a resiview. We're just going
from four to five or from two to three. You're like, no, no, no,
we could We can't possibly fall on back. We got
to play everybody the whole thing here. So I'm surprised
we have the relaxing of the days ago attitude like
within the last three or four years. And Chris, just

(09:23):
one more thing real quick on, I'll give you a
good hot take right now, seventeen thirteen, right, I would
say second and goal. Right, Pittsburgh is about five yards
away from winning this game, hopefully, And if they win
this game. The only reason I say that, if they
win this game, they were five yards away from pushing

(09:46):
Lamar Jackson out to the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Did you see that though? He just had that touchdown pass?
Now now you won him. Now you're like, well, you
know you saw that throw he had. He's still got
that arm angle.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, the guy was wide open. I mean I could
have made that throw.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
We got to run away from it, dude, goodness.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
The guy was running in the backfield and finally a
guy got wide open. The guy was four of eight
before them, though up he got.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I cannot wait for this flip on Lamar Jackson, whenever
he ends up on the on the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
It doesn't make a difference. I already saw the schedule
for Miami next year.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, we're gonna schedule No.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Sixteen. The only team that we're better than is the
is Las Vegas. That's the only team we're.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Gonna We're a whole lot of seconds, everybody.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't know if you realize this, but Fernando Mendoz
is coming with a core that already includes Brock Bauers
and Ashton Gent.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
We're about ready to take over this league.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Babash in seventeen, then I can see that eight right
over the.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
League next year.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I will say, I don't think I've ever been more
wrong than how I felt about this year's team.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I mean, I'm truly depressed about it. I'm in a slump,
you know.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I thought I had a good handle on the NFL draft,
and none of the guys got drafted where I thought
they would. Missed all my Well, I did win the
college basketball this year, but I missed all my picks
and the college football playoff picks. And I truly thought
after the Raiders one Week one against New England and
the way they did, I mean, I'm not gonna say,
I started looking at ticket prices for the playoffs, so.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
The no stops, I mean, when you do that to
New England.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
But in all seriousness, man, was that one of the
more epic bottoms falling out of a team that we
saw from the Raiders this year. And now it ends
up with him maybe finally potentially getting a franchise quarterback
touchdown Pittsburgh, Kenneth Gainwell, that little Jets suite that's worked.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh so well with him.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
The Steelers will take the lead with three p forty
nine to go on an eight point sixty yard scoring
drive four point fifty three off the clock, nineteen seventeen
Steelers extra point pending thanks for three minutes.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
The Raiders suck for just a bit.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Or three minutes and fifty seconds away from Lamar Jackson
going to the Dolphins next year? I can are you.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Angry about that? I mean, you can't stand Tua anymore?
So No, I have some other quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I could probably think of about three or four of
the quarterbacks that I would probably want over Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Wow, extra point is good. Twenty to seventeen. Now Steelers
with three forty nine left. But real quick circle back
because we brought it up and I don't want to
leave it hanging. But the Raiders picking one the Jets
now too. You're gonna see the top two quarterbacks go
off the board in the first two picks. Right, You're
gonna see either Mendoza or More go one and then

(12:27):
kind of like when we had Carson Wentz and Jared Goff,
whoever ever doesn't go one probably gonna go two, right.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Right, That's well, I'm thinking Mendoza is a definite number one.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
So I do too.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Man. Yeah, the nerd no fooling around right.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now, get that nerd in Vegas. It's gonna it's either
gonna be the greatest thing that's ever happened or.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
The worst nerd in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Bring that, you know, revenge of the nerds. It kind
of found another level.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't know what's gonna happen with this Mendoza dude
whenever he gets in Vegas, but I will add I
don't know if I can ever get on board with
sitting guys the way that the Chargers and the Eagles
did whenever there was so much on the line today
for both of them.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I get it. I would love to hear the counter
to it.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I know to Seger talked about last week, but I'm
sorry to go back to it again.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Arnie.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's just blowing my mind that you had a chance
to improve your seating, even by the slightest, and you didn't.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
And you don't do it. You don't go out and
do it.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
You have a different attitude that God forbid. Somebody had
gotten hurt and you're like, oh no, what do I
doing for crying out loud? You knuckle ahead. You We
pay you a lot of money to make decisions like this,
and you just the whole season's gone because of you.
So looky, looky that nobody got hurt, though even even
backups sometimes you need those backups too.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, biggest story of the day, of course, part of
it was finished up on Saturday night whenever the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
What am I saying?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
The Seahawks hammered home the one seed. By the way,
what do you think of the way Seattle looked? Holy
smokes man, their defense came to play. And I gotta
tell you something. I know that we don't brag about
NFL crowds being rowdy too terribly much because we hardly
ever have the sound up whenever the show's going on.
But man, I'll tell you what. That's San Francisco crob.
They were on it last night. That was fun to see.

(14:04):
And I'm sure there's someone that would come in and say, oh,
it's nothing like the Twelfth Man.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
I'm not comparing it.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm just saying that's not an environment I think of
that way very often. And it was Rocket and then
unfortunately got punched in the face, and that looked like
a Super Bowl defensive Seahawks out out there.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
That that loss caused San Francisco the Super Bowl. They wouldn't. Yeah,
they win that game, they stay at home, and they
even stay at home for the Super Bowl, so they
wouldn't even have to pack up their bags. It's a
great night's sleep home in their own Ailes every step
of the way. They lost. Now and now they're on
the road, they're not even gonna get out of the
first round.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
So the big story then have getting announced on at
halftime of this game between the Steelers and the Ravens
is the playoff schedule. Rams at Panthers will be the
first game of the weekend. It's like the first time
the Texans haven't been the first playoff game on a
weekend in a long time.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I won't know what to do with myself.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Rams and Panthers on Saturday, that's gonna be the Fox
game at three o'clock Central time.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Packers at Bears will be the Amazon Prime game.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
That'll be Primetime on Saturday night, and then the Sunday
tripleheader noon CBS Bills at Jaguars, three point thirty Central
on Fox, Niners at Eagles, and then the NBC game.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Will be the Chargers of the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, and the Monday night football will be the Texans
at the winner of this game where Pittsburgh leads at
twenty seventeen over Baltimore with two forty three, the Ravens
driving towards midfield. Anything else really jump out at you?

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, the lower seeds. The lower seeds were favorite over
the higher seeds already. I think at about three or
four games.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
They already got them all out.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I haven't seen that email we'll usually get with all
the spreads on it yet anything.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well, like you know, the the Bills are favored over
the Jaguars even though it's in Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It makes sense.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, not saying I buy I'm not saying I buy it,
but it makes sense right with how people talk about
Josh Allen and them.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Now, what do you think about the Bears Packers? What
do you think that line would be in Chio?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, now it's in Chicago. Yeah, I would guess Bears
by knowing the injury problem the Packers have, which everyone
seems to be ignoring. What Bears about like two and
a half maybe a point.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Pick them, it's a pick them game then really yes,
And the Packers are not all impressive right now. Oh,
I know they've played backup quarterbacks, but still I'm not
the way Chicago looks at home, I'd be all over
the Chicago Bears right now.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Touchdown Baltimore a busted coverage, there is a flag on
the field, and the way the Ravens are reacting. This
is going against Pittsburgh. It's gonna stand. Oh my god,
open yeah, day Flowers. I'm gonna run that in holding defense. Yeah,

(16:41):
the client touchdown. The Ravens are gonna take the lead
with two twenty to go on his eight flowers touchdown pass,
which was one of the worst worst, worst busted coverages.
Aren't he I've seen three plays seventy three yards just
a minute twenty nine?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
You're hey? Are you getting mad?

Speaker 6 (16:59):
Now?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Lamar Jackson might not be coming No, thank goodness for that.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
By the way, are we two minutes and twenty seconds
away from seeing the end of Aaron Rodgers? I don't
think so. I all all reports I'm coming on back.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh today, don't I think he likes playing the game.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
So I think you and I will be sitting here
in four months from now debating whether or not Aaron
Rodgers is coming back, with the twisted part of the
debate being whether or not he should extra points. Good,
all right, we gotta break to twenty left in a
Sunday night thriller.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
The Ravens back to back bombs by Lamar Jackson have
taken the lead twenty four to twenty over the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Welcome to Miami. No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
We'll see if Aaron Rodgers can pull it off next
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Speaker 4 (18:31):
That was crazy. How about that.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Aaron Rodgers from one t six yards out touchdown to
Calvin Austin wide wide open, lost him down the sidelines.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
That's like three broken coverages. In the last two minutes
of this game.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
By each team. All the corner fell down, double move.
Oh is that what I Gottomy fell down? Yeah, he
slipped and fell. But then the extra point might have
been the worst extra point I think I've ever seen.
It look like one of my golf shots. It looked
like it was right down down the middle. Then all
of a sudden it's sliced wide right and it just
kept going. So the extra point is no good, which

(19:08):
means that the Ravens can win this game with a
field goal twenty six, twenty four, still fifty five seconds left,
and get this outing Baltimore has all three of its
time out.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
You know, Lamar Jackson's gonna go ahead and scramble pick
up like thirty yards, get the ball to like midfield
or to forty the of Pittsburgh and they'll be in
field goal range and like a player or two. That's
what's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, no, kidd man, you're not kidding. That is that
is the law of the land. Down in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
You Aaron Rodgers up in the air and getting all
excited stuff like.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
That great drive and then they miss the extra point.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
That's gonna kill him.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
We're getting a good one here tonight, Arnie and I
will be all over twenty six, twenty four. Do you
give either one of these teams a chance hosting the
Texans next week? Oh my gosh, big kick return for
the Ravens. They got it all the way out to
almost midfield.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Well there you go there when they're a field goal
range right right right away and they got to gas.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
A chance to beat Houston next week?

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean I probably would give Baltimore
a little bit of a better chance. Uston defense is
so good, But I mean it's it's a pickup game.
If you're asking me, it's a coin flip in that
game right there?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
What them and how the camera's just finding him, they're
following him everywhere after that missed extra point.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's kind of it's like one job. You have one job.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
This isn't like the Raiders Chiefs game where everything was
a field goal. I mean, you've had touchdowns, you've kicked
extra points, you've had I think what one field goal
in this game, and in the biggest moment, that's what happens.
The Ravens, by the way, already have it in Steelers territory.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
The Ravens kicker is with Tyler loop Right, the former
kicker at the University of Arizona, and he's a phenomenal kicker.
We knew right away. I mean he was a phenomen
I think it was drafted like the fourth round.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
But he had a.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Tendency in college to shank one every once in a while.
For a guy that was automatic, he would just step
up and go. I mean it was like you said,
just like what you got your golf shot and it's
like a worm burner or something like that. I've never
seen it. It's like Michael Jack, Michael Jordan airballing or
something into that effect. He could really shank one every

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once in a while.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I think the Ravens just got called for a pick
play because Mark Andrews was wide open. So about the
only thing that can hurt No, they're gonna call false star,
illegal motion. The only thing that could really hurt Baltimore
right now is to get in their own way turn
the football over. But let's see exactly where this yard,
So they're gonna be right at midfield right after an
illegal motion penalty. Plenty of time left in all three timeouts,

(21:49):
all the three timeouts. Yeah, they haven't even had to
use one yet. I mean, this is how did what
did this game get? Crazy? When did this happen? Was
I take ready for the show they bought? I'm sure
it wasn't all that high. I actually have scores and
odds right here in front of me. Let me look
at the like, well, it's up to fifty down. I
wonder if the last touchdown put it over?

Speaker 3 (22:09):
What it was it?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, it was fifty and a half when they kicked off,
so oh so it's fifty right now. It's fifty right now,
and it's fifty and a half. Lamar throws it away.
So it's gonna be third and seven. I don't think
we've well I say that setting that game two weeks ago,
but with what's on the line here tonight, we haven't
had anything with these stakes. So it's gonna be third

(22:30):
and seven for midfield. I don't I mean, I don't
think they're gonna They've got to pick up at least
six ten yards here to at least think about this
is being a field goal range.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
This is what we wanted in the final week of
the regular season. Yeah, with every game, and not every game,
but at least, you know, like four or five of
the games, and we didn't get that. That's why we
gotta mix things up a little bit. We just this
this week was like a C minus D plus week.
It was really that bad.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Here we go, third and seven for ball Ti Moore. Gosh,
Lamar just looks so smooth. Still you sure you don't
want this in Miami and oh my goodness, and he
got sacked, but he launched it.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Did you see what happened?

