11-27-23 Hour 2

Top 4 at 4 includes an NFL coach fired and a UAlbany-Siena recap
Bills and how bad the loss is for the future
Play of the Day and Goz's lack of understanding of thermastats.

Episode Transcript

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Time for the Top four four withLevac and guys. Four. Time for
the four biggest stories in the worldof sports. It has brought to you
by a good friends at Mohawk Honda. Gus, you have the four biggest
stories. As you see the breakingnews. I did not dare wait a

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second, I don't have to breakhe news, Levek. Do you want
to take it for story number four? Do you want to? I mean,
omaha. The Carolina Panthers have firedtheir head coach, Frank Reich.
Frank Reig out. Details are stillpretty sparse at the moment. Carolina Panthers
brought him in this year, theydrafted their quarterback with him this year,

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and now have already clipped him.He is out. They are the They
do have the worst record in football. They did give up the first overall
pick at this point to the Bearslast year to get the pick last year.
The short, short leash for FrankReich in Carolina. This is rare
to say that a team is sobad, the worst team in the NFL
in one in ten. This isan idiotic move. This is It's hard

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for me to even understand how dumbthis is what I feel like happened?
Is this the news? Pretty stillpretty new Panther owner David Tepper, who
followed the late Jerry Richardson. Idon't want to speak ill of Jerry Richardson,
but read up on Jerry Riders andhow that ended, you'd be the
only one who didn't want to.Yeah. So it feels like David Tepper
thought, Okay, I got anidea. I'm gonna listen to Charlotte's Sports

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talk radio. What should we do? Okay? It seems like everybody wants
us to trade for the number onepick. Yeah, it's a great idea.
Okay, let's do it. Whatwe gotta do? Cool? All
right? We got Bryce Young?Awesome, our team stinks. What do
we do? Fire the coach?All right, fire the coach. I
mean I'm doing pretty good, right, I mean, everybody likes me now,
But that's not how this works.Like you traded away too much to

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get Bryce Young when you probably couldhave god another quarterback in the draft and
just sat at your spot. Youcould have let Frank write, who was
I thought it? Fantastic coach andstill do believe that. All Right,
it's the same guy who almost wantedthe Colts. But Andrew luck retired on
the field. It's the same guywho's on that Eagle staff that wont with
Nick Foles as a quarterback leading theteam to the Super Bowl. What is
he supposed to do with this roster. I'm stunned by this move and good

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for Frank Rake because guess what,maybe potentially people are looking this up today
and it hasn't been confirmed yet.He might be the first coach in NFL
history be getting paid by two teamsat the same time. Because remember,
he got fired by the Colts ona guaranteed of contract and they're paying him.
And now, because he's one yearinto this Deocha believe it's forty million
dollars is not getting paid by thePanthers two dames. Tapper said quote,

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I met with coach Reich this morningand informed him that he will not continue
as head coach of the Carolina Panthers. I want to thank Frank for his
dedication in service and we wish himwell. I mean, is this a
favor? Is this now? Like? Is he available? Where does Frank
Wright go? Does he go tocollege? Could he be in the running

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for some of these open jobs?Like could he be could he be the
Raiders coach. Could he be?No? Where he goes the beach,
he never coaches again. And toshow his life, he's getting paid a
ridiculous amount of money. These guysdon't function like that. Sixty two.
He's sixty two years old. Yeah, really, it looks better than that.
Looks great. I got feeling heshows up somewhere because I mean,

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you know, he became the manwith Andy Reid, it's his oc the
quarterback guru, all those things.Yeah, you know, the enemy's gone.
Does he go back? Does hego work with Reid? Goes right
to the beach? Or buffalo?Which seems like a very pair. Whoa
buffalo? He was? I mean, greatest comeback of all time. This

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is a tough question to give you, though, but I like this question.
This is only the sixth time inthe history of the NFL that a
coach has been fired in his firstseason and didn't finish. So six times
it's happened year one fired, Butit's now happened three times the past three
seasons. Frank Craig's one of them. Can he name the other two?
Was it Wilts? That would havebeen my first guest? He did?

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I believe that's longer than three years. O. Well, Buddy Hackett,
fale Hackett's one another one of hisfirst year as a head coach, and
it wasn't we're not counting first yearis an NFL head coach first. That's
a big clue. I don't know. Urban Meyer. Oh yeah, yeah,

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yeah, good good, which isthe now segue in his story number
three here talking about college football andcoaches. Here this worked out perfect that
Mike Elko is the new head coachat Texas A and M, replacing Jimbo
Fisher. Jonathan Smith is the newhead coach for the Michigan State Spartans,
replacing Mel Tucker Smith, formerly atOregon State. You're another bizarre fact.

