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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio on a Fox
Football Saturday mont to get you believe it. We've gone
from college football to Army Navy to the big boys
playing in a game for the NFC one seed. You
know what, the most valuable thing in all of professional world,
the whole professional world, is on the line here on

(00:22):
what is now I'm gonna call Saturday night in football,
because the winner of this thing they.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Get a day off, which is crazy to have the
forty nine ers in this position. The forty nine ers,
who at the start of the season I thought would
have an easier season based on their strength of scheduling.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, that schedule right talking for you, it.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Was a big time And I was like, of course
they're gonna have an easy season.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
They're gonna get in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And then all of a sudden, they start dropping like
flies due to injuries all over their roster, and you're
just like, this maybe is not going to be this
season that the forty nine ers. And then somehow they
put together a season where right now they have the
chance to be the number one over seat.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
What well, somehow, you say, A lot of it has
to do with the guys they're showing on the screen
right now. Christian McCaffrey running back for the San Francisco
forty nine Ers is And this is what I find
I almost appreciated this go round. There's no confusion because
Rock Party missed a whole bunch of games. There's really

(01:29):
no confusion about who the most valuable player on the
forty nine ers offense is right now. I'm not saying
that Mac Jones at Brock Purt, they're comparable.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Brock's better. We watch the games right question, and.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Brock's ability Layton downs to extend plays as you see
his legs, using his legs, He's really been a great,
done great at that second half of the year, especially
as he's recovers from that toe. However, Christian McCaffrey's the
most valuable player in the San Francisco forty nineers. I
could tell you that because every other candidate has been

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absent for some significant portion, if not all of it. Bosa,
like you outlined ad minute ago, Fred Warner. They say
he might come back, will guess what if he did
come back, He just had a broken anchle for three
months exactly. So even if he does come back, George
and even today, they're gonna be without Trent Williams and
Ricky Piersong. Ricky Piersol has been in and out of
the line of forever. And Trent Williams, who is one

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of the few football players Monzie older than us. Think
about it, think about it, one of the few football
players older than us. And he plays left tackle. That quarterback. Ye,
so again, the most important thing in professional world on
the line. Here a day off, the one seed, the
one team in the NFC going into the postseason, he
will not have to play, which I get. We talk

(02:46):
about a buye, but like, just think about for a second,
and it's because you know, I get it. We go
blow past these things. But sometimes there is some simplicity
and powerfulness of like the one plus one is two.
If you get a bye, you only gotta win two
games and then you're in the super Bowl. Like that's

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so much bigger than winning three game. I get it,
I get it. It sounds very basic. However, it's humongous.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
The math is mathing real easily.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
There Also, can you imagine not having to get on
a plane to travel at all in the postseason? It
would be that's like, that's what I can't believe is
on the line. It's not even just the one seed.
It's like you don't have to hop on a plane
if you win this game for the rest of the year.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So obviously a ton at stake.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
And then the other thing that's fascinating about the way
the NFL has set up these schedules to where you
end up seeing like the Commanders and Giants will play
twice in weeks in between weeks fourteen and eighteen, or
like we're seeing here like almost every the Panthers and
Buccaneers today played there. We're seeing division games as the

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season ends, which is starting all of these like you
know WHOA, will they win the division? Will they lose
the division? I they lose the division? What does that mean?
This is gonna be the second year in a row
in the NFC that it's gonna be wild card or
by not like wild card or two seeds I mean

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I'm gonna buy or two seed right by or three
seed right where you're picking an opponent. Now it's either
wild card where you are on the road for the postseason,
or you get a day off. And the thing that's
the funniest about it in allmont see the more things change,
the more they stay the same. Because just like I outline,

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it's the same exact position for the NFC again, it's
the same quarterback in the same position, this time for
a different team. Sam Darnold was right there, one seed
on the line last week of the season in Detroit
put up US thinker winning the wildcard round. You remember
the Fires, they had the moved a game Arizona and

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then you know what, it was another stinker, a stinker
so much so that a team that won fourteen regular
season game said, you know what we're gonna do. We're
moving on from our quarterback. And as a result, Seattle's
got him, and you know what, we are right here,
almost three hundred and sixty five days to the day
of where it all fell apart for Sammy d starting

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in about two minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know, you really presented that nicely, because even though
I knew that, I guess I hadn't really thought of
it like that, right do my movie.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
In the world, Sam Donald can win the NFC back
to back years.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Which is exactly what's happening. Is crazy. If you look
at Sam Darnald, I think, is what in the last
two years, He's what twenty seven and six, maybe ish
something like that. Like if you just looked at his
wins and losses records, it's gotta be.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
He's the winningest quarterback in the NFL the last season,
in the.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Last two years he has. It's not close. But the
last couple of weeks the Seahawks have.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Won in spite of Sam Donald.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, sam'sman, he's been real bad. They've gone, but they've
still won them once since in a.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Row nine and nine touchdown interception ratio in the last
few weeks.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, like the game against the Colts, Sam, you did
not win because of Sam Donald in that game.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
You you survived that game.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Honestly, you probably won because Philip Rivers was the other quarterback, and.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
In a way, the Philip Rivers in the first quarter
looked like the better, better quarterback. He went down there
and put them in. I don't know if he got
a touch, didn't know, but he.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Got some points.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
There was a bunch of field goals. They got points
off of it, right right, right, right, Yeah, I really
I don't know what Sam Donald is about to do
when he's about to face two guys that have coached
him in Kyle Shanahan and in Robert Sola.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
So that's interesting because I looked at it the other way.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
You thought that he had the advantage because he had.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, there's definitely a familiarity, but I had kind of
forgotten about the solid like the forty nine ers thing
I thought less about because I thought, okay, because really
the first on Easter teams played, Sam again has not
played amazing down the stretch. But again they you know,
the first few times played. I don't think he played
terribly in that game. I have positive my thought of

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does Sam Donald just have a Chris Shule of Brian
Flores problem? Like if because if you look at to
your point, if he's lost six games in the last
two season seasons to the Rams and to the Vikings,
primarily like when he was a member of the Vikings,
obviously lost to the Rams as a member of the

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Seahawks has been the Vikings and the Rams, right, So
is it like is it Brian Flores or is it
a little familiarity with that Vikings defense and they say, well,
we win against them every week. We'll see. Now, if
Sam Donald takes the field for the first time as
this game is about to get started, I'm of this belief,
I think. And obviously the best team does not all

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ways win the Super Bowl. Sure, but I think in
this era of the NFL, when I try, I try
to take something from every year and learn from it.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
How to make a new Year's resolution.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
NFL a new year league? Right, how can I be
better at my prognostications going forward? And before last season
around this time, it's like, you know, the Chiefs keep winning.
What's against? I don't care? They got Patrick Mahomes? Did
ain't you read? What do you mean? And I was
sitting there saying the Eagles are the better team, but

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I can't bet. I think it now with the way
that this defenses have been and the teams have been playing, Seattle,
I think is the best team in the NFL. I agree,
And I think that more than anything, is why I'm
planting my flag in the Pacific Northwest for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Interesting, I think they are the best team because they
seem to have the most filled team. Like every department
that they have is good.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Right, every meeting room is good.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Dude, You've got some dudes in it. But then there
are certain meeting rooms where you can't compare. There's a
better meeting room. On the other team, they have all
the good meeting rooms, but some other one meeting rooms.
I think like the offense for San Francisco right now
is clicking at a level that I'm wondering how the
Seahawks are going to keep up offensively. Like the Seahawks

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Eves so good, sure, but San Francisco's offense is so
good right now since Party, since Brock Party came back,
they're averaging what over thirty three points a game. And
I know the Seahawks are a top defense again, so
let's balance that out. But at the same time, in
the last games that San Francisco's offense has been clicking
since Rock Party came back what six weeks ago. In

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that same span, Sam Donald has not been clicking offensively.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So that's kind of my point.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Okay, name me. I challenge you or anyone else who
can hear my void. You could join the show if
you like, you tweet me. I'm Att Martin, Whis's Moncey's
at Monty Bilanos. Name me another team on the NFC
side of the bracket who can survive their quarterback playing

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poorly and still win because the Rams can't.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
The Rams probably can the.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Forty nine ers can't.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Definitely the right because their defense is.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, who else you want you name it?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Because I think the Seattle Seahawks, shown by the evidence
of the last few weeks, are the only team complete
enough from special teams defense, and even their run game
is suspect, as we see Zach Sharbney run for about
five six yards here. The run game is suspect, but
offensively they seem to balance the game enough to say,
you know what, Sam, as long as you do not

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make a million mistakes, right, if you can mitigate your mistakes,
you know what I mean? You might be an okay chef,
right oky, But we could have some hot sauce here,
and you know saying I can't believe it's not butter.
So like if you put too much pepper or too
much salt, will be fine. We just need you to
make sure you take it out of the oven when

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the beeper goes off.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
You make a good point. You're right, you're right about
that looking at this roster, and like you said, the NFC,
because I was like, well, what about the Texans?

Speaker 4 (11:19):
But you're right.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
In the NFC, you are right, this is a team
that can still win despite Sam Donald being a little
bit below his best playing days, which we're at the
start of the season.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I guess, like, is it just the Sam Donald effect
that I'm over here? Kind of like you were just
saying the Chiefs effect. I think we were all on
that last year where it's like I can't bet most
of us, you know, like I can't bet against the
Chiefs here, I'm just like, I don't know if I
can bet on Sam Donald.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
But that effect, right, But.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
That's why I feel confident in picking the Seahawks as
we're going through this in this game and then because
I think they will get to buy and then also
going forward through the postseason to eventually be the NFC representative.
The reason why I think that is the case because
I don't think they're betting on Sam Darnold, do you
know what I'm saying, Like when you look at the

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way that some of these other teams move around, for example,
I know I'm talking about primarily on the NFC side
of things, but just indulge me to.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Talk about Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
For me, there was a big consternation should Sean mcdermoan
and joshall and have gone for two What are you doing?
How could you ever give the two time MVP the
opportunity to win the game? You see where I landed
on the side of the debate, But I think to
that point it was a moment where Josh is our
best player, Josh is hurt. We want to try to
win this game right now because we don't want to

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extend and play further and play more right, And you
can come down to either side of that, but the
ultimately reason why you'd made that decision was all about Josh.
The Seattle Seahawks are not making all about Sam decisions.
And I think that's and I think that ultimately.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Is a good thing.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's a good thing when you can do that because
because the final thing is most of the time when
you're doing that, because your guy can't do something. There's
not a physical thing in the NFL that quarterbacks can
do that Sam Donald can't. It's a mental thing with
Sam Donald. It is you watch the arm strength. You
watch just like he can scrap, he can get around you,
got good arm strength. It's mental with Sam Donald. Right,
she gets hit too many times. All falls apart with

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Sam Donald, but it's not arm strength missed me there.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, no, that's it's a man, all right. You really
have made me look at the Seahawks a little bit
different at the advantages that they have with Sam Donald.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
When I'm over here looking at it as a disadvantage.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
You have just spun it into the advantage.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
You over there looking at the car. I get it.
The car. The window sometimes the back window rolls down
when you started up. I get it. Sometimes the front
window only goes down if the doors closed, correct, I
get it. But it's only got one hundred and twenty
five thousand miles.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's get to get here there exactly, and it just pass.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
You're good for the next four years. Right, You're in
good shape now. If you're running a race, If you're running,
if that's what you're trying to do, you better Ad Patrick, mahomes,
Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, you better think you got And
I think some teams in Nfercy think they got that
guy in Jordan Love right right, you gotta think that's
the guy. We're gonna buckle up. We're gonna receivers, Damn

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you to hell. We don't need them. We got a quarterback,
and that's what we're gonna do right. They don't say
that in Seattle. They don't say that.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Don't say that in Seattle. And again you're making me
look at it differently. I still don't know if Seattle
wins this game.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I don't know if they win or not. I'm just
saying in terms of if I'm making an argument for
who I'm picking them to win this game.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
For disclosure, I think they win this. They win this,
they get the buye.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
I think that just catapults you to a much better
opportunity to win the Super Bowl, to win the NFC
than it does because just off the off chance you
have to play four less quarters than everybody else. But
in terms of complete team they are, this seems to
be the most complete team to me, and what we've
learned in the NFL this season specifically, more like starting

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last year and going into this last season, you better
have a pretty complete team because if you just have
a superhuman a quarterback, you're in a tough spot.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Absolutely, I do think San Francisco wins this game.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
And I just didn't want to admit that because you know,
I have one of my best friends is watching this
right now, probably not listening to us, because you get
so glued to the TV right now.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
But I do think San Francisco wins this game.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
And I feel like the league or the other teams
are rooting for probably Seattle to win this game.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
So that they don't have to. Nobody wants to see
Seattle more than they have to.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
So wait, so you're saying I feel like the do
you think teams in the NFC are more scared to
see Seattle or San Francisco in the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Seattle?