Speaker 7 (23:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I didn't. You're watching game cast.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Because you can't stand anyone being ahead again exactly. I
can't say completely, have no context for it forever. But
he was flung around and barely got rid of it.
I mean literally slung it underhand at the last minute
for it to be ruled an incomplete pass. So before
we bring into Sager, here for the update. This is

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the football game. Twenty one seconds left in Sunday night
football Steelers just to score to go ahead touchdown, missed
the extra point.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Oh they're going to take a time out. Well let's
leave it in dis sad you kick now?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Would you kick the field goal? I mean sixty range sixty.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
You can't kick sixty seven yarder? Who are you the
dude with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
He hit one from today? From how long I was watching,
I was it was it was sixty seven. You can't ehit?
What from sixty seven? That dude does it? What? Today?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, but I don't think this guy hasn't here's my point.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, especially in the stadium too, it'd be hard to do.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean you literally just said that he was good
for shank and an extra point every now every Doug.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
But he has a unbelievable leg though, that's why he
was drafted.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, his long this season is fifty two right right,
So I mean, if you want to take that shot
at sixty seven outside in Pittsburgh, then we'll see.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
I don't think they'll go for it.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Let's see what happens on this fourth down play timeout
is over twenty one seconds left. Ravens down to they
need to convert to keep the game alive. A lot
of pointing, a lot of good communication from the offensive line.
Right now, Let's see what Lamar is gonna do. He's
got wad all over him, oh my goodness, and incredible
catch at the twenty four yard line.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Who is that likely? Yes, Isaiah likely?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Who is I don't know my fantasy team this year,
so he is a heartbreaker, had two touchdown it basically
got ripped away from him. Makes a massive play that
puts Baltimore in field goal territory and as Steve the
Seger comes sliding in for what's trending, puts Baltimore in
a great position to win this game.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Heisty because it would be a forty yard field goal
from here, and Loop already hit a forty yarder in
the first half of this game. I kind of mentioned
on one of those passes recently thrown away by Lamar
Jackson on the second down from midfield, he had DeAndre
Hopkins standing alone, nobody within ten yards of him on
the sideline and he sailed it over his head as

(25:35):
if he was throwing it away on purpose. They just
made up the yardage loss with this fourth and seven
deep pass to the tight end Isaiah likely a twenty
six yard game. They're inside the twenty five fourteen seconds left.
Baltimore still has one time out left to use. The
Steelers had used all three timeouts by the time they

(25:57):
were about four minutes left in this game. It's twenty
six twenty four Pittsburgh in the lead. Tonight's winner will
be the AFC North champ. This is the regular season
finale in the NFL and tonight's witter will be hosting
the Texans next weekend, and we know that will be
the wild card Monday Night.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Here, you're gonna get to call a game winning field
goal potentially.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Here, say they just took a knee and took their
final time out. The Ravens will bring the kicker on
and this would be after taking the knee about a
forty five, yeah, forty four five. Dereck Henry with one
hundred and twenty six yards rushing for Baltimore, almost all
of that in the first half. Lamar Jackson with three
touchdown passes, all of them long, two long ones in

(26:39):
the fourth to Zay Flowers. He has one interception as well.
Loop is on the field. These are the final two
seconds of the NFL regular season from Pittsburgh Steelers' lead
twenty six twenty four. Each team is out of timeouts,
They're starting to line up. The holder is on the
field field and this will do it for the twenty

(27:02):
twenty five regular season.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
We await and he makes it. Houston Texans will make it.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
We went to U of A. Of course will make it.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Now.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
This is not Jacksonville kicking. This is Pittsburgh. This is
not a good kick.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh my goodness, he missed it. Oh my goodness, he
missed it.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
I just tell you.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
The good season is over at Pittsburgh. The Steelers have advanced,
winning twenty six twenty four on a missed forty four
yard attempt wide right on the final play of the
league's regular season.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
He did come. I told you.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
He shaked it. He shined it. I just do you
say you just told us. You said, oh, yeah, he's gonna.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Well, I told you before that, I said, I tried
to be cons.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
You talking about man did he has.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
A tendency shake every once in a while to you.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
So when you're like, oh yeah, he's gonna make it,
no problem, you can't come back and be like I
told you.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
I told you man, I told you so.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
The game winning toss was Aaron Rodgers twenty six yarder
with under a minute to go to Calvin Austin, who
needs DK metcalf. Twenty six twenty four Pittsburgh a win
Pittsburgh ten and seven. Pittsburgh will host the number one
defense in the league, the Houston Texans in a wild
card game next week.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Mark Jackson's gonna go to Miami. You might as well
report that now that.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Will be the Monday night game.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
For those who didn't hear the playoff schedule, things start
Saturday afternoon, which used to be the Texans slot. But
you know, if you've seen Carolina like yesterday, that's Carolina slot.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, that's Carolina's new one.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Rams at Carolina on Fox TV Saturday four to thirty Eastern,
and then Saturday night it's Packers that Bears streaming only
Saturday nights unless you are in those two markets. And
by the way, we've seen teams play each other three
times in a season before two regular season and a
rematch in the playoff, but this is the first time
that two teams will be matching up three times after

(28:58):
December first, getting another Packers at Bears game this Saturday night.
Three playoff games next Sunday, one pm Eastern Buffalo at Jacksonville.
Jags won their eighth in a row today, ripping Tennessee
that clinched them the AFC South title. San Francisco, which
lost at home last night, goes on the road at
Philadelphia next Sunday on Fox TV four thirty pm Eastern Time.

(29:21):
Philadelphia missed a chance for the two seed, resting starters,
losing at home to Washington today. The Bears meanwhile lost
at home to Detroit. But the Bears stay the two
seed and next Sunday night it's Chargers at New England.
New England the two seed not the one in the AFC,
even though the Patriots had the same win loss record
as the Broncos. Broncos won their finale against the Chargers,

(29:43):
resting many starters nineteen to seven. Denver the final, so
it's Denver that gets the one seed and the first round.
By next weekend, Patriots, with the identical record are the
two seed and playing next Sunday night. And I just
can't believe that it actually came down to this. Mentioned
this shank on the show last Sunday night. Why why

(30:04):
are the Patriots not getting the one seed? It's because
of the tiebreaker is common games between Denver and New
England schedule. Denver beat the Raiders twice. New England lost
the opener to the Raiders, so the Patriots will have
to play next week and Denver gets the weekend off
and the Raiders, by the way, found out they do
have the number one overall draft baby, because the Vegas

(30:25):
Fernando Mendoza. Because the Giants did win again and finished
four and thirteen, beating the Cowboys today. Raiders then went
out and got a victory fourteen to twelve over Kansas City.
Victories from Minnesota and Cleveland. Houston won it's ninth in
a row. Atlanta won it's fourth straight to finish eight
and nine, one of those three teams in the first
place tie in Carolina's division. But tonight the Falcons fired

(30:48):
coach Raheem Morris and GM Terry Fontano. In the NBA,
there is one late game the Lakers have come back.
They're only down one to Memphis, ninety one to ninety
with under eight minutes to go, Phoenix beat Oklahoma City
one o eight to one oh five.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Back to you, thanks Steve Wow, I mean.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Says he t the shankerm I tried to tell you that, guys.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
That every now and then.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Uh he had the missed extra point that looked like
it was going to cost Pittsburgh a chance to the playoffs.
And then Tyler Loop, the replacement for Justin Tucker, nay,
I haven't heard that name in ages. And again, he
was his own worst enemy, probably was on his way
to maybe a Hall of Fame career as a kicker.

(31:33):
Now you can't open wonder whenever a guy like that
had been the foundational piece for Baltimore that what is
this year two without him? Or is this the first
full year without Tucker? I think it's the first full year,
first full year. And then in that biggest moment, Tyler
Lup misses it. Uh, dude was a ninety percent field
goal percentage kicker during the season. Ninety percent. Unbelievable. Oh

(31:56):
what a gut punch.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's crazy. I gosh, you just pushed it, right. I
mean I saw him do it in college in some
critical situations. For it's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, So now it's set. As de Sega said, regular
season's over. Texans and Ravens will be that Monday night
football game Texans finished the season. I've talked about Houston
a lot on this program.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Not necessary. I know you're not the biggest CJ.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Stroud guy in the world either, right on, he I
think that's fair to say.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Well, I jumped on the bear wagon when he was
a rookie.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yes, in fact, I think you wanted him cut after
the first exhibition game. But this is now nine in
a row to wrap up the season. I mean, that's
that's a team that was sitting at three and five
on the season and won nine straight and beat good
teams throughout. They beat the Bills, they beat the jag
with the Bills game was on a Thursday night game. Remember,

(32:52):
the Colts were still kind of good when they beat him.
So were the Chiefs. Rolled bad football. They played a
little bit too tight with the Raiders. I mean to
be honest with you, but I mean, are they as
scary as anyone? I don't have those playoffs.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
I don't have a line on this game, but I
would probably make it Texans minus three or three and
a half. What do you think? And it's on the road,
right on the road in Pittsburgh, I would say about
three to three and a half. Texans defense, even though
it didn't look like it today. Problem wider if they
went ahead and played a lot of their backups. I
don't know. I know the starters started the game, but

(33:27):
that was their defense. Was what happened today was out
the typical defense. That's for sure.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Texans are three point favorites.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Boom, there you go. You're right on it, aright on it.
You want to hit some of these tweets when we
get back. All right, everything's the final We can now
react respond. We've got a laundry list of Roman numerals
we have to hit from the Roman numeral rundown. So
stick around. That's the sinking genius, Arnie Spaniard. I'm Chris Plank.
You're tuned into a Fox Football Sunday. Be sure to

(33:56):
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Speaker 3 (34:12):
Just to search Fox Sports Radio in.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
The app, and you can stream us live all day,
every day, and be sure to select Fox Sports Radio
is one of your presets in the iHeart app, so
it will always pop up at the top of your screen.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
What did you do? Did you wind up doing Friday
night too?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Or no? I Monday Wednesday, Friday? That was last week
anything exciting? Well, you were getting ready for the weekend?
Do you have any wild predictions? Like there was no
way that guy who's going to miss that field goal?

Speaker 4 (34:39):
I always said that was what the arizonta. But before
then I said, hey, he does have it. Doesn't see
the shike it? Did I not say that or.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
What I mean?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
That's the greatest hedge I think I've ever seen you
thanks in the history of a bet. So you want
to hit some of these tweets in before we wrap up.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Our number one?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, we got a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Fire tonight, Lee. Did we get to confirm Todd Furman
for hour two? I think he's good for tonight.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
He stepped out to get his beef shot fries. But
I confirm that we do have Furman for next hour?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, what can I was saying, step it.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
In that you show what happened in the in the
Green Bay game. Everybody's questioning, right, no, oh boy, there's
an all people are oh boy, Well, well, I don't
think I ever.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Went to that game on on Red.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
It's like going on Vikings were up sixteen to nothing, right,
they were a thirteen and a half point favorite.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Oh a gambling controversy.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Okay, and Green Bay had the ball and they called
time out with two seconds left to kick a field goal.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
You know, you want to get your guy some work.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Making sixteen to three and that's how the game. That
was how the game ended. Wow, unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
That's where's the So we'll talk to Todd about that.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, do we have a I mean, is this where
it's just some old senile person not knowing what they're doing,
like Pete Carroll didn't whenever he tried that against the Broncos.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
All that's no. I think he purposely went out of
the way to cover the spread. And people were screaming
on Twitter really like you wouldn't believe. Oh my goodness.
To the gamblers were going ballistic that you can call
time out and then kick a field goal down sixteen
to nothing.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Since you've thrown one kind of curveball before we get
to these tweets, yeah, let me throw one to you.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Black Monday has started a little bit early.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah we are ten minutes away from it being Black
Monday on the East coast. But you're surprised by the
Raheem Morris outing in Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, yes, I am, only because I thought I had
seen a report that they were going to keep him, But.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
I thought I saw the same thing. You're not right there, So.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
I maybe I'm reading a bogus report or a fake report.
Obviously I did, but I really thought they were going
to keep him around. I'm like, Okay, let's see what
he could do for one more year. But no, they
want to make a change, and they went ahead and
did it. I you know, I am surprised. I thought
maybe they'd just go ahead and give him one more year.
You know, Pennix was out and you've had some injuries.

