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clock right now. Take number one. The Bears were good
enough to win the game and Lambeau Caleb could not
finish it. He just couldn't. I don't want to hear
anything at all about that fourth and one play call that.
I don't know what Ben Jonson's doing. What do you
call on that? Why are you getting cued on fourth
and one? The play call was perfect. He had a
receiver open early, he had a receiver open late. He
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threw it to neither of them at the right time,
and at the end he threw it way too late
and way too low, and it was an easy interception.
And I just feel like Caleb was not quite ready there.
He did not make the right play, He did not
make the right throw. I sat with him last week.
I'd like him. I support him. He was generous. I
have a job to do, and my job tells me
to say that The Bears were good enough to win
that game in Caleb did not make a good play
at the end of the game. You know what's frustrating
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about it, even if you're just a neutral observer, don't
care Bears, Packers anything. If Caleb throws that touchdown early
and accurately to Cole Comet in the back of the
end zone, I think Ben Johnson goes for two, they
would have been down one. I think he said screw it,
go for two. He'd probably had some nifty two point
conversion play that he's been sitting on all year, and
whether you like the Bears or hate him, would have
been great theater to see him try to go to
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Lambo and win the thing with a two point conversion.
The Bears were good in the second half. They were
terrible in the first half. It was the worst first
half they played probably all year. I just think in
that one moment, Caleb kind of short circuited and just
didn't make the right play. Take number two. Another thing
about the Bears. I don't want to hear the Bears
fans say anything resembling this take. Hey, not bad, right,
I mean, we're getting better. If someone had come to
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us back in August and said you'll be in Lambeau
in December with a chance to go ten and three
and come up a play. Sure, Hey, you'll take that
every single time. Shut up. That's such a lame take,
so patronizing. That's a loser talk. Don't sit there and rationalize. Say, hey, listen,
we've gotten a lot better. The game was right there
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to be had. Winning teams win games. Then don't say, well,
we'll get them in Chicago either. We split's not too bad.
Get both. You know how many times the Packers have
gotten both on Chicago pretty much every single year. It
feels like the play was right there to be made.
You didn't do it. I don't want to hear any
rationalization or any like keep your chin up nonsense about it. Hey,
remember this was pretty good. You've done a lot of
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good things this year. You should be proud of that. No,
when you're nine to three and you lose a game
on the last play to your arts rival, you should
be upset about it. That's sports. It was right there.
Don't tell me that. Take number three. I'm still not
admitting the Chiefs are done. I won't do it. They
never win. They look bad. The body language is bad,
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and you read looks bad. Everyone around Mahomes looks bad.
It's just all bad. Scoring ten points in the head
is on the chopping black game and Arrowhead Stadium against
the Texans is bad. And yet I won't give up.
They're not officially eliminated. I've said there's one thing that
will let me let them go, and it's mathematics. When
they're mathematically eliminited, I will let the Chiefs go. And
by the way, I may not do it that either.
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Even if they lose the rest of their games, I'm
still gonna feel like there's a way they could get
in because, as I've said many times before, I want
them in. I don't want the Royal Rumble without stone Cold,
all right, it doesn't feel like the Rumble without stone Cold.
I want him in there. If you throw him out, great,
If the Chiefs lose by one hundred points in the
wild card game, great, But I want them to be
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in the ring so that it feels like the Royal Rumble.
The AFC playoffs are supposed to be. Have you seen
some of the quarterbacks and teams or might be in
the AFC playoffs. I'll get to it shortly. It's not
exactly a murderer's row of an undertaker and Hogan and
stone Cold. I want stone Cold in and it looks
like he just can't win a game, and he loses
every single week, and he's lost four out of five
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and he's going someplace. I can't have them, but I'm
not gonna let them go. I won't let them go.
I still think are gonna win out. And these are
Texans losses and Chargers losses. I hope I'm talking next
week on ten takes about the chase are alive, but
I probably won't be taking them before. C J. Stroud
right now is the most pivotal player in the entire NFL.
What does that mean? Meaning he could go up or
down over the next month to six weeks, and he
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swings the biggest pendulum for a team in the entire NFL.
Because CJ. Stroud has a super Bowl defense, everybody is
in awe of the defense and they should be. Not
only did they go in a arrowhead and hold the
Chief to ten, this is shortly after that Texans defense
sacked Josh Allen eight times and held him to one touchdown.
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The Texans are a Super Bowl defense. I don't know
if they have a super Bowl quarterback. I still don't
think CJ. Stroud has looked right since his rookie year.
He kind of has hit or miss. Now this year,
if he can lock in and be like I got this,
I can make a big throw in a big drive
in a playoff game. The Texans, the Houston bleeping Texans,
can win the Super Bowl because they have a coach
and they have a defense. If you want to look
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at one guy who's gonna swing the playoff field, CJ. Stroud,
out of nowhere, it seems, is a really pivotal player
because I can see him having a wild card game
where he throws two picks in a fumble and they lose,
and it's like, man, he had this great defense, you
gotta play better. But I can also see him throwing
three touchdowns. I'm watching him. C J. Stroud rookie the
year a couple of years ago, in a big spot
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right now, take number five. Steelers were always gonna win
that game. How many times did I have to scream it?
Everyone can't believe. Wow, they were so terrible last week.
Everyone was chanting for Mike Tomin to be fired. They
were booing that stick song. They won. Yes, of course,
that's exactly why they won. Because this is how it
works with Mike Tomlin. When it gets bad, it will
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immediately correct itself. And guess what, when it gets good,
it will immediately correct itself. All roads leave to decency.