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A lot of weird staffs on today'sshow. This is now the second time
that Michigan Status had a coach namedJohn Smith. They used to have John
L. Smith who coached the Spartans, and not they have a Jonathan's.
No one cares about that, Sat. It's weird. It's weird, it's
weird. It's out there. You'veheard it now and leave Ack and gos.
Mike Elko if you don't know hiscareer, he's the Duke Blue Devil

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head coach. He formerly was theTexas A and M defensive coordinator. Left
for the Duke. John Remember Aand M's defense pretty good. He's been
a part of the A and Mstaff in the past. So a former
Angie going back to the Angies ishe's one of my favorites. Okay,
so you like that higher but twobar questionnaire. One is that good enough
for Texas A and M because he'sa federal Ankie? Two? Any issues
with Jonathan Smith leaving Oregon State becausethey're in the PAC Two in the future.

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Some people have criticized him for saying, well, you're leaving them high
and dry and organ sty doesn't havea future now because he left that program.
If the only thing keeping together isaverage name, average game John Smith,
well they got bigger problems, likewhat he's supposed to mortgage his future
on what the pack? Two?Does he listen? Big ten is going

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to have what seventy five teams nextyear? Yes? I think, so
why not go there and try tomake something out of Michigan State Alco.
The reason I Leavelco is I feellike he is probably one of the smarter
defensive coordinators out there, and he'sobviously tough as nails because look what he
did for Duke. But I stillfeel like he writes up plays on napkins

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in a bar, eating peanuts whiledrinking whatever draft beers on sale that day.
Like he doesn't. He doesn't looklike these polished head coaches. He
looks like a guy who would fightClint Eastwood in a movie and then coach
your team to a championship. Onething I find ironic, funny, interesting,
all of those things. Maybe you'veseen it. I have yet to

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see it today. I have notheard what the reported contract is, the
numbers, because Texas and I wantsto talk about how much they paid Jimbo
Fisher, like that was the bigbragging right last time. If you remember
the Jimbo Fisher introductory press conference,they actually gave him a plaque that said
national Champions and left the year open. That's so much hype and pomp and
circumstance that was around Jimbo Fisher.I don't even have numbers on Elco.

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Maybe you saw him, I've yetto see them today. I haven't seen
him yet. And that's why,Yeah, I was gonna say, why
would you even say what they areat this point. If you don't have
to, it'll come out at somepoint. There's not any New York teams
in action here. For story numbertwo, we're talking about the NBA.
Some Markie games of note, thosethe Clippers hosting the defending NBA champion Nuggets
at ten thirty and the Lakers takingon the Sixers at seven o'clock. So

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I'm just using this opportunity to talkabout did you see Greg Popovich when the
Spurs played the Clippers, Popovich gettingon the mic and telling the fans to
stop booing any thoughts on coach Pop'smaneuver in that game. I think it's
ridiculous that if I buy a ticketto a game, I'm not allowed to
boo because my old curmudgeon coach hasgonna go, hey, knock it off,

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get off my lawn. But heswears he was. He just he's
like, I didn't want to pokethe bear. They didn't. He would
He would have if he they motivatedhim, he would have went out there
and got us. Dude, Papovichis he's crazy at this point. He's
gone from eclectic to crazy. Whata loser? This is what I say
about Greg Popovich done, get out, retire? What was it? What

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are you doing? What are youdoing? It's not even like I've seen
college coaches get on the mic andtell teenagers to knock it off because they're
teenagers. They're drunken college kids,they don't know better, and you're a
representation of the school. You're ina professional sported event against the guy who
demanded he gets traded, and you'redefending for what? How tone death?

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Is Greg Popovich? Done? Enough? Stinks? What does it say about
uh Kawhi? Though? That likeif you guys wake him up, you
ryan up, he'll play. Well, here's part of that too. I
maybe maybe that's his defense of it, I guess, But you think about
the guys, they're like, youbetter not do this from Greg Popovich.
Yeah, the one who became semiknown for obviously his championships in his Hall

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of Fame career, maybe the greatestNBA coach of all time of criticizing and
doing the stick with the reporter isduring the end game stuff kind of telling
the late Craig Sager how to dohis job and everything. But bizarre,
bizarre stuff. All right, SoI'm cheating here on story number one.
Okay, because story number one forme is the Bears and the Vikings,
and we're gonna preview that game aswe usually do for Bundant Football on our
Play of the Day. So Bearsand the Vikings tonight. But this goes

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back to yesterday a recap here instory four because I have a few minutes
to talk about it here before wetalk about you top five at four.
I know the other show that usedto do that. Never mind Uh the
Albody Cup. Any thoughts? Uh? Yeah, Albany played way better than
we thought they would be able to. They they handled business. Sanna did