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Okay, so I feel like they want that.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You know what I'm saying. They don't want, they don't.
Please give them a bye. Let me not deal with
them more than I have.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Somebody else plays exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
That's what I'm I'm thinking. But I do think San
Francisco wins this game.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I like I like Seattle here. I just think
that the defense injuries for the San Francisco I think
will proved ultimately to be too much. However, that's the
time of year. Everybody's hurt, everybody's in and out of
the lineup, and a team that was had guys in
and out of the lineup all season and even today
they gotta win.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
I don't think it was enough. We'll see if Monsei does.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
And honestly, this is what's sweet about this, because you're
gonna have one hundred and six men on active NFL
rosters tomorrow sitting there on their couches, sweating out their
opportunity to win, just like you may have for your
fantasy football championship a few weeks ago, all right, So
they'll be clenched just like you. We'll get to that

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Speaker 3 (18:05):
This is giving Vegas.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I love this version.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
I've never heard this version stuff you've never heard of?

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Then, can you for the podcast? Can you explain what's happening? Oh?

Speaker 8 (18:16):
Yeah, for people have no idea what I'm playing. This
is Taylor Swift Ophelia, but it's a remix by Chainsmokers.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
So when I said this felt like Vegas, I didn't
know how exactly like Vegas it felt.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yes, okay, great version.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's the only thing I would have ever equate that too,
is that's the only time I've ever come across that
type of song. There. I found out that the Chainsmokers
were on a bachelor party that was what. Yeah, it's
like we were going to uh Red Rocks of all
places in Denver going, I was going to concerts, got

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about you know, like tickets to the Chainsmokers.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, this doesn't sound like something I'm into.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know, but you know what we went and I
was like, hey, and plus those are Colorado's. I really
didn't know what change smoking moment you.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Know means a cough and a sore throw, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
But I mean it could have you know, I'm in
Denver ten years ago, it could mean any you know,
change smoking means whatever. You know, I'm making a marijuana
reference for anyone with any curiosity. Yeah, I don't want
to start the ear off like that. Right as we
come to you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
You want to join the conversation, hit us up on Twitter.

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I'm at Martin Weiss at We'll get to your tweets
throughout the show. Okay, mind scene do you Uh So,
I'll just be clear, I have not ever thought that
Bright Shawn was going to be a viable NFL quarterback

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from the Iron Bowl against Auburn. Right, And I was like,
don't get me wrong, Heisman, cool, do what you want,
you know what I'm saying. I'm not mad about it. Yeah,
that's college. It's the pros, right, I'm not trying to
take anything away from the college I thought.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I enjoyed watching the player.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I enjoyed. I think he's a great guy. I saw
him at the super Bowl in Arizona. We were both
at Radio Row Average. Since that I was out.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, because he said he's my height.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
He actually developed, he developed a theory of mine.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
The more out the more a NFL football player looks
like me.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
The more you don't think exactly okay.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
And the way that Bryce young in me was like
who yeah, and I'm talking about it in the face
if I'm talking about like the weight, like I was
taller than him, I said, no, no, no, wish you
the best. I root for you always, but uh, I'm not.
I'm not betting my money.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Can't find my way to do that. Do you have
a different opinion, though.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I think I've always rooted for him, But I know
exactly what you're talking about, because it just didn't seem
based on his height, his size, especially playing for a
team that basically is full of stars around you, and
then you enter into the NFL, and you're the number
one overall pick going into a team that's probably not

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gonna have the stars that you're used to playing alongside you,
protecting you, and all of that.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I always thought that there was a chance he could
surprise us in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I always thought there was a chance.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I can't only think of like when you say things
like that, I only think of like jokes like Brice
Young's gonna pop out of a cake and be like.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Surprise, you know, and I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm glad to see and to say surprise. The guy
was the number one overall pick in the draft.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Team was so clearly clearly.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
One team was in love with him, right right?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
But and also to what's not necessarily in his best
favor is you have, uh, what's always will be inextricably
tied to him was the trade, right they trade the
trade ends up being Caleb Williams, Right, that that pick
ends up being Caleb Williams. You wonder what, well what
I'd rather just not done that at all and just
got Caleb Williams right, or and then CJ. Stroud who

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Bryce Young now with an opportunity to potentially make the
playoffs depending on what happens tomorrow. CJ. Stroud already locked
in that thing, I believe for the third time in
four years, the third time in three years starting.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Either way, CJ's been there, not exactly done that, but
he's been there. He's got a playoff win. Bryce Young
is yet to make a playoff appearance. They were drafted
one two. I don't think that necessarily helps Bryce's vision,
but I would say this, I think if you drafted
c J. Stroud to the Panthers, they may have they
may be in the same similar spot. But today, this

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is the best season the Panthers have had in quite
some time. And I think this is a moment where
the Carolina Panthers really truly have to look at an
introspective level at who and what they're doing. I think
you have a guy in Dave Canalis who shows me
their ability to game plan week in week out is
very impressive. And I'm giving a slight pass today in

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what was a torrential downstorm.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
For their inability to run the ball.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I know it didn't necessarily impact Tampa as much, but
I think that had a lot to do with it.
But when you look at this team. I think they're
a team that is not necessarily winning in spite of
Bryce Young. But they are not necessarily winning because of
Bryce Young. And if you are going to pay Bryce
Young top of the market is, you're going to pay
him the extension, the fifth year extension that most other

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number one overall picks get.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think this will be the best your team will
be in the Bryce young Eraw.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, that's a different conversation because I feel like, right now,
if I'm the Panthers, I am giving I'm giving Bryce
Young a promise ring, not an engagement It's a promise
ring because I like what you're doing. And I think
Bryce also knows his limitations and he knows that he's
in a position where Dave Knellis is putting.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Him to succeed. I agree. I feel like he has
to know.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
That, and so right now I'm giving him a promise ring,
and it's like, let's see what.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Happens next year.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
But I am not giving him an engagement ring right
now and maybe ever.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I listen, I just need you to pick your hair
up in the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
And I think they're ahead of schedule too. So it's like,
right now, you cannot turn your back on Bryce Young.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
There ahead a schedule in the win lost column to
everybody but the Carolina Panthers, right, you know what I'm saying, Like,
you tell Dave Canalis he's ahead of schedule, right.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
And he's gonna be like, no, I'm.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Not right, because you know what happens in this league.
If I'm behind schedule just a bit, I don't have
a schedule anymore because I'm sitting on the couch right
because I've been fired. Right. And so for Dave Canalis
to get this team in playoff contention, a team that
was one of the worst teams in the NFL the
last three seasons, is impressive to me. But you still

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have a lot of answers at your quarterback position in
my opinion, totally.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
But you also put together some really good wins this
season at the same time questionable losses.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
I mean the Saints was one where you're.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Like, you got didn't you just go from beating the
Rams to losing to the same.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Which Saints lost are you talking about? Because they found
a way to do.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
It all twice?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
And it's just like so it's like, there are questions,
but you had some good wins, you had some good plays,
even today in the Tampa game. You know, I feel
like they mentioned that Bryce Young this season wasn't throwing
the ball downfield a lot. It was a lot of
short throws, you know, keeping the game, but not anything crazy.
And then the next play he does throw a nice
ball down I think it was to Tetoa McMillan.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
I think downfield, and it's like, so.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
It's in there, it's in there, but it is. It
is very based on I think the game plan and
the scheme, not necessarily based on the talent that Bryce
Young brings to the table.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
The raw talent.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, I think a lot of that has to do.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Talking about this earlier. I think Bryce Young is probably
best as a backup quarterback when you consider just a
physical limitations, all of it.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
He's also probably best as an offensive coordinator.

Speaker 9 (26:12):
And also but it it'd be great if he would
be a great backup though, like you can now make
a living of being a great backup because how many
great backups are there?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
But not many?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
But say that to Bright that's the interesting Say that
to Bryce Young right now, who just again led his
team to a potential division clinching moment. Could have played
better today. It was a sloppy rainstorm.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
It was hard.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Even if you saw Baker maybe literally just lost the
ball he was about to in the first quarter, you
were like this, there's no how do you play football
like this?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Also too, Dave Canalis, you had twenty two yards rushing
at the time of the ric o'dodo handoff pitchback to
Bryce Young.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
That might have, as they say in the football.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
World, cute too Q too cute. Just kick it over
to Steve to Seger with an update on this massive
NFC showdown.

Speaker 10 (27:07):
Steve, do you know how hosts always try and tie
in whatever their last sentences?

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Accidentally with the throw to the ag, I.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Was about to say, who is always too cute?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
I it ran through my brain, but I did not
find an easy way to land it.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
So I was like, just say hello, Steve and we
move on.

Speaker 10 (27:28):
Yeah, Seattle is dominating the first quarter at San Francisco.
It's only seven nothing on the scoreboard, under three minutes
to go in this first period. Here we are on
the final weekend of the regular season in the NFL.
Tonight's winner gets the NFC's number one seed and the
NFC West title. Keep in mind going into the weekend,
Seattle has a one game lead in the standings over
San Francisco, so if there's a tie after an overtime tonight,

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Seattle would stay in first place and advances the one
seed and get the first round. By Zach Scharbonay is
the Seahawks first player with twelve rushing touchdowns in a
season since Marshawn lynch Over a decade ago. Sharboney twenty
seven yard TD run. The only scoring were late first quarter.
The first drive belonged to the Seattle offense tonight. It

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was over seven and a half minutes, twelve plays, sixty
six yards. Eventually it was a first and goal from
the Niners one yard line and Seattle got no points
out of it. They went forward on fourth and goal
from the four and Sam Darnold threw incomplete in the
end zone for Cooper Cup. They complained for a PI
in the end zone, didn't get a flag. San Francisco's

(28:33):
offense then went three and out in just a few
plays later. The touchdown run for Seattle. So at six
first downs to none, Seahawks yardage ninety two to sixteen.
We got two and a half minutes to go first
quarter seven to nothing Seattle. A Seattle win would put
them at fourteen and three for this regular season. Tampa
Bay finishes eight and nine after a sixteen to fourteen

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victory on a rainy day in Tampa, beating Carolina. Baker
Mayfield one touchdown on one interception, Chase McLoughlin three for
four on field goals. The Bucks will win the NFC
South if Atlanta loses on Sunday. If Atlanta wins, Carolina
would take the division. Thanks to a three way tiebreaker,
they would win. Ravens wide receiver Rashad Bateman is out

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Sunday night due to illness. Pittsburgh pass rusher TJ. Watt
we'll play the season finale against the Ravens. He's missed
the last three games with the lung injury. Running back
for the Jets, Brief Hall is out with a knee injury.
Giants wide receiver Wandale Robinson went on IR today with
the rib injury. Dallas running back Javonte Williams is officially
on IR with shoulder and neck injury, and his backup

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running back Malik Davis is on IR with an eye injury.
Quarterback Drew Mestamaker committed to Oklahoma State, transferring from North
Texas to go where his head coach just went.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
To the NBA.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
Philadelphia leads at the next sixty six fifty eight in
the final thirty seconds before the halftime break. Carl Anthony
Towns is playing for the next tonight, returning after missing
Friday's game due to illness. He has two points in
the first half, one of six from the floor. There's
college hoops on Fox TV right now. Six and a
half minutes to go in the first half. Number five

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Purdue has taken the lead at Wisconsin thirty to twenty six,
and the Blue Jays are signing Japanese third basement Kazuma Lakamoto,
reportedly a four year deal. We're sixty million dollars back
to you.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Thanks Steve Martin Weiss wants Bolanos coming to you live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios in Monci. You know,
watching Alabama and Indiana, I was reminded.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, what a game that was, What a game, and
it was.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
A game that was just one of those The score
not nearly the time, yeah, right, it was by the
time you got to twenty one. Nothing, You're just like, okay,
the question is by how much? Not not if right,
it's by how much? And then it got to wait
a minute, are they gonna score a touchdown at all?

Speaker 3 (31:05):
And then they being Alabama? So true story.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I took a nap and walk up with about ten
minutes left in the first quarter. The first player I
saw was a quarterback wearing white running for his life. Right,
seemed like, went to the bathroom, come out the bathroom.
I look.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
You know games in commercial, you know, get to sleep
out of my eyes.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And I look, and I was like, wait a minute,
who's worried worrying that color?