(36:58):
I mean, I know it was an easy the division
to win, a very winnable division, and they could have
played so much better. They're one of the disappointing teams
in the NFL this year as far as I'm concerned.
So I thought they'd keep him one more year. But
I don't have a big problem. I'm getting rid of him.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Though I didn't know if Ephraim was was trolling. I
think he was being honest, and I kind of think
I'm on board with him. Did you see what he
said he'd do if he was running Atlanta next year? No,
what do you say you bring Kirk Cousins back. Just
just roll with that for a year and letting Penix
get healthy and see where you can go from there,
because I mean, I'm assuming that these quarterbacks they got hurt,

(37:37):
Pinnis Mahomes aren't going to be ready for the start
of the season or are we gonna? Is everyone gonna
be healed in time?

Speaker 4 (37:44):
I don't. I don't know about Pennix. I don't. I
know Mahomes, well, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
But Penix's was earlier in the season. There might be
a chance he could be ready. Okay, yeah, so I'm
not sure.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
And wasn't an article about or a reporter but Cousins
going through the front office some more?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
No, you keep doing that. It's Matt Ryan. They brought
that up.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Damn close though. Two quarterbacks there close, Atlanta got you.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
You got your Caucasian slingers confused there.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
This is what happened.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
You said the same thing last week too, and it
was funny because then you had me all thrown off.
It's like, wait a minute, is he thinking of Kirk Cousins.
You might there might have been a story out there,
but I don't. I don't think that's the case. I
did get real excited this morning whenever I saw the
report from Mike Florio about the Raiders potentially looking to
bring in Brian Flores and teaming with Brian da Balls,

(38:37):
the offensive coordinator. I know you lived Brian Flores as
a head coach in Miami, right, and now that you
look back, he's kind of right about to of being soft.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
He was that cost him his job though dead it did.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
And then maybe several others. But I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I think I got kind of You've always been telling
me that Tom Brady calling the shots, it should get
be better because why, he's one of the greatest quarterbacks.
Now that's for sure. I'm kind of starting to ack
these things. I'm here now. I liked here and Ben
Johnson being in the mix last year, and they were
unable to seal the deal on that. But this Brian
day Ball, this Brian Flores rumors, they got me. They

(39:17):
got me kind of feeling some sort of way, some
sort of excitement about the Raiders. Listen James who cut
it out on Twitter. By the way, he writes, the
Raiders clinched the first pick in the draft. In an
unrelated note, Fernando Mendoza has decided to go back to
Indiana for another year.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
No, no, not true, fake.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
News that way. Were you get Tom Brady rebuilding your team?
I have to get Dan Marino and Troy Aikman rebuilding
my team.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
You did get Troy Aikman. What'd you think of that?
I kind of liked it.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm like, yeah, let's do it, man, Let's see what
Troy caet dig one up and help us at the
GM position.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Are people going to complain about him having access in
team meetings like they do all the time about Tom Brady?

Speaker 3 (39:56):
We don't think this is fair.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Troy Aikman is using all that time he gets with
ESPN and all of this pre I haven't heard a
single person grinch and moan about that.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Well, now the.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Raiders won seventeen and oh this year. That's why it's
got to stop, you know, I.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Mean, still be the Chiefs. Pretty good.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
How about Collins take care before we get out of here,
he writes, My god, Aaron Rodgers has been the most
cursed fourth quarter overtime quarterback in NFL history.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
For once he got a break.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
He did, he sat back. He thought it was over.
Once they picked up that fourth and seven. He's like, oh,
that's it. We're not gonna make this year.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Here we go again.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
But guess what, Steelers got it done thanks to a
Tyler Loop missed field goal. Now the playoffs are set
and the Steelers are back in. When we come back,
Todd Furman joins us, and we'll be diving all in
on everything related to your tweets right here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Stick around, don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Let me ask you this, thinking genius.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yes, for somebody who talked all season long and all
off season about Dolphins year, this being a team that
was going to be special, easiest schedule ever, do you.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Get I was right about that?

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Oh yeah, dead on, because we're going that the easiest
schedule in the history of sports.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah you sent Miami, Well, same division, you get it?
Work with me here, okay, okay, well you're right, you're right.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
You thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Like how do you for someone that like, literally I
don't know if you remember what you say five seconds
after you say it, but are you angry? Do you
suddenly become that over obnoxious believer that, oh yeah, whatever
they do is going to be the greatest thing ever, like,
where are you in your fandom right now?

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Right now? I'm disappointed. It was a horrible year. It
destroyed my whole year. When we started off one and six,
it was like I didn't even have a real football year,
you know what I'm talking about it with it's like
not having a birthday because you were born the day
after Christmas or something like that, which, by the way,
by actually my buddy, get what you're saying. My buddy
was born on twenty six, so you always forget his birthday.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Yeah, you should never forget it.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Yeah right, I know, but you got so much on
your mind. You're like, Okay, Christmas is over there.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
I see what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Oh damn, it is my friend's birthday. But yeah, I
have to see what they do with quarterback. I mean,
obviously two is not going to get back, and are
they going to keep McDaniel. I think they are. You know,
you never know what's gonna happen on Monday, And if
they were going to get rid of him, I think
it would have leaked out by now. No, or sure
would they've held out to the best.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Everything's very quiet, though, everything's very quiet. You had the
firing of Raheem Morris, which, off the top of my head,
guys three, they'd be the Giants, the Titans, and the Falcons.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Officially, we only had two win season firings.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Didn't we the fact that the Jets didn't have an
interception all year long? Your head coach is a former
defensive coordinator, might be a fireable offense. I might be
able to fire him for costs, but we'll see. I
feel like I feel like Pete Carroll's one and done
with Vegas. But I also feel like that, you know,
at this point during the program arning we kind of

(43:06):
start to hear more names at filter out, and I
feel like it's been kind of quiet, right The Kevin
Stefanski stuff kind of fired up yesterday about him being
on the outs in Cleveland had been but I think
Tomlin winning tonight maybe quite that, but it sure does
kick up that fire Ravens fans. I'd love to hear
from you tonight on X It's thinking genius one at

(43:29):
playing shown at Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Where are we right now? Like that was that John
Harball's last game was the Ravens head coach.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
And people are asking, you know, what happens if the Bills,
they'll go ahead and make it to the super Bowl.
That was one of one of our tweets out there,
should they get rid of McDermott. By the way, is
my wife going to go to the super Bowl this year?

Speaker 3 (43:49):
I mean, are you picking the Bills to go?

Speaker 4 (43:52):
She gets to go to the super Bowl if the
Bills are in the super Bowl, And actually I am
picking the Bills, but herner says, go to the super
Bowl if the Bills make it. They didn't make it
last year.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Obviously they haven't made it like ever, like Sinnet, since
it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
But it's a standing it's a standing offer. My they'll
go ahead and go and fly out there. Of course
it gets a little prizy getting tickets at the last minute,
but what the hell, my wife.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Isn't that a pretty incredible run when you think about it,
that they went to the Super Bowl four straight seasons
and lost all four amazing.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
It's pretty remarkable, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
How many of more blowouts? Three of the four all
but one? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:37):
The only one Norwood wide right.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Which was what like a thirty five forty yarder?

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Yeah, now looking back on it, I could get.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
A thirty five I've seen people kick better than that
on TV, A thirty five yarder.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Back to the point. So you think McDaniel's going to
keep his job? Do you think stefans he's going to
be out in Cleveland? We know Pete Carroll's gonna be out.

Speaker 11 (44:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
The rumor is that if Cleveland moved on from Stefanski,
one of their top candidates, the guy they wanted to
talk to was Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Right, I've seen McDaniel be thrown into a couple of
people would want him. I'm like, okay, if that's the
way it's gotta be, knock yourself out.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
You wouldn't mind losing the chemistry professor to something?

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Well, we're not going to lose him. He'll he'll be
around for another year. I really believe that they're not
going to fire him. But you're gonna have one more
year with a new quarterback. Let's see if you can
go ahead and.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Get it on. Can I post something though?

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, yeah, sure, Okay, I don't disagree with you. Right,
this is his first head coach's job. GM got fired
and you kept your job and everyone believed in you
and let you do it your way. The rest of
the way. But it's going to be a new general manager,
and that new general manager's going to be picked by
the owner. And if you've got someone kind of whispering sweep,

(45:49):
nothing's at you. And either Cleveland or Las Vegas or Arizona.
I mean, you gotta listen, right If you're Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Absolutely you you know. I mean he even said a
few things like it'd be laughable if I was worried
about who Troy Aikman's going to pick. You can tell
there's not any they're not on the same page right now.
Who knows if Troy's gonna meet with him or not.
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see who else gets the acts.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
But didn't you have that here? Where's my roman numeral? Rundown?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Didn't you have coaches getting fired? Is like roman numeral
number six or seven on there somewhere?

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Yeah, number eight, number eight?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
People there are?

Speaker 4 (46:32):
You know? Tom Win? You're right about Tom Win, though
not that he won. He'll probably end up sticking around.
I wonder how close he came to being fired, if
he really would have gotten care after this game, if
they would.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Have lost, if it would have been a situation where
they lost on the mid missed extra point. I don't
think he would have been but Roman Numeral eight has
a list of one, two, three, four, five, and I
guess we've hit most of these already. But just to
go ahead and curely stamp them all. Before Todd Furman
joins his we're both in agreement, he caroll out new

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regime for the.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
Races, right, okay, got to be a new regime. There's
no reason to bring him back. There's I mean, other
than like I said, I see him on the sideline.
All he's doing is cheering. I don't think he's doing anything.
I don't even know if he knows he's in charge.
You've got to make a change. You got to make
a move in a different direction.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Kevin Stefanski, that's Cleveland in or out.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
Yeah, I what I would do or what I think
scoring to happen.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
You pick what you think is gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I don't think anyone cares what you would do, because
you would fire everyone after they lost one game.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
I think they're going to get rid of him. But
if it was up to me, I'd bring him back
one more year. And you know, see if I could
figure out the quarterback situation. If he's going to go
with your door or not. I mean that's the whole thing.
If they're going to go with your door, no reason
not to go and bring him back.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
You you know what kind of blew my mind whenever
I started digging into Kevin Stefanski. Do you realize how
many years he's been in Cleveland? He's been there six years? Oh,
six years? Flies yeah, and you know how many winning
seasons he's had in those six years?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Two? So again, well.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
That's a lot in Cleveland, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
I was, you beat me to the lot.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
But they were also two eleven win seasons that included
a playoff win. But that was back when he had
Baker in twenty twenty. So I don't know. I don't
know why you'd be so hell bent on bringing him back.
I think maybe it's okay after six seasons to kind
of see you are what you are. You mentioned McDaniel, you.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Bring him back if you want your if you want
your door to be the quarterback and keep everything copaestic
for one more year.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Why would what was copa setic about Cleveland season that
you're like, hey, we got to do that.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Again defense, right, maybe Miles Garrett, but.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Yeah, well more and more the coach in the quarterback,
but I guess you do. It can play for anybody.
Really doesn't make much of a difference.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
The other you mentioned McDaniel, so you already kind of
gave us that hint, but you added a wild card
here on the old Rundown today.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Philip Rivers as a head coach.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Yeah, next, he's definitely gonna be a head coach. I know,
I read that somewhere. I'm not going crazy at I know.
I saw that on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
You think he's going to be a head coach disc
coaching cycle?

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
You think someone's gonna hire him this year? I do?