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not look great. But I've toldyou this, and I've told anyone who's
asked with this. If I knowanything about coach karm, he's he obviously
wanted to win that, but hisfocus is winning the MAC Tournament, going
to the dance. So the team. Historically, his team finishes way better
than start, So I wouldn't.I'm not. I'm not panicked, but

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I know that's a win they wanted. Cianna played terrible, Neally came back.
They're awful. They can't score.I don't know if it's a transfer
portal, I don't know. What'sgoing on? That is an awful loss
for Sienna. I like coach karmA Lot, that's the worst loss in
his tenures the Sienna basketball coach.And I don't think it's even close.
Maybe, like you could argue theMac Tournament losses to other teams were worse,
but that's the MAC Tournament, Likeit's one and done. You're competing

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against teams for a postseason birth.That's But don't we do this every year
with him? Though? I rememberthe first time we had him on the
show, it was like, whycan't you win on the road And He's
like, oh, here we go. And then they started winning on the
road, Like why are you outto and I remember we were out of
games and well, hey, youonly have to win three in March.
Kar Like every year he does thisto us. He went Owen twelve or
whatever that year was, Owen thirteenon the road getting smacked by thirty five

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against the U Albany team that atthat point nobody knew much about Amari Marshall.
To quote another fellow Marshall like him, Hi, my name is.
He just introduced himself to the Capitolregion because he put on one of the
biggest performances in best performances we've seenin a very long time from a great
Dane basketball player. He's another transfer, but they got smacked. That game

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was an eye opening decision. Isit our fault? Is it you?
Is it media's fault that we wereso everyone everyone was so wrapped up in
the drama around the U Albany program, maybe we missed just how good they
might be. It was just agame, and Noel change. I would
see you Albandey did everything right inSianna's very bad and I could I could

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see you already being a contender downtheir conference. In Cianna being one of
the bottom teams in the conference.That's how much I think rebound. That's
what he does. That's what hedoes. That's it's all he does.
Guys like he showed us it everytime until until he doesn't. I believe
coach Carmel rebound, and I thinkDwyne Kills is putting together something better than
we realized. Well, if you'rea college athlete, maybe you're a high

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Very nice. And that song almostplayed and I almost lost my mind with
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tummy ache is what I usually.Oh well, no, I wasn't.
It wasn't. My stomach felt fine, it was Uh you remember the Jeff

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Daniels in Dumb and Dumber. Ohno, yeah, no, maybe that's
what I should do. Hey,you ever see Dumb and Dumber. Let's
see with Jeff Daniels. He's onthe ball, can't get any Yeah.
That was that was That was whatwas up. Speaking of over the Bowl,
Bilg fans uncontrollables. You can afterthis one thirty seven, thirty four

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they lose to the Eagles and inovertime Josh Allen oh and six in overtime
games. Josh Allen is Look firstof all, Josh Allen's not the reason
they lost. Thet stats. Iknow about the six. Well, I
know about the stats because I sawhim drop about a sixty burger against me
in fantasy as I played. Well, I saw the stats from Josh Allen.

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Before we dive into the game,let's just go with the opener that
Western New York is all fired upabout and social media could not get to
Twitter and Facebook quick enough to postabout what. Let's talk about the end
of the game because Elliott hits asixty yarder. Basically, yeah, regulation
regularly, thank you, Regulation hitsit. The chances of that kick going

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in, I'm what you and Iwatch it like, I don't think that's
going in. It looked like mybest golf drives because it wasn't straight.
There was like there was a hookand a slice. It was low.
It just went over the bar likeit was. It was beautiful in its
imperfection and it went through. Sohe hits it, You nod your head.

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The Philly crowd's gonna see this gamego to overtime. Buffalo's got twenty
seconds left and people are all overMcDermott. They're all over him today because
he takes the knee at the endof the game. Doesn't try to make
an overtime uh does not to makeany type of plays before overtime. And
that's the big talking point out inWestern New York. Maybe they just wanted

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to complain maybe they're just tickday loss, like I buy Bills fans. Then
I realized maybe they're just tick dayloss, like I didn't think it was
that big of a deal he tooka knee. I mean, they're on
the road in the pouring raining,We've got a quarterback who's known for turnovers
and a really good Eagles d linethat could cause a strip sack, and
he could even be how the snapcould be bad. I'm not as how

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did you feel about it, becauseobviously my take is that I thought it
was fine. He took a knee. I'll be perfectly honest. Okay,
when he took the knee, Iwas good with it because of how the
first half of the Jets game endedon Friday. You know the fail Mary
where Boyle throws it and it turnsinto a pick six. That reason,

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at that moment, I was goodwith it. But as any great armchair
quarterback will tell you, I amnow gifted with hindsight being twenty twenty,
and I wish you had gone aheadand tried to get the ball down there
because it just this Eagles team.I don't know if they've captured a Leprechaun.
If They've stolen every lucky coin thatwas ever made. They have a