Speaker 4 (31:30):
I hated that because they both right, but the same colors.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
But my first thought was there's no way. Again, there's
no way. I thought that that. I figured that this
had been Mendoza running for his life, not Ty Simpson,
come to find out, And I was quickly corrected, No,
it's just Ty Simpson running for his life. Mendoza is
actually having a ball of a time. We'll throw more
touchdowns than in completions in this game. It just shows

(31:56):
you in college sports how much with then I we
just heard Drew Mestermaker committing to Oklahoma State from North Texas.
That might be one of the better quarterbacks in the portal.
I think maybe Oklahoma State's up next, right, because the
whole world, the collspable world, has changed dramatically in the
last two years, featuring Indiana.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
It just shows like when NIL first started, I was like, man,
this is I really did not think it was going
to be good for the sport at all. And there
are some kinks, right, there's some things you want to
iron out, and there's whatever, But it really has kind
of even the playing field. Anyone who was willing to
spend you have a shot. If you can spend money,
you have a shot at this.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
And so to me, really, what you're at now is
something that most fans of Major League Baseball should be
well familiar with. M H.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
If you're not competing, you have yourself to blame.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
You really do, right, You really.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Have yourself to blame, right, because the amount of resources
are theoretically limitless. Right, The limit is imposed palling by
your ability to raise and spend and then your willingness
to raise and spend. Right, you know, and actually got
it right. All of us were here when Rob was
talking about all. You know, the Mets spend a million
dollars and they don't win anything. We Met's spend way

(33:14):
more million dollars. The Mets spend millions and millions of dollars,
they don't win anything. The Rangers won the World Series.
All right, well, I'll tell you this. You named it
the little engine that could in baseball, the small market
team that's consistently winning year in year route year in
year Route, and I'll show you the little market that
could in college football. No, you gotta have the money.
You gotta have the eyes as well, though totally. Netty's

(33:36):
got the eyes to find the talent. Get those guys
in there. Nobody was talking about fernand Do Mendoza was
the number one pick in the draft. Now they all
are all.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Of a sudden, which is shocking that especially with UH
hearing constantly throughout the season how bad the quarterback draft
class was going to be for this.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Coming, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
And now now they're talking about him, and it's just
Indiana looks so good, and the fact he didn't even
win the MVP of that game.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
They gave it to his offensive lineman.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
You know, that's one of those I'm glad because if
he had one and.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
There was the speech to be given.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Oh you not right, the Rose bulls. It's such as
this great environment. But you know what the real winners
of this MVP trophy, it's the five guys in front
of me.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
Man.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
When I watch what they do, they just inspire me
every day to go out be my best.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Isn't it great that he's like that?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
And then Chris Signetti has like no expression or emotion
looks the same regardless of what's happening.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
The opposite balance, the opposite sure did attract he just
quick thirty second take what's your What do you feel
about the post game? Like you obviously I was doing
my best Mendoza impersonation.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
That was great.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
That was good. If I close my eyes, I would
have been like Fernando.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
The trick is just be earnest so much. Yes, yeah,
what do you what's your take on him? Like on that?
In that regard.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Fananomnd, Yeah, he's so goofy and I love it. I
think so goofy and I love.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I think we all see him as goofy. I think
every general manager in the NFL, at least half of
the general managers in the NFL are watching him saying
I wish my quarterback talked.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Like that, And you know, I feel like.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
You put date Diego Pavia next to him, and you're like, oh,
why can't you be more like him? Like Diego Pavia
did all the things that a general manager would not
want you to do when he lost the Tribes the Heisman.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
General managers in or out guilty, are not guilty of
just crimes of circumstance. Sure, I'm not putting anybody really
in jail. But however, the crime of public opinion you
can definitely be guilty of. That Sports Court coming up next,
don't listen.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
The Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Comes to you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios
on a Fox Sports Football Saturday. It's Martin wis Manzi Bolanos.
Let's play the Sports Court.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
The defense is wrong.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
He sports Sports Court.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
That's right, it's that time a week again. We're coming
back to the Sports Court.

Speaker 12 (36:09):
I have a list of people from the world of
sports that we're gonna put on trial here in the court.
I'm going to present to you guys their case, and
then it's up to you, the jury, to tell me
whether they are guilty.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
Or not guilty? Ready, let's do it.

Speaker 12 (36:19):
Okay, First up, Tom Brady stands accused. So at a
New Year's Eve party in Saint Barth's I think that's
how it's pronounced, Tom Brady and influencer Alex Earl were
seen getting pretty close and comfortable at the party. Earl
is twenty five years old compared to Brady being forty eight,
and she actually recently just got out of a relationship
with another NFL player, Braxton Barrio, since she was also
recently on Dancing with the Stars. I believe she finished

(36:42):
as the runner up. But Tom Brady guilty or not guilty?
I have no knowledge of anything.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
I'm saying he's guilty.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Guilty.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Tom Brady' supposed to date winners? That's a runner up?
Whoa tom Brady's supposed to die? Six super Bowls are
six runner ups? What's one? Was it? Runner ups? I'm sorry?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Do we host Lombardes or runner up trophies?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
That's good?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
That's what do we do it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, I agree?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Guilty he did that?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah, bro, why are you going to date somebody who
just broke up with an NFL player that nobody knows
that NFL player now has to see his ex girlfriend
alongside Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
I can't believe Moncy wasn't locked into Miami Docks Miami
Dolphins hard knocks in season.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, not at all, not even a little bit.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
So I know who practicing barrier, well, I know star
on it or something that's that's That's the only reason
I heard Alex earol prior to.

Speaker 12 (37:39):
He just dates models like he was dating Culpo Olivia
or the other one sister.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, yeah, he he's a Texan though, Now.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Isn't he.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (37:51):
You see what I mean? Now this guy has to
see his ex girlfriend with Tom Brady.

Speaker 12 (37:54):
Tom all right? Next up, Michael Irvin stands accused. We
touched on this on The Odd Couple earlier this week,
but NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin has been going
pretty viral lately for his sideline interactions during the Miami
Hurricanes college football playoff run. He's actually been doing it
like all year, but it's going extra viral now that
it's on such a massive stage. It's stuff like the
camera cutting to him on the sideline and he's down

(38:15):
on all fours. He does this b two a celebration
after the games, or he takes his belt off and
starts whacking something. It's pretty funny, but some people have
said he's taken the attention away from the actual players
who deserve the full spotlight.

Speaker 6 (38:27):
But what do you guys think? Michael Irvin guilty or
not guilty?

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Straight to Jill, I did it because I love older.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Just I can't. What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (38:36):
You would?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I thought, is he still on the team like you
would think he's an active player on the sideline or something.
I just I can't. It was way too much, And
I get it. You have really nice ops. That's why
you wanted to lift your shirt.

Speaker 8 (38:46):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Not guilty.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
I'm innocent, plp oly dad.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Because the only person who was more outland just and
outrageous on New Year's Eve than Michael living was Martin
Weiss in the living room by myself. All what he did,
I did even more so if he can't be guilty,
because I'm not guilty because anytime I can watch Ohio
State lose oh New Year's Eve, it's a great way
to start your selfish bastard.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
What did you just say on my couch at home
in my privacy?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Not guilty as well, So not like we're comparing now
apples and oranges.

Speaker 12 (39:18):
Here in the privacy of your home versus.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
The police only responded to one to two. That's all
I'll say. What next up?

Speaker 12 (39:29):
The LSU football program stands accused. Now, there's a few
people you guys could choose to send a sports to
jail here. But we all know by now that Lane
Kiffin is the new head football coach at LSU. He
wanted to continue coaching his former team Ole Miss through
the College Football Playoff, but Ole Miss wouldn't allow it
even without him. Though, Ole Miss is still alive in
the CFP, as they just beat Georgia and the Sugar
Bowl on Thursday. The biggest winner, though, still might have

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been Kiffing, because part of LSU's deal to lure them
away from the Rebels included huge bonuses for every win
that all Miss gets in the CFP, So them beating
too Lane in the first round got him two hundred
and fifty K. The Sugar Bowl victory this week just
ended him another five hundred K. So if almost beats
Miami in the next round, he gets another seven hundred
and fifty K. So LSU for including something like this
in the deal, guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Absolutely guilty count what I don't.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Know it was LSU.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
I thought it was just part of his contract.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
LSU is that it's not all missed you what.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
He doesn't work at all miss anymore. He works for
our listens giving what First of all, not guilty, I
didn't do it. If they're gonna pay.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
You, you might as well do it whatever it takes.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
The guilty thing. What if you don't win anything, your
two wins away from a national championship? Right now?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
It ole miss guilty right now?

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Idiots don't listen to Fox Sports Radio Radio broadcasting live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
That's right, it's Martin Weiss joining montcu Belanos here. Nineteen
of nearly thirty plays by the Seattle Seahawks have been
in San Francisco territory. Mind see, this is honestly a
situation in which, as a guy who just in the
first hour of this show planted the flag stood ten
toes down the South, I think the Seahawks both win

(41:11):
this game and are the representative of the NFC in
the Super Bowl. As Sam Donald rushes for a first
down that could have been a flag on that one
we'll see if the defense is flagged for a late
hit by Bune but looks like no, it.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Was, it was real close.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
I wouldn't I wouldn't have been surprised if a flag
had been trucked.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I wouldn't have either. But I wouldn't have liked it
because if you're the defender at that point, he wasn't
going down yet. It's like, you know what I mean, Like,
how am I supposed to stop on a dime if
you're not slighting yet?

Speaker 3 (41:42):
I understand what you and I know.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
It's Sam Donald. So you're like, well, he's gonna slide.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
No, I mean either way, either way, I don't think
that he was a And again it was pretty much
a well I say it was a nondescript play linebacker
who made the play. Looks like he's slow to get
up here dealing with the injury. Maybe you should have
just tapped him on the shoulder. No, but I didn't
really have a big problem with that. I just don't
like it when guys are like faking like they're about

(42:06):
to slide.

Speaker 11 (42:07):
And.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Patrick Mahomes, I would light them up.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, get out of here. And that's not exactly what happened.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Here. But we are seeing is a Seattle team that
is seemingly able to move the ball down the field,
get into the red zone, get into point opportunity locations,
and not coming away with points. Seattle should have, by
my count, at least ten, minimum thirteen points, preferably twenty

(42:37):
one at this point in the game, because San Francisco's
offense has done zip ziltch nada up until this point,
and again kind of expected without a Trent Williams, without
a Ricky Piersoll and a George Kittle who was on
the injury report coming in right, they have not moved
the ball very well.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
But when I.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
See teams that have dominated statistically but are not dominating
on the scoreboard, Antenna go up, Tenna, go up.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah. Total yards so far for the Seahawks and this
one one hundred and seventy nine yards compared to just
thirty nine yards for the forty nine ers, and it
being like you just said, only a seven zero game.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
That is not what you want.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
That is not the situation Seattle should be in because
forty nine ers, you know, are not trying. They're not
gonna They're not gonna just be like ah, let's punt
this game. Who cares? What's prepare for the post? What
I'm saying, so like, nobody's punting. This looks like you can't.
You got to put put up as many points as
you can.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Seattle also went forward on a fourth and goal, Yeah,
passing up the opportunity to kick a field goal.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
They missed a field goal.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
So there's just points that have been left out on
the field.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
And this is what makes me think you can think
back to the game we saw earlier today. At the half. Hell,
at the end of the game, Carolina only had about
thirty yards rushing, So you know, saying at the half
they're looking at a smooth five rushing yards and a
game in which it's a one score game because Baker
had the turnover, Caroline is able to punch it in.
But Carolina did nothing on offense for basically the entire

(44:00):
day today. Yeah, and that was a game that at
the end of it was a one score game because
Tampa wasn't taking advantage. Right.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
It was such a tough game though, because that rain
it was pouring the whole time.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
My take is just when you're dominating a team statistically,
you better.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Score you better score points like I was just gonna say,
I don't feel like that's a fair one to compare,
because the rain was just so obviously a factor in
everything they were doing. Both sides of the ball didn't matter.
You were just slipping and sliding left and right. This
it's like, this is bad Seattle. You should have more points.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Well, I do know this. If in fact, the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers don't make it to the postseason and Todd
Bowles has gone to the owner's office, he will not
be able to use the rain as an excuse.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
There's a gunt.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
The Anti Receiving came out with an article today highlighting
the head coaching carousel. So we're gonna do a little
Do you remember the old MTV show Next. Yes, we're
gonna play a little next here NFL next head coaches?
Keep them? Or are we going next?

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Like that?

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Mike?

Speaker 12 (45:06):
You go, okay, guys, I'm gonna name a few coaches
here for you, and you're gonna tell me whether you
keep or next. So let's start with Kevin Stefanski. Would
you keep him or replace him?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Want? Where are you at here?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
This one's a really tough one, but I feel that
he would be whooped up, scooped up. In a second,
I would keep him because I don't know who else
you're gonna get that's better, you know what.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
That's a common refrain.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
And I'm married now, but prior to I never once
thought before breaking up with whoever I was dating, who
am I gonna date next? Is? I want to get
out of this spot. And I think, honestly, if I'm
the Cleveland Browns, it's just too far gone. Like even
if he would swooped up and be the next it's

(46:01):
not happening here. I'm ready to move on, and my
whole fan base hates him because of the wholeshit doors thing.
So I'm ready to move on, and we're sining.

Speaker 12 (46:11):
For the record, was reporting that it's looking like not
that this is set in stone, but it looks as
though they're going to move off of Stefanski and keep
GM Andrew Barry.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
It seems that way. It seems that.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Way, like Diana and I get that a lot of
this reporting is. But isn't the reporting that they'll either
trade him or fire him, similar to Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
They'll trade him or fire him.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Guys. All right, anyway, let's go to the next one.

Speaker 12 (46:35):
Next up, how about Pete Carroll? Would you keep him
or replace him? After the year they have had Moncy?

Speaker 1 (46:41):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I hate? I hate one and done situations. I don't
think that's fair to coaches. I really don't. But this
is an exception to that.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Next Wow, yeah, next, yeah, Pete, And I like Petee.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
I do too.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
It's just work lot, but he seems to be in
over his head at this point, and I don't know
if he's going to be able to build around the
infrastructure that he needs.

Speaker 12 (47:06):
And no one can take away the Super Bowls. He's
already won. He still has those forever. It's just me
might a the game might have passed him by now?

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I just know the Raiders are just don't have a
good roster. They're just not good. And so like, I'm
just like, I feel bad for Pete Carroll, but it's
like you, you shouldn't want to be there.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Next.