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Who I think? There's so many There was too many
reports that he should be a head coach and he is.
I mean, that guy knows football like the back of
his hand. There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I meant, most guys do that play the game that much.
But I mean, so here's the report. This is from
Ian Rappaport. Several sources says Rivers could end up as
a head coach this cycle, and the current believe is
that if Rivers gets at least one opportunity to interview,

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possibly one that he'll get at least one opportunity. Only
two teams currently have the openings of Giants and the Titans.
Add the Falcons to that. But teams were doing their
due diligence on Rivers as a candidate and making background calls.
Apparently this happened last year as well.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
It must have been the two games he played game
back must have been the reason why.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Uh can I just okay, I'll make a comparison for you.
Oklahoma Sooner fans are on fire right now because there
is a tight end opening and they want Jason Witten
to become their tight ends coach.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Jason wins do a great job as a high school coach.
He's coaching his son both I call me crazy.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
All right, this might be a wild request, but if
you're gonna be a head coach in the NFL, I
kind of want you to have some experience coaching in
the NFL. Compare it to this, Jason, if you're gonna
be a coach at COUCH, I kind of want you
to have recruited and been a college coach before. But hey, man,
if you want to be an NFL GM, that's going

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to bank your future on Philip Rivers as your head
coach or an owner that wants him, go for it.
But these gimmicky things don't work in the NFL. Man,
when we do it, it just doesn't.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
I think the only coach I saw that they were
thinking about going from college to the NFL was Marcus
Freeman right from Notre Dame. All the right. Yes, him
a little bit too, but otherwise it's always defensive or
offensive coordinators right now. Used to be you'd be looking
at like five or six seven guys from college that

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can go to the NFL. That's no longer the case.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
So while my sooner brethren are on fire for something
like that to happen, I see some NFL execs might
be on fire for something like this to happen.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
I just would.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Always urge kind of like the guy to have at
least a little experience in being a I mean, he's
every Philip Rivers has been a high school coach. He's
never even been a coach or a coordinator at a
high level. But you're ready to just hand over the
keys of your friend.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Well, he does no football, right, I mean, come on, the.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Hell doesn't know football? That's in coaching right now.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
Well, we've seen, we've seen people that are supposed to
be geniuses. Well we'll take Aaron Good for argument's sake,
big defensive coach out there.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
They didn't have one interception.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
The entire year. So how did that work out for you?

Speaker 3 (52:18):
You really really reached on that one.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
You're really I know, what if Philip Rivers is the
next head coach of the Dolphins?

Speaker 3 (52:25):
You cool with that?

Speaker 4 (52:27):
No, I'm not cool.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
No, you didn't listen.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Well, you mentioned two guys, two guys that I would
have on this list, Aaron Glenn and Jonathan Gannon. You're
just given the Jets and the Cardinals a free pass
this year? Or I know they've been. I think they've
both been given somewhat votes of confidence, but yeah, buying
either one of them.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
I think Glenn's gonna be back for another year. I
don't think they're gonna can him. I think they'll go
ahead and give him one more year. And they did.
They gave him a boost of confidence. I didn't see that.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
So well, it's it's just when you don't say anything right,
that's what you're take It is, what's the old country
song you say best? When you say nothing at all. Yeah,
I mean, that's kind of weird. It is right now,
no news is good news, I guess. Uh, let me
get a couple of these tweets here real quick. Eric's
got a good on here, right. So you want conspiracy theories,
watch the last four plays of the Viking Packer game.

(53:17):
It was fourth and two. Green Bay runs the ball
short of the line to get pack calls too and
kicks the field goal to cover. Eric is telling on
himself for missing hour one whenever you explain this exact
scenario that laid out, but quite controversial, Arnie, quite controversial
right now.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Gambling world, it was a big and I'm not kidding around.
As soon as that happened, Twitter was a buzz. I
didn't know there was so many gamblers that had a
bet on that game. It seemed like everybody was laying
the thirteen and a half points. How you can lay
thirteen and a half points with Minnesota, I have no idea,
no matter who was playing for the Packers, but yeah,

(53:55):
people were really hissed off about that, No doubt.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
That's one of those, especially whenever you have the wrong
side of it, it's just gotta you've got to be
losing your mind right now. Lefty ask Arnie if cousins,
we'll be replacing Jeff George and the Falcons front office.
Keep going back to retired Falcons quarterback. I love what
did you think of misu Nobody's tweet, He writes. I'm
sure the Jaguars turn around will make them a popular pick,

(54:20):
but I'm not one hundred percent convinced they're ready to
take that next step. Guys, I'm already in on Buffalo
next week.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Yeah, I'm on Buffalo. Also. I know I'm giving my
picks later on, but I like Buffalo. I think that's
a good matchup for them there. I think what a
point and I have favorite on the road, so that's gonna.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Be a good one.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
I don't want to disrespect Jacksonville because Trevor Lawrence has
had a phenomenal year and it seems to be kind
of turning it around for them.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
We got a break because Todd Furman is coming up next.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
We got controversy on the gambling side of things, and
we've got do we have official.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Lines yet for the Oh yeah, first round?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Okay, we got the official lines that will go through
with Todd on the first round of the playoff games,
Next with Arnie and Play on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (55:35):
Oh, there's pandemonium in the Vegas streets right now because
the Raiders won.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Fans I'm sure are celebrating.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Todd Firman has had to find a safe space to
follow us, to call us from the celebrations. In all reality,
at least they won a game, right that didn't hurt him.
Todd Furman joins us number one pick in the draft. Man,
how will Fernando Mendoza handle Vegas?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
You think?

Speaker 7 (55:57):
I'm not sure Fernando Mendoz is necessarily going to be
the answer for the Silver flax all of this transpires
and the direction the organization looks to go in. But
the bottom line is this, it's figuring out who the
next head coach is going to be, who's going to
do the hiring in that particular move, and a lot
of things for them to sort out before they build
a walk to relevance within the AFC West.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
So Pete Carroll gone, and who do you think you'd
take his place?

Speaker 8 (56:23):
Then?

Speaker 7 (56:24):
I think if you're going to bring in a young quarterback,
you have to have someone that's got a background in
terms of working with young quarterbacks in that particular regard.
But I have no idea who would be on the
short list. But I can't see a scenario where Pete
Carroll's back at the Helm. Look he was brought in
to kind of be a placeholder or to at least
give them a floor and create a culture. It's not
all on Pete. I mean, the organization is this functional
from the top on down, and you saw that on

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full display for long stretches. So I think Pete Carroll
will be looking for future employment and probably his coaches
last game in the National Football League. But I think
the bigger question in the wake of what we saw
transpire and Sunday Night football, we may have seen the
last down with John Harbaugh on the sidelines, Mark Jackson
as the starting quarterback as at tandem in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
We yeah that wild.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I was going through a list of some of the
way that the Ravens season has ended the last four years.
You had loose missfield goal, you had Mark Andrews who
dropped the two point conversion, they lost it home the
AFC championship game in which they Chiefs only scored seventeen.
They had a ninety eight yard fumble return for a touchdown.
They've just been They've they've been cursed almost the last

(57:25):
few years. Haven't been able to get over that hum.

Speaker 7 (57:28):
No, I haven't been able to execute it key junctions
of the game, and today a little bit of an outlier.
But at the same time, you have an opportunity to
pick up a few more yards, and the Ravens elected
to settle for a forty four yard field goal. I
know Tyler Loop, the rookie kicker, had been perfect from
that distance, but he hadn't kicked in this kind of
high leverage spot. He hadn't kicked in that stadium and
little did he know earlier in the evening there was
a pre spreading holy water all over that end zone,

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and apparently it took divine intervention paired up with a
little Mike Tomlin voodoo for the Steelers to get into
the playoffs yet again, finishing one game over five hundred.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
You know what's funny, Todd was asking you about it.
I said, Oh, Tyler Loop, you know what the University
of Arizona. I go. Funny thing is he's a great kicker,
great leg but in college, every once.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
In a while he would shank a big kick.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
I wonder if I can out of the ear boom
shanks the kick there? How about that?

Speaker 7 (58:14):
Well, here's the only here's the only irony Alrenie as
a kicker at the University of Arizona. He didn't have
any big kicks during his entire time on campus in
two sons, so you didn't really have a true litmus
test for the kind of environment he encountered.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
And then also, Arnie conveniently left out that right before,
and he's like, oh, yeah, he's gonna make this. He's
from the University of Arizona. He left that part out. Yeah,
And he said right before.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
The kick on.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
But I will say we we could have these evergreen debates.
But I'm curious, do we have a week seventeen eighteen
problem in the NFL? I mean, does does there I
don't know, another bye week, I mean, extend the season
without adding games, minimize more preseason games. I don't know
what's the fix to get a little bit more of
Sunday night football like we had with the Ravens and
the Steelers in our final two weeks of the season.

Speaker 7 (59:00):
I don't think there's a perfect solution unless you're going
to try and raise the stakes for teams that are
fighting for that number one overall pick and doing what
you can to disincentivize teams from resting players. I'll give
the NFL credit a few years ago when they went
to this format where you had to play a division
opponent in the final week or even two weeks of
the regular season. Adds a level of injury because you
don't necessarily get that quick factor. But until you figure

(59:22):
out ways that teams, you know, need to go out
there and continue to fight that they're not putting players
that are capable of playing on ir with season ending injuries,
You're going to have the scenarios like we did today,
with a lot of games that are double digit point spreads,
a number of games that really weren't competitive, and a
number of contests, even in the case of the NFC
where you two teams didn't necessarily care that much about

(59:42):
seating and we're more than happy to try and rest
their players. We'll see if it's a decision that comes
back to haunt the Eagles, if they have to go
to Soldier Field for essentially a home and home with
the Bears, or if they'll be rewarded for having all
of their players healthy and their hands full against the
San Francisco forty nine ers in the Wildcard round next.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Weekend all right, Todd on one of the games, I
have to assume the way I was reading Twitter and
people were just up in arms, that'll be an investigation
in the Packer Minnesota game. Have I correct about that? Tot?

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
I mean, look, people are up in arms on Twitter
about absolutely everything these days, Arnie, And who wants to
blame Matt Lafleur for deciding not to get shut out
against a divisional rival, running the football and setting up
the game covering field goal for contact to end sixteen
to three. But look, Arnie, you know me in this business,
I have zero sympathy for folks that are running to
the window on game day looking to lay the worst

(01:00:30):
of the number with the Packers at thirteen and a half.
If you had the foresight to see some of this coming,
you could have laid six and a half, seven and
a half, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and been just fine.
But it was rather curious what Lafleur the extent he
was willing to go through to make sure that his
team was not shut out in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Now was he doing that to be not shut out
or was he doing it to cover the spread? What
was he doing it for?

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
I'm pretty sure even though it's a publicly traded company
in Green Bay, their shareholders in Wisconsin are not trying
to line their pockets betting green Bay blindly the same
way prominent alumsar on college campuses across this fine country.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Hey, anything in those early numbers that you tweeted out
a couple hours ago. By the way, Todd is an
incredible follow if you're not doing it on Twitter at
Todd Furman, any of those numbers surprise you at all
that were released by who is that FanDuel that you retweeted?