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rabbit feet everywhere like this team,and I know it's I know a lot
of its skill there very has theball bounce their way. But no one
has the ball bounce their way morethan the Eagles. We just talked about
the sixty yarder in the in therain and the nastiest the the aj Brown

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no fumble the end of the firsthalf of the game where they horse Coyler
Allen and he gets called for intentionalgrounding like the the Eagles. Is that
the Kelly Green what, I don'tknow what it is. They seem to
have all the luck and it's almostone of those things where like in the
college ranks, when you see ateam that is able to take a superior

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team or a team that's far morelikely to win the game into the deep
water and then go, we're gonnakeep playing it out. No, no,
no, go for two. No, no take chances, because your
only chance to close this out nowis to take chances. Because the first
half Bills look great. Eagles juststarted coming for him. It was like
it was like a horror moves likeMichael Myers just walking up slow. It's
coming for you, slow and slow, and but you're we're gonna take you

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down. So hindsight, I canunderstand why people would wanted to take that
chance. This is a team thatgets burned and I you cannot blame Josh
Allen on you want Ohen six isreal? You get that. Actually after
that coin flips the second time,Josh Allen does not win. I know
Bill Finn doesn't want to argue todayabout what would have made that more upset
because they're already upset enough about losingthe game and blowing the lead and feeling

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like that one's the one they absolutelyneeded for the AFC playoff picture. But
you and I have done this longenough where if Alan had thrown a pick
or turned over the football or McDermotthe did have one other time out,
that's a huge part of that.And you'd add they did have another time
out too with the twenty seconds right, which makes you want to take the
chance. Yeah, But like,if he had made a mistake, this

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is what are you doing? McDermott, take good Nay, it's pouring in
Philly. You're on the Like thatoutrage would have been so much stronger if
a mistake was made, but look, Buffalo lost the game. Buffalo fan,
vic, you mentioned about all thebreaks that Philly have gotten, not
just in that game, but thisseason, each game. We could really
two years, right, like wecould pick each game they've played and said,

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look at this call, look atthe push, look at the mark,
all of it, Buffalo. Thisseason, you've got the Jets Week
one on the punt return, You'vegot the twelfth man situation and the wrong
amount of guys in the field.Then you have this heartbreaker. You get
one heartbreaking loss in the NFL ina regular season, that's tough. Two
you probably can't recover three And thisis not being biased for Capitol Region bill

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fan, like, those are ripyour heart out losses against two good teams
and one really bad team. I'mat this point on a Monday, very
much convinced that Buffalo might be done. And it's not even so much about
the roster, it's not so muchabout the quarterback plates that when you have

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those three heartbreaking losses for the fanbase, for the coaching staff, or
the players mentally, you're just like, we can't do it, Like we
can't get over the hump. Whatare we doing wrong right now, that
one might be it for Buffalo,and they're so talented, but three heartbreaking
losses in a more competitive AFC fromteams I didn't think we're going to be

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competitive. It's gonna be so hardfor Buffalo to come back because it is
not years. Is the worst youcan do and still be in contention?
Right, Yes, ten is themagic numbers. So you got to win
four of these games. You've gotthe bye week, then you're at Kansas
City, You've got Dallas. InBuffalo, they're at the Chargers home for

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the Pats at the Dolphins. Soat Kansas City, this is a different
Kansas City team with a bye week, you should be you should be able
to beat them. With the wayif they played just like they played against
Philly, they should be able tobeat Kansa. We talked about earlier.

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The Raiders, who are are avery flawed team right now, should have
been up seventeen nothing on them onHarln. But this this is a winnable
game. Fifty to fifty coin toss. Yes, I would say I was
gonna say it's a fifty to fiftygame, but you know what, for
the sake of this let's give himthe win. Let's give them. Okay,
Dallas, you're not playing in Dallas. If you're playing in Dallas,

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your host, the Cowboys are fiveand zer at home. They're not losing
at home. But you might beable to beat him in Buffalo. But
we gotta split these two, okay, one and one. Okay, so
you got one at the Chargers.Charges are frauds. If you can't beat
the Chargers, don't even don't You'redone, don't deserve to be in the
postseason. So we'll push this totwo and one for Buffalo Patriots. You
gotta beat the Pats. You gottabeat the Pats. Did they Tomy DeVito?