Speaker 12 (47:23):
Part of it was him billing it as a quick
turnaround too. But yeah, anyway, Next up my jets, Aaron Glenn.
Should they keep him or replace him? Speaking of one
and done potential situations.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
And further records saw a report from Gary Myers to
the New York Daily News, confirming that no matter what
happens tomorrow, he's saying, Aaron Glenn's got his job. So
this is a thought exercise here. I will say keep.
I know, I know, I know it has not looked good.
It's looked terrible in fact, all right, but I'm just

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keeping him because here's the thing. Dan Campbell's first year
looked really bad. I expect Aaron Glenn to have as
scouting background to be able to see players that evaluate.
So I think it'll take some time. And I get
you just traded away Sauce and Clinton Williams and got
those picks. I'd like to see what this organization can
do with maybe twenty four more games.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Keep. I agree with you. Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
I feel like Raiders and Jets right, Like why why
do I feel like that about the Raiders?

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Raiders?

Speaker 2 (48:24):
You also have Tom Brady in the corner saying stuff
like making decisions like no Pete Carrol, adios. Aaron Glenn.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
I need to see what else you can do. I
need to see another year.

Speaker 12 (48:34):
I say, keep, for sure, Yeah, one and done situations.
It feels like it's got to be a really special
kind of bad to where like there's just no possibility
where you can come back from this.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
I would say, though further record, both the Raiders and
the Jets have been really really bad.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Dumpster fires are really bad. No interceptions, dude, Yeah, that's
bad for the Jets.

Speaker 12 (48:55):
And Aaron Glenn was a cornerback when he played. That's
what makes it even more egregious.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Right, and a defensive coordinator like, yeah, just it's not good.

Speaker 12 (49:03):
But next up, how about Jonathan Gannon of the Arizona Cardinals.
Would you keep him or replace him come out of
this season?

Speaker 1 (49:10):
You know, if you had asked me this around Thanksgiving,
my answer would have been keep. But now you made
the move to bench the franchise quarterback and you didn't
win anymore. The team got no better, in fact looked worse.
I the defense has always competed there. I think he

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gets another head coaching job, another head coaching opportunity down
the line.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
But ready call him next on that one.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
I think I'm ready to call him next too. I
think they need a change of scenery.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
He needs a change of scenery. It's not working.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
And I know that he he did not necessarily he
did not pick Kyler Murray, right, like he came after
Kyler mur He did not, Yeah, he did not, So
that's I understand. But I think he also needs a change.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
It's not working a new voice like.

Speaker 12 (49:58):
Next, next up, Mike Tomlin. This could be a controversial one,
but if the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin has it run
its course, what do you think they still got a
shot at the division here? So that's what makes it complicated.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Honestly, this is what I'm rooting for. I'm rooting for next.
I'm rooting for next. I want them to win tomorrow,
win the division, win a playoff game, and everybody go
their separate ways because I just want the Pittsburgh Steelers
are so and I understand because if I was in
that position, i'd be mad too. However, half the league

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is never in your position, and that is with even
a thought of a chance of competing. Most teams are
the Jaguars most years, where you have one spike with
the Liam Cohen or one spike with the Blake Bortles
Jalen Ramsey year and the rest.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Of it you don't matter at all.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
That's how it is consistently for half the teams in
the NFL, except the Pittsburgh Steelers, who always matter and
have the nerve to be upset about qualifying for the playoffs.
I want everybody around. I want Pittsburgh to understand what
it's like that to have a head coach. Honestly, that's
what I want. So I'm rooting for next cry babies.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
Keep them, keep them.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
I feel like it's not it was not as bad
at a season. They're fighting for the division. Aaron Rodgers was, okay,
like I just keep them, keep them.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
All right, Real, he's not a coach, but the rules
keep Aaron Rodgers talk about that come up in a
little bit.

Speaker 12 (51:30):
Yeah, all right, next up, similar Vane here, but John Harbaugh.

Speaker 6 (51:34):
They have their matchup tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (51:35):
But would you keep or replace John Harbaugh or would
you just kind of look at it similarly to Tomlin.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I would keep John Harbaugh too. I know that there's
so much negative stories out there of his relationship with
Lamar Jackson and whatnot. I feel like that just came
out because they again they were trying to grasp at
Straw's as to why they were having a bad season,
when real he was just like, you just had a
bad season. I don't know why you would move on

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from John Harbaugh. I don't think he is the sole
person to blame. If you really wanted to blame, it's
talk to the coordinators. He's not the one that makes
that doesn't play calling. I think he should go in
there and be like, hey, maybe we should play a
little bit more of Derrick Henry on those fourth thounsand
in the fourth quarter. Of course, but I don't think
it should fall on him.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
I think it falls on other people.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
I'm ready to go next, because it does. It falls
on him to tell the offensive coordinator, hey put twenty
two in. It falls you.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Want to say, like that's like, that's how that's his
job in.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
That moment, not necessarily calling plays, but say hey, I
need to run here, I need to pass here, get
me to the two minute warning, get my best running
back in the game. Here's the difference between Mike Tomlin
and Jim Harball. You know what it is?

Speaker 12 (52:48):
Lamar Jackson, all right, just a few more here? Next up,
Raheem Morris of the Atlanta Falcons. Keep a replace, Raheem Morris,
What do you think.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
You want to talk about it? I would keep him,
but like I would keep him, but he enters into
the NFL on the hottest seat possible. But also, I
think the problems in Atlanta come from the top because
when you sign a quarterback and then draft a quarterback,

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that shows me you do not have organizational like stability
or not synergy like like one says left, one says right,
one says three, one says four.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yeah, next, primarily because you just saw that you could
have won the division. Your division was so weak. You
had an opportunity and you did not do it.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
And you had b Jon Robinson.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
You had what are like, I feel like, that's there,
the weapons are there, and I feel like, because seeing
how this division ended, that's why I'm saying next.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
What they should do is hire Tampa's offensive coordinator. That
seems to be the trick to winning divisions and for
competing for apparently.

Speaker 12 (54:01):
All right, last one here for you guys, how about
Zach Taylor of the Bengals. And let me add in
Russini's reporting, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and t Higgins have
all put their support behind Taylor within the organization.

Speaker 6 (54:12):
But what would you guys do? Keep it? Replace him.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
I look at the way that Jamar Chase looks at
Zach Taylor and say, Jack's gotta go. I don't think
he has the respect of a locker like. I don't
mean this in like he's lost the locker room. I
just think that they are looking at him like he's
not like Mike Tomlin runs the show in Cincinnati. To me,
Joe Borrow and Jamar Chase run the show. I mean
Mike Tomlin rochers on Pittsburgh. Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase

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run the show in Cincinnati, And I think it has
to do with a lot of their like lack of
success in the postseason. How about get under center? Right,
Joe Burrow can't stay out there? How about you get
under center? How about they run the ball? Why don't
we do anything? Like there's a lot of stuff offensively
that for this offensive genius, I don't see.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
I like what he said because it's like Mike Tomlin
runs the show. I don't think zakt Taylor runs the
show either. And even though the Bengals have a lot
of holes on their roster, like, it's not his fault
completely because the Bengals aren't good. I would I would
say next.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
But I don't think Cincinnati is moving on from him
who was the coach?

Speaker 2 (55:14):
But what was it Marvin Luis Lewis?

Speaker 4 (55:18):
How long was he there for?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
And how many playoff wins did he have? Zeerril Seil.
So he's not going anywhere. But I would say next.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
All right, that's it, guys.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
So now I do think that there is one coach
in the NFL that.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
If he's fired, people.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Will be like wow, really, But when you dive into
it a little deeper, it'll be like, that makes a
ton of sense. We'll get through that at the bottom
of the hour. We're coming up next. Ian says, Look,
it's a new year. The best way to celebrate is
to look into review mirror. Who had the biggest ball
drop of twenty twenty five. Several nominees will decide to winner.
Martin Weist wants to be those Fox Sports Radio at

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the half in the Battle for the NFC one seed,
the Battle for the week off? I mean, what would
what would you do for a week off? Right now?

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Oh, remember this is a family friendly prora.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
I know to real close to maybe murder for a
week off?

Speaker 11 (56:20):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Real close to that San Francisco one hundred and fifteen
rushing yards in the first half. That is major for
San Francisco in my opinion, because I mean.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Major for Seattle.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Seattle does not run the ball with the efficiency that
you'd like for them to be able to go out
here against the team again in San Francisco competing for
the one seed.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
That that is bodes well and said Seattle's favor.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Oh no, Martin, look at the score. The scores is
not great for Seattle because they did look like they dominated,
but that's not what the score is. So San Francisco
has nothing to worry about.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
That is true. One score game means one play, and.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
I'm like, oh, you get the right you know, pep
talk at halftime and then you change the scheme a
little bit. You come out there boom. This game is
So it's a tie game essentially.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Until it's not until it's yeah, So it's oh, it's
a one score game right now. San Seattle potentially dropping
the ball in the first half, rushing for one hundred
and fifteen yards and only getting a touchdown, but couldn't
have been the biggest ball droppers of twenty twenty five
because it's twenty twenty six. But Ian has a list
of nominees let's get to him.

Speaker 12 (57:29):
Yes, yes, So, as you guys know, a few days
ago the ball dropped, making it twenty twenty six. But
throughout the year twenty twenty five, we had many people
throughout the world of sports who dropped a ball of
their own. So we're gonna go through a few nominees
and you guys are gonna tell me who the winner
is for the biggest ball.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Drop of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 12 (57:48):
Yeah, let's jump in with Brandon Ayuk our first nominee. So,
Brandon Ayuk requested a trade in the offseason. The Patriots,
who at the time were still viewed as a rebuilding team,
offered a huge trade package for him, along with a
massive new contract, but he didn't want to play there.
Flash forward to today, all of Ayuk's contract guarantees with
the Niners have been voided since he reportedly hasn't shown

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up to the team facility in months. And the cherry
on top is that the Patriots are one of the
best teams in the entire league now with an MVP
candidate at quarterback. So Ayuk could have had that with
a huge contract, could have had Drake May thrown him
the ball instead, He's not a part of it. And
he has all of his contracts voided for next year.
So big dropping of the ball this past year by
Brandon Ayuk. That's nominee number one.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, he definitely dropped his own ball,
you know what I'm saying, because everyone else moved on.
Very good for a receiver, everyone else moved on.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Niners are in it, like he dropped his own ball.

Speaker 12 (58:42):
Next up, next nominee Nico Harrison. So the infamous trade
that shocked the sports world. This was coming off a
year where they were in the NBA finals. Nico Harrison,
He's at the helm of an NBA franchise that was
literally just in the NBA Finals, and he decided to
trade MVP candidate perennial MVP candidate Luka Doncic to the
Los Angeles Lakers, an obvious franchise player, perennial MVP candidate.

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Like I said, And while it has been an up
and down year for the Lakers this season, Luca is
still very much an MVP candidate and he's completely transformed
his body that you saw the whole skinny Luca on
the cover of Men's Health and all that. Meanwhile, Nico
Harrison no longer has a job, and he remains the
most hated man in Dallas. So another huge ball drop
by Nico Harrison.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
It's very impressive for Nico Harrison to still be the
most hated man in Dallas after Jerry traded Michael Parson
and the Cowboys missed the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Really though, Yeah, no, no, everything's in Nico Harrison's fault
even now.

Speaker 12 (59:39):
It's not even a debate either, Like it's everything's his fault.
The next nominee is the Toronto Blue Jays as a
whole team. So in Game seven of the World Series
against the Dodgers, Monse you know plenty about this. The
Blue Jays were winning in the top of the ninth
inning and look to be closing in on the first
championship in franchise history. They ended up dropping the ball, though,
allowing Miguel Rojas to tie the game with a home

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run to fource extra innings, and then losing on a
Will Smith homer in the eleventh. So the Blue Jays
are another nominee here for biggest ball drop.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
Well that's a good nominee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
That is a good money and.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
You almost forgot about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Thank you. For bringing that back into the picture, of.

Speaker 6 (01:00:13):
Course, happy to remind you, aah, go for it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
What's the next one?

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
Next up?

Speaker 12 (01:00:18):
The Indianapolis Colts dropped the ball this year. At the
beginning of this NFL season, the Colts look to not
only be one of the best teams in the entire league,
they also seem to have outsmarted everyone by signing Daniel.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
Jones, who looked like an MVP candidate.

Speaker 12 (01:00:29):
Early on, they were a top the AFC and even
traded multiple first round picks to go and get Sauce
Gardner from the Jets. Since that trade, though, the Colts
have gone one and six and been eliminated from playoff contention.
So another huge ball drop there, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
MONTI, let's see if we can't, let's see. Let's come over.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
We went together, went together like the bing as ball
drop we'll have We'll not win it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
The biggest ball drop of twenty twenty five from the
Martin at Monci Show. Uh so again, he'd just run
through the more quick braindon you Nico Harrison, Toronto Blue
Jays in the Indianapolis Colts to work backwards, Okay, I
would like to eliminate Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
The Toronto Blue Jays. Wow, Wow, Miguel.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
While the ball was actually physically dropped, right, what had
to happen for the Dodgers had to do in that
postseason and that in that postseason series, to me was
much more of a This is like Yamamoto being incredible,
show Hail Tiny being incredible, more incredible performances from the

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other team as opposed to just outright complete failure from
one of these teams. I think failures what you're looking
for when you talk about the ball drop.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
I gotta I gotta push back a little on this one.
I have to push back.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
You tell me, wow, I.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
See, I don't want to eliminate that, Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Pick one and then you saw me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
And I actually think I would eliminate Brandon Ayuk okay,
because again he.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Dropped his own ball.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Everyone else has moved on, Football has moved on. It
sucks for him, he's an idiot, but he dropped his
own ball, while I feel like the others have more
of a long term effect for other people. San Francisco
doesn't miss him. They're fine, you know what I mean.
He was probably a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Well now he'll no longer get that money.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Right, that's his problem, So I would eliminate Brandon Aiyuk.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Okay, So you know what for the second conversation, I
don't think he was the biggest, so I'll scratch him off,
okay with yeah, that will leave Nico Harrison, the Toronto
Blue Jays, or the Indianapolis Colts as the biggest ball
droppers of twenty twenty five. Hula be find out next
s the Seger. What's up right now? With enough day?