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Yeah, FANDW will put some numbers out early. We haven't
seen much in the way of movement judging by Twitter reaction, though,
I think a lot of people are surprised that they're
going to have the opportunity to potentially bet the Jacksonville
Jaguars as a short home underdog against the Buffalo bill
So I anticipate that that number actually may flip favorites,
But it's a little bit of buyer beware when you

(01:01:38):
look at the game that was most recently completed, Houston
right around a three point favorite number, trending towards three
and a half, with the lowest total of the Wildcard
weekend at thirty nine and a half. But as always,
you're going to want to try and monitor the weather forecast.
There's not going to be a whole lot of opportunity
and upside. Despite what Arnie's going to try and tell
all the FSR listeners over the next six days that
these are some of the most efficient markets, not just

(01:01:59):
in the NFL, but across the sports in general. Given
the amount of volume and handle that we're going to
see Saturday Sunday into Monday, and of course all of
that chaos will kick off in earnest with a pair
of college football semifinal games on Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Todd, how could I now take the home team plus
ten points with the Carolina Panthers. When's the last time
you got a home team in the playoffs and got
ten point? That's a that's a big line.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
It's a big number, but it's also a big number
within good reason, knowing that this Rams offense is a
little bit more dynamic and explosive than what Carolina can
bring to the table, having fully done the history to
know the last time we've seen a team catching this
many points. But it also won't be lost on the
Rams ARNI that back on Sunday, November thirtieth, they went
into Charlotte and lost outright as a seven and a
half point favorite thirty one to twenty eight against these

(01:02:43):
very same Panthers. So we'll see what Carolina has in
store for this particular game. But just a quick rundown
on the other matchups. The Bears right around to pick
them or minus one against green Bay, you're looking at
Buffalo and Jacksonville. Buffalo modis one point favorite Philly three
and a half against the forty nine ers, the Patriots
out to three and a half point favorite against the Chargers,
and then we mentioned the Monday Night showdown, which the

(01:03:04):
trend that will circulate. I can tell you, gentlemen, now
until it kicks off on Monday, that the Steelers have
not lost a Monday night football home game for what
feels like multiple generations.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Wow, Todds, you got me fired up whenever you had
the poll this week on the best wager to make
for the college football playoff games.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I like the Miami minus three.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
But it seems like those who participated in your poll
Indiana minus four was the popular one. I guess they
made an impact with their domination over Alabama, didn't they.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
I think people always remember what they saw last, and that,
of course, was an unfamiliar brand so to speak, in Indiana,
absolutely pulverizing the household name in Alabama and doing so
in impressive fashion. But like I said, playing in the
wake of watching that Alabama team live and in person
in Norman, I wasn't overly impressed. I thought it had
more to do with Oklahoma's failures to finish that game

(01:03:54):
than anything Alabama did. Well, so I cautioned people to
try and put too much emphasis on that performance from Indiana.
You're now asking him to go out there and win
by margin in a game against the team that's a
familiar opponent. It could be a defensive minded slugfest, and
I think we're in for a four quarter fight. But
win or lose regardless of how Indiana plays there, They're
already the big winners in the transfer portal. And folks
who thought that this Woo's your brand would go away

(01:04:15):
after an improbable Cinderella season last year, well they better
be okay with this team being a fixture atop the polls,
given the hall that they've already brought in that includes
Josh Huger TCU, Nick Marsh M Michigan State, and I'm
sure a number of other key contributors that allow Kirk
Sidnetti to continue rolling down the track.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
You know, Blank and I were talking about the game
before it happened, and I said, you know, I really
would like to bet that maybe Texas Tech gets shut out?
Well kind of obs can I get on that? Could
you imagine?

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Dot?

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
If I really really would have bet that, Oh my,
what was like one hundred to one, one thousand to one.
That's crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
I'd be lying if I told you I had a
price handy on what that actually would have been should
you have tried to bet it. The one thing I
will say is people came in on Texas Tech though.
We saw Oregon go from a two and a half
point favorite to a one and a half point underdog
in that game, and that Texas Tech defense really looked
the part. Baron Morton clearly wasn't up to the task,
and every time you thought Tech was going to find
a way to make it a football game, they decided

(01:05:09):
to come over with a costly mistakes. So credit Oregon
for their collective defensive effort and what they were able
to do on the big stage. But that Texas Tech
team clearly had to address the quarterback position and did
so in a big way today. Lending Brandon Soersby the
transfer for Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Absolutely, that's five mil for him too. That's aredible, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Hey? Todd?

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Final thought from me before I let you get out
of here, is there a team that you're really high
on that others aren't. Maybe if it's Houston Jackson and
Jackson will something people aren't high on them. I just
think we're unfamiliar with them being in this position. But
is there someone maybe you're higher on than the average
bear out there?

Speaker 7 (01:05:45):
I think the numbers are pretty fair and this is
some of the most parody that we have seen in
the nfls we had in a wildcard weekend in recent memory.
You can make a case for and against all of
these teams right now that are there. I think having
the buy is going to give Denver and Seattle and
massive advantage. But I think both of those teams are
inherently flawed when you look at the quarterback play and
the major question marks that are there. I guess if

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you had to try and make a case for a Cinderella,
and I don't want to make this sound like it's
an endorsement for a team, I bet. Look, the Chargers
have a quarterback who has been there and maybe accumulated
a little bit of scar tissue. Given what we saw
against the Jacksonville Jaguars a few years ago, the game
that got away from them last year against the Houston Texans,
I don't think the Chargers are going to be an
easy out by any stretch of the imagination. And I'm
sure they would relish the opportunity if they can pull

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off the upset next Sunday against New England on Sunday
Night Football, to head back to Denver and exact to
measure revenge that they weren't able to get today in
the Trey Lance experience.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
You know, Todd. Last thing I know the popular bet
is people are going to run to the window and
bet who they think is going to win the Super
Bowl and take the odds. But since the odds are
so low, I think people are going to bet which
two teams are going to meet in the Super Bowl
and try to add a little bit of odds to that.
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (01:06:53):
I think there's always an avenue to explore all any
and all of the betting markets that are out there.
The one thing that I would tell people, aren't he
with those exact Instead of trying to figure out what
that super Bowl matchup is going to be in the
team that's ultimately going to hoist the Lombardi Trophy, I
would just look to identify the two teams to get
to the Big Game, because there's gonna be no worse
feeling than if you pick the two Super Bowl combatants
playing in Santa Clair, and you just happen to get

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the outcome of that game wrong, you're gonna feel left
you a little bit hollow. So for me, just look
to try and pick the exacta for a team to
represent the NFC and AFC if you're going to explore
some of those bigger prices that are.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Out there in that particular market, Ty Todd, you the man,
have a great week. By the time we chat next Sunday,
we'll have a championship game in college football.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
How about that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
It's amazing how quickly the season goes and all the
build up that we put into both college and pro football.
Here we are on the precipice of the playoffs in
the NFL, and of course the semi final in college football,
and a championship game on the docket tomorrow between Illinois
State the Cinderella and the FDF against Montanna State. Should
be a fun game to watch as well for all
those football purists out there.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
By the time you join us next week, Arizona will
have fifteen more games until they go undefeated in basketball.

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
Look, I mean, you can't go undefeated, Arnie unless you
win the first one. In credit to the Wildcat, they
keep racking up some of those victories out there, one
after another. But the pressure, the amount does people start
the comparisons to the Indiana Hoosiers and their ability to
run the table and be able to do that. But
the schedule, at least on paper, looks to be rather manageable.
Maybe you want to circle that date on January twenty

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sixth when they had to provo in the Marriott Center
to take on the BYU Cougar.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Should they be undated at that juncture the case?

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
See Todd, have a good week, man, Todd. Thanks not
to cut my arms off if they go undefeated.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
Can you remember don't I get to do softball play
by play with you at Oklahoma?

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Well, I won't have any arms because they have to
cut my arms off. Oh that's true, So that'd be
kind of tough.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
I need your help.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Steve Seger comes rolling in with everything that's going on
in the world of sports?

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Are we all a final in the sports world? We
are all a final?

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
The Steelers win, Lakers got the Lake win in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
You know you mentioned this.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
How are the Jets actually going an entire season without
a single interception from the defense? An NFL researcher put
it this way. They found two hundred plus players who
had to pick this year, none in a Jets uniform.
Just for the record, we had three hundred plus pounders,

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five of them get an interception this year, none with
the Jets. Quinn Williams wound up with an interception, but
again not with the Jets. The Jets wound up losing
thirty five eight at Buffalo. Jets will select number two
overall in the draft. That Arizona three Titans, four Giants
number five overall. They fell on that list because they

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actually won another game today thirty four to seventeen over Dallas,
So that clinch the number one overall selection for the
Las Vegas Raiders, who then went out and beat the
Chiefs fourteen to twelve. Okay, the season is over. Postseason
I'm about to begin. In the regular season finale at
Pittsburgh tonight, Steelers defeated the Ravens twenty six to twenty four,

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and may just echo everybody online and what a game.
The Ravens missed a forty four yard field goal attempt
on the final play Baltimore eliminated. Remember how they were
in a crushing fashion eliminated in the playoffs last year
dropping the two point pass at the goal line. Lamar
Jackson had three long touchdown passes one interception. In fact,
just in the fourth quarter he had over one hundred

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and seventy yards passing two go ahead touchdown pass.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
Well Good in the Miami uniform next year.

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Set up the game winning kick what they thought was
the game winning kick. Baltimore season is over. Aaron Rodgers
the go ahead touchdown pass with under one minute left.
Bears and Eagles each lost at home, so the Bears
stay The two seed. Playoff schedule has Packers at Bears
streaming only this Saturday night, unless you're in those two markets.
The playoff schedule begins with Rams at Carolina on Fox

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TV this Saturday afternoon. The Rams moved up to the
five seed by beating Arizona. Denver beat the Chargers to
secure the one seed in the AFC and the Broncos
we'll have the buy next week. A two seed Patriots
will host the Chargers next Sunday night to the third
of three games next Sunday in the playoffs, It'll start
with Buffalo at Jacksonville one pm Eastern time. Jags won

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their eighth game in a row forty one seven over Tennessee.
San Francisco will be at Philadelphia next Sunday on Fox
TV four thirty pm Eastern Time, and next weekend on
a Monday night wildcard game, Pittsburgh will host Houston. Houston
won its ninth game in a row today victories for Cleveland,
Minnesota and Atlanta, which beat New Orleans, but the Falcons

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fired coach Raheem Morris and general manager Terry Fontano. In
the NBA late game, Lakers beat Memphis, Ja Moran was
out with a Bruce caf Grizzlies took the lead. Nonetheless,
Lakers comeback for a one twenty to one fourteen victory.
LUKA Donsich thirty six points. Phoenix beat Oklahoma City one
O eight, one oh five OKCE six and five in

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its last eleven games. And guys, we have now finished
the regular season. So how many games do you think
big total this year we're decided by three points are less?

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Like tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Well, we have eighteen weeks, so it's certainly more than
eighteen games. The answer is this was the seventy third games.
Three I'm gonna say decided by three points are less
is that right? Yeah, third most in a season in NFL.
Now he listens to the show, third most in a
season in NFL history.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Back to you. Oh, thanks Steve, Thanks seventy three tasty.

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
Heck of a guess on your part there too, Arnie.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Hey, Miami got their quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
It looks like you're out on Quinn.

Speaker 6 (01:12:37):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
I well, I'm not out on him, but he's not
going to be our starterup. I just got a mock
draft in front of me, and I see we're going
to take that quarterback. I told you we were going
to take last time we were filling in. Oh diego
no Ty Simpson from Alabama?

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
You see.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Okay, I gotta just confess something. And I don't want
Shady Sean for twenty to get mad at me. But Arnie,
I am eating up with a portal right now.

Speaker 8 (01:12:59):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
I cannot get enough of it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
And I've got I got a I do a local show,
so I'm gonna get three hours talking about it here
just a bit. But I can't stop. I can't stop
reading about it. I can't stop clicking on everything. If
someone has like inside info, I feel like I have
inside info, But what do they know? So I want

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to learn there. I'm buying like Patreon memberships. I am
in on this right now. And it's crazy because you
look at a guy like ty Simpson and you think, oh, yeah,
he's going to be a first.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Round pick, so he might turn pro.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Willie, because again, you're gonna make more money as a
first round pick as a quarterback. But if you're gonna
get five mil to go somewhere and play, and you
know how hot you'd be in the transfer portal, I'd
look at it if I was a top quarterback that
maybe might end up being on the fringe of being
a first round pick.