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Just beat the Pats? I willsay, yes. They should beat
New England the way New England looked. Yes, let's give it to Buffalo.
Put him in three one. Iknow some Bill fan feels some type
of way against doing it. Butfor this three and one, which means
to get to ten inteud to havea chance at the postseason, you need
to beat the Dolphins in Miami forthe last game of the season, which

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it's got to play out that way, like it has to. Forget the
jokes that there's a script written bythe NFL karma god, Fate Shiva.
I don't care whoever it is youbelieve in the giant spaghetti monster they draw
these. This is the Bills chanceto be in the postseason will be decided

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in Miami on December I'm sorry,January seventh. There is a scenario too
that could potentially play out where Miamicould already have the division wrapped up.
Yep, so Miami could have atwo game lead on the next closest team,
which I would say it's safe.It's gonna be Buffalo with one to
play. So Miami in that gamewould be playing for potentially seating Right now,

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Jacksonville, I like how you andI look smart sometimes. Jacksonville right
now is the top seed in theAFC. Levac haated in his paper first.
Even though he handed it first,doesn't make it make me less right.
We both thought jackson would have finishthis regular season with the most wins
in the top seed in the AFC. So, yes, Buffalo season will
come down to Miami if it playsout the way they do. But boy,

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how different could it be if thosethree heartbreaking losses don't go that way?
Can they recover. Uh, look, we just did that. I
don't feel confident in those plays.I just had there because there's a lot
of other things that can happen aroundBuffalo, and it's just, oh,
I feel for the It's been along time. Like I grew up with
the Bills being awful. They wereterrible, but I felt like this even

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the Red Sox were kind of inthis conversation, like the most heartbreaking fan
base. You never want to growup to be a Red Sox fan.
You never want to grow up tobe a Buffalo Bill fan because they're gonna
rip your heart out. And jetfan, I know you're in that conversation too,
but they've been a little bit morecompetitive than the Jets. The Red
Sox and the Bills. Gosh,this season's make me think it's the nineties
again. It's just it's it's aweird. So like obviously, I know

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a lot of Bills fans, Iknow a lot of different fan bases,
whatever, Raiders fan. I'm sittinghere and everybody wants to, you know,
kind of lump us in together,and we are. We're in the
hunt. We're right there with you. We're in the hunt. I didn't
expect to be after the whole wellafter just watching Josh mcchanal's coach, like
I thought, no way. Solike for me, I'm living on borrow

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time. I'm having a great timeright now. Bills fan, you didn't
expect to be in the hunt either. You expect to be a top three
seed. You expect to be towardsthe beginning of this thing. So it's
a very different life. Like whereI sit. Eh okay, I can
live like this. Where you sit, it's like what the hell am I
doing here? So the questions aregoing to come down, Like I see
people again, there are people wantto blame Josh Allen. I think he's

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responded amazing to Joe Brady calling theplaces. I think that whatever moves have
to be made, if any moveshave to be made, you need to
find a way to have Joe Bradysitting right next to your boy, Josh
Allen, because as you mentioned,guys, I he had what fifty four
points on your butt last night?Yeah, in fantasy, So that I
mean, that's that's fun to watch. It's it's hero ball, but it's

(27:08):
controlled heroball. He's not He's stillthrowing the ball, but he's he's able
to work in the hero angle,but McDermott might be might be on borrowed
time. This is the most heathe's ever faced from the Bills fan base.
Josh Allen's going out and getting thirddowns, He's spreading the football around.
He is responding well to Joe Brady. But this is not where Buffalo's

(27:30):
supposed to be. They are notsupposed to be suffering heartbreaking losses of team's
talent. Wise, they're better thanand we're not supposed to be sitting here
talking about post Thanksgiving if they're gonnamake the postseason. I had a feeling
the Miami Buffalo game was going tobe important, but it felt more like
it was gonna be for the divisionchampionship, not whether or not Buffalo be
a postseason team. And boy,it look if the number will do this,

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I put it at thirty three percent. I believe the guys BPI rankings
of the Bills being playoff team becauseof how tough that schedule is. And
if that number is ten, whichI believe it is in my mind of
how this AFC is shaken out,it's more likely now that Buffalo will miss
the postseason than make the postseason.I think there's two playoff spots that are

(28:15):
in flux right now. For theAFC. I think I know five teams
that are going to be in.I think six and seven are available.
And you are fighting it out withthe Cleveland Brown, so I think we'll
fall out. You're fighting out withthe Colts. I feel like they're going
to fall out. But you stillgot the Texans the Broncos ahead of you,
and right behind you are the Raiderswho are playing inspired football. The

(28:38):
Bengals. I think you're safe.So realistically, I think you're fighting the
Texans, Broncos, Bills will mostlikely two of those three will get the
last two spots in the AFC iswhat I think will happen. Possibly the
Colts. The Colts are, Imean they are playing it. They are
playing great football for a team thatlost their quarterback that really wasn't the one

(29:00):
of the year, fighting with theirtheir tailback. You know everything everything on
that some is wrong and listen,as we know, the most profiled,
uh racially skewed demographic in the worldis a white millionaire or billionaire. Just
ask Jim Mersey. Look what he'sbeen through this year. That poor poor
man when he said they were theywere out to give me because I'm rich,

