Martin Weiss & Monse Bolaños Talk NFL Week 16, React to the First Round of the CFP & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
That's right broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And you know what, Monzie, we've been here now, I
don't know a few weeks, ten, twelve, fifth toe havever long.
We've been here and they've all been called Fox Football Saturday. However,
this is the first real Fox Football Saturday. Because we
got the pros, we got college, we got playoffs, we got.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Games that feel like playoff games.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now some of those you determine where you are because
this Phillies, the.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Phillies talking about the wrong thing. The Eagles.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Eagles winning this game clinches the division, they make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I imagine they'll have more of a.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Difficult time in their first round playoff game than they
will against some of these that we've seen, some of
the playoff games that have been played today. But let's
look ahead for a moment. For a moment, let's go
to the NFC North, the Packers and the Bears. They
played this just two weeks ago, Round two fight. Matt

(01:07):
Lafour verus Ben Johnson, Jordan Love versus Caleb Williams. The
big difference this time, No, Michael Parsons. Now for me, well,
also that the Bears are missing two our receivers. Luther
Burd's gonna be out Roal, but dooon Jay's gonna be out.
Packers also missing Zach Tom While I'm going down the list,
there's other people hurt too, not just Michael Parsons.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Everyone's up.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
However, looking at this.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Game, looking at this matchup, looking at the way this
game played out just a game ago.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I think the Bears have a I really like the Bears.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Here in that I am a concerned with the Packers'
ability to stop the run. I'm more concerned with it
missing a guy like Michael Parsons, and then when you
don't run them, when you're not running the.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Ball like that, if the Bears do get.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You know, second and long, third and long, you don't
have Michael Parsons to chase around.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Kayleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think you saw in the Broncos game that the
Packers played in between this. As soon as Michael goes down,
it was like a deflation moment. Obviously, guys get hurt
all the time, but there's a certain level of all
the wrong guy just got hurt.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
We traded too for like everybody knows the value right.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
They know what he makes, they know the contract, they
know what they traded to get him in the building,
and they know the impact that he's had on the team.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
This year, He's not going to be there.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think that's going to be one of the biggest,
if not the biggest difference maker.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Probably is going to be the biggest difference maker for me.
It's just momentum. I'm big on momentum, and especially at
this point in the season, and the momentum I do
think is on the Bear side.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
I know Caleb Williams is not going to have the
wide receivers you just mentioned, But if you go back
to the game that was two weeks ago, the Bears
were in it until the very end where Caleb Williams
through that interception.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
They were in it. It wasn't like the Packers were
running away with it.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think it was like a rough first half, yea.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
The Bears kind of storm back in the second half,
and right there on that play, I think it was
one of the tight ends eighty four or eighty five,
either kmmdo Lovelin who was open in the back of
the end zone and Caleb's couldn't get enough touch on
the ball ended up being short. That to play like that,
it's like, hey, we drew up a win, right, we
drew up the touchdown. But that's sometimes execution exactly. That's

(03:17):
the reason why we have men play this game in
not ai.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
So the fact that they were already so close with
the Packers supposed to be at the time much better
with Michael Parsons. At this point, I just feel like
the momentum is on Chicago's side. They're playing in Chicago,
and without Michael Parsons, you have to feel a little
bit deflated if you're Green.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Bay, Oh absolutely right.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Like it's impossible for you to walk away and be like, no,
it's fine, we're just next man up, which is, yes,
the mentality you would want.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
But you have to feel a little deflated.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, because here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You traded two first round picks and paid him the
highest defensive in salary in the NFL because you needed one.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's why you do stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, so understandably, you can't just go in there and
say I'm quitting.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
No, I'm done, and.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I would expect the Packers to say that. However, that's okay.
I'm here to say they're done.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
You think they're done.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I didn't think that this was a playoff team in
the first place, for sure. Like when we were looking
at the way the whole thing broke down NFC North,
I thought that they Obviously, we see teams that get
three three teams see divisions that get three teams in
each year. However, if you're betting on that year after
year after year after year, it's gonna be tough. So
if I'm just scratching out my rough predictions, I like

(04:34):
the Bears have threaten for a wild card. I like
the Packers and threatening for a wild card. Thought the
Lions would win the division. Now I got it all
mixed up, right, But I think we all did all
mixed up there.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, but you know I didn't.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But I was down on the Packers in part because
I was down on Jordan Love. I think that he's
very inconsistent. He's been consistent thus far this year. However,
I think that consistency is also buttressed with the fact
that they can run the hell out of the ball
and Josh Jacobs is playing well. But I have been
on the injury report, were playing well, playing through it.

(05:07):
The thing is now without Zach Tom I just wonder.
You already lost your best offensive weapon in Tucker Craft, right,
that was your most versas ale offensive weapon and also
a weapon in the run game. Now you lose Zach Tom.
Who's your best offensive lineman or your best interior offensive lineman?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
For sure?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
How's that impact the run game? Josh Jacobs be complaining
about hisney for the last three weeks. I'm playing through it.
How's that impact your run game? How much more did
that put on the shoulders of Jordan Love?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Right?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
And then, and speaking of shoulders, Christian Rottens Christian Watson
hurt his the last time they went out in Chicago.
They gonna run the They gonna have one hundred and
fifty yards rushing by hooker by crook.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
They will. They're not going to stop playing until they
run the ball that much.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Right, Yeah, you know, we had a listener like two
weeks ago tweeted out to us, and maybe it was
just me, but he was like, you and Mary need
to give more credit to Jordan Love, and he has
been playing well, but I do agree that it's a
little bit inconsistent. And when you when it's bad, it's bad.
And when he gets rattled, I just don't know what's
gonna come out. And with the Bears, the Bears are deceiving.

(06:08):
If you were to look up the Bears defense, they're
not ranked. They're not supposed you know what I mean,
No one's talking about their defense.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
One thing that they do well is take the ball.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
They take the ball away and that matters, and that's
all that matters.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
So like when you when you approach Chicago, even though
they're not ranked in defense and you don't think they're
gonna do it, they're still leading in takeaways. And if
you force turnovers against Jordan Love more than one, it
doesn't go usually Jordan Love's way.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
And here's the thing to the listener that Massi referenced
just now said, we need to give more credits to
Jordan Love.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Which I think I sometimes I'm harsh. I think I
am harsh on Jordan Love.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I am too.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
But the part of the reason why through ten weeks,
twelve weeks you're.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Like, I don't know yet, this is yeah, there's this question.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Partly is because we've seen him.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like the whole bit is, oh, you know, as soon
as Toyoda Thon comes along, as soon as that's December
to remember as soon as you are looking like, what
do you mean doesn't arrive before Christmas? Is when Jordan
Love starts to take off, right, That's when Jordan Love starts.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
That's what's been the last two seasons of him starting
dosas so.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
But this year it's like, oh, you know, you just
is it gonna be the first half flipped.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Into the second half. And this year has been so
topsy turvy.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
We have seen things this season that do not track
with what feels like it should have throughout the remainder
of the season. And sure every person in our position
makes preseason predictions and sticks to them and then sees
how you think things wigg lot because this is.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
A week two week league.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
If you pick the Eagles to win the NFC East, congratulations,
they just did it. It's the first time in twenty
one years that somebody who's won the NFC East back
to back on champion.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
You tell me a time in.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
The fifteen or show weeks we've been playing football where
you thought, oh man, you know what the Eagles are
gonna do. Dominate the NFC East, not once dominate the
NFC coming into the season.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Right even coming into the season, not just because of
the parody within the division. But coming into the season,
you knew that the Eagles low key weapons when it
came to running it back, and then at the start,
the Eagles did not look like the Eagles that maybe
you thought everyone expected. Saquon Barkley, he had a great
game today. Thank you, Saquon saving my fantasy football team
this year. Everyone expected Saquon to take a step back,

(08:15):
and boy did he. But is it his fault? Is
it just losing Lane Johnson? You know what I mean, Like,
there's so many things about it. Travis Kelcey, so many players,
Travis Kelcey, the other one, Jason Kelsey, so many players
that the Eagles lost has affected their overall offense. Sure,
and they have looked mediocre at times, looked good, But
it's their defense that looks good.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Where the offense is where I have the question marks.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
And you're in a position now where they showed it.
Jalen Hurts has had a different offensive coordinator every year
since his first year of college. I believe right, that's
actually a fun trivia question. At some point in time,
how many of Jalen Hurts' offensive coordinators can you name?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I think I could I could probably do.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Now, it's not fair because I just saw it on
the screen when they did it up from the Fox broadcast,
but I think it was ten. I could do at
least eight right now at the top of my ending
a show brush.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
My shoulders off.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
But to the point of Jalen Hurts is an MVP
type player, right according to everybody else. If you listened
to this time slots, you've known I've had my feelings
about Jalen Hurts, and I'm good enough to win with evidently.
But like you know, I'm watching the guys like justin
Herbert or when I want to me, there is a