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Steve, Hey, guys see hello?

Speaker 10 (01:02:36):
The forty nine Ers have not rallied to win from
double digits down in two years since the famed NFC
title game come back against Detroit. Niners were trailing at
home ten nothing to Seattle second quarter tonight. The halftime
lead at Seahawks ten to three. It's a twelve first
downs to three advantage for Seattle one hundred and ninety
six yards to sixty nine. In fact, the Niners did

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not score on their first three possessions of this game.
That's the third time that's happened to him this season,
and they did lose the other two times to Houston
and to the Rams. Week ten, there was a field
goal miss by Seattle. Jason Myers did make a forty
five yarder, but he had missed a forty seven yard attempt. Amazingly,
forty nine Er opponents have missed a field goal attempt

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ten times this year, most by a Niners opponent since
ninety ninety eight. Here last season opponents of Theirs that
only missed two field goal attempts. It's ten, the most
in the league by anyone's opponents so far this year.
So the Niners are in this game somehow, and they
found a kicker this year. Eddie Pinero, with a late
first half field goal of forty eight yards for San Francisco,

(01:03:45):
is now twenty eight for twenty nine on field goal
attempts this season, and his only miss was from sixty
four yards out. A great opening drive for Seattle in
this one over seven and a half minutes worth, but
they threw incomplete on fourth and goal and got no
points from that. I mentioned the missfield goal as well.
It could be more. It's only ten to three Seattle,

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despite largely dominating the first half at San Francisco in
the standing Seattle game ahead of the Niners. As we're
on the final weekend of the regular season, Tonight's winner
gets the NFC's number one seed the first round by
and the NFC West Crown at Tampa Bay in the
rain today, a Bucks win over Carolina of sixteen to fourteen.
Baker Mayfield one touchdown, one interception, his ninth interception in

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the last eight games. Chase McLaughlin three for four on
field goals. Bucks had lost seven of eight, and yet
they will win the NFC South if Atlanta loses on Sunday.
If Atlanta wins on Sunday, then Carolina eight at nine
takes the division title. Ravens wide receiver Rashad Bateman is
out Sunday night due to illness. Giants wide receiver Wandel

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Robinson was placed on injured reserve, as were running backs
for Dallas, Javonte Williams and Malik Davis. Drew Mestemaker committed
to Oklahoma State, transferring from North Texas to go where
his head coach just went. Clemson will reportedly hire Chad
Morris's offensive coordinator he worked there over a decade ago
through the NBA. Timberwolves won at the Heat one twenty

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five one point fifteen thirty three points for Anthony Edwards.
Philadelphia still leads it New York with nine minutes to
go one oh three ninety four, twenty seven points for
Tyrese Maxi Hornets ahead at the Bulls mid third quarter,
sixty nine to sixty five. Steph Curry is returning to
play tonight. He did not play last night due to
an ankle injury. Golden State has a game and a

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half an hour hosting the Jazz. Clippers have won six straight.
They host the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Right it's gonna be seven Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
In an hour.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
Wow, that was aggressive.

Speaker 10 (01:05:45):
Clippers center it meets the Nubats returns after his sprained ankle.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
To college hoops. There is hoops.

Speaker 10 (01:05:51):
Well on Fox TV right now and with thirteen minutes
to go, Number five per Due, which trailed early, now
leads at Wisconsin sixty six to forty eight. Iowa ranked
twenty fifth beat UCLA seventy four to sixty one. SMU
a winner over twelfth rate North Carolina in women's basketball,
about eight minutes to go at fourth ran to UCLA
Bruins ahead big against sixteenth seventeenth Ran USC sixty five forty.

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Ucla and the Blue Jays are signing Japanese third baseman
Kazuma Okamoto, reportedly a four year deal back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
So you just heard that. Steve just said the Blue
Jays likely not to be the biggest ball droppers of
twenty twenty six after they just signed them.

Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
Sorry, who I'm gonna have to get used to the
name Kazuma O.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Kamoto, Kazuma, Kazuma, o Kamoto o Kamoto.

Speaker 10 (01:06:40):
Third base, maybe first in the future. I have seen
a you know, kind of good player at first base
already for Toronto, so maybe some workso around. But they were,
as you brought up, they were one drop ball in
center field away from winning the World Series in Game
seven at home, and they have made moves already, So
congrats of them.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Drop ball, but also too, you had the historic performances
from the different Dodger players.

Speaker 10 (01:07:07):
It wins, and that answers the question of right in
the heat of the moment, and I really mean that
an emotional moment for a Blue Jays analyst right after
the Game seven loss at Homie said, I still think
the Blue Jays the best team. They're no, Actually, the
team that was the best team is the one that
homered in the eighth and homered in the ninth and homered.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
In the eleventh.

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
Right, It's true, and one game six there and one
game seven there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
You know, Steve, that's why they play him. That's kind
of fly. Yes, that's why they decides it. You know.
As a quick aside, what tries me nuts is when
people be like, oh, well, you know the MVP. They
got this favorite of that favorite. Every single week we
see a favorite lose. Every single week a favorite losers.
Who do the Browns just beat Miles? Miles was Telers exactly,

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the Browns. We're not favorite in that game, but somehow
found a way to win it, you know, I because
things like that happened. So when you're looking at these
prediction markets, which is all just future bets, simply because
it says Drake May's minus four hundred to win the
MVP doesn't mean it's over. Doesn't mean it's over. And
I'm talking to people talking into the microphones just as
much as people who listen.

Speaker 10 (01:08:14):
And the people talking and most of the people gambling
are not the people voting. It's an ap panel that
decides the MVP.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
There you go, there you have it, Thank you very much,
thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (01:08:26):
That's why remember when the Cubs won the World Series
about a decade ago, Cubs were heavy favorites in the
Las Vegas betting right after that, because they were a
very popular pick.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Sure don't recall them going back to the world. It's
just because they were popular.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
How it works, they were the sexy pick at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
The popularity contest. It is class president.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
You rarely win on platform.

Speaker 10 (01:08:49):
It's all because people like we had a guy running
for president in seventh grade who actually in front of
the assembly in his speech promised cocain the drinking fountain.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Nice, I bet he got it. They're still waiting. They're
still they're still waiting back there at ps one to
thirty seven.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
Still way on my vote as a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
For showing that got in your vote. That guy did
not drop the ball, I'd imagine, all right, Monci, So
we have eliminated, We have eliminated branding Aye you because the.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Biggest ball because he did drop his ball.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
He did drop the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Now I have nominated the Toronto Blue Jays one being
eliminated from this list of the biggest ball droppers because
of the narrowly superhuman defeats from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It was not like this was game was this world
series was played even down the way, and then it
was a random ball dropped that like like it wasn't

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like Aaron Judges when he dropped the ball, it was
like correct, this was very much like Yammoo. I had
to go nineteen innings for him to then drop like
things had to happen for the ball drop to even matter.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
And the only reason I wanted to even push you
back on that is just because I do think Toronto
was up. Toronto had the opportunity to win. And now
I don't know if they can just run it back.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I don't know either.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
You know they're going to try the.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
First basement, third basis you had.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
It, and then I don't know what we're gonna be
able to run it back.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
So but is it worse than Nico Harrison? Is it
worse in Indianapolis Colts?

Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
Maybe not, maybe not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
There's not many options.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Yeah, we can eliminate we can eliminate the Toronto.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
All right. So now it comes down to the Indianapolis
Colts and Nico Harrison. The Colts, who, in a mess,
in a very impressive way, found a way to have
Sauce Gardner had the lowest winning percentage in the NFL,
lower than any team He won one game as a
member of the New York Jets, won one game as

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a member of the Indianapolis Colts. I think the Tits
of two games, yeah, three, So Sauce Gardner would have
the number one overall pick if he was able to
make picks. However, they don't and it ended for this season.
The Disney Plus movie may be good, Philip Rivers play
on the field was not. Yeah, so I submit to

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you the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Yeah, I think we can eliminate the Indianapolis Colts as
well because they did drop the ball. But the ball
they dropped the ball by going all in and giving
up your picks. I understand for next year to get
Sauce Gardner. But like the other stuff that happened, it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Just was they went for it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
And that's what you want for a team, you know
what I'm saying. You want a team to go in
like that. They went, they tried, they did it, and
it just didn't work out. Unfortunate, but they came.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
They saw for the first twelve weeks, Yeah, and all
they were conquered.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
They were conquered, right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
That's what you want, though, That's what you want from
your team to do they.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Went all in and I think, you know, the ball
dropper of the year for twenty twenty five without further ado.
Oh question, Nico Harrison after making the Luca dodgestra, You
know why, man, see the number one reason why I
thought that this was the case. It as soon as
I was presented to the list, because even.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
If you're right, you can't be right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Even if you're right, Luca Dodges was, you know, super
fat and useless, of terrible and all that. As soon
as he gets traded, motivation right back, yep. And then
all of a sudden, it's like that. It's like, I
guess maybe you had to make the move, that you
might have had to break up, but either way, you
know you were going to be on the losing end

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of it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
You knew that when you told people about the breakup,
everyone was going to take his side or right, well,
I said Luca, but yes, her side in that situation. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
No, you just went to the finals.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
You just went to the finals and you got rid
of Luca. Like I can't. I still can't. That day
was one of the greatest days on social media because
of a response and reaction. It was one of the funniest.
People were so funny that day. Everyone just brought out.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
Their best jokes. It was one of the best days.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
It was first of all those days confuting far between
now is a splinterization of social media, but even the
best when everybody's talking about one thing, one thing, as
long as that thing is not you, right, yeah, And.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
This was like just it just it was. It changed everything.
I feel like he put ideas in other people's head
that it's like, well, if he did that, I.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Can do this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Even in your own personal off you're like, well, if
Nico Harrison did that, you know what, then I can
go do this.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
If Nico Harrison can tray Luka Daci, I can do it.
Should quit my job. I'm telling you moves that both
people regretted forty eight hours later, telling you my favorite.
So you know, I do this all the time where
I just have these scenes in my head or a
funny scenes like the opposite side of the interaction. I

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just would love to know Rob Polenka after he hung
up the phone, like after he hung up the initial call,
the first one, the first one, and he was like,
all right, yeah, wait a minute, y'all will never get
what happen, right, and then then he's like, wait a minute,
this is real. Okay, y'all can't tell anybody, because as

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soon as anybody finds out about this, it's over.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
The minute anyone puts some sense into Nico Harrison's head,
he's gonna say, never mind.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
I don't know what I was thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
That was another part of it. Ropelinka was like, yeah, no, no,
let's not tell anybody. Do not share your thoughts with
someone else, because someone's gonna tell you what ridiculous, how
ridiculous it is that you want to trade Luka doncic.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
He took that that advice that you see your social
media influence give. It's like, if you want to start business,
don't tell anybody. Everybody in your audience, all they'll do
is just hate on your dreams. Don't tell anyone, do it,
build it the scale, and then on your year anniversary
by a Christmas present, tell him how you should have
supported me. Sucker. I think that's what Nico Harrison kind

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of thought was coming down the way.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
I don't know what he was, you know what I mean,
maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
He's just time now for sixty dollars you can get
my free e book.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
I really don't have any idea.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
What thought process n nego, what train of thought Nico
had that led him to think that was a good idea,
Like I can't get with it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
You can't make me understand.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
I see, you can't make me understand.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
It's not worth you get it relitigating. I can spin
it in my head as to why No. But again,
any reason or justification you have as to why it's
a good idea today tomorrow will just be sure it
was a good idea that day, but do you think
about the next day. Probably wasn't a good idea for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
The next month, or the next year, or just your
your employment so status last week.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
We do this every week. We play more to lose,
more to game. I said that Mike Tomlin had more
to lose because you need to lock up a playoff spot.
You said that Miles Garrett had more to loses, he
needed to break the Shack record. Neither one of them have.
They both lost. They both lost. We'll see who's got
more to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Who's up board to Gate? Coming up next, comeing see life.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
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awful until Mark Davis isn't running the team anymore. The
guy once admitted he doesn't have the football action in
his dad did. As for coaching, there's no coach living
in or Dad that'll win with a.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Roster like this, which I get.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
No coach living or dead. Somebody called George Hollise see
what he could do with the Vegas Raiders. All right,
coming up, let's do more to lose.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
Or gain somebody something.