You got to get decent when you're Mike tom You're
never gonna be fourteen and three. But you better believe
you're never gonna be three and fourteen. You're not having
gonna be seven and ten. Of course they won that game.
If I was someone who gambled on sports, I would
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have bet everything I had that the Steelers win that game.
If you didn't, you should have. You could have paid
for all your Christmas presents. Just know that it'll never
go completely off the road, and it'll never go for
the grand prize of being the best team in the league.
It's always staying above water. Though. And listen, next week
they play Dolphins. Steelers may lose. Don't listen to me
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on that. I'm not saying they're gonna win out. I'm
saying that if the Steelers could start zero to eight,
I still think they're gonna win their next nine games.
They could start nine and oh, I stik that they're
gonna lose their next eight games. This is how it works.
Pay attention. Take number six. I feel like the AFC
playoffs slate is already set. Do you feel this way?
Is there some darling team? Why do I feel like
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the AFC playoffs are already gonna be Patriots, Bills, Steelers, Jaguars, Texans, Broncos, Chargers.
That's it? Like, it doesn't seem like it's that complicated.
Who is the team that's gonna kick the door down?
I already talked about the Chief They can't win a game,
even though I want them to. The Colts are completely broken.
I'll talk about them in a second. The Ravens just
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have decided they just don't want to be great this
year at all. They're six and seven. I can't look
at them. The Dolphins stop. That's the only the White
and Night and White Night Night and shine arm whatever
the hell it is. There's no one who's gonna be
like I got this. I'm gonna come careening down the
stretch and find my way in. I think it's those
seven teams, and it feels enclimactic. Take number seven, The
Colt story sucks about Daniel Jones. The number one story
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the first half of the NFL season was the Indianapolis
Cults one every single week inexplicable. Daniel Jones was cool,
Dani Jones is good. You want a personal take. If
you ever hear a team that says they fear it's
an achilles injury, the team fears it may be serious.
That's the kind of things that you hear from the insiders.
They say, per sources, they fear an achilles injury. There's
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no fear with an achilles injury. All there is is certainty.
I ruptured my achilles once I learned this. When someone
goes down with an achilles rupture, the trainer comes out.
It takes five seconds to see if the achilles gone.
All they do is they squeeze your calf, and if
your foot moves, you have an achilles. If it doesn't,
you don't. You don't need an MRI, you don't need
any of that stuff. They can tell on the field.
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So when they take them off and they bring in
the locker room and they doesn't return to the game,
and they say they fear the worst, it's always the worst.
It's never gonna be not the worst. It sucks. It
is a terrible, terrible injury, and I hate the Daniel
Jones is going through it. Take number eight. I want
a juicer. Why because I heard DeVante Smith talking about it,
and I find this sounds so charming and so appealing roll.
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It so you know, it's interesting about me a juicer.
And I've been squeezing oranges, apples and pine apples for
the past four days. And let me tell you something,
it's amazing. The best orange and apple juice I've ever
had is when I squeezed my mom. So you know
that's what I've been doing since, you know, the Black
Friday game, squeezing food.
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Don't you just want a juicer right now? I want
to go out and buy fifty apples, a two dozen oranges,
and I want to juice things that sound to me
is like when people call comfort television whether they watch
the author so they watch Stanley Tucci cooking. I just
want to hear to Avante Smith talking about juice because
I never heard Amante Smith talking about anything. He picked
his moment to look in the reporter's eyes and say, man,
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I bought me a juicer, and it's wonderful and I'm
just going home. I want to drink apple juice. I
can't think of the last time I had a cup
of apple juice. It was probably on a plane when
I was nine, But I want to have some right
Now's Monty Smith great player Heisman trophy? To me, his
real legacy is not the Heisman Trophy, it's that juicer,
and I want a juicer. Take nine. The six and
seven thing is back, and I know it's annoying to
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hear people like me talking about sixty seven, but it's
up right now because there's a lot of teams are
six and seven in their record. Just a personal note,
you know what. It's still amusing to me. My kids,
who claim it's not cool but still say it. They
will sit in the backseat of our car when we're
on the highway and they look at this sphanometer of
our car, which is a digital readout, not just the meter.
It's got like the two numbers. If you go fifty five,
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it says two pips, and when the car is it's
sixty seven, they scream. They scream, and then it goes
sixty eight. They stop, and then I'll take my foot
off the gas of the corder and she goes down
to sixty seven. They scream again. It's so funny. It
makes driving fun. I keep my eyes on the road,
of course, but they keep me entertained by the way.
Take number ten, here's my take. Treat yourself to something
this holiday season. When you're buying gifts for people online,
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buy yourself a little gift. Nothing clash it, you've burned it.
You know what. The other day, I'm like, I think
I need a new Bluetooth speaker. I'm gonna buy it
for myself. I bought all these gifts from my wife
and my kids. I deserve one. Back in the day,
I used to go to the mall in the nineties,
I'm like, you know what, they're gonna buy a San
Jose Shark's hat. I'm gonna buy myself a Nikky Taylor calendar.
I burned it. Buy yourself a gift for this well,
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gift for you. Why the hell not happy holidays. That's
ten takes, that's ten minutes, and that's really good advice.
By yourself. Little gift makes it a little more fun.
You don't have to wrap it, just take it home.
And if you get shipped to your house and your
wife or husband's like, what's this big? It's for me.
It's my gift and I'm not wait until Christmas. I'm
opening it now. That's it, guys. Ten Takes. I gotta
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