(29:21):
and I was like, oh God, help me, dude. You
make it harder and harder to takeyou seriously at any level, Like Jerry
Jones is like, I really appreciateeverything you doing to make me look smart
and saying, well, yeah,it's gonna be right there. Where's the
world. I can't touch it.I'm what, I'm out of touch?
Where am I? Hello? Everyoneshould feel sorry for me. I'm so
so rich and so white. Ohman, I didn't know you were you

(29:45):
were, didn't know the struggle wasso real. I hope you're okay er
se Uh yeah, so there itis. I think I think the Bills
are alive. But yeah, they'refighting out with the Broncos team. It
looks like they figured it out.They're fighting out with a Texans team which
is electric, a Colts team thatis tough as leather, and you know
Cleveland who that defense is special.But I don't think I think right now

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Ravens, Chiefs, Jags, Dolphins, Steelers are in Like just In and
the Steelers. I don't think theSteelers are in because they're a great team.
I think the Steelers are in becausetheir schedule sets up nicely for them
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Like it's a it's like a knownit's a known thing in the Scottish community

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that like the Scots were cheap asa as a culture, as a people.
Like we actually got him a shirtthat said Clan mcfrugal and it was
it was a dude in a kiltpinching a penny until Lincoln said ouch.
But when it came to like vehiclesand stuff, He's like, why am
I gonna buy somebody else's problems.I'm gonna get a new vehicle. I'm
like, you're a mechanic. That'swhat like what he goes exactly you know
what I've seen. I don't wantany part of that. So it just

(33:52):
always always finded me, like whenwe're talking about like maintenance and stuff,
and I'm like, just if youget a new one, it comes with
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tomorrow. Shout to our guy JohnHiggins one more time, who I was
texting with. So that will bean adventure in itself tomorrow. I gotta
tell you right now, Yeah,Kirk Austin, do the right thing.
Yeah, don't put me on thatin the repair bay. Don't do it
won't go well for you this time, sir. The text has been sent,
the request has been putting. Wetalked to Nate, so there will
be a lot of people to blametomorrow if we are out there again.
If we're gonna be outside, Ijust want to set up in the bed

(34:35):
of my truck and just we'll doit from We'll do it from Scar Joe,
I think is what is what happens? Well vacuum guys, truck talk
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(34:58):
dare I say back on a heater? Am I like, I'm reheated microwave
hot. That is the best weekendyou've had, even though you've been very
You've specially gonna have had for charity. You've been historically good this year.
In the history of this show youhave. There is no the number wire
to wire so far. On Cfour, I was texting you during the

(35:20):
games yesterday. I'm like, thisone hit, this one hit, this
one hit. Yes, you aredefinitely bad. On eight team teaser,
an eight team teaser and my safetybet both hit because kid Tera was trying
to creep up on me. Isaw a little guy coming up from I'm
like, yeah, nah, youknow, I had to kick in another
gear at a seventy two dollars tosixty three cents to my total for the

(35:42):
Sea Force Smart Energy Challenge. Soyou're on a here. Your plays are
great, especially here in week twelve. I have to ask this question though.
Okay, before we give our picks, is your play about tonight's Monday
night football game? Yes? Itis, Okay, so is mine.
So before we make our plays,let me give you this information. Leavak
Okay, there's his story on theline tonight. Okay, involving the Vikings
and the Bears. This could beone of, if not the biggest favorite

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weekends in NFL history. The favoriteshave covered the spread in twelve of the
fifteen games this week, tying therecord for the most in a single week.
The most is Week twelve of twentyseventeen in the Super Bowl era.
There's never been a week in thehistory of the Super Bowl era when favorites
have covered in thirteen games tonight thatcould happen. Remember, one of the

(36:30):
ones that didn't cover was one ofthe biggest upsets in Thanksgiving Day history,
the Packers taking down the Lions.Yeah, so what it tells me you're
gonna take the Vikings. Is thatthat's what it tells me. Yesterday I
said the Bears. Yesterday I saidthe Bears. I don't like this information.
I don't like how bad I've been. I was at the point where

(36:51):
I was so bad with my picksover the weekend. I had the moment,
like all of us do who wageron sports, like I'm done getting
up. I'm done. I've donethat. I know that this year and
I'm killing it like I've had.I just had a bad day and I
was like, it's it. Inever want to bet again. And even
if you don't wager, like we'vetalked about some heartbreaking losses today on today's
show, there have been some brutalwhether they've been blowouts or ripped the heart

(37:13):
out, everybody had that over theweekend. But with all that being said,
if you know this show, I'mstumborn and I'm not changing. Maybe
I waffle on Trevor Lawrence, butI don't waffle on picks. I've already
said on the air, I willgo down with a terrible Chicago Bear team
tonight. I'm taking the Bears.I'm not making the mistake I made way
earlier in the show, way backon Sunday, when I said that Bronco