Speaker 12 (01:17:03):
All right, let's play this week's edition of More to Lose.
So as we do around this time every week, I'm
gonna ask you guys a few of the upcoming games
here for tomorrow slate and ask you who, whether it
be a player, a team, a coach, whatever, has the
most to gain or most to lose in that game.
So there's the music. Let's start with this one. First off,

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in the Browns versus Bengals game. Who's got the most
to lose or the most to gain in that one?
We'll start with Manci.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
I mean the most to gain is still obviously Miles Garrett,
who's been It's almost bad that he hasn't broken the
record because we're all just waiting and waiting, and if
he doesn't get it. At the same time, he has
the most to lose because we've been talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
It for weeks. So he has the most to gain.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
And the most to lose because if he doesn't get it,
it'll be the topic of conversation, not the coach, because
both coaches are a topic of conversation. Sure, but Miles
Garrett is really in a position right now.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
I most to lose is Shador Sanders. Miles Garrett already
has a Hall of.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Fame career in the bag.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
This would solidify Miles Garrett's been one of the best
pass rushing in the NFL for the last fifteen years. No,
Shador Sanders has been a quarterback in the NFL for
less than fifteen games. He needs to make sure this
lasts longer than fifteen games. There's already been beef with
him in the Stefanski thing. Who wins that battle? I
would imagine Stefanski, But we're seeing the reporting being on.

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You know what comes out? If you come out and
I play Joe Burrow, you could solve a lot of
problems for yourself this summer. Shador Sanders both excellent points.

Speaker 12 (01:18:42):
I'm gonna give the point to Monci though, just because
Miles Garrett has an opportunity to literally cement himself in
history here.

Speaker 6 (01:18:47):
Yeah, you're right, Shador Sanders.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
A Hall of Fame career won't cement him something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Yeah, imagine if he doesn't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Martin, then I imagine he'll be a first ballot Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
No, but it's different because we've been all waiting for
weeks about this. Shador's fine, He's gonna be the starter next.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Year, we'll see.

Speaker 12 (01:19:05):
Okay, next stop the Saints versus Falcons game New Orleans, Atlanta.
Who's got the most to gain or the most to
lose in that one? We'll start with you the Stan Martin.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
Most again is Tyler Shuck Absolutely again, the same argument
as s Giorge Sanders. You've done a lot of winning
that doesn't matter. This is the first game that really
has actual implications, not necessarily for you before the outside
of the division. You could you win this game, you
get Todd Bowles fired, Tampa could be in all types
of messed up stuff. I think Tyler Shuck right here

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at most of the most of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Is it the most to the most to gain the
Panthers or the Buccaneers depending on the outcome of this game.
But aside from that, Aside from that, I actually think
the most the most to lose here is Rahie Morris
because he is on the hot seat and I think
there's a chance that maybe he can.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
You know, save himself.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
But because of how that division ended, it was like Atlanta,
you had it, you could have won this division, and
you have you did not live up to the expectation.
So I think it's Rhey Morris who's.

Speaker 12 (01:20:04):
The most to lose. Martin tied it up there to
close things out. I agree Tyler Shuck is the most
to gain in this one, but again both great points also.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Most of gain Tyler Shuck because apparently the Rookie of
the Year odds have been turned into Rookie of half
the year.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Because Tyler Schuck is right there.

Speaker 10 (01:20:21):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
Yeah, I watched t Mack and Buka go today back
and forth in the rain, both of them playing plays.
Tyler Shuck's like, I don't care. I'm the rookie of
the year. I don't get it. Manti, I don't damn
get it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:33):
You lose.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
He's gonna want to be sure you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:20:37):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
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chances to win one thousand dollars will be severely diminished.
I'm not saying it's over. Yes, that was a big
one that you probably had to get right.

Speaker 10 (01:21:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
I did not get that one right. But my championship
is still intact.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Did you pick Ole Miss over Georgia? No?

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
I picked Indiana over Ole Miss.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Oh wait, oh okay.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Yeah, I picked Indiana over Ole Miss in the championship game.
I see, So my my championship is still live, it's still.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Honestly, I think that's the best. As a TV executive,
that would be the one. I take that back. As
somebody who roots for absolute chaos, that'd be the one
that I would want the most.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
As the TV exact they probably want to work get
in there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
Yeah, Indiana's a great story, but we'regon probably bigger draw. However,
Indiana versus Ole Miss in the National Championship game, I
can't lose.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
Exactly exactly, I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Lose because if Kurtzingny wins the National Championship, I will
always be able to tell Moncie I told you, I
told you one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
And if Lane Kiffin does, it's just the ultimate.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
So it would be so good. You left to coach
a championship team and there was one that you left behind.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Like that type of thing happens in like a high
school movie where you break up with one and then
they turn into like the problem, like yeah, and the
other guys looking around like, well, I don't like this
very much. Third quarter of three minutes, thirty seconds left.
Sam's on in Seattle, Seahawks driving down the field. But again,
the story of this game has not been the scoreboard.

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It's been the stats, and that's an issue for Seattle.
Put the ball in the end zone. This game should
probably be a twenty one to three.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
I can't believe it's ten to three.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
But really, if you're called just sitting here, we're sitting
here with no volume want obviously just sitting here watching
and we're missing some plays here and there because we're
talking to each other. If you have a scoreboard here,
you think the score would be twenty one to three
something like.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
That easily, easily, because I don't think has San Francisco
even gotten into Seattle territory. I don't even think they
have that much.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
If it has, it has not been in a time
in which I was watching and paying attention.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
And every time I look at the dock driven game, yep,
Seattle has a ball. Every time I look up Rock
Party is getting sacked.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
We'll see if they can extend this lead to more
than one score. But now, for the last time in
this regular season, Monci, let's make some picks.

Speaker 6 (01:23:49):
All right, time to make some picks.

Speaker 12 (01:23:51):
Let's update you guys from last week before we get
into it. So week seventeen, you both went two and three,
so we remain with the same parential here overall. So, Manci,
you're at forty six and thirty seven. Martin, you're at
forty three and forty So you'll, uh, Martin, You'll need
a three game swing here to come back. But it's
doable because we're picking four total games this weekend. It's

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a combination of NFL and college football, just because Week
eighteen there's only so many games in the NFL that
actually have much consequence. So let's get into it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Come on, man, Jets d Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
You're not locked in.

Speaker 12 (01:24:22):
You can't say I am can't say I am.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Josh Allen consecutive Star Street. You will take one snap
and then it'll be taking and then he's out.

Speaker 4 (01:24:30):
Yeah, So annoying that shouldn't count.

Speaker 6 (01:24:33):
I agree, it's just the most shameless. I'm going for
a record type thing, right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
And mckel bridges did it in the NBA like last year,
and he plays a lot, but he also did like
checked in and checked out. I was like, no, you
would play majority of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Oh, NBA. I will give a little grace because they
just sometimes just decided O to play at all.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
So well, that's true, that's fair enough.

Speaker 12 (01:24:53):
All right, let's jump in here with Ravens at Steelers.
The Ravens on the road are actually FA by three
and a half points. Here, we'll start with you, manci
who you got.

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
Give me the Steelers to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Give me the Steelers to cover at home against a
Ravens team that I actually I just don't know. It's
like if Lamar Jackson is back in healthy one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
Yeah, of course they can absolutely win the game, There's
no question. I just don't know if he is, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
I don't know Mike Tomlin as a home divisional dog.
It's just about his closest thing you can get to
retirement plan in gambling. And I think they win the
game outright. Why the vibes in Baltimore. Look, I get him,
Lamar Jackson is playing. Yeah, answer hydle me this. When's
the last time Lamar Jackson played well and good? There's

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been a minute, It's been a while. I thought he
should have been last year's MVP. I think this year
he's been very, very far from it. Even if he
mean he will play, he said he's playing. I trust
that he'll play. I just don't see a good performance
out of that. And I get DK Metcalf is gone.
But if you had told me that DK Metcalf was
gonna be hurt for two games this year, what would

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I expect the Pittsburgh Steelers record to be?

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
I would have said one and one, So go get
the win.

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
Good point, all right?

Speaker 12 (01:26:12):
Next up, our final NFL game of this week's pick Slate,
we got Saints at Falcons. The New Orleans Saints are
going to Atlanta take on the Falcons. The Falcons, as
the home team, are favored by three and a half points.
There so the same spread as that last game. But
we'll start with you this time, Martin, who you got?

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
This is an actual I know that a lot of
people are not clocked into the NFC South, I understand,
but I was born there and raised there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
It spent about half my life there. This is a
real rivalry.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
This is two teams that don't like each other, two
shitties that don't like each other for all intents and purposes.
New Orleans and Atlanta. And I'll tell you this, every
time I've ever been to Atlanta, I was ready to
go home. All right, flight win is the flight I
will say in this game, the Nfalcons get to win.
I think they win and cover. Here to the Saints

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have been They've been a fun story the last half
of the season. M hm, through the Tyler shuck era.
But I just you know what I might be if
I'm last at a party, I'll bring a drink, all right,
I'll be I'll be last.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
Give me the Saints to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
I think the Saints want to end on the role
that started four or five weeks ago. They oh shucks,
not just not just the division and that you're saying
that they genuinely don't like each other. I just think
the Saints want to end on a high note. And
Tyler shuklet, as you said in the last hour, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Got a lot to lose.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Here a lot to gain, Harve, you want to look
at it, and I think the Saints are gonna are
gonna go in there and make things interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:27:45):
All right, let's move over to the college football side
of things. Oh a little music chance, Yeah that all right?
First up in the semifinal, here we got the Verbo
Fiesta Bowl. Miami's taken on Ole Miss.

Speaker 11 (01:27:59):
Miami.

Speaker 12 (01:28:00):
Me's favored by three and a half in this game.
Same spread. All these games have been the same spread
so far. But who you got, Monzi will start with.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
You give me all Miss to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
I think Trinidad Chambliss is gonna go on another run
and just put up I don't even know how many points,
and I.

Speaker 4 (01:28:17):
Just don't trust Carson Beck to put a many points.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
For Miami, who again, their defense is really good. I
understand all that, but give me all Miss. I think
they're they got a chip on their shoulder. They're trying
to prove everybody that they don't need Lane given and
screw you, Lane given.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
Give me all Miss.

Speaker 12 (01:28:32):
So you're saying Lane Keffn gets another seven hundred and
fifty grand.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Unfortunately, Yeah, what a big f you huh? Yeah? Unfortunately,
somebody seven hundred fifty grand to go away. Uh, I'm
going to pick. I'm picking with my head here and
I'm picking Miami. But I just want I My heart
is in Revel Nation. Now I can get behind Miami.
I can appreciate the Miami team. I like Mario Cristobal,

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not his play calling.

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
But his attitude.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
His post game press conference, he was like, yeah, the
way we just ran the ball. Yeah, eh, jab hook,
gut punch, Yeah, counterpunches, That's how we do. We just
come out here and hit people. And also too, I
really liked the way he got into the playoff. We
play head to head. Had the head always matters, and
so far had the head that team offensive defensive lines

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have been dominating. But again, my heart is with Rebel
Nation and Charlie Weiss Junior, the one loan standing alone
coach from LSU sand it old miss and I want
Pete Golden who's from Louisiana. They go get one.

Speaker 12 (01:29:36):
Yeah, and since they just beat Ohio State, it's looking
like the right call the committee made to put Miami in.

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
But I think the right call was the wrong call
was putting Ohio State in. Nobody wants to talk about
the runner up in the Big Ten champion. Maybe they
shouldn't get a spot.

Speaker 12 (01:29:52):
All right, Last one here for you guys, the Chick
fil A Fiesta Bowl. It's Oregon at Indiana. Indiana's favored
by four points. Here, start with you, Martin, who you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Got you know, I'll go on hard here I went
ahead the last time. I'm going hard.

Speaker 13 (01:30:09):
I think we're just gonna see buzz game. Just another
one of those couchchick has got us all fired up.
I can't wait to play for the National Championship game.
And I'm gonna put this trophy right next to my
Heisman trophy right there at Bloomington where the good people
of Indiana gave me an opportunity, and I just love
it so much.

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
Do Hoosiers, So Indiana.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
I am absolutely rooting for Indiana, and I do think
Indiana wins, but I think they win it on like
a field goal in the fourth quarter. Like I think
it's gonna be a Tikey Oregon covers, so Oregon covers give.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
They have at Oregon. I felt defensively last game, obviously very impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
The offense, to me.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
It was a little yeah, no, what offense, that's the question.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
It felt like, yeah, oh guy, Yeah, I get that.
That's a really good defensive front.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
But after a while, you've got to get you gotta Yeah,
I agree, they did not all.

Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
Look at I don't think they're going to come out
that flat again. I really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
So give me Oregon to cover, but Indiana wins because
I want that speech too.

Speaker 4 (01:31:14):
I want that after the game, do you know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
I wonder if it'll be Holly ro I think she's
caught the last few of these. But it's just the
way of just you know, he's just so.