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
And the only reason I would want to maybe go
pro other than I mean, if the money's better in college,
that's one thing. But if you can see, if you
could see, let's say the Dolphins did pick him, wouldn't
you want to be the heir apparent, like the they're
giving you the starting job. I mean that doesn't come
along for a lot of the rookies unless you're like

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the number one or number two pick.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Well, right now, Tankathon, the greatest website in the history
of ever has them, has Ty Simpson going in the
first round to Pittsburgh. So that'd be interesting. That'd be
three quarterbacks going in the first round of the draft.
But I don't know. The portal is very real and
there's a lot of money being spent out there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
There's like, what four thousand kids in that portal now or.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Yeah, not everyone's going to get a job out of
this one, but it is. It is going to be
interesting over the next few years to see if you
have guys that will Dante Well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
What am I saying? We don't know Dante Moore's decision yet.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
You know, right now he's projected to be if number
two bys right, the number two guy in the draft,
and I don't know, man, he hasn't made up his
mind yet. So just because he wouldn't want to go
to the Jet, right, I mean, how do you know
the Raiders won't take him one? Well, you know, well
it's the race. It screwed things up, right anyway, gets

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your tweets coming up here in just a bit to
segment right around the corner and Arnie's picks. The NFL
regular season is a rap. We're talking playoffs all night
long right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
All right, it's Arnie playing care on Fox Sports Radio.
Say what's up to our buddy Steve de Segur, because
we have a lot of loose sens to tie up
with this segment tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
Steve, Hey, there, we can update the Ravens stead about
losing late. AP says, just since twenty twenty, what team
has the most losses when they're leading in the last
five minutes or overtime. It's the Noltimore Ravens seventeen different
times just since twenty twenty. Tonight it was Aaron Rodgers

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with the go ahead touchdown pass with under a minute
to go. And remember Pittsburgh missed the late Pat. It
was only a two point lead that Raven's late field
goal attempt would have won it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
It was a forty four yard.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Final attempt by the way, twenty eight for twenty eight
on field goals inside the fifty this year.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
And.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
The kicker for the Steelers who had hit earlier in
the night, Chris Boswell from fifty seven, had not missed
an extra point this year until that late Pat and
last weekend, the Chargers lost by four because Cameron Ticker
missed inside the forty for the first time in his
career and missed an extra.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Point attempt as well.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
The Panthers finished eight and nine in a three way
tie for first, and that's good enough to get them
to the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Vikings and Lions each won
their meaningless finales to finish over five hundred. They are
going home. This is still not as egregious as twenty ten.
You remember when Pete Carroll had a Seahawks team that
was seven and nine, still made the playoffs, got a
home game. There were two NFC teams with ten wins

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that year that were on the outside look at it.
The Indianapolis Colts lost again today. Houston, with nine points
in the final seconds, beat the Colts thirty eight to thirty.
Houston's won nine in a row. It'll be Houston at
Pittsburgh in the Monday night game next weekend. Wild Card weekend.
Houston beat a Colts team that has lost seven in
a row to end the season. Apparently from ESPN, the

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Colts are the first team in the Super Bowl era
so the last sixty years to at one point in
a season, be six games over the five hundred mark
and then end the season with a losing record. And
this was a great stead that I mentioned much much
earlier in the evening. But the AFC West teams combined
did not score a touchdown on offense this entire day.

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Oh my god, that it only happened one other time
for a division in the history of the NFL, and
most egregiously that was nineteen eighty eight, when there were
five teams in divisions. The AFC East got only field
goals from all all of its teams on that day
in November nineteen eighty eight. Meanwhile, the NFC West finishes
with three different teams with twelve victories, including the Rams,

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who want at home today to move up to the
five seed. Rams will open the playoff schedule at Carolina
on Fox TV this Saturday four to thirty pm Eastern Time.
And then there's the Carolina aspect of it. I mentioned
three eight and nine teams and one of them was
not only going to the postseason, but as a four
seed hosting a playoff game this coming Saturday. The NFC North,

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for example, the Bears Division, everyone finished above five.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Hundred over five hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
So you've got a division where everyone's got a better
record than the team that's going to.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
The playoffs from the South.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
Apparently that it happened one time before. Three years ago,
Washington had a five hundred record and there was a
losing Tampa Bay team that won once again the NFC South.
Congratulations to Miles Garrett, defensive end of the Browns, got
his twenty third sack of the season. With the asterisk
that they now play an extra game. That Michael Strang.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Would such a big deal about that, It's just.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
It's kind of like the Roger Merris bay Ruth thing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
It's just no, it's not that big. It's not that
big of it. You.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
I'm just saying, it's not apples to apples.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Yeah it You know what, if they didn't make it,
just think about it all week long, I wouldn't even
have known he broke the record.

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
It was actually, did you see the I think it
was the next gen stats that he get the play
where he got the sack. He crossed the line of
scrimmage in under a quarter second, which is the fastest
for ending pass rusher this year. So yeah, something was
on the line today. Congrats to Jamar Chase of the Bengals,

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who had one hundred and twenty seven catches last year,
finished with one hundred and twenty five this year. Matthew
Stafford had four touchdown passes in that win over the
Cardinals MVP candidate, He's over four hundred and twenty career
touchdown passes. He passed Dan Marino in the top ten
for that one, and the Raiders are getting the number
one overall draft pick in the first round because the

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Giants won again, beating Dallas Jackson Dart with two touchdown passes.
Dallas had defeated the Giants nine straight times, including an
overtime in September. With the Cowboys problems, and they finished
under the five hundred marks seven nine to one. After today,
Cowboys average twenty eight points a game. They allowed thirty
points a game, worst in the NFL. Denver beat the

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Chargers nineteen to three to secure the one seed in
the AFC, so it'll have a bye next weekend. The
Chargers are at two seed New England next Sunday night.
Chargers rested fourteen different starters today and can't say enough
the reason that Broncos and Patriots finished with the best record,
but Denver gets the week off because Denver beat the
Raiders twice and New England lost its opener to the

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Raiders week one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Gino Smith had me believe in Steve de Sega, I
was buying Super Bowl tickets after what they did.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
For the New England Patriots in week one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Now I'm just trying to figure out everything I can
about Fernanda Windows and life comes at you fast.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
Life comes at you fast.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
All right, Final Hour coming up Arnie's picks right around
the corner is what you all came for tonight. Plus
I want to add a couple of possibilities to the
coaching change list. We'll do it all coming up the
Power Hour with Arnie and Plank on Fox Sports Radios.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
That's yourp final recap, the final regular season weekend tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
Just give you a quick grand real quick. Sure you
know my Arizona Wildcats lost. Has some of you twenty
four to nineteen watched it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
We had a lot of opt outs and enough is enough?
You know. I was disappointed because like our top three
or four defensive players opted out and in it. Yeah,
like an hour before the game and I don't blame them.
I mean, one of them actually just declared for the
NFL Draft earlier today. But but Chris, enough is enough.

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I mean, you're not gonna convince me. I don't know
how you guys are telling me that these games all
have ratings. Because are you talking about the Texas State
Rights game? Chris? Are you you're gonna bring that game
up today? You're gonna bring up the wake Forth Mississippi
State game today?

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
Week game?

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
Yeah, nobody's watching. I don't believe you. I don't believe you.
And the kids are opting out? Are they're missing the games? Look,
I know ESPN says they get high ratings for these
and perhaps so always they show that they do. But
ninety of these bowl games nobody cares about. And if

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the kids are opting out and they don't want to play,
what are we doing here? Seriously, we have a playoff system.
Now we don't care about games that are not in
the playoffs. So I don't know why we have to
continuously keep these things around.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
I have to to down and listen more to it.
But my man Reckon new Heisl has a theory that
you just play the bowl games in the opening weekend
of the season. I guess I still have to connect
the dots a bit. But you know, why not if
you care one of your non conference games.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
If you took away the bowl games, then you could
just add the the playoff to twenty four teams. Then
you know all the way.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
So your your plan, Arnie Spanier, if you were a
commissioner of college football, just eliminate all the bulls and
just have a twenty fourteen playoff.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
Yeah. Well, first of all, not only that, because of
the kids we're opting out, we had to get what
two teams that were five and seven.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
Yeah, that's pretty gross.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
Was played a ball game, So that that's reason number two.
Reason number three. Iowa State has like eighteen players on
their team right now. I mean, seriously, the portal, the
math isn't mathing. Okay with the portal and the dates,
some's got to be done big time. You got coaches
leaving right before playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
I mean, the whole players having to leave during the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
It's really you shouldn't have to make a decision like that.
Everything should be like once the year's done, then everybody
could move around and take new jobs. And it just
doesn't happen that way. So I really believe we've got
to get rid of these bowl games that are meaningless
and add the playoffs to make it twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
I think that there is a way that you can
keep the bulls to a certain extent. But I also
think we're realizing the the Kyle of this is what
I mean. Welcome to my world, this is what I
live twenty four.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
See, I don't mind the Bowl games. I just don't.
I don't like these boloney teams that have nothing to
do with the playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
You know, how about this, how about if you're right,
and maybe we do do away with bowl games, but
we create a second playoff to where the group six
teams that maybe don't have a fair shot in the
Power five playoffs, where they have their own champion. You know,
maybe if you want to get to the point where
those two champs play each other. Fine, I don't think

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we will, but I think you could use bowl games
for some of those.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Venues like being the best of the worst.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Come on, who's to say the Big twelve even belongs
in this right now? My goodness, heck was that Texas Tech? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
My goodness, I didn't see that coming. I'd be honest
with you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Didn't see Texas Tech getting house my Organ.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
Im getting shut out either. I didn't see that happening.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
Did a good job. Organ is a very good defensive
football team.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Texas or Texas Tech out the Cincinnati quarterback, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Yeah, and I think it's I think it's a good get.
He's my favorite quarterback in the in the portal five mil.
Is that what they're saying right now?

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
That's what I saw on Twitter? On three have reported that,
so actually made sure it was a right one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
It wasn't the on four, which is my other personal
favorite one that we both have fallen four before.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Yeah, on four.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
All right, you want to hit some of these tweaks
before we get to what we learned. Here's here just
by the way, quick update. Josh Hoover is now at
Indiana he was at TCU. Brendan Sorosby's who Arnie was
referring to, is now at Texas Tech leaving Cincinnati. Rock
Obect is not one of the eighteen left at Iowa State.
He's on his way to Penn State. Kenny Minchie is
on his way to nebrask after backing up car at

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Notre Dame last year. Then I think jayde and Craig
is from Harvard to TCUs. That's some of the portal
movement today. Like I said, it's my life. Man, can't
get you wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
Make the portal school love this stuff, don't you?

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
To Twitter?

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
John, John Wrights Packers Bears Saturday Night on Prime and
three local markets Chicago, Green Bay and Milwaukee. Milwaukee's grandfathered
in as a Packers local market since the Packers played
at Milwaukee County Stadium till nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
Yeah, they played with half their home games there or
was it all their home games?