(09:33):
clear tier one of guys in the NFL. For the
longest time, for the last four years it was Mahomes.
Everybody else playing for second last year came down to well,
there's about it. It's a clear tier one. And now
now let's have some real conversations. This is interesting. Who's
the sixth best quarterback in the NFL. I don't know,
it might actually matter because like the gap between six

(09:53):
and one is not so great right now, I think
Josh over the last two seats, Josh Allen has shown
that like he is the best individual weapon in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Right, you know what I'm saying, take.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Away, whether he's the most valuable to the team whatever,
Like just just press the Josh Allen button and it works.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Like, if one person in the NFL can move the needle,
it's him by himself.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Right, So like whether you however you want to fit
that in until wherever we're talking about, right, wins or
accomplishments or anything.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
But I think, well, when you're looking at.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
This, this this this year has just been upside down.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Everything has.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Two weeks ago, I was like, the Ravens are done.
I don't care just saying anything.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
They're not. They're not done. But again, tell me when
you felt good about him?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
WHOA, I don't know if I have exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh, then you can point to the Baltimore Cincinnati game
and it's say, well, you know, hard to hard to
you know, Joe Burrow feels like he needs to answer
the better the better help ad becomes on Everybody's podcast.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, walking away from that is like, I don't know
if I'm impressed by the Ravens because the Bengals didn't
look like they wanted to play at all, you know,
I mean it was ugly.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
It was ugly. It was ugly.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Ben Johnson getting ready to take the field. Now, now
this honestly Okay, Now we normally do this. We have
it on the rundown today. Yeah, normally do this at
nine to forty five East and at six forty five Pacific.
Most to lose quickly, most to lose in this game,
Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson at his introductory press conference said

(11:27):
one thing that stuck out more than anything, because Monzie,
most things are boiler played. Okay, most things are very
You know what, I'm gonna do the best I can
for this team. We're gonna be a physical team. We're
gonna go ahead, we're gonna try to We're gonna own
the line of scrimmage. We're gonna hit hard, We're gonna
play fast. Ben Johnson goes, I've really enjoyed beating Matt

(11:48):
Lafleur twice a year in the NFC North and continue
to do so. And this is what this is one
of those the Bears and Packers is one of those
very much they existing college right sports more or so
than anything but the big brother little brother, right like
Michigan State and Michigan are rivals for Shore. However, Michigan's
biggest rival is Ohio State. Michigan State's biggest rival is Michigan. Okay,

(12:11):
Like the Packers and the Bears are rivals for Shore.
The Packers are trying to win championships. The Bears are
trying to beat the Packers. Do you see what I'm saying?
Like Ben Johnson getting swept by Matt.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Lafleur in that perfect haircut a lot to Louise let
me as for the listeners. As soon as he started
saying this, I just was nodding no and looking at
our producer Ian and just saying no.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
The most to lose is not Ben Johnson. The Bears
right now are at the top of the division. They're
second in the NFC, They're ten and four.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
They have had a overall successful season. You could argue
Matt lafour has the most souspan. Reality, it's Jordan Love
coming off a loss against the Broncos where he had good.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Moments but did not have the greatest moments. It's on them.
They can't lose this game. I know what Ben.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
Johnson said, I get it, but it doesn't matter if
they lose. The Bears losing this game does not shove
them out of the playoff picture does. They're seating involved
and we still know what's happening. But they absolutely do
not have to win this. I think the Green Bay
Packers have to win this game.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Absolutely, do not.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
The most at Ian. Just give me the point already,
because definitely not the most I.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Am gonna have to agree with.

Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yeah, I mean, Ben Johnson has a lot to lose,
but we're talking about the most.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
The game and the playoffs are on the line.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Like now you want to go ahead and now you
now you like giving the points?

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yes, both of the teams will make the playoffs because
the Lions are going to lose tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (13:43):
It's funny to see you guys lose, dissolve, devolve into
children when we play anything with points.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Crazy, He's just crazy, don't think Steeler.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Do you like the Lions?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
You you can tell me definitively right now you no, no, no, no,
we'll do picks later on, but you tell me like
you feel one percent confident the lines are getting.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
To win tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
I think Aden Hutchinson is going to break Aaron Rodgers
for a couple of plays and just hurt him.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well, no linees win. To me, it's not even a
question to me, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, for more of that, there was about two hours
I was at nine East and we'll dive into our picks.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
But uh, I just I think it's up in the air.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
I don't, which is crazy.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I fully this season had been making my gambling picks
of the moment that Ian decides what game we're gonna do.
Sometimes I'll come in here like I don't get me wrong,
I know all the information, but in terms of making
an actual decision, which way am I going with? Like
you remember a few weeks ago, I was like, I
wanted to pick Indianapolis. I was like no, no, no, no
no no no no no no no, because last second
I was like Jacksonville, right yeah, because I'm making the

(14:46):
decision right there in that moment.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
I haven't made the decision on the Lion steelish, I don't.
I do not know.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
All I can tell you is when I looked through
all the matchups, I looked at that one and I
skipped it because I was like, well that's an obvious answer.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
No.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
The only games I've skipped another ones involving the New
York Jets.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Well, but I'm saying what I looked out like, there's
no way, there's no way the Lions don't win this one.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'll just think it about this. The Jets are starting with.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Okay, if you had to start a quarterback for the
next three games, would you rather start forty five year
old Philip Rivers or undrafted free agent Brady Cook? Because
you would think off the top of your head that
undrafted free agent it has to.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Be a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Better rookie undrafted free agent for the record, rookie undrafted
free agent. So it's not a guy like who's was
undrafted and was working at Costco and then all of
a sudden, you know, instead of the free sample, he
wants to do the free hands off.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
You know what I'm saying, Like, So that's why.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
But where would I don't know, And apparently the answers
is not a week ago and it's a clearly Brady Cook.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Now I don't know, it's not clear. There's pros and
CONSTI eat.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay, next question, if the Jets played a seventeen game
schedule of quarterbacks that alternated, one was Brady Cook, the
other was Philip Rivers. Right, so week when you played
Brady Cook. We two, Philip Rivers, we three, you play Brady.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Cook a better record?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Would they get an interception? Would they have an interception
on the season. I'm not sure.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
They haven't shown the ability to get a single one.
So I don't know. Why why now?

Speaker 10 (16:25):
Right?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Why now? Why start now? You never know?

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Speaking of why start now, these college football games have
not been good? Why start now?

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Oregon? James Madison.

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Speaker 4 (17:57):
Take over for you.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
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Speaker 4 (18:13):
I got that. I got that.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
That was me doing my Monzi Yeah yeah, all right,
So thirteen minutes left in the first quarter, just getting
started in the Packers and the Bears. Let's go to
the NFL game that just wrapped up the Eagles and
the Commanders. You know, I almost didn't want to say
this on the air. I feel like the Eagles gets
so lucky sometimes because in these games where they have
like these big clinching games. How is it that Josh

(18:37):
Johnson I watched two hundred and seventy some NFL games
a year. I'm watching at least two hundred and thirty Yeah,
in total, right, you know what I'm saying. Parts of
everyone of you only see Josh Johnson every so often.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
But the only time that he's played.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
In games that has mattered in the last four years
has been against the Philadelphia Eagles, first in the NFC
Championship game for them to go to the Super Bowl,
the year that Brock Prady got hurt in the playoffs,
and this one to become the first repeat division winner
in the NFC East since drinking age right twenty one years.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
So the Eagles, we talked about them two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Ugly scene positivity, Bunny justin Herbert Jalen hurts because the
first quarterback ever to turn the ball over twice on
the same play.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yes, thank you right, Senemia Fantasy.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Play Molly wopped the Raiders tight back and forth with
the Commanders a little bit, Mariota gets hurt, Fay skyrocket
out of here.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Your take, Okay, So I hear what you say about
like you feel like they're so lucky, right because they
have not looked good and have found ways to win
ugly games.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
So I hear that.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
But in the first half, Jake Elliott missed what three
field goals?

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Like it was just like, can you miss it a
different way?

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Like if you know what I mean, if you're from
all the same exact way you kept you got bailed
out in one of them where you even got closer,
and you still the exact same way. So I feel
like Eagles fans will argue that they were unlucky in
the first half, but I understand what you're saying. It's
still though, the Eagles are winning ugly games, and I

(20:12):
wonder if we are not giving them the right credit
going into the postseason, going into the playoffs. Are the
Eagles better than we actually think they are based on
the eye test that they have failed for so many weeks.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Sure, like they're bad, just looks real bad, their.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Flocks really bad. But then you look at their record
and you're like, okay.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
All right, and you look at the teams they've beaten too,
Like you name your favorite team, they.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Probably beat They probably beat them, you.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Know, like they they've beaten. They beat the Lions, they
beat the Rams, like they've beaten. And they've also obviously
had some stinkers. But one of the things about the Eagles,
it definitely is a style points judgment. Right the Russian
judge is holding a seven. You know, we're like, well,
why is it? But they still ultimately, if it's seventh

(21:06):
across the board, if twenty one wins, and it doesn't matter,
it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
And that's where I feel like, I wonder if other
teams are also taking them for granted, and then we're
gonna get to the super Bowl and it's gonna be
the Eagles coming out of the NFC, just because people
have dismissed them, but in reality, their defense has been solid.
It's just their offense does not look good. But today, hey,
Saguon Barkley had a Saguon Barkley like game.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
He did, had a big run and right now watching
Oregon with a big run. Let's see here, Yeah, let's
not kick it over to the update in mid scoring play.
But the points are on the board now, so Steve
de Seger, go ahead and have you update us on
everything going on in the.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
World of football, basketball.