(37:36):
line stunk. This line stinks.Let me not bet it, dummy,
this stinks. Don't be a dummy. Take the Bears, guys. I'm
taking the Bears. The Bears isthe answer tonight at some point, and
I don't I don't think you canpredict when it's gonna happen, so it
makes it more difficult. I thinkwe need to have a guyze versus guys
segment because the amount of times thatyou fight yourself and you're way meaner to

(37:58):
you than I am. Like youa way meaner to yourself than I've ever
been, and I take great joyin teasing you, like like the younger
brother that you kind of arded me, but you're like when you correct yourself
and then thank yourself when you youthen yell at yourself like that. Gozrus
Gods. Maybe it's just something wehave to get a producer and have them
go back and just pull every timeit happens, because it happens like once

(38:20):
a week at least. Goz versusGods. I'm with you, though,
I like that. I like theBears I don't think the Bears are as
terrible as you think. I thinkthey're playing for eber Flue, which is
I think is Jamaican Christmas. I'mpretty sure eber Flues is Jamaican for Christmas.
Could be true, but I mean, you know, I mean,
you can't prove them not right.I think the plus three you got Fields

(38:43):
in for Chicago. He's not evenon the injury list this time. It's
a different team when he's there.So but I gotta spice it up a
little bit, you know me.I can't just I'd be smarter if I
just went, hey, Bear's plusthree, I'd probably you know, I'd
take my minus one ten and I'dprobably be fine. I decided to do
the TETD parlay. I got theBears plus three, Okay, I got

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TJ. Hockinson anytime touchdown and ColeComet anytime touchdown. Oh, the double
tight end the TETD parlay that putsit at a plus one thy forty nine.
So ten ten whole dollar hairs willreturn one hundred and fourteen dollars ninety
two cents plus the ten, soone hundred and twenty four hit my account.

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That's what I'm doing the TETD parlayfor the dub Bears. That's that's
my play of the day. Thanksto walk Chevrolet, They're gonna get targets.
The quarterbacks are going to focus onthem. It should be a nasty
game in the North. That's whatit feels like tonight. One. You
might not want to watch it highdefinition. You might want to throw in
the Manning cast for this one.If they're even doing one tonight. This

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is gonna be ugly. It's gonnabe nasty. But let's all appreciate that.
We all set dome. Yeah,I can still be nasty and domb
no is it? I mean yeah, but not like nasty. You kind
of like I thought you were talkingabout like nasty weather. I was like,
no, no, no, Imean listen, Minnesota is probably the
coldest ever been in my entire life. When we were in Minnesota for the
super Bowl, that is the coldestthat have been in my entire life.

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When you have to put like abroiler, like a giant broiler in every
bus stop so people don't freeze todeath, Like that's that's what's up.
Like, that's the coldest place I'veever been ever ever, Like I've never
been except for when I was married. It was it was always very cold.
I hope you felt the same way. It was so cold you could
feel the meal in your stomach likethat is the way I could feel what

(40:37):
I ate. That's how cold itwas. And some people have exactly you
know what I'm talking about. Otherpeople be like, that's stupid. No,
it was that cold Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we had college football,
Sunday, Monday. We've been giftedwith tons of college football. I
don't want it to end in profootball. It's been an awesome streak here.
It's officially the fall. Yeah,yeah, we're I mean, we're

(40:57):
here. And I finally turned theheat out of my house. I finally
it. No, yeah, Ifinally high. Well, I mean dude,
I was running like radiators and stuff. But I had that like one
I had that one pipe, rememberthat I had the pipe the burst last
year or actually it was this year. There was one spot near it that
I knew had a little leak,so I I to turn it on to
find the leak. I didn't wantto do all that. I was like,
whatever, if that's that's the leakI know about, So I plugged

(41:21):
that area just blindly, and Ihadn't plug in a leak, so I
was like, all right, knockon what I'm out, he's out,
let's run some meat, and allthe animals look to be like thank you,
all right tomorrow mahaw kanda. Sorry. I just thought about like the
movie's Utopia that like they're like homefree animals that they're like standing up with
like scarfs around it, heating theirhands together. Because you have a lot

(41:45):
of animals. You have four now, yeah, there's the radiator. One
of the cats will sleep like onit, and then there's another one like
trust will will find your way intothe so like we it's it's a it's
a boiler. So you have thosehot water pipes a certain places in the
house to heat the house. She'llsleep like inside the direction the box that

(42:07):
like directs where the heat goes,Like she'll like what is that in the
corner? Oh, it's a cat, Like she's in there, Like I'm
like and it's like her, It'slike is your what Who's who's the who's
in charge of the thermostat at atuh manor Goslowski definitely my wife to the
point where I didn't want to admitthis, but we're on this conversation.
There was a stretch for a longperiod of time I did not even know