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Then? Oh, I get okay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
That took me second, John, because if it's on Prime,
the only places that get it are the local markets.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
If it's a NFL network and you're in New England,
well they won't not put it on regular TV for you.
So I see what he's saying. I didn't think about that.
Milwaukee grandfathered is a Packers local market. Well done, right,
Colin correct me if I'm wrong. But after the CFP quarterfinals,
Lane Kiffin feels like a restaurant manager who opened up

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and established a new pizza hut. Then took the same
position for an established Papa John's because it was in
a better area. What do you make of him, Well,
I can't say him not allowing but these assistants choosing
that they have to go back to LSU instead of
rolling on with ole miss you mean, choosing to.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
Go to l SHOOT instead of saying an old miss.
And but that that's not him putting down the law.
They had to make the decision, right, I mean, everything.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Was real visitors and stuff. But the OC is going
to stay and call the rest of the playoffs apparently.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
Right, Yes, which it's his choice. Isn't good for him?
I'm glad he did. JV Adam Gay by the way,
could just on that little note there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
Sorry, JV. I was trying to read your tweet. I promise.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
What if I've always been saying that you've been beating
me over the head with it kind of turns out
that it looks like I'm right after all? What's that
when I say, hey, it really doesn't make a difference
who the coordinators are. Well, now, I guess everybody doesn't
make a difference who the coaches Mississippi one coach or
no coach? Right, and all these coaches are leaving, teams
are still winning. Doesn't make a difference who they the coaches, right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
I think you're making the point actually that it doesn't
matter who your coordinators are, because for Ole Miss, they
still have the same offensive and defensive coordinators that have
been called the play a different just elevated to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
Be the head coach. Yeah, just I mean, if you
want to claim victory on that, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
I'm done trying. I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
JV.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Adam Adam Gaze and Josh McDaniels were offensive geniuses. Eric
Manjani had the nickname Mangenius and they couldn't coach where
the crap If Philip Rivers went to a team with
a solid QB and O line, I think he even
went some games.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
JV.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
He's right about that about Man Gene. They didn't call
man genius, right, But yeah, Gwen is the big defensive
and what's his face? The San Francisco coach.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Uh, I know, Kyle Shanahan, Yeah, quarterback whisper.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
I'm gonna trade my old damn team to move up
to get the Trey Lance because I know what I'm
talking about. I'm better than everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
No credit for developing the last pick in the draft.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
But okay, he got lucky, that's what j K Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Well, he just said, hey man, you send this coach
to a team with a good quarterback a good offensive line. Yes,
that's what every coach needs to be successful.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Everyone, So like, hey, you put who's your guy that
you hate right now? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
You put Mike McDaniel with a good quarterback and a
good offensive line. Man, he could, yes, he would run
rings around people if he had a good competent quarterback
and a good offensive line. By the way, speaking of
good quarterbacks, yeah, is that your guy for next year?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Quinn yours? Or you to be in this Lamar Jackson,
Kyler Murray game.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
You know, Quinn Yours has not played all that bad,
especially with the lack of you know, he didn't have
his two wide receivers today. He didn't have Tyreek Hill
all year. Oh well not all year. He's only played
the last one two three games. He's looked good in
a couple of games he's played. Today was just horrible
and he did wouldn't one. But no, he's not going
to be the starter for the Dophins.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
Will always be there, Okay, all right, Uh, mister nobody.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Oh, I think I think we've heard a lot of
this tonight, mister nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
Uh, I'm one hundred percent convinced that the Buffalo Bills
are going to win a close one over the Jaguars
like those in this one. I do one hundred percent.
I don't know if I feel that confident, Paul. My
favorite moment ever on this show is Arnie declaring he's
going to make it because he went to Arizona. Then

(01:30:52):
three seconds later the kicker shanks it. Just the absolute
best Wow. Listen to you, dude, that was hilarious. Talk
about that time. I can't stop thinking about it. On
the show tonight, how are Literally the guy lines up
for the field goal, He's like, oh, yeah, he's gonna
make it, after telling us that he shanks quite a
few kicks, and then.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
But Todd, Todd is right, we didn't have too many
big kicks in Arizona. So what did you do?

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
That was actually a fair point. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
I wanted to add and Ali had brought this up
earlier because you mentioned on Roman Numeral eight some coaches
that you thought would be fired or maybe just I
guess what any kind of buzz around them. I came
up with nine places that could have a vacancy, and
I think it seems super high. So you would tell

(01:31:43):
me yay or nay on these? Yeah, Miami, New York
in the East, Dotain Jets.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
Yeah, well okay, but the Jets and Dolphins absolutely well
not absolutely in the Dophis.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Possibility, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
I'm not saying you think they're at him, just saying, hey,
these are possibilities. Baltimore, Cleveland, Yes, that's fair. Why does
Zach Taylor keep getting a pass in Cincinnati?

Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:32:06):
Game?

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
Also they give him a vote, the players give him
vote of confidence. Right did Joe Burrow just give him
vote of confidence?

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
I believe so. Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
No, he owned the team, by the way, But that's
beside the board.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Tennessee makes five raiders obvious giants already open. I mean Tampa,
that's eight, and then nine would be the Atlanta Falcons
who have already had a vacancy. Let me let me
add the night on not the Niners, I'm sorry, the

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Cardinals to this, that's like ten, there's ten potential vague
And I thought heading into this week that you know,
over the last few weeks that we wouldn't have that many.
And I'm not saying we're gonna have ten. You never
end up with as many as you think or as
few as you think. But maybe we can have a
little bit more of a wild turnover this offseason than
we thought. Everyone keeps saying, all the people that are

(01:32:58):
smarter than me on Twitter, they keep saying, Arnie that
this isn't a good market to go get a head coaching,
And I don't even know what that means, because I mean,
last year you had Bill Belichick and other names out there,
and I mean we're firing guys after one year anyway,
So I think there's a great crop of young coordinators.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
Why is you Belichick? How do you if you're Belichick,
how do you not come back to the NFL if
there's gonna be ten openings? And by the way, that's
why maybe McDaniel keeps his job. Miami wills say, look,
look at all the openings. Everybody's here picking here, picking there.
Why don't we just hold on one more year, Let's
get a quarterback in place, Let's see what McDaniel could
do one more year. And if he doesn't happen, then
we'll go ahead and make.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Another move or make a move, Ali added Nick Sirianni,
I didn't even mention crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
You know. That's to me, that's insane. To be honest,
I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Ali. That's Ernie calling you insane.

Speaker 4 (01:33:49):
Not no, I'm not calling hern vja Husky when I
was filling with him said the same thing. Really, I'm like,
you guys are insane. Man. If you if Philadelphia fans
want to get rid of him, that that's crazy talk.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
That's kind of up there in the hot take meter.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Man if Lee had the temperature gauge in studio, Yeah,
that's not quite to Rob Parker wanting to fire Andy
Reid the Monday after the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
But it's pretty it's pretty close. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
That's that's pretty up there right now. I knew that,
Sirianni out.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
Yeah, a good time to fire him when there's ten
could be ten other openings out there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Jimmy V three well, Drake May, oh sorry. While Drake
May had a great season, Matt Stafford is the MVP,
and with n ile Mania and the popularity the Transfer Portal,
the days of the SEC domination are O v R
over and the NFL needs to consider playoff seating based
on overall record, not division.

Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
Yeah, you went to a conference. It's not so tough, now,
is it. I know, right, look at us, great call.
Are you ready for Paul's rant.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
On the night?

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
There is no bigger disconnect in the world right now
than the local Pittsburgh media who wants Mike Tomlin gone,
i e. The people that watch him every day, and
the national media who thinks he should get a lifetime
appointment to be the Steelers head coach like he's a
Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Are we giving a past to Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
I'm a friend of mine in the Pittsburgh media too.
He's like a big stunt in the Pittsburgh Really yeah?
Should I give out his name? I went, I went
to like how to Become a Broadcaster school with him?
Oh really yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
I mean is he good? You want to brag about it?

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
He's a teav. His name is Danny Potash. I wonder
if people know him out there in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
I'm sure they do. So he's he's among that group
that is very Did you say he died?

Speaker 7 (01:35:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
He said, good guy?

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
He Well he's no longer with this, but.

Speaker 4 (01:35:57):
Good guy. He's a good guy, Pittsburgh thirty years now,
no death.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
I apologize, yeah, but I mean so they're basically saying
we're giving the pass nationally right, and those that are
there and are seeing the guts of the work are
the ones that are like this, dude's gotta go. So
does that mean that we're right or they're right? Well,
you're not giving him a pass by any.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
Strung I'm not giving a pass. I thought the local
media was giving him a pass. And you know, behind
Tom went, Look, I know he has the streak of
being above five hundred, but you know, and I'm the
guy that always says the grass isn't always greener. Though
I'm one to jump in a first job throughout my
entire career, it's about time that maybe he looked elsewhere.
I just don't think it's, you know, any beneficial to

(01:36:44):
him or the Steelers just hanging around. Maybe he should
get into TV and take a year or off or hold.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
It at this we have a real possibility that the
Jaguars or Texans are in the super Bowl definition of
a terrible year. Now, hold up, man, I know some
Jags fans that are fired up, gared of Uncle Chaps.
He's ready to go.

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
Man, if the Jaguars and who are in the Super
Bowl Texans, then I won't Then I won't work the
Super Bowl that that year. The Texans are in the
or in the AFC anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
If either one of those, I should represent from the.

Speaker 4 (01:37:21):
If either one of them are in, I'm not working.
How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
You are, No, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
I won't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Not getting out of this. I'm changing flights to make
sure I'm where I need to be a super Bowl.
Yeah wow, but you can't. You can't skip out. You
can't do it. You're not allowed, You're fired. That would
be hilarious. I mean if he came out that the
Texans would have the Super Bowl and he's like, scot
him out.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
I can't do that if the Texans are going to
be that's just too boring. I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
Well, there's one more here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
I want to get in on your text and tweets
to the show, Mister Nobody writes apologies for gimmick infringement.
After two weeks of the college football playoffs, I know this.
The SEC is a fraud. The only wins came against
other SEC teams and notice respect, but why was Oklahoma
in it? And why was Alabama in it? Their only
win was against Oklahoma? Who choked? Wow, mister nobody getting

(01:38:12):
blocked on the show tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Look at.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
You want to talk about a fraud, By the way,
you don't have to look any further than the New
England Patriots. They're the biggest frauds.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
They just they wrapped up one of their best regular
seasons in a while, and the quarterback is going to
be the MVP most likely.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Why are you hating on the Patriots? All because the
easy schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
The easiest schedule in the history of football since it
ever started.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
That's why, which by the way, was also a Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
I told you that the Vision was going to be
playing very easy schedules. And who knew that the Patriots
would be playing the easiest schedules since they invented.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
Football since the invention of foot Well.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
I think it was like the third easiest or something.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
All right, we got a break.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
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Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
All right, it's Arni and Plank. Wait.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Is this our first show of twenty six? Did we
work together after the New Year's No we.

Speaker 4 (01:40:01):
Didn't, No, we didn't. This is our first in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
Yeah, what was that?

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
Like, you're twenty four us or something like that, twenty
five thirty. This is the thirteenth year.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
Pretty good around man. Yeah, don't say that too loud.
You know. My theory is when people hear you celebrating anniversaries.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Yeah, that's where they get rid of you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
They've been doing that for two longs. Time to move on,
all right, ready to play, guest, Go ahead you first
NFL records. I found this ready for this.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
Remember we always talk about going from worse to first
and how there's always a team every year and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Yeah, the Saker was just talking about it on the
Willard and ephrom A show.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
Five playoff teams coming off eleven plus loss seasons made
the playoffs New England, Jacksonville, Chicago, Carolina in San Francisco.
Four division winners coming off twelve plus lost seasons New England, Jacksonville, Chicago,
and Carolina. And three worst to first division. Cha oh

(01:41:00):
your favorite? Yep, New England, Chicago, and Carolina and the
last one two thirteen win teams off thirteen lost seasons. Wow,
So four different type of records there, but yeah, three worst,
the first, which I think is a record that we've
never had more than two worse, the first.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
In the end the year, the sega, I'm gonna batch
this stat, but this was also a year when at
least four teams that didn't make the playoffs the year
before end up making the playoffs. It I mean, and
I think it's like an incredible run of something like

(01:41:40):
twenty five thirty years. Thirty s happened thirty six years.
That seems excessive. Every year at least four, I wrote, quality,
That doesn't make any sense. What's your stat on that?
Disager qualify the playoffs? A qualify That's what I was writing,
Thank you, Steve, qualify after are missing the year before?

Speaker 6 (01:42:02):
Four?

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
That's the number this year at six? Doesn't that seem
crazy to you?

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
It is? I don't believe it. I want that double check,
so someone check the math on that. Geez blew my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
All right, Before we get to the saga's update, let's
get a couple of tweets in you yeah, oh no, no, no, wait,
we gotta play the game.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
You interrupted me and I forgot about it, all right,
guess the network? Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
I'm not going to tell you who it is, but
it's the final call from the Steelers Ravens game tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Here is uh your guest team one. Here's the snap.
Here's the hole. Here's the foot by Luke, and that
kick is.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
And you're Pittsburgh Steelers are esc North champions.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
I know it's gonna be hard. It's tough until the
woo it is.

Speaker 4 (01:42:55):
It's too tough to call. I don't think I could
do this.

Speaker 3 (01:42:57):
I will hold on. You gotta listen to the other one.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
Let me hear the other one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Okay, here go Tyler Louke from forty four yards.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Season on the line. Loop's kick is.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
On the way, it is.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
It is no good.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
He pushed it wide to the right.