Speaker 13 (21:48):
Too, a whole lot of football, including the two games
in the NFL on Fox TV. And you mentioned the
division title for the Eagles, not only clinching the NFC East,
they'll be at least a number three reseed in the
NFC if Tampa Bay beats Carolina this weekend. Yes, it's
the first repeat division winner in the NFC East since

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the Eagles were champs two thousand and one through two
thousand and four. Philadelphia was a winner in its game
at Washington twenty nine eighteen, even though Washington was up
ten to seven. That was late third quarter. Philly's lead
was twenty nine to ten late in the fourth. Jalen
Hurts two touchdown passes. Saquon Barkley twenty one carries one

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hundred and thirty two yards.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
And a score.

Speaker 13 (22:32):
As for the game in progress, they are about five
minutes in Packers with the ball first and driving. It
is scoreless at Chicago so far. It benefited the Packers.
Of course, the penalty on the opening kick return of
unnecessary roughness, so Green Bay started this drive around midfield.
They've driven down to the seven yard line a fourth
and one at the Chicago seven scoreless early coming up

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Bears with a record of ten and four, Green Bay
is nine to four and one vote for Chicago due
to injuries wide receivers Roma Doonza and Luther Burden. Speaking
of injuries, at Washington, Commander's quarterback Marcus Mariota left with
a right hand injury. Commander's record falls to four and eleven.
As for the college football Playoff first rounders, the game

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at Oregon is now Ducks twenty to three over James Madison.
Early in the second quarter, Dante Moore with a five
yard touchdown. Ronnie also had an early forty one yard
touchdown pass. They missed the two point conversion after that
in the opening two minutes of the game, twenty to three,
Oregon is leading. Earlier it was ten seed Miami winning
at Texas A and m ten to three on a

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touchdown with under two minutes left. The game was scoreless
at halftime and m quarterback Marcel Reid with three turnovers,
including an interception in the end zone with under thirty
seconds to go, So the Aggie season is over.

Speaker 10 (23:51):
Same with Tulane.

Speaker 13 (23:52):
They finished eleven and three after a loss at all
miss number six, ranked forty one to ten Mississippi, a
team that beat him forty five when they matched up
same place against Tulane back in September. By the way, Alabama,
after last night's comeback win, will be in the Rose
Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana. Bama's co offensive coordinator,

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Nick Sheridan, will leave to be a Michigan State assistant
after Alabama's run ends. Arizona State resigned coach Kenny Dillingham
to a five year deal. Iowa State quarterback rock O
Beck is entering the transfer portal his coach left for
Penn State onto the NBA. Now it's a Mavericks lead
at Philadelphia early third quarter of seventy two sixty eight.
Although Tyrese Maxi has twenty two points already, the Lakers

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will be missing three of their five starters. Lakers are
at the Clippers at ten thirty Eastern times, so still
a couple hours are house.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
So you're saying there's a.

Speaker 13 (24:46):
Chance Luka Doncich is not one of those starters that
is missing tonight. Sam it is Texas A and M
leading early sixteen fourteen against Duke. In college hoops, we
had number twelve North Carolina beating Ohio State seventy one
to seven Kentucky in Atlanta today beat number twenty two
Saint John's seventy eight sixty six, and a top twenty
matchup at Houston beating Arkansas ninety four eighty five in

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New Jersey. Among the many NHL games, Rangers in a
shootout beat the Flyers five to four. Update on fourth
and one and incomplete pass from Jordan Love turnover on
downs and the game is still scoreless. First possession for
the Bears about to start. Roughly ten minutes to go,
first quarter on Fox TV, Green beadch Chicago.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Back to you, I tell you what, I tell you
what the Packers seem to me to beat teams that
are good, right. We are both of these teams good right.
Where As we sit there and have these conversations, like
I know, if somebody listened to the last half hour,
be like, what do you mean We're having the conversation
of good verse great right? But both of these teams,

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we are august for a good team there. They seem
to have just an inability to get two yards when
they need to like the things. It's very unscientific for me, right,
I got into this because I watched football.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
I didn't play it on the calculator.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Right, So like for me, it's good teams are able
to like get third and short, draw up explosive plays,
get off the field on defense, make field goals be
penalized as least as possible.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Right, those are my keys.

Speaker 10 (26:20):
To the win, things that the Eagles used to be right.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Right, you know saying more if you check four and
those five boxes going in as, that's how I picked games.
I know that there's no coefficients there or EPA per
down or whatever, but that pretty much gets it done.
I don't know what the numbers are, but I on
third and three and less the Packers on just I
bet they don't. I bet you confer the less than

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five third and threes for like that were only a
five yard game. It's either a thirty five yard pass
down the field a penalty, or they're off the field,
or they're off the field on short yardage.

Speaker 13 (26:55):
It's it's incredible and missing their tight end second half
and they only have so much in running game, and
Jacobs is kind of playing hurt for them in this
game tonight, It's incredible.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
It's just it's just.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Who's your go to?

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Right, Like there's teams where it's like the go to
is this, you know this is what's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
And then you look at the Green Bay Packers and
you're like, who is your go to?

Speaker 10 (27:17):
Your go to?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
You want that to?

Speaker 13 (27:18):
You think the Chargers on third and short, you can
count on a pass to Keenan Allen.

Speaker 10 (27:23):
Exactly a lot of success.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Exactly what is our identity?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
What is the plan Keenan Allen is if they it's
third and four, Keenan Allen's going to run six yards
and get open.

Speaker 10 (27:33):
Right, you can brotherly shove for the Eagles until this.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Year, is right? Right?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
But the Packers to be a team that people are saying,
this is a Super Bowl contender, what is what do
they do when they need three yards.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
When it's now or ever? What is it when the identity.

Speaker 10 (27:50):
It's incompletely.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, Let's take talking about teams that we know.
We're talking about teams that are good.

Speaker 8 (27:57):
Yes, we know that both.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
The Seahawks and the good I feel like I left
watching that Thursday night game with a completely different take
than almost everybody in national media except for one person
friend of ours.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
You just hung out with them a couple days ago. Now,
I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
What your takeaway was from the Rams Seahawks game, because
we might be sympathico or we may be all the
way on different sides of this.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
I think what's crazy about that game is the first
half made you feel a certain way, and then the
second half made you feel another way.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
You for a second really.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Were like, man, the Rams are above head and water
head shoulders so everything ever, everyone like there's.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Everyone else's drowning everyone and they're for.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
The first half you were like, who's gonna stop them?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Moving on?

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Wow, the Rams are really going to win the Super Bowl.
Like watching that game and obviously the big thing everyone
wanted to talk about was Sam Donald and what he
does in these big moments, in these big plays, how
he's going to handle the pressure.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
So to see the second.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
Half come to life for Sam Donald after he looks
so bad, I walked away thinking, well, you know what,
at least Sam Donald is not scared of the moment
even when he messes up, And what else can you
want in your quarterback? Sure So, as much as like
you may think Sam Donald doesn't have it.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
He may not have it, but you know what, he
might pull it off.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
So Mike, he's not scared. So we're closed.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Are we close?

Speaker 14 (29:23):
Cat?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
My take was, the Seahawks to me, are definitively better
than the RAM. I understand that Matt Stafford is likely
going to be the MVP.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
The fifty three man roster, Yes, gimme Seattle. Yeah. If
I'm picking quarterbacks first, I'd pick Matt Stafford.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, very similar argument that I had about the Patriots
and the Bills. I think the Patriots probably have a
better roster the Bills at a better quarterback. However, I
didn't think it was that grand of a drop between
the two that, like Donald was not playing at the
MVP level, Stafford is especial right now, I'm not taking
anything away from it when I say this, but first
time they played thought that four interceptions, it was one

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possession game.

Speaker 9 (30:06):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Second time they played three turnovers, so one possession game.
The turnover count in this in this uh two games
is upwards of nine to one or uppards of eight
to one in favor of the Rams. And they split.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's crazy they split.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Like they split. I saw everybody talking about they split anybody.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
They split what they do eight to one turnover ratio,
and they split the two games. They split, Like that's
that thing when you're doing the math on it. That
doesn't sound right.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
It doesn't, especially because let's go back to the eye test.
Iye test with Matthew Stafford, Pukkua and Davante Adams.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Sure that eye test is the best one.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Then of course you have Jackson Smith and Jigba who
was shut down for most of that game until.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
He wasn't until he wasn't.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
But it was like for fantasy football managers, I think
it's zero points. At halftime you were just like, this
is not what you wanted, and then it all turns around.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
So I agree.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
The gap that you thought was between the Rams and
the Seahawks in the first half, by the end of it,
you're like, oh, that gap is actually not that big.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Here's the other thing.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
He's crazy, here's the other thing.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Nobody.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Let's talk about special teams matters a lot. Yeah, and
I get it. I too, would rather have an all
pro quarterback than an all pro kicker.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Sure too, that's normal, right, Yes, that's logical.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I'd rather However, if you don't have a kicker that
you can depend on, and if you don't have a
kick return game and kick return coverage that you can
depend on, especially in this new funny looking kickoff NFL
where you know you're starting drives on the forty five
yard line on accident. M m okay, you've got to
have that together. Rams on their second kicker of the year.