Speaker 13 (01:31:24):
I just just want to come out and he said,
no complacency. This is a co collaboration of this leaders
and champions and we're the best.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
And I love everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
Yeah, I mean, I'm making fun of him, but I
want to be clear. This is out of a place
of admiration.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
One hundred percent. I'm telling you, goofy. But great, that's it.
That is Fernando Mendoza.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
And I'll say this too. The other thing about Fernando Mendoza,
which I think is is very important, especially as we're
sitting here watching the Seahawks and forty nine ers. Seahawks
now in the red zone third seven, we'll see what
they do with this one. But you see a quarterback
in Brock Party who at he has had at this

(01:32:09):
point now, Sam Darnol be his backup quarterback, Mac Jones
by his backup quarterback. And I'll be honest, just about
every single quarterback in the NFL that Brock Party could
have his backup quarterback whatever a higher cachet than him,
right because of the position. And and you heard how
Sam said that. You know, Brock was the big thing
about Party, and I think it's something that you see

(01:32:32):
across the world.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
He is very comfortable in his own skin. He is himself.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
When he was a seventh round pick and he's a
pick one, twenty one whatever, he looked like he dressed
that old Navy. Now that he's whatever he's making, he
still looks like he dresses that old Navy. He's the same.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Guy he had to be, you know he had to.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
Be when I hear that and I see that from
Brock Perdy. The guy went to Iowa State again, a
team that had a lot of talent brees Hall, brock Party.
Just look at the Texans wide receiver corps, most of
them with the Iowa State. But his self assuredness is
the thing that I think I like the most about

(01:33:10):
Fernando Mendoza. I see the same kind of self assuredness
and Brock Party, where it's like, yeah, i may not
be the biggest, the fastest and strongest or whatever, but
I'm here and I'm gonna compete. I'm gonna do my thing.
I'm not gonna be afraid to wiggle, run, get out there,
use my legs. I'm not gonna be And I think
Rock Party their talent level debatable, right when you talk

(01:33:33):
about like Sam Donold's got more talent in his arm
than Brock doesn't his. But we're not questioning neither for
Mendoza nor Party their ability and big moments to not
be afraid, to not be scared, to not mess up, right,
And that to me, the lack of messing up is
almost it's there's levels here, right, because you have some

(01:33:55):
guys who just thrive in that moment. You have some
guys who won't mess up at that moment. You have
some guys who you cannot trust it all in that moment.
Those are two guys I think you can, you know,
feel good about in that spot. And that's why they
have That's why they have the success.

Speaker 4 (01:34:08):
They did do both of those guys. I agree with
everything you said. Both of those guys in a.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
Short career, like I'm talking NFL career for Brock and
in two years.

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
Of being with Indiana for Nanda Mendoza.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
I feel like both of them have been put to
the test really quickly, put in situations where maybe somebody
who's been in the NFL six seven years gets to
experience at that point in their career. Port Brock had
to do it in his first, you know year as
mister irrelevant, had to literally do things that unfair that
Defferencisco how to ask him, and he delivered.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
And I feel like the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
In a short amount of time, both of them have
been tested and they've both delivered in big moments.

Speaker 1 (01:34:50):
Well, they delivered in the big moments becoming them. Next
you talk about tests, let's go back to school. The
college football playoff prediction. The final four set exams have
been set. All right, it's time to see Monci. He
took blue book exams. I wonder what kids are doing
these days.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
Huh blue book exams?

Speaker 14 (01:35:08):
What was Oh, yeah, yeah, kids are probably Scantron's No,
it was probably submitting them through chat ept, so we
get that caves who wins the College football National Championship.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
I'll tell you, coming to you live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios as Sam Donald's throwing the ball out
of his own end zone after I heard of Monci.

Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
Yeah, that was rough.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
That was off the hands of Christian McCaffrey and just
into the hands of Seattle. Like you if I if
you would have told me that, I'll be like, there's
no way the reaction. I don't know who the defender
was for Seattle to so I didn't even notice. To
be so aware in that moment right where the ball
was and to get it, that was impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
Yeah, rock party Intercept't that again? Like should went off
of Christian McCaffrey's hands. Hard to fault McCaffrey, seeing as
he's been the MVP for the forty nine ers so
far this year, but but that one was a tough
sight to see.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Probably should be the MVP of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
But that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
H See. That's the tough part about some of this
stuff is we have tied. The NBA goes too far away.
Winning doesn't matter enough for the MVP. We've tied. Winning
mattering a little too much for the NFL because I

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hear your argument and I don't disagree, like if you
wanted to have acause, But what most people will say
is if they lose this game, look, I think they
will like they were a wildcard team. How could you?
But like dude, like I get there a wild card team,
they also could have been the one seed, right like
there were a game away from the one seed as
a wildcard. It's a little bit of a different spin.

(01:36:54):
That's that's I land on a little bit of a
different one with that. But I do want to talk
to you moment terribly here about the college football playoff
prior to having j D. Pakelong. We'll get him one
in just a minute. What do you think of these two?
Is the game that has the more the bigger story
because Indiana's on one side of this thing, massive story

(01:37:17):
there and Oregon has been their own in their own right,
have been very popul last thirty years, and under Dan Land,
they have taken up to a new step. Oh miss
and the drama, or you've taken Miami and Cristopaul.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
I think both of these matchups have different reasons as
to why you might want to tune in, but I do.
I'm gonna give the edge here to Oregon and Indiana
because I think now Oregon is trying to be like, no,
we're the real deal. We're not We're We're not like
those guys over there that that are out of this
now because nobody expected Ohio State to not be here,

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for Georgia to not be here.

Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
I mean I did because I put it in my bracket.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
But but but I think Oregon is trying to prove
that they are the real deal, and especially their last
game where they they want but it was like again,
the offense didn't look that great, you know what I mean,
it was questionable, And so I think that game is
going to be how does Oregon come out against Indiana
who is red hot?

Speaker 1 (01:38:18):
Indiana's red hot. Indiana two has a there are an
older team. When you look at their roster. They don't
start a freshman, and I think that's fast like that
Brandon Flowers, the cornerback for Oregon who had those interceptions,
uh huh yeah this time last.

Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
Year, right yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying, freshmen.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
Like they don't. Indiana doesn't start a freshman right now,
and I think it's also like one of the things
that gets underlooked in college football in general. So I
do no, we have a lot of grown men on
the team, and you're you are playing you know, a
couple eighteen, couple of nineteen year olds. I got a
couple of twenty two, twenty three year olds. You know,

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you know, that's a big difference, you know what I'm
saying in terms of the size of players and just
their impact and the physicality of it all. But we'll
talk to j. D. Pakeel in just a moment, But
let's get to Steve to Schegar a little early here
so you can steam down everything in the world to sports.
Steve got a good one going on in the NFL
for Seattle.

Speaker 10 (01:39:17):
Yeah, San Francisco. This would be a really, really tough
sit for three.

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
Hours if I were a Niners fan.

Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
Yeah, completely and totally frustrating. They are completely outplayed at
home with the number one seed in the NFC on
the line tonight. This is the final weekend of the
NFL regular season. Seattle already leads by a game and
the standings over San Francisco and leads at San Francisco
just thirteen to three.

Speaker 6 (01:39:41):
Mid fourth quarter. It could be worse.

Speaker 10 (01:39:43):
There was just now a San Francisco red zone interception.
They had a chance to get close, a chance to
against all odds, maybe come back and win this thing.
Not over, about seven and a half minutes to go,
but without a touchdown. And now with their first turnover
and Christian McCaffrey on the ground eight carries just twenty

(01:40:03):
three yards rushing. He has thirty yards receiving on five catches.
Jackson Smith and Jigmo Seattle six receptions eighty four yards,
and my goodness is Seattle gotten it done on the ground.
Zach Charbonnay with the first quarter touchdown. He has thirteen
carries fifty nine yards. Kenneth Walker with thirteen carries seventy
five yards Seattle on a design run converted a third

(01:40:25):
and seventeen at this one frustrating night for the home team.
Not over, but they're down ten in this one again.
The winner gets the one seed the first round by
and the NFC West title. Tampa Bay at home in
the rain, beat Carolina sixteen to fourteen. Tight end cad
Otten of the Bucks seven receptions ninety four yards in
a touchdown. Bucky Irving eighty five yards rushing Bucks had

(01:40:48):
lost seven of eight. The Bucks will win the NFC
South if Atlanta loses on Sunday. If Atlanta wins Sunday,
Carolina takes the division. Jets running back Bresee Hall is
out this weekend with the knee injury. Giants wide receiver
Wandale Robinson is on IR now with the rib injury.
Dallas plays two running backs on injury reserve, Javonte Williams

(01:41:08):
Malik Davis. Ravens wide receiver Rashad Bateman is out Sunday
night due to illness. Pittsburgh pass rusher TJ. Watt will
play the season finale against Baltimore. He missed the last
three games with the lung injury. In the NBA, seventy
six Ers were winners at New York one thirty to
one nineteen. Jalen Brunson thirty one points in defeat Karl

(01:41:29):
Anthony Towns of New York did return after missing Friday's
game due to illness. After poor shooting early, he finished
with twenty three points fourteen rebounds wins for the Raptors.
In the Hornets Minnesota one at Miami won twenty five
one point fifteen Anthony Edwards with thirty three points, and
among the games in progress, it's the Blazers ahead at
San Antonio in the final seconds one fourteen to one.

(01:41:52):
Ten Denni Avdia twenty nine points and ten assists to
College basketball Missouri at home in its SEC opener leads
number twenty two Florida sixty four sixty two with about
four minutes left, SMU be twelfth ranked North Carolina UCF
upset Number seventeen Kansas, Arkansas down Tennessee. In women's hoops,

(01:42:14):
number one, Yukon has won thirty one in a row
after ripping Seaton haul. Fourth ranked UCLA women dominated number
seventeen usc Colorado, and the NHL got another victory five
to three at Carolina. The Blue Jays are signing Japanese
third basement Kazuma Okamoto, reportedly.

Speaker 6 (01:42:32):
To a four year deal.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Back to you, thanks Steve, you've been to you today's show.
You'll want to catch the podcast. Just search Fox Sports
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Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
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Sider The Hard Count, on YouTube and on social media

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at JD picl JD.

Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
How are you, my friend? Welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:43:08):
Brother, it's ben to longsleve heard your voice. I mean
a lot. I mean, Michigan hired a coach who got
four teams left in the playoffs. I mean, I'm sure
you were bathing in Ohio State tiers on.

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
I mean, listen. If you want to start at the beginning,
I will have no problem doing so, because I understand
that the citrus ball was played. I'm glad that we
can end that chapter of Michigan football and move forward
to the Whittingham era. I will say this because we'll
talk obviously college football playoffs and all the implications of
such going forward in the final four teams. But j D,

(01:43:39):
I want you to tell me right now why Michigan
shouldn't be excited to be one of the final four
teams next year with the programmed builder like Kyle Whittingham
walking in the door. If you had just told me,
all things considered, Sharon Moore was going to be leaving
Ann Arbor and Kyle Whittingham were replacing him, I would
have done backflips.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Now I'm still doing backflips, Martin.

Speaker 11 (01:44:02):
I take a step further. Think about where we were
when Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL. It was like, hey,
Sharon Moore, no matter what, get the culture in place.
But let's just say, for whatever reason, Michigan was like, hey, no,
we're going to hire someone else. Kyle Whittingham from you
thought he's our guy. I think the response would have
been the same. I think it would have been like, yeah,
you maybe would have gone with the in house. Got
to keep culture where it's at. But like Kyle Whittingham

(01:44:24):
has majored in Michigan's culture, He's just done it on
the West Coast. And the last time that Michigan hired
a guy liked this from the West Coast, his name
was Jim Harbaugh at Stanford. Like like my thing, Martin,
I loved it. They didn't overthink this higher like you
could have gone the trendy rally. Thanksgiving the great example
of that. People tend to overthink the side you go
with your like your saucy green bean recipe. You got,

(01:44:48):
you know, all these different kinds of like exotic patients
like mac and cheese, cranberry sauce. Is like with go
with the standard stuff. You got the standard stuff on
Kyle Whittingham physical Michigan's back.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Come here for it, all right, Jady, Let's go to
that Miami Ohio State game real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
What I want to start this?

Speaker 4 (01:45:06):
Yeah, yeah, let's go there now. But it's a two
part question here.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Do you think Ohio State underestimated Miami? And moving on,
does Miami have the offensive power to win with Carson
Beck at quarterback.

Speaker 11 (01:45:21):
I'll start with the first part of that question. I
think I think Ohio State overestimated themselves. I don't think
it was an underestimation about Miami. The thing with the
Buck guys is in review, you trust your offensive line
way too much. Like you come out of the Indiana game,
you get sacked five times, and then you go to
the college football playoff after twenty five days of rest

(01:45:42):
whatever it was, and you didn't want to maybe give
an extra protector to Julian saying you just said no
no war in a back, it's fine, Ruben Bain as
a door, like, I'm not going to be a problem
for us, And it was like the same song second
verse of It's like, no, hey, clearly, five guys is
not enough to block what theas the lead defensive lines
are bringing, Like you gotta going to bring something else
to the party here. So that was I think my

(01:46:03):
first takeaway with Ohio State, and also just a little
little bonus spot here, I don't love switching play callers
for the first time all year of the playoff, just me.
The other thought, though, in relation to Miami and their
offensive output, like, I think the question marks around Carson
Beck is fair. I have them as well as I
zoom out on this playoff, I zoom out on college

(01:46:24):
football in general. I think there is a legitimate case
for Miami to just be the toughest team in this
tournament that's left like physically like just the baddest dude
on the block. I think you got to go back
to like twenty nineteen, maybe the last time not the
toughest team in college football won the national title. So
all things considered, it's a weird year, it's a weird tournament.