Speaker 8 (01:43:16):
Time has expired, and not since Billy Kundiff won wide
left in the AFC Championship Game has a Ravens season
ended with such a gut wrenching thud as a missfield
goal and the season is over for the Ravens.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
My god, that I cut to the core now. I
know it's gonna be Why that second one was the
Ravens that lost.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
In the first one was the Steelers that won.

Speaker 4 (01:43:45):
I saw on Twitter Tyler Loop getting hundreds, if not thousands,
of just terrible tweets and emails and threatening him and
his family. That's got to stop. That was That's just horrible.
So you can't have something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
And my goodness, man, Uh did you hear? You must
hate when the color commentator steps on the play by
play guy because he goes he missed it before the game,
even before the play by play guy can tell you
that he missed it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
You know, I'm weird.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
I kind of dig that, Oh you do? Yeah, I
think I think there's a time and a place for it. Now,
you don't want him talking over everything, right, but I
think that in that instance, he got excited, you know,
he got excited or hurt or sad or whatever it was,
and not poor Billy kuinnd of catching straight.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Yeah, eord that David that you want?

Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
Heart wrenching? Do they not remember how Baltimore exited the
playoffs at Buffalo a year ago. They were gonna tie it,
send it to overtime and the two point pass was
dropped by the tight end at the goal line.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
Yeah, that's another gut wrenching looss. Well, Well, welcome to Miami,
lamar One. Nice to see you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
Steve de Seger is here.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
It's time for his final what's trending of the nine
Armies picks coming up around the corner?

Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
Jackson Miami dophin Jersey.

Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
I think one of those teams qualifying for the playoffs
this year that missed the postseason last year is Seattle
that impressively won at San Francisco last night to get
the NFC's one seed. The last time there's a home
playoff loss for the Seahawks it was twenty twenty wild Card.
No fans in the stadium. When Seattle has had fans

(01:45:21):
in attendance, They've won their last ten home playoff.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Games in a row.

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
Wow, third longest home streak in NFL playoff history. And
they're the one seed in the NFC for the fourth
time in franchise history. Every time Seattle has been a
one seed, they have made the Super Bowl all in
the last ten twelve years.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
Pittsburgh is AFC North champ After maybe you heard the
Ravens missed a forty four yard field goal attempt on
the final play twenty six to twenty four. Ravens are
eliminated with an eight to nine record. Aaron Rodgers had
to go ahead touchdown pass with under a minute ago.
That cheering that we heard from the booth that might
have been the Houston Texans network.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
We don't have to tackle Derrick Henry.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Next week Yes, next Monday nights wild Card weekend, it's
Houston at Pittsburgh. Here's the schedule. It starts Saturday on
Fox TV. RAMS at Carolina This Saturday four to thirty
Eastern Rams moved up to the five seed, beating Arizona
today Saturday night, Packers at the two seed Bears, Bears
and Eagles each lost at home in their FINALES three games.

(01:46:27):
Next Sunday in the playoffs one pm Eastern time. Buffalo
at Jacksonville. Jags just won their eighth in a row,
whipping Tennessee. San Francisco at Philadelphia Next Sunday on Fox
TV four to thirty Eastern time, And next Sunday night
it's the LA Chargers at two seed New England. New
England won easily over Miami today. The one seed in
the AFC is Denver after beating the Chargers Denver on

(01:46:50):
a bye next weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:46:51):
How wild would it be if we just had all
the playoff games at Sunday one o'clock all on the
same time. Let's just do all red zone down. Yeah,
red zone play. I'm a great with that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
Bee.

Speaker 5 (01:47:01):
Do you remember they were doing that with baseball for
a while, not successfully Yeah Cleveland, Minnesota each one. Today,
Houston won it's ninth straight. Giants beat Dallas to Las
Vegas has the number one overall draft choice. In April,
Atlanta beat New Orleans. The Falcons, though tonight fired coach
Raheem Morris and GM Terry Fontino. It got mentioned an

(01:47:24):
hour ago the College Football News that TCU quarterback Josh
Hoover will transfer to Indiana. Cincinnati quarterback Brandon Sworsby will
transfer to Texas Tech. The late NBA game to the Lakers,
who beat Memphis won twenty to one fourteen Luka Doncic
with thirty six points. Milwaukee got thirty seven from Giannis
Antanakompo and a win at Sacramento. Phoenix edged Oklahoma City

(01:47:44):
one o eight one oh five. Orlando sent Indiana to
a twelfth straight loss, one thirty five to one. Twenty
seven college basketball wins for Yukon and Gonzaga in the
top ten women's hoops, Stanford won in overtime at North Carolina.
Vanderbuild upset number five LSU NHL Montreal won and overtime
at Dallas, and the Kansas City Royals gave a three

(01:48:05):
year extension to manage your Matt Quatraro back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
Great stuff, Steve, that's an awesome week man.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
That's Steve de Seger updates here on Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
We wait, hold on? Are you here next week?

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
Steve?

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
Oh, it's in New England. So I wanted to make
sure that Arnie hadn't given you the night I had
not give.

Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
Him the night off. No, I have not. He will
be here.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
You want to get a couple more tweets before we
get to your picks and we get out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
We've had some good ones tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
How about we quickly jump on the SEC talk since
it was brought up Michael. Yeah, all these people celebrating
saying the SEC dominance is fully over, very small sample
while there while they're still going to have a quarter
of a chance to win the national championship and aren't
going anywhere. I get the excitement, but everyone can relax.

(01:48:52):
Miss it's their worst year and how long, well.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
I mean, old Miskits still won the title.

Speaker 2 (01:48:58):
True must hag mister nobody might have a great point
on head tohead Bama, Texas, A and M and Oklahoma
busted out, while Texas beat A and M and Oklahoma
and asked him, you beat Miami, maybe both should have
been in a CFP.

Speaker 3 (01:49:12):
Do you think we're inevitably getting to sixteen teams?

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
I do. I think we're eventually gonna get to twenty
four if we got rid of the bowl games and
had more time. I think time is a problem. Also,
we haven't really discussed we're gonna have to start it
earlier if we're gonna have twenty four teams. So they're
gonna have to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
Uh, proler, Why can't the major bowl games just be
playoff games for the minor bowl games being played as
part of the lower tiers and it type tournament? Well,
I think they want to get these on campus more.

Speaker 4 (01:49:44):
Yeah, I want That's exactly what I can said. I
went on campus to be able to fly after the
first round and then fly the semis and then in
the finals. That's just way too much time, way too
much cost for three different flights, three different back to
back to back during the holidays is just.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Not gonna happen. What's the better business model? And I'm
being dead serious, I have no idea. I'm asking because
most of these bulls are ESPN bulls. So is it
better value for them to continue to have all of
these bulls because I guess it's some sort of content
they have, or to take all that money that I
don't know how much money they're making on those other

(01:50:25):
bulls and just invested in those home sites and putting
those teams at home and having bigger, larger shows around it.
I don't know, because it just all these balls don't
seem like a big money it is. Actually, that's a
very easy question to answer.

Speaker 4 (01:50:42):
If you're could to take anything from anybody, right, anybody
will business no matter what, you're gonna open up. If
you're could open up a Hamburger stand, you find out
what the best hamburger stand is doing, and you do
the same thing the NFL is king. We all know that.
Do what the NFL is doing home field. They do
home field until the Super Bowl. If it's good enough
for the NFL, it's damn good enough for college home

(01:51:05):
field until the Championship. And that's the way you do it.
That way, you get that a great atmosphere that you
experienced out in Oklahoma, and you get that in every
game weading up into the Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
Here's a good one and a fair question our man,
the late night drug tester.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Well, the stinking genius make a pick for the FCS.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
Title game tomorrow, Montana State versus Illinois State. Oh that's
a good question. Will picking the FCS title game, aren't he?

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
I'll give it to you, right, I'm taking Montana State.
Are they the Grizzlies or are they the or they know
it's the Montana Grizzlies?

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:51:41):
Fivecats, Yeah, they're the Bobcats.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
The Illinois State was our opening season of redbirds, the
fighting brocks Backs.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
That's that's who the Sooners played to open up the season.
We started them on this run, by the way, it
was a great story. They didn't play their starting quarterback
because they didn't want it to get hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
Oh, get outa here.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
I mean that's serious. Wow, No, you know what, I
take that back. That was Temple. I apologize. I apologie.
I made that up.

Speaker 9 (01:52:09):
It was Temple that actually he was Temple with the
fighting brucks Backs of Illinois.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
State, and and and and Kent State did it as
well too. So my I have false accusations being made
by your boy against Illinois State. All right, Arnie, let's
see who do you want to hear from because I've
got I've got Raheem Morris. In fact, this is a
little bit uncomfortable. I want to play this now.

Speaker 3 (01:52:30):
This is right.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
This is Raheem Morris after the game because again you
got to remember he was he was let go, but
it wasn't until I guess fairly later after the game
before he found out. But I guess this is kind
of awkward now looking back to earlier tonight after the
Falcons beat the Saints but then inevitably fired Raheem Morris.

Speaker 5 (01:52:52):
Have you had any discussion jet with Arthur Blank about
next year in your future?

Speaker 7 (01:52:55):
Here?

Speaker 6 (01:52:56):
Now?

Speaker 11 (01:52:56):
You know, like you can't worry about those things right
the Boston right there, and like you know, all the like,
this is a business what we do.

Speaker 4 (01:53:01):
Man.

Speaker 11 (01:53:01):
I know it's like fun for you guys to talk
about it, but like those decisions always be made at
the proper time, those all be made utilize whatever's best
for the Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Do you expect to be back next year?

Speaker 11 (01:53:12):
You know? My expectations is always his bee pack, right
and then I'm gonna I'm gonna coach his football team
long as he allows me.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
Was he really sitting right there while they were asking
him all that.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
I think he was, Are you serious? I don't think
he was sitting next to him, but I think he
was at the.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
Because he does set. He did say, hey, the boss
man over there?

Speaker 4 (01:53:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
So interesting? All right? Well how about this?

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
John Harball was asked a very similar question during his
post game scrum after the do we say heartbreaking loss
for the Ravens tonight? I?

Speaker 4 (01:53:45):
Yes, so it happened.

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
Do you feel you want another shot the guys?

Speaker 4 (01:53:53):
Yeah? I love these guys. I love these guys.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
That's the most Jim Harball he's ever sounded.

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
What was he gonna No, I don't want another shot?
You got me? I'm done. I'm ready to call it quits.
I don't want another shot with these guys. They're losers, right,
Why would I want another job with losers? What would
you think he was gonna say to a question like that?
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
I think they were trying to make it kind sound
kind of like off the cuff to see if they'd
get more out of it, and he just didn't give
them anything.

Speaker 4 (01:54:23):
No, he gave him nothing is what he gave him.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
I was hoping to have the Travis Kelcey stuff in here. All,
maybe we'll dig for that in the fire.

Speaker 4 (01:54:29):
Is he coming back? Do you think he'll be back?

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
Can I tell you my favorite bad take whenever someone says, well,
he doesn't want to go out like that, he might
not have a choice his body. I mean, this isn't
about this isn't about whether or not he thinks the
Chiefs will be good next year. I think they're gonna
be good next year. But Arnie, there's a point where
your body's just like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
What was the great?

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
What was the character on American Idol would always say
that's no for me, dog Like your body just eventually
says that, And I watch him and I kind of
I wonder if he's reaching that point.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
I think he wants to come back and keep an
eye on this if he find if he goes to
another team, that means Mahomes is not going to be
coming back for at least half the year, maybe longer.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
So in other words, he's hip to the recovery, realizes
he only has one more year left, so he goes
somewhere where he could win a little quicker than having
to wait around for Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
To get back.

Speaker 2 (01:55:24):
He can go exactly interesting the Chiefs this year finished
oh and eight against playoff teams and oh and seven
against the AFC playoff field.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
It's crazy, big, big turnaround from last year.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
Wasn't under what much different world?

Speaker 4 (01:55:41):
We were twelve and zero, one score games and all that bolonie.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
Now they couldn't win one period.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
They're going to take us home next right here on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):

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