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Five the special teams coordinator earlier today, like that they're
missing that.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
The Packers have had two kickers this year, right, you
know what I'm saying, It's like these things really matter.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Eagles missed three kicks in the first half today, right now,
I know it only goes on the score.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
She just sew, I'll watch the game. I saw.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, Yeah, these things really really matter. He was talking
about to see Cairo Santel can't kick a field goal
over forty forty five yards.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
And then you think of the Seahawks making that move.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
For Rashid Shaheed Boom, right, like they actually were like
we have to fill in this little hole because it
can make the difference.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Seattle special teams won the last two.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Games, Yes they did.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, And like I think.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's the thing that's scary about the Sam Donald of
it all. Sam can play back, well, he could play
back and they can win.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
And they can win. He can play back and they
can see that.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
So and you keep that in mind that Sam Donald
over the last I get it, I was there. I remember,
I see ghosts. But over the last two seasons, you
can look it up if you don't believe me. Sam
Donald is top five and not five and winning percentages. Okay,
he is top five and not five and winning percentage

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of the NFL over the last over the last two seasons.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
And last week with the Seahawks won on just field
goals right right, they ended up beating the Colts when.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
It got real close, come back boom and she he
had a big pump.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Return that he'd kick return pum returning this fame and
then Palmer turned for a touchdown. Then they had to
kick returning over to like and then they end a round.
You know, tippy captain John Schneyder because he wasn't there
to start the year, and he's played a major role
in getting them two wins. That without those two wins,

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guess what, it doesn't even matter because as you look
in your division, the forty nine ers are breathing down
your tail, not only that, the tail of the whole NFC,
because apparently they just are just emeritus and to.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
The they can win the one seed.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
The forty nine ers have lost more all pros than
the Cleveland Browns have on the rosters and can still
win the one seed. Yep, Kyle Shannon is not guilty.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
He's not, not even a little bit.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
No, let's go ahead and play a game with sports
court will determine who is innocent and who is guilty
in the world of sports. Martin west Moonsey Belano's Fox
Sports Football Saturday, don't listen to Fox Sports Radio Radio
Christian Watson.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Did he catch that catch? Bonsie? What do you think?

Speaker 4 (34:24):
So I've learned that I don't know what a catch
is in the.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
NFL, And you know what, some people might say that
it'd be like, what do you mean? I know what
you mean?

Speaker 4 (34:31):
You know you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
It's like I know numbers and I can add, but
if you want me to do calculus, I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
And that is what the average NFL fan is forced
to do every time that catches made.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
I thought I knew what a catch was and then
every week I'm like, oh, okay, well apparently I.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Was wrong and that apparently was not a catch.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
This one is.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Romeo Dobbs, who I don't know what it is about.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Romeo Dobbs Guardian cap at least three times bigger than
anybody else is.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
It's so have you seen that meme or that gift
of Like it's like when Jordan Love doesn't know who
to throw the ball to and then they put all
the like packers, but one has a giant helmet and.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's like everybody else has like there's these are not
unique across the league. There's there's not is on the
field right now. I'm sure wearing one. But for whatever reason,
Romeo dogs looks massive.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
But you know what I'm gonna say, not.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Guilty for Romeo Doves because uh, we shouldn't be making
fun of you.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
We're not making fun.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
It's the it's the Guardian cap that just makes him
stand out.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Stand out. Hopefully your play will help you stand out too.
Let's play sports court.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
The defense is wrongts sports court.

Speaker 9 (35:45):
It's not showing, it's it's it's really good imaging. Thank
you to Ricky and and Veto for putting that together
for us. But I'm I'm glued to the Oregon matchup
and watching. They're keep showing fans in the stands and
there's one guy with like this big top hat that's shiny,
and yeah, they're showing some interesting guys.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
This twenty seven to three game is what's interesting to.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
You, No, the game itself. I'm talking about what's going
on in the stands right now. That's the more interesting.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
That's the most interesting part, human interest part of the game.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
Anyway, let's play sports cord.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
I have a list of people from the world of
sports that we're putting on trial here in the sports Court.
I'll present to you guys their case, and then it's
up to you, the jury, to tell me whether they're
guilty or not guilty. So let's start with this. Tyreek
Hill stands accused. After it was announced this week that
the Dolphins are benching quarterback to a tug of Iloa,
Tyreek Hill posted a cryptic meme. You know, the one
where the guy hits the peace sign and vanishes. Yeah,

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he posted that without context, it would at least suggest
that Hill disagrees with the decision to bench Tua and
is once again stating that he wants out of the
Dolphins organization. So Tyreek Hill, guilty or not guilty, we'll
start with Martin.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Guilty, and you know what, not just for this.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
He did that, not just for this, but because the
only time I've ever heard the name.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Aiden Ross before was because Tyreek Hill was on his
live stream.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of him in general,
and I'm sick of this whole concept. Get off the
damn Internet because y'all don't know what y'all do it.
Get off the internet because i'veten it too much time
googling to figure out who the hell you all offended.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
So leave it alone.

Speaker 8 (37:13):
I'd love it.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Because I totally agree guilty, poor Kivin.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Basically anything Tyreek Hill says, probably guilty.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
He just said, come on, man, like you're not even
playing the.

Speaker 5 (37:25):
Don't just sit back, get off the internet like you said.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Guilty. This guy I didn't even know he did that.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
All right.

Speaker 9 (37:34):
Next up, Anthony Joshua stands accused. So former YouTube return
boxer Jake Paul fought former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua last
night on Netflix. Joshua won the fight pretty handily and
It was pretty apparent early on that Paul was out
match facing someone who spent his entire life as a boxer.
Joshua ended up winning by KO in round six. Some
angry fans have taken to social media saying Joshua should

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be ashamed and embarrassed by this fight, saying other than money,
what was the goal? So what do you guys think,
Anthony Joshua? Guilty or not guilty? Start with Mancy, not guilty.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
I'm sorry. Is this is all the other guy's fault?

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Was the other guy's name, Jake Paul.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Jake Paul is not his fault. He's guilty. Are you
kidding me?

Speaker 5 (38:12):
He's the one who has made a mockery of the
sport by doing this with how many other people?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Then you decide to fight somebody who, actually, like you said,
he is a.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Professional boxer throughout their entire career, and you get your
ass handed to you, and now the fans want to
get mad.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Give me the other guy? What's his name is Jake Paul?
That guy he's guilty, not guilty.

Speaker 10 (38:30):
These allegations are false.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
And one specific thing you said in there, Manci, why
do you go to work every.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Day because I love you and no, no, no, because.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
You get paid to do it, right, Why do you
go to work because you can do?

Speaker 2 (38:43):
What the what do you What the hell do you mean?
What is the point that the money? The money is
the point. The money is the whole, the whole point.
That is the only reason that he's out there doing it.
And you know what, good on you, because Jake Paul needed.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
His ass whooping.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
He really did. I agree with that.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
The only one who's guilty is me because I thought
about it.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
I haven't bet all year on anything, and I said,
I need to take every time I got pays ands
bet the whole paycheck on Anthony Joshua.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
And I didn't do it. You know what, I got
less money than I should have. That's what I've got.
I'm guilty.

Speaker 9 (39:11):
I've already seen so many angles of the left hook
that that brought Jake Paul down. Everyone's been waiting for it. So, yeah,
dog got broken right, Yeah, a double break apparently that
is what I saw. Next up, This is a good
segue into this next one. Johnny Manzel stands accused. So
ESPN's College Game Day hosted its show live from college
station this morning ahead of the Texas A and m
versus Miami game. The scheduled guest picker for the show

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was Aggie's legend and former Heisman winner Johnny Manzel, but
the thing is he never showed. ESPN announced right at
the start of the show that it would instead be
Alex Caruso making the guest picks. It turns out that
Manzell had been out partying in Miami after the Jake
Paul versus Anthony Joshua fight. While the reasons for Manzel's
change of plans were not officially made public, it sure
seems like he partied a little too hard and had
to cancel. But what do you guys think? Johnny Manziel,

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guilty or not guilty?

Speaker 10 (39:57):
Martin guilty?