(01:46:45):
It's a weird final four. I think that defensive line
might should be good enough to carry him and Carson
bed give you one hundred and ten yards in touchdown
and at.

Speaker 3 (01:46:52):
The time, you know I'm with you, j D.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
I think that college football, more than any other level
of football, is one up front. And also you know
your quarterback not making mistakes. That's why. And I don't
even know if I have a question right now, but
I do have to say, Brian Hartline not calling plays
to sitting on the sideline, j D. I'll tell you
this is Michigan, I mean Ryan Day and that team couldn't
do nothing higher. Chip Kelly to call the place. Things

(01:47:16):
start to change a little bit. Brian Hartline calls the
places Ryan Day back on the sticks, big game, what
happens like, Okay, here's my question, because we've seen Ryan
Day's sheet was molten hot, right, and it had really
prior to winning the national championship. After losing the six
and five Michigan, you know what I'm saying, And the

(01:47:37):
big part of it was the play calling, right, the
toughness of the team. The next game they lose. I
get that in the midst in between those they had
a national championship win. But like you said, this team
again overestimated itself and when they used to lose to Michigan,
it was upfront. They lost to Indiana upfront and against

(01:47:58):
Miami Messidor and uh say Alta Door, Messidor and Bain,
they had saying like looking scared to get hit. How
do you fix that if you're Ohio State, because I
don't think it's something like I don't know if it
got fixed even in the National Championship run.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
Do you see what I'm saying?

Speaker 11 (01:48:17):
Yeah, I think the point you ring up is a
good one. Here's I guess that's just my thoughts in
general in Ohio State in response to that, Like the
thing that frustrated me the most about Ohio State in
that game, if I'm a Buckeye fan, I'm like, we
had zero sense of urgency and we had every reason
to have urgency. Like to your point of saying looking
to get hit, like he should have been out there

(01:48:38):
looking to prove a point. Like I got my guy
getting clowns on social media for the better part last
week because one dude wants to talk to him at
the Hiding Trophy media day whatever it was, I got
I got Jeremiah Smith tweeting now, like cryptic tweets about
how we should have won the Bolitnik Off, Like this
Ohio State team just lost the big thing. There should
have been an edge there and there wasn't the edge,
so that at some point time just like has to

(01:48:59):
fall back on Ryan Day and whether it's fair or not,
like you're the head coach at Ohio State and so
short of them having another stretch where they lose four
in a row to Michigan, I think it's going to
be a hard guy to fire. My thing has always
been if you're Ryan, at what point you're just like,
I'm sick of this, Like I win ten plus games
a year, we are always going to be in the

(01:49:20):
playoff now with being at twelve team and unless win
the national championship, my life sucks. Like at what point
does that get old for you? I I wonder how
much that weighs on the human being, with how successful
he is and how he gets treated.

Speaker 1 (01:49:32):
Because all four of us know that the New York
Giants will be very happy if Ryan Day went and
lost five games a year, Right, sign this up for
losing five games a year? Please?

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
All right, let's move on here to all miss what
they did unbelievable. Do they win that game if Lane
Kiffin was still on the sideline?

Speaker 11 (01:49:52):
Ooh, that's a I like that question a lot. I'm
going to say yes, I think they do, because I
don't think the offense takes any step back. My thing is,
you could put me on the sideline and trin of
that Chambells doing what he did had zero to do
with any of the play calling. Like I understand the
idea of Lankis and like elevating turn of that Chambliss

(01:50:13):
over the course of the year. I think that part's real.
But when you got three Georgia dudes in your lap
and you're just having to reverse field and do the
whole Pirates of the Caribbean things, and at that point
whatever play you called is dead, and so Turn of
that Chambliss making plays off script was the most terrifying
thing to me. If I'm a I'm a Miami fan,
because like that festival is going to be true to

(01:50:35):
form a fiestable and you got got turn of that
Chambers serving up Pico de Gayo like that in the back.
It's gonna be It is going to be a lot
of fun to watch those do good after I can't
wait so to answer question, Yes, but it doesn't matter
when Trenidad Champblins are doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:49):
All right, we're too early for this. But I don't
actually know what I'm gonna ask. I was to ask
you a draft question. I'll save that for later. But
tell me what Ruben Bain is like the best player Costle?
I don't care anyway, I'm real. Tell me why.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
I think me and Mice were talking about this earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
The national championship that we're kind of rooting for in
terms of storyline is Indiana verse Old Miss? Who ruins
our storyline because we are Indiana and sig plus Old
Miss and the kids that were left behind? Right? You
know what I'm saying? Like those are like the really
great storylines from where we shoit not to demolish Oregon
in Miami because they both have their own storylines in

(01:51:28):
their own right, But those to me are like the
A one and A two lines here?

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
Who ruins it for us?

Speaker 11 (01:51:34):
You know who ruins is Joker Dan Lanning. Like I
think we've I think we've seen him kind of on
this revenge here and it's been a little bit quieter
because in the Big ten, Ohio State's gotten all the
auction in the room. Indiana beat Organ and so we
kind of dismissed Organ for a while there, Like, I
still feel like this Orgon team is evolving. The most
jarring thing to me from that first round, relative like

(01:51:57):
the Orgon Texas Tech game wasn't just the Organ control
of the game. It was that Dante war got rushed
pretty heavily in that first half. And we saw him
get rushed heavily against Indiana and panic and throw pick
yea was he was cool, calm, collected back there after
he got rushed in that first half, And so if
that's like the progression we see from him, we already
saw all miss the George I guess I'd beat the

(01:52:18):
team twice, which is like the most overused phrase the
time either, but I think it's true. I think just
psychopath pre workout Dan Lanning might ruin the Indiana Ole
Miss national title game that the storialized.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
Rooting for here, And I would say I do think
like again, Oregon was right there and last year got
it kind of embarrassed, But last year, I feel like
not trying to just smirche the kid that much. But
I think that Oregon realized last year we just don't
have an NFL quarterback, and they were playing an NFL
defense in that rolls ball against Ohio State, right like that,

(01:52:53):
Dylan Gabriel was kind of fell apart, didn't theymore. It
may not be an NFL quarterback yet, but whenever he
does go, he will be drafted in the first thirty
two picks, you know what I'm saying, Like, whatever he
decides to make that jump, is that just a difference
here with this Oregon team? Like is it just like
because obviously Gabriel started games in the NFL, but we
were all kind of surprised about that.

Speaker 11 (01:53:14):
So there's my thing with Dantey Moore. I think the
first part of the year, everything that you would be
concerned about with Dylan Gabriel still exists. Like, you know,
he's he's looking a little bit sped up at times,
and he's super composed obviously overall. But that Indiana gain
kind of exposed some things. I think once you get
past that twelve game threshold. The baby that dantein Moore was,

(01:53:36):
he's off the placentia now, y'all. He's out here walking
around Aphimore is now like a fully formed second year
starter in this system, and so with that being like
the precursor here, I can't put his ceiling on what
Dantey Wore is going to be. Like, Y'll, I'll go
ahead and say this. I think Dantey Moore, if he
ends up, I'll be careful how I say this. I
think he will end up being the to be one

(01:53:58):
of this traft, even with Mendoza being the hus and
all that. Yeah, seeing this Peach Bowl, I think Dante
Moore makes his case, gets the head to head and
we're like, hey, if he wants to go pro, he's
probably the top guy.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
I actually don't disagree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
I think Fernando can probably come in and start games
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:16):
But if I were looking for like the next.

Speaker 1 (01:54:18):
Three years, four years, five years, I might be going
with my boy from Detroit, Dante Moore.

Speaker 11 (01:54:24):
J D.

Speaker 1 (01:54:24):
Thanks for White going.

Speaker 11 (01:54:26):
You got mart and white s facial hair going. Man,
it looks I mean, it's just it's a Michigan thing
out there. He's rocking it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Oh, I got one more question for you, please.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
I just remembered it so mess to Maker, the quarterback
from North Texas going to Oklahoma State. Right, that was
a big that's a big deal just in terms of
the quarterback market is Oklahoma State. They were horrendous last
year and have been pretty bad. What do you expect
we see Oklahoma, Indiana.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
I'm looking for the next sleeping giant.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
There's Oklahoma State of any shot with picks money and
all of that.

Speaker 11 (01:55:02):
Oklahoma State has won the BYU Prize from this year,
where they now will have the privilege of rolling in
the Jerry world and getting just thirty people O year.
It'll be it'll be great though, they'll have a case
for the playoff. It'll get like the Big Twelve fans
riled up. But like I just think Texas Tech and
their core roster talent is just for the festuable future

(01:55:23):
going to be feet ahead of the rest of the
Big Twelve. So maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe they're frisky
Oklahoma State, but that's kind of how I see things
right now. On January third of this year.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
No, I just I just found this in the quarterback
from North Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
But Drew Messimaker, one of the more highly talented arms
in the portal, ends up at Oklahoma State with his
former head coach, So I just found that kind of
thing interesting. Also, wonder you know Deon Sanders prophesies that
he's coming and he's bringing his own luggage. A lot
of other teams have. We'll see if Colorado ever does anything.

Speaker 11 (01:55:55):
JD one thing I will say, not say nothing, go
long here, I will say tax Tech right now, they
thought I believe they were gonna land Brendan Sorsby. He's
not taking a visit to LSU. Texas Tech trying to
get Sam web at the ASU quarterback. The way that
what I just said about Texas Tech being so much
better than anybody else could age poorly. If they strike
out on both the top guys in the portal, the

(01:56:17):
plot gets very thick, and then maybe Oklahoma State makes
a push.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
Got you.

Speaker 3 (01:56:20):
We'll keep that in mind, and I'll tell you this
right now.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
The plot just got very very thick in this NFL
game that we are watching. The one seed is on
the line and somebody very important is on the ground.
We'll get to that in just a minute. Martin Wisse
Monsey Belangio's Fox Sports Radio Alex d J Alex on
the ones and twos here today, what's your name of
his song? Sola I think you.

Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
Probably butchered that one. Who's the artist?

Speaker 6 (01:56:51):
Oh, come on, dude, what about pl Pluma?

Speaker 4 (01:56:54):
I was gonna guess. I don't listen to this guy.

Speaker 6 (01:56:57):
Every buddy looks like him could be pestl. I haven't
seen in the same room.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
What what would you qualify this genre of music?

Speaker 4 (01:57:07):
Don't what is it? I just I don't listen to
this is? What is this called?

Speaker 6 (01:57:11):
Alex What would you guess if you had to give
it a type?

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Mariacci?

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 (01:57:17):
That's close. It's kind of like a unique twist. Basically,
it's supposed to be like I don't even know the
right term for it, but it's supposed to be like
Spanish pop, is what they say.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
This is not Spanish pop. Spanish Spanish. This is his twist, okay,
but this is not that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:34):
Let me look him up.

Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
She's like, yeah, whatever you say, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
The reason I a regional this is regional.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
This is regional Mexican music.

Speaker 6 (01:57:44):
That's what this is.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Like, That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
Regional, is what they say.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
The reason I asked you because I've read I stumbled
down a TikTok rabbit hole. Oh and I discovered a
narco corrito. You're familiar with the concept of narco corritos,
so they're like essentially the way to think of it
is like, you know how rap music will generally, uh,
what is the word glorify or whatever, yelling drugs or whatever.

(01:58:11):
That's the it's the Mexican version of such. But there's
it's made. It's it's traditional Mexican music. Like it's so
it's got a bunch of guitars and it's like it
sounds what you would think of, but it's the lyrics
that are like called razy if you translate them, which
was what made me think of what that's what you
were like when you played that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:31):
And may you think this song the guy in here
is the Marlboro Rojo?

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:58:36):
Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 6 (01:58:38):
I have heard that one.

Speaker 1 (01:58:39):
Yeah, Marlboro Rojo by where that first name Flora.

Speaker 6 (01:58:52):
Unfortunately, that one's explicit.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
I can't play it's in Spanish, but Spanish and oh
it is, yeah, exactly all right.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
So it's wrapped up Martin.

Speaker 1 (01:59:05):
Well, it also was wrapped up. The NFC one seed
NFC West Division winner Seattle Seahawks, going in their ten
point win, could have been a thirty point win easily.
The biggest loss of the night was obviously Seattle, I
mean San Francisco losing the one seed. But brock Party
was the guy on his back. He got hit from

(01:59:25):
the top and from.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
The back all over the same time, I at the.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
Same time, and able to get up walk away. He
shook hands after the game, so hoping he's okay. But
this also just underscores Bonci. You win this game, you
don't have to play another game, you know what I mean.
And like now, brock Party like he would likely like
to have a week off after that hit.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
Of course he would like probably want the week off
after that hit. But I wonder if for San Francisco
it's it's actually better that they don't take the break,
because you know, it's been up and down for them,
Like it hasn't been a smooth season for Seattle, Like
they're in cruise control right now, and so for them,
it's bad for the league that Seattle is getting to buy.

(02:00:08):
But maybe this is good for San Francisco that they
have to keep going.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
We'll see, We'll see how it plays. Brock Party, you
know the Trent Williams missed this game. Ricky Piraso missed
this game. I know one thing, Aaron Torys and Jason
Martin will not be missing The show coming up NeXT's
the best college football wrap up show in America. Wrapping
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