(42:29):
where it was serious. That's theleast shocking thing I've ever heard in my
life. Who like, does shekeep it hotskey? It cold? Uh?
She likes it much hotter than Ido. I would like to sleep
in an icicle if I could.Yeah, absolutely, fan on three sixty
five. So like, historically themale will fight to keep the thermostat down
low. I since I've owned thishouse, the only female has been my

(42:52):
daughter, so like she has nopower. You know, you want to
pay a bill, go ahead,otherwise leave it where I put it.
But like if you're if you leaveit cold and it's one where you are
in control, the female of thehouse or the children of the house will
mock you with like extra hoodies,or they'll shiver or whatever they'll do.
They'll all gather around like you saidfor Zootopia, they'll gather around where the

(43:12):
heat comes out. So like,I'm getting that from cats, like like
literal like, and she was feral, Like she grew up in the streets.
She should know better than to mockme. Won't allow it, won't
allow it. Listen sixty four isreasonable. I'm sorry, it's reasonable.
I could just look for it.I act like it's movie. It's in

(43:34):
the same spot. It's not goinganywhere. Yeah, but knowing you like
you've so now you know where itis. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's
what it is in that spot,so you don't know how to use it.
I don't touch it because maybe look, we don't have to dive into
the technicality of what goes on inthat spot. I'm pretty sure it's next
to the television. I don't touchit. I don't I'm pretty sure that's

(43:55):
what that is. I want toI don't even know what Next time you
come over, you can there's alot of got a lot of there's a
lot of my plate. I can'tbe touching temperatures in the house. You
got a lot of you, alot of things that would lead me to
question your Manhood's a guy thing?Yeah? Here historically yeah, at the

(44:21):
Jeff Levak on Twitter, at Tomgonns t m G. It's easy,
Gary, tell us, maybe itis a guy thing. You could be
right. What was the what's thewhat's the Christmas Movie? With Will Ferrell
and and the Mark Mark Wahlberg Daddy'shome. Yeah, so Daddy's home too
is the Christmas one. There's awhole bit it's hysterical about one of the

(44:42):
kids gets up and cranks the thermostatand they all are like, who's got
did somebody somebody touch the thermist whatlike? And you don't even know where
it is. Thank god Wrex andWest have have a male role model like
Jordan. Now I'm thinking back Ilive. I haven't lived with my parents
at a long time, but whenI did live with my parents, I
wonder if my dad like completely controlledit. There's no doubt in my mind

(45:06):
that t G two ran that thermosty. I can confidently tell you I have,
at this point in my life,zero idea where it was in my
parents. I have no idea.I have no clue where it is in
my parents. So maybe it's nextto the basement door. That might be
what that thing is only at thehotels. I'm realizing, mate, you
know what to look back. You'vemade me think of something today. Okay,
thank you for this revelation. Yeah, it's a revelation and a confession.

(45:30):
Okay, I think that's my NewYear's resolution is to learn where the
thermostat is and maybe even to useit. I don't know your marriage is
working. I don't know if i'dmess with it at this point. I
think you get in trouble. LikeI remember my mother would like passive aggressively,
like turn it out like two threedegrees. And then my father would
go to the wood burning stove becausewe had this huge, like beautiful cast
iron stove in my child at home, and he would load it up with

(45:52):
wood and just he'd get that thinglike a million degrees. Oh you want
it warm in here? All right, fine, I'll show you how to
turn the third a stat up thecheaper way with with nature's thermostat a tree
like it was. It was.It was great, there was There's no
doubt in my mind that they justthey literally just they say people were together
for the kids. They were justtogether because they didn't want to find a

(46:13):
new home. I'm pretty sure that'sthe only reason I said I was an
ubers. I was a mistake.I don't I admit it. I don't
care. I'm not afraid. AndI'll tell you else. Uh, Charlie
Brown, Christmas sucks and and sodoes so does that stupid? Uh,
if you build it, if theywill come movie, Feel the Dreams stupid,
stupid that just truere people are gonnahit me for this, I might
as well give them other targets.So I just I'll just I'll lay it

(46:35):
out there. My play of theday te TD Special Bears, Hockinson,
Comet and Charlie Brown overrated. Feelthe Dreams overrated? Those those are my
play that and gods will never learnHe's a thermostat speak about fire to all.
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(48:20):
I got so many things I gottago home. I gotta I gotta watch
over the thermostat and many other,many many other things. Join us at
Mohawk count it tomorrow, where I'mactually kind of rooting for us to do
a broadcast from inside one of thevehicles. I think today's the time to
do it. I want to.I don't hate that plan. I can
why, you know me, Icould wire or anything. Give me time,
I'll figure it out. I'll getit done. Hey, everybody,

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have a have a great day.Happy Monday. Wash your hands, don't
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