Speaker 3 (39:59):
He did he did that. You're thirty three years old.
Go to work.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
You're thirty three years old. This is not college. You're
not You're thirty three. Go to work, okay, especially now
because you're a media personality.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Take out after work.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Not guilty, I'm innocent, and who.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Please, I'm sorry, Jenny, Johnny Manziel. We know exactly who
he is, we know exactly what you're gonna get.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
And so you thought this was a good idea. Whoever
booked him is guilty.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's what things taking to test.

Speaker 9 (40:32):
I think it's fair to assume that he's thirty three
years old and shouldn't be doing this, But he.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Go to work like a duck.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
As a duck, don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
That's right, Monty Belaios and Marriton Weiss here on.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Fox Sports Radio thirty one points before the half thirty one.
You know what months I've been I've been hearing this
this uh this time slot long enough to know they said.

Speaker 15 (41:04):
We have got to expand the college football playoff. Oh
my god, Florida State, they can't play for the college
Football champions Oh no, we've got to make it bigger.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
We got that, We got to, we got to. You
know what, just for this, this is exactly what we needed.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
A thirty four to three margin with two minutes and
twenty seconds left in the fourth note, in the third note,
in that second quarter. Yeah, in the second quarters. They
got to play the rest of this game. Contractually, they're
obligated to do so.

Speaker 12 (41:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
And then you also had old Miss and Tulane. That
also doesn't help the argument that you need to expand
the college football Playoff. So it's just I don't know, Martin,
why didn't they go Why didn't they go to like
six or eight?

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Why did they immediately go to twelve?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Because the answer was right there staying everybody in the
face a few years ago. And I know we can't
jump in the time machine or looked too far back
into rearview, but I will because there used to be
a time, a better time, a more idyllic time.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Yeah. Right, Take the picture for me.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Where you had five power conference Okay, not there, Dame,
wasn't it any of them? They played Michigan, they played
USC No, everybody played them.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Because it was down to like you know, you know,
there's two teams.

Speaker 10 (42:23):
That could make it.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
They opened it up to four, four teams to play
for this medical college football playoff. There's five power conferences
though therefore, very much like children's games, one kid's getting
left out and that kid's not going to be happy.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
So because of participation trophies, they expanded it to twelve.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Well, I mean, partially, I understand your argument of participation trophies, however,
but it is very much in the same way. If
you look at the NFL simply because what's the worst
vision in the.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
NFL this year?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
The South NFC South probably sure, all right, somebody's got
to win it.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
The Buccaneers of the Panthers are gonna win.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
It, right, AFC, AFC North, Okay, right, New England gonna
win like, somebody's gotta win it, right, And that team
is just as eligible for the postseason as the name
as whoever wins the NFC West, who has three teams
at any point in time, are like buying for the one.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Seed, right, They're just as viable in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
The idea that you should winning your conference, especially in
college football, because college football, the idea who the best
team in college football was always an argument because most
good teams didn't get to play for it, right, So
the argument so like if you can, you never saw them.
So if you like the LSU Alabama years, people were like,

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well what if this USC I think was really good
that they didn't get a chance to play for it,
so like it's our national championship or Nebraska in years
past with Scott Frost, no UCF rather went undefeated, had
no opportunity to play for the national championship, so they
actually sit back.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
And like put an asterisk on it.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
So now with expanding this playoff, they're like, now the
UCFS and all this can get a shot. This is
what they should have done way back when you had
five conferences, Big twelve, Big ten, SEC, ACC, and H
the one I'm forgetting, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
This is five right.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
The winner of those five conferences all should have had
automatic bids to the playoffs. So you win your conference,
you're in. You win the ACC, you're in Big ten,
you're in. Hey whatever, sense Pack twelve is the one
I forgot. Pack twelve you're in, right, And just like
the committee often forgot the back twelve. And then you
have three at largest for your JMUS, your notre dames

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if you're not in the conference. If yu Kon goes undefeated,
welcome to the three at largest. Right you lose your
conference championship game, you have three at largest right to
get into this thing.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
They didn't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
So now we are here where we have JMU and
two playing in these games that have no shot of winning.
And I'm not saying that they have no shot of
winning to like be demoralizing or whatever, but I've just
been the reality of this is and I've heard this
conversation all day, and I promise I'll let you talk
right out to this.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
I was hoddle.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
The people been talking about these games are stunk, and
they have and people like kind of equated to March Madness.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Guess what.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Ninety eight percent of March Madness games also suck. They
are terrible blowouts where you see Mount Saint Mary's playing
Gonzaga and the score is one hundred and twenty to
thirty seven. Right, Seriously, that's how the most of these are.
And you have to put sixty eight teams in the field.
Are sixty four for the most of our lifetimes, sixty

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four teams in the field to then generate five buzzer beaters? Yeah,
six buzzer beaters, And that's what everybody remembers. Guess what
you're not getting in college football here? Buzzer You had one,
right the Miami Texas A and M game, if you
are able to stay awake until the final minute, that
would have been a buzzer beater, right, But like, outside

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of that, you're not seeing these CJ.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Stroud and the Georgia against Georgia. Ohiose date Georgia.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
He misses the kick as a clock strikes midnight on
a New Year's Eve buzzer beater.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
But all overwhelmingly you're not seeing that.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
You know why, because if not enough teams, expanding is
not the answer. Keep this the way it is and
just deal with the fact this is what you gotta
deal with in your first round because this is what
it's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Yeah, it makes no sense to expand.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
And I know that's the conversation that it's moving in
that direction, because I was gonna say, it seems like
it's seven to eight teams that legitimately have a chance.
And the argument with March madness, I feel like that's
really hard to compare basketball with football, because there can
be a cinderella story in basketball, like you're more likely
that you have an offshooting night and a team can prevail, right,

(46:54):
And it's also a month long every.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Day there's games.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
It seems way different to compare it then to this.
It's like to me, it's apples and oranges. I don't
think it's a fair comparison at all. I enjoy everybody
tunes into those early rounds in NCAA March madness.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Because you know there's gonna be a few upsets, you
know it in a good way.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
But but but that's that's not you don't want this upset.
But think about it. That's what we're talking about, right.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
We are they play thirty two, well sixty four, thirty
two games in the first round, right and we are
watching bits and pieces of all thirty two for five upsets,
six upsets set like how many?

Speaker 5 (47:31):
But in basketball, what I'm saying is like, you want
the upset, like you're rooting for the upset. In football,
you don't want the upset because in the next round
is gonna be even worse.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
I think in theory people want the early round upsets,
but there's too many upsets, and they're like, hey, hold
on a second, for.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Sure, But but you know what I mean, Like you,
you're more excited about it.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
I gotta watch Florida Atlantic and San Diego State in
the final four?

Speaker 8 (47:52):
Well yeah, catch just just to no devil? Sorry then,
know what's up?

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Man?

Speaker 9 (48:02):
I just think if you look at this year's landscape
of college football, think about all the teams that not
only probably just would have made for a better game
than what we're seeing with like Oregon Jam you right
now say it was Oregon versus Texas, Oregon versus USC
Oregon versus by U, su versus.

Speaker 8 (48:17):
Notre Dame either.

Speaker 9 (48:18):
These are all teams that even if you wanted to
still include jam you in there because they quote unquote
earned it and we're deserving of it when you know,
winning their conference and all that, there's just all these
teams that would have made a better a better matchup,
so then you can, like the reason that you would
want to expand is so that you get the best
of both teams that are deserving and that Actually I.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Would see the Rams playing the Seahawks again, but that's
probably not going to happen because you don't get to
pick the playoffs like that. The regular season should be
what if we are just going to And this is
the thing that I think they're running into an issue
with and I think like people say, like it'd be
cool to pick your playoff opponent. That's the what is

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the point of the regular season?

Speaker 3 (49:03):
What do you what is it like.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
If you sat there, I know we all do it
so you don't think about it, but like the point
of the sun coming up is to light everything up
and to keep it warm and all that, What is
the point of the regular season, the sun gonna come up.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
We're used to it.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
The point of the regular season is to determine the
playoff seeding because the whole point of this whole thing
is to win a championship.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Right, So you get the regular season and then.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
You went about, you know, anywhere from a third to
half the league thin gets to make the secondary season,
which is the playoffs, and that determination is how you
did in the first one.

Speaker 9 (49:39):
There's just all this nuance though, right like it's like, Okay,
this team beat this team, but no, you can't put
them in because they beat this team versus this team.

Speaker 11 (49:46):
You know.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
It's like there's all this nuance where if you just
expand the playoff and there's more teams in it, you
kind of eliminate that issue.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
I don't know if you do, because I kind of you.

Speaker 16 (49:54):
Spandal like sixteen only I hear what you're saying, because
your argument that there could be better teams in this
match right now that we're watching against Oregon.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
I hear what you're saying. But I kind of lean
more with Martin that if you're gonna add more, then
the regular season becomes less important. Those mandatory you have
to win. You're gonna have less of those.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
What is there?

Speaker 9 (50:18):
Think about how close it was already though, Like there
are teams that arguably should have been like a lot
of teams that should have been in You know, there's
a very strong argument to be made.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I am not disagreeing in that there could have been
another team worthy of catching this ass whooping.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Yeah, sure, I get it.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
My point is this right now, the third Saturday in November,
when LSU plays Alabama, it matters. Right when I was
a kid, it mattered to the point that they do
not schedule your wedding this day because we're not going
because it might decide the national championship.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Right now it.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Is okay, well, it might decide who plays in the
SC championship game, but it might decide playoff seatings. The
more teams you add to the postseason, that game just
doesn't matter at all.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Like think about think about.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
The NBA when they talk about, oh man, you will
you know, you will want to play Steph Curry in
a meaningless regular season game in February. That's a sentence
that does not exist in the NFL. It does not
exist in college football. The more you expand the playoffs
the more you get.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Baseball, they just give your days off, you know what I'm.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Saying, Yeah, it seems like the season would be even
more watered down. And to your weird point, Ian though,
you're saying, like there's so many teams that could have
made it. At what point would if I'm let's say,
you say, expect it to what eighteen sixteen, Let's say sixteen, Well,
if I'm team number eighteen the following year, I'm fighting
for you to push it to eighteen. I feel like
there's always going to be an argument to push it

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to the next one, because there's always going to be
French teams, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Like it's a slippery slope.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
But the difference to and we accept this in every
other postseason, like and honestly, it's one of the reasons
why the NFL is so topsy turvy right now. There
are no clear cut favorites, Like you can point to
a hole that every team has, but generally we know,
even if you were to just do a super Bowl
in the club out the club, right there's only a

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handful of teams in the super Bowl club. There are
gonna be teams that make the playoffs that have no
chance at winning a super Bowl. NBA playoffs, they have
a whole play in tournament to determine who's gonna get
the ass with them.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
About a one seed, I'd be fine.

Speaker 9 (52:25):
With that, but it's more of a chance than like
JMU has here not. But I mean, like, come on,
I mean, all right, if you're an NFL team and
you made the playoffs, you at least, like to some degree,
have some semblance of a fighting chance. But like JMU Tulane, like,
we just know they're just.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
I bet you. I bet you.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
I'm not even being funny because this is so early, right, so,
and there's no way to prove it.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
So it's a great bet by me.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
But if you had the same amount of data for
a twelve team college football playoff that you do for
the NFL playoffs, even pre adding to the next wildcard,
I bet the amount of times the worst team beat
the best team would be about It would happen more
in college what was less teams, right, But I think
it would happen about with the same regularity, all right.

Speaker 9 (53:10):
And last thing here from me, because I don't want
to keep stepping on your guys toes here.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
In the conversation. That's my show.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
But if what would you say?

Speaker 9 (53:16):
And I know this is literally going in the opposite
direction of what you're saying and expanding it more, But
what if it was just the top twenty five. They
do the AP top twenty five every rank every week.
If you're ranked in the top twenty five, that's the
play playoffs.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Okay, well, then you know what we'll see. There's worst match.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
There will be byes for the first five, and then
we will see six beat the living hell out of
twenty five. We will see seven beat the living hell
out of twenty four. The only games that will be
close are the games between seeds thirteen through seventeen, because
those are the teams that are about the same act, Like,
you know what I'm saying, Like Alabama Oklahoma yesterday was
a close game. You know, obviously the score was wildly different,

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but teams evenly matched, right, evenly. Nobody looked super out
of place, depending if you watch the whole game or not.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
If you didn't, you probably tweeted and freezing col Takes.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Retweeted, right, But like, that's what that's about to be,
because I fully expect Alabama to get Molly wopped in
the next round. You know, like bucket fits for saying
there's not a touch. They're both touchdown favorites in the
next round. Uh, Georgia and Ohio State. Ye and Indiana

(54:22):
No not yeah, yeah, Georgia and Ohise State both because
Indiana plays the winner.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Of this one. No, yes, no.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
No, I've I've read this a billions Indiana Miami. No,
Miami plays oh State.

Speaker 8 (54:34):
No, Indiana plays Alabama.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Alabama right, Rose Bowl Game. That's the thing.

Speaker 8 (54:42):
You got that obscure reference.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Arnie's wife even more obscure. All right?

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Coming up next, Ian says this might be a coach
leave town matchup for me.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I don't think so, but I know this.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Neither fan base will be happy, and one will be
particularly like I am so sick of this.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
And it's gonna be Christmas. It's gonna be a lot
of family around.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
This has a real chance to be ugly in one
North America city.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
We'll get to that coming up next.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
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is now. And so now you know it's very fitting
for her.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
It is and the time, the time of the year.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Absolutely thought I thought it was a little Vib's money.
It was like, at first, it was like, wait a minute,
you guys put the Vibes money in the Eagles locker room.
It's Christmas, guys, it's it's a holidays quiss honka whatever,
you know, it's it's it's whatever it is. It ain't
it ain't Bunny Easter, right, And so you know when
I saw Skeleton, I said, you know, Halloween a couple

(56:09):
of weeks ago, got it?

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Not for this one, not for this guy.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Now, it was just a.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Couple of weeks ago that everybody in Pittsburgh was yelling.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Fire tarlet, fire Tarlet.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
So that was a very popular refrain in Pittsburgh, to
the point that that Aaron Rodgers and and Mike Toumbin
both asked about it. Said Mike said he Mike, the
fans are upset. How do you feel?

Speaker 3 (56:40):
So I understand where they're coming from. I am upset too, right.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
And here's the most fun stat about the Detroit Lions
in the Dan Campbell era. Since they sucked the first year,
so skip that, but the second year going on. You
know what they don't do. They don't lose back to
back games. They don't you know what. They also haven't
done the last ten win.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Back to that game, I was like, where are you
going with this?

Speaker 2 (57:07):
So it's been a big snip snap, sip snap, sip
snap in the last ten weeks to the point that
they had they thought Frank rag now snip nope.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Pamstring snap out of there. Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Steelers versus the Lions playoffs, you know, and you know
who knows. They won't get to pick their opponent like
they would in college football. They'll have to play whoever
the schedule dictates, but playoffs on the line if they
make it in there as Jmu attempts a field goal
to cut this lead to twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
All right, JAMU get in there?

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Which coach? Is this game bigger for Miss Bologna?

Speaker 5 (57:44):
I do think that this game is bigger for Dan
Campbell and the Lions.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
The expectation coming.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
Into the season before the Steelers and the Lions was
very different.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
With the Steelers. It was like, are they gonna stay up.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Of five hundred's Mike Tomlin streak gonna keep going?

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Could they win a playoff game?

Speaker 5 (58:04):
That's what we were saying coming into the season for Pittsburgh.
Coming into the season for the Lions was are you
gonna win the division and actually get to the super Bowl?
That is what the so I feel like in this
position based on how the divisions are. The Steelers right
now can still lose this game, still somehow clinch the division,
still make the postseason, while the.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
Lions, oh, there, they have to win this game.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
And the thing that we've seen with the Lions all season,
it's like their offense has been clicking. They score the
most points, and they score even more points at home,
and I know other times they have looked a little
bit flat. But the most consistent thing with the Lions
has been their offense. With the Steelers, nothing has been consistent.
It's one game, it's this game, Aaron Rodgers have a
good game. The other game, it's like the Steelers defense
came in big in this game. Not what's DK k Metcalf?

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (58:54):
That was like right, DK Metcalf has had what two
to three games where maybe he like came.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
Out and what a great game.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
It's I don't know who is gonna be the consistent
part of the Steelers win when they do win.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
I don't know why it is they're gonna win With
the Lions, You're gonna win because you're gonna score.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
I agree.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
So Dan Campbell to me is the one who probably
has the most writing on this between the two coaches.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I'd say for Dan Campbell, the big thing is he
took over the play calling and offense has had relative
success since then. But the bigger thing for me is
that you I spent all off season saying, is Dan
Campbell gonna be a Nick Sirianni type or is Dan
Campbell Kyle Shanahan type. Because you think about those two teams,

(59:44):
the Eagles in the forty nine Ers, you go back
to the last five years, they are the most successful teams.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
In the NFC, right they all?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
And when you are successful like that, you are going
to have coordinator brain drain. They are going to hire
your guys away and you're going to hire a new one.
San Francisco hired new ones and seemingly kept the train
on the tracks even now all the injuries, right, they
move off of Steve Books, rehire Robert Sala. Defense is competitive,

(01:00:13):
That team is competitive. If you squint in your eyes
and close your nose and don't listen out to your
left ear, you could see a path for them to
get to the one seed, absolutely right, which is madness
right to me. That is a coaching job. Part of
your job as a coach is hiring and firing your coordinators.
Sirianni goes to the Super Bowl. Stiken leaves to go
to Indianapolis be to the head coach. Jonathan Ganna goes to

(01:00:34):
Arizona to be the head coach. They come in, hire
Brian Johnson and Vic Fangio. They don't advance in the
first round of the playoffs. They come in again, new coordinators.
Boom Kellen Moore's offensive coordinator. It's guy's the limit. Go
straight to the super Bowl. Hire again, Kevin Patulo. We've
heard the conversation about the Eagles. They had a eighteen

(01:00:55):
point win today and everybody's going to be like, what's
wrong with the offense is going to beat the conversation, right,
So what type of coach are.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
You, Dan Campbell?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Then you evaluate your coordinator talent because you lost both
of those guys. This to me for the Lions is
a sign. I shouldn't say it's a sign. It's not
a full sign. It is a sheet of paper I
am putting in my Dan Campbell filing cabinet hiring firing
assistant coaches may not be the best at right, I'm
not giving them the failure yet, I'm giving them may

(01:01:22):
not be the best at We know Mike Tomlins bad
at hiring offensive coordinator, right, we know that, right, you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Know what I'm saying. There's certain things that we know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
I'm putting that filing in the Dan Campbell Not sure yet.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Nick Sirianni was he a coordinator somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Before he was the Indianapolis Colts offensive court.

Speaker 5 (01:01:38):
He was the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts. I
see Nick Sirianni. I mean, I'm harsh on Nick Sirianni.
I'm I'm not a big fan. I feel like he
has had to manage a team and not necessarily coach it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
While Kyle Shanahan has had to coach.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
You get what I'm saying, Sure you know, and so
like I I truly just the way the positions that
he's had, and I know that the offense the coordinators
have been firing on. But sometimes I feel like that's
like a cop out for teams. It's like, oh, it's
far of the coordinator because it's not working out. No,
maybe you should be firing your head coach, but you
don't want to admit that, so you let go of
the coordinators instead. I've never seen Sirianni as more than

(01:02:17):
just like a manager, not necessarily an actual coach like
kylleg Shanahan, And so for Dan Campbell, I see him
as a coach art I don't see him as a manager.
I think he inspires and I think he puts people
in a position to succeed.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
But I always say, if you're going to be I
prefer if my coach is to be the CEO type
of head coach. I want my head coach to be
able to touch the defense and touch the offense, unless
you are going to be like Sean McVay, where you
are innovating new things offensively to the point it is
like the line I mean, the Rams are throwing the
ball out of thirteen personnel in the red zone, and

(01:02:53):
I know that's a very football he sentenced, but like
they're throwing the ball with three tight ends on the field,
more than anybody has in nflitt Right, That's not how
he was doing it two years ago. That's not how
he was doing it in week two. Right, So like
if you're showing me your that offensively, I've seen Kyle Shanahan,
I don't know this to be, Like, go you look
through the quarterbacks he's had in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
I would bet you Trey Lance is the only one
with the under five hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Record in games in games they started, all that, like
under five hundred, like giving it maybe a minimum five
games started, Like all of them probably have a winning record,
even if it's on the margin, right, Like he's able
his scheme. That's then other thing with Sean Payton when
he was a coach of the Saints, Teddy Bridgewater five
and zero is the back of quarterback they were putting
Taysom Hill back there at quarterback. He plays tight end, right,

(01:03:40):
So it's like there's certain guys to me that if
your scheme is that tight cool. Yeah, it's cool. But
if it's not, you better off being the boss of everybody. Cause,
like the same thing I was talking about with Sean McVay.
You know what he did today, fired the special teams
coordinator on the second kicker, right, you know I because
you know, doesn't pay any intentions of special teams until

(01:04:02):
he has to, you know, So that's why give me
a CEO.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Do you think do you think the Eagles players play
for Nick Sirianni the way the Lions players play for
Dan Campbell?

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I would say it does not seem as such.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
It doesn't see right, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
But I also think I wonder how much I wonder
how much on the margin they get from that. I
know that we all feel that does that matter? How
much does that matter?

Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
On the field?

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
We all feel better right when we see Dan Campbell's
and a Jim harballs and so on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
But like, and it does matter. I'm not saying it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
I think it matters more in times of like adversity
than a dozen times of good.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
But right now the Eagles are going through adversity. You
brought in an easter bunny, You're going through adversity.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Two and oh I mean, yeah, what is it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
They gets off the top of my head the last
two games, probably a margin of sixty to fifteen something
like that. Maybe something like that Raiders, Commanders, though exactly,
I really know, kidding thought the Eagles. I thought the
Eagles were in major trouble today. Oh yeah, Mariota went down.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Mariota, Mariota, Mariota, Mariota.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Mariota, Mariota, Mariota.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Steve just say, you'll have a pronunciation correct, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
You'll get it.

Speaker 13 (01:05:19):
I believe you are close to correct, because that's how
he and his Hawaiian accent pronounces it, emphasizing the tea.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
And Colin is Worth he's the only one. Well, that's
the thing. He got it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
People were like tweeting about, Oh, I've known it this
way for Mailion. Somebody clearly told him to say it
this way.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Yeah, for real.

Speaker 13 (01:05:37):
For Packers are leading six nothing under two minutes to
go first half at Chicago. Yes, it's the windy city
and quite windy there and temperatures in the thirties. Two
short field goals for the Packers and that's it for
the first half scoring in this game. Josh Jacobs nine
carries twenty seven yards for green Bay. DeAndre Swift four
carries sixteen yards for the Bears. Each running back was

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battling injuries during the week but did play obviously, However,
there is an injury to report. Quarterback Jordan Love is
questionable to return for green Bay with a head injury
hurt midway through this second quarter after a helmet to
helmet hit a roughing the passer penalty. He left the
field with a trainer and without his helmet six nothing

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green Bay. Each team went forward on fourth and one
on their first drives of the game down inside the
ten and failed, So it's not much scoring so far
in the first half, by the way, After the Bears
turned it over on downs late first quarter, green Bay
took over and went on a fourteen play drive that
took over six minutes for the first short field goal.

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Their most recent short field goal finished a sixteen play
drive ninety one yards nearly eight minutes, so the Bears
haven't had the ball much. Just over a minute ago
they've crossed midfield Chicago with the ball down six to
nothing late first half Chicago ten and four Packers record
nine to four and one out for Chicago tonight due

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to injury wide receivers Roma Dunza and Luther Burden. Philadelphia
now ten and five. They've clinched another division title with
the win at Washington twenty nine to eighteen, and the
Eagles trailed ten to seven late in the third quarter.
Jalen Hurts two touchdown passes. He also had seven carries
forty yards. The Commanders have lost nine of their last
ten games. They'll host Dallas on Christmas Day, then play

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at Philadelphia to finish up. Dallas plays defensive back to
Ron Bland on injured reserve, but Trayvon Diggs was activated.
Brown's tackle Jack Conklin was placed on IR with a concussion.
Dolphins kicker Jason Sanders is out this weekend with a
hip injury. Buffalo activated wide receiver Michel Hardman and elevated
kicker Michael Badgley, and the Rams did fire special teams

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coordinator Chase Blackburn. LA special teams have helped cause three
of its four losses this season, three first round games
in the College Football Playoff.

Speaker 10 (01:07:57):
Well, let's just say they've happened. I don't want to
I don't want to be too mean, but let's just say.

Speaker 13 (01:08:03):
When the Miami Texas A and m game was what
three to nothing in the second half. I'm sure the
NFL was watching and says, this is all that's opposite
us today?

Speaker 10 (01:08:12):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 13 (01:08:13):
And then two Lane's playing next, and then it's James
Madison aff we can take over this day like we
took over Christmas.

Speaker 10 (01:08:19):
I'm sure the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Most exciting part of cost football today was Michael Irvins celebrating.

Speaker 13 (01:08:24):
Anyway, it was a Miami touchdown with under two minutes
left to win at Texas A and M ten to three,
a game that was scoreless at halftime. Anm quarterback Marcel
Reid with three turnovers, including an interception in the end
zone with under thirty seconds to go. Number six old
miss Want at home against Tulane forty one to ten,
not a shocker. Mississippi beat him back in September forty

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five to ten. Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss with three total touchdowns
two hundred and eighty two yards passing. Number five Oregon
has a halftime leaded home against James Madison of thirty
four to six. It was six to three Ducks late
first quarter and thirty four to three for the Ducks
late in the second quarter. Alabama won in a comeback

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last night. It will be in the Rose Bowl quarter
final against number one Indiana. It looks like Oregon will
be facing Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl quarter final
on New Year's Day. Ole miss will play Georgia in
the Sugar Bowl quarter Final New Year's Night. Missisippi lost
at Georgia back in October forty three to thirty five.
By the way, Miami advanced to play number two Ohio
State on New Year's Eve in the Cotton Bowl Classic

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to the NBA. Houston got thirty one points from Kevin
Durant and won at Denver one fifteen one oh one
victories for Boston and Philadelphia. Currently New Orleans up in
the final seconds one twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Eight one oh nine over Indiana.

Speaker 13 (01:09:42):
Zion Williamson in this game off the bench with twenty
nine points. In college hoops, number three Duke leads fifty
eight to forty four over nineteenth rank Texas Tech early
second half. That's at Madison Square Garden in New Jersey.
Top twenty matchup went to Houston over Arkansas ninety four
eighty five in Indianapolis. Number six per Due Rip number
twenty one aubur in eighty eight two sixty and among

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the thirteen NHL games, we had the Red Wings win
at Washington five to two. It has gone to halftime
at Chicago Packers six bears. Nothing doesn't matter that it's
sixs Nothing like that Miami game. I talked about it
earlier because zillions of people are still watching NFL football
even this one back to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
You, thanks Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
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(01:10:47):
know it. This is my favorite time to look back
at your preseason predictions and just see, like where you thought.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
How that be?

Speaker 10 (01:10:55):
Predictions?

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Yeah, because everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Always likes to talk about the good ones, right, I
like to think about the bat me too.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Those are the fun ones.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
And actually this is this goes back to the one
of the first shows that we did together. You and
I had a discussion about Bryce Young. And since then,
my buddy Alex, who listens faithfully, you say something about
Bryce Young, he'll be like, there goes Moncey and that
Bryce Young again, there goes Monty and that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
Bryce Young young man rooting for that guy.

Speaker 17 (01:11:21):
I'll tell you this, I get it, you know, guys
about the same high exactly, I get it. But uh,
I'll say this, The Panthers to me have gone from uh,
what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
To a nice story to like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Hold on a minute, they're gonna win the division maybe,
like and we'll talk about all the questions about the
team and Bryce Young extension later, but right now, this
was a team that was so bad of the last
thirty games prior to like this little stretch, the fan
based podcast quit. They quit doing the podcast because they said,
we can't go forth, we can't go through that, we.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Don't want to watch football anymore. And then the team
then started winning.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
I feel like you could say the same thing about
both teams. It's just in a different way. Like you
look at the Panthers and you're like.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
What is going on with this team?

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
Oh, my goodness, they're gonna win. And then you look
at the Buccaneers. You're like, what is going on with
this team? They started off so well and now they're
just like on a tail.

Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Span and you can't figure I can't figure.

Speaker 5 (01:12:20):
Out what bleed to stop for the Buccaneers, you know
what I mean. It's like, first one game, it's this
thing that looks bad. Then this game it's this side
of it that looks bad. But the Panthers seemed to
be looking pretty darn good.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
The thing that was the most concerning for me about
the Buccaneers over the last stretch. And I know they've
dropped a few to get to seven and seven and
Panthers have won a few to get them to that
seven and seven, So it's like a stock upstock down.
Mike Evan's coming back for that primetime game. M You
rarely see this, and it's because.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Of the camera men do great.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Jobs, but they gave up a third in eighteen in
the last final stretches of that game that ended up
leading to the game when you field goal and you
actually saw Mike Evans who played Dinny Manzieulx's quarterback. That's
how long Mike Evans playing football. You saw Mike Evans
slamming his helmet down and go third and f and

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eighteen mm hm, And I was like, oh no. And
then that's the same day Todd Bowles comes in this
press conference and drops eight of the most calmst f
bombs you'll ever hear, right, yeah, and then Baker's ten.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
Guys need to be held accountable MASSI five.

Speaker 8 (01:13:31):
Check bad, bad bad.

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
But the thing is like with both teams, they're both untrustworthy.
They have both lost games where they are up late
in the game. They have both beat teams that they're
not supposed to be.

Speaker 9 (01:13:44):
The Panthers literally just lost to the Saints last week
last week, but they also beat the Rams, which is
just inexplicable, and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
They were up on the Saints ten thirteen points or
something like in the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
The Buccaneers, the buccaneersn't.

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
And the Panthers You're just kind of like, I don't,
I don't know exact a little flip a coin at
this point between both of them.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
And I'll tell you this, I know the Panthers lost
to the Saints. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
If I was Dave Canalis, I'd be just as mad
as Sean McVay was about the two point version about
that Tyler shuck slide.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
What are we doing? What are we doing? You want
to talk about guilty not guilty? Throw him in jail.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
That is definitely a violation of the sports court.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
If you have all the protections in the world, you can't.
Don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Don't do that. Don't do that. It's like, you know,
you get extra time on the test. Why are you
cheating as well? You know what I mean, you already
get an extra half hour. All the restler's only get
thirty minutes due to quiz and you get and you
need the answers. Just want coming up tomorrow and today

(01:14:51):
in the NFL, there's plenty with something to lose. Who's
got the most We'll tell you coming up next. Martin
Wis's Moncey Belino was Fox Sports Radio. Come and see
you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. You can
do something on Twitter if you look. I'm at Martin Weiss,
Moncey's at Mons join the conversation. That is that is true.

(01:15:13):
It's a fact.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
It is a fact.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Jordan Love in the concussion protocol right now turn questionable.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Packers have lost a lot in the injury department, in
the last couple of weeks, and for a team that
had a quite a bit to lose, they may have
had the most to lose in the NFC North that
they're making the big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Let's go ahead and do it. Most to gain, most
to lose.

Speaker 8 (01:15:39):
That's right, most to gain, most to lose.

Speaker 9 (01:15:41):
So I'm gonna go through a few NFL matchups from
tomorrow's Slayton. You guys are gonna tell me who in
that matchup has the most to gain or the most
to lose.

Speaker 8 (01:15:49):
Your choice.

Speaker 9 (01:15:49):
So let's start with this one, Jaguars at Broncos. Who's
got the most to gain or lose in that game?
We'll start with Martin.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I'll go with the Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
If the Jaguars as a team like win this game,
you legitimately now have to consider them legitimately super Bowl contenders.
I know I just said legitimately twice. That's how crazy
it sounds to me that I have to consider that.
And you're one of Liam Cohen and you're whatever Trevor Lawrence.
And in a year that started with Liam Cohen yelling no, Trevor,

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throw the ball to their chests.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Hit them in the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Numbers, they're really on the precipice of being that you
have to keep them and consider them a real contender
in the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
I said the Jaguars as a whole have the most
to lose.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
Martin is not wrong. It is the Jaguars. And I'm
just gonna go specific here. Quarterback to quarterback. Like bow
Knicks the whole season, we've been saying like he's been underwhelming.
The Broncos have one in spite of bo Nicks. If
Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars managed to win this one,
it's going to be Trevor Lawrence who gains the most
because he is the one that people don't believe in

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when it comes to the Jaguars, just like with bo Nicks,
but Bonicks is still only in his second year, third
or whatever, so early with second Thank you Jags, we kind.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
Of all think we know Trevor Lawrence. We all think
we know what to expect.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
The last time the Jags had to play a team
with this type of defense was I think Week ten
against the Texans, and Trevor Lawrence was sacked five times.
He threw one touchdown, one interception.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
I want to say he threw from maybe one hundred
and fifty yards. He did not have a good game.

Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
If they win, he's gonna come out and had the
biggest winner out of everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:17:28):
It's gonna be Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
Well, you both kind of said Jaguars. It's hard to
kind of differentiate.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
All of us, said Jaguars. The other said Trevor Lawrence TV.

Speaker 8 (01:17:35):
Specifically, I will give the point to Martin on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Next up, Goo ahead, Next up.

Speaker 8 (01:17:41):
Patriots at Ravens. We'll start with Monty on this one.

Speaker 9 (01:17:44):
Who's got the most to gain or lose in the
Patriots versus Ravens Sunday night game?

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
My day add the.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Patriots as a whole, the division is on the line here.
They're kind of competing in a way where we don't
nobody wants to trust them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
And then after what.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
They just did against Buffalo where the hot, freezing takes
came out real quick in that first half for Patriots
crushing the Bills or was it twenty one zero at
one point, I feel like so those freezing hot takes
came out really early, and so they are gonna have
a bounce back, I think, And I think the Patriots
have the most to gain because.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
The Ravens are kind of like they're in it, but
they're just floating.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
They're just there is most of the game and most
to lose your choice, all right, Well I'm gonna go
most to lose because the New England Patriots have had
the one sheet locked up essentially until last week and
they lost to the Bills, who have been very sometiming. Right,
if you lose to the Ravens as well, historically in
the Lamar Jackson era, the Ravens have been world beaters.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
This year, they have not, right this year, they have
not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
And if the New England loses this game, honestly, the
loser of this game, I am kind of deleting from
being real Super Bowl contenders in my brain. And if
New England loses this, you go from a contender to
a cute stor And I think, you know, the true.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Story is cool.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Second year coach, I mean second time head coach, second
year quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
True story.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
That's a good place, you know, another time, second year
head coach, the second year quarterback is the best team
in the NFC Denver Broncos right over there, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
But the Patriots losey won't That doesn't even kick them
out of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
If the Patriots lose.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
If the Patriots can't beat the Ravens, I will say
they are a one win in the playoffs at best.

Speaker 9 (01:19:28):
Yeah, those are both great points. I'm gonna give the
point to Monci this round. Keep things interesting here. But
next up, Steelers out Lions. Who's got the most to
gain or lose in this one?

Speaker 8 (01:19:39):
Martin? We'll start with you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
I'm gonna go Steelers head Lions.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
I'm going with Dan Campbell because again we talked about
it just a second ago. You gotta keep like you've
got to keep track with these two teams we're all
sitting here watching on national television, the Packers and the Bears.
These two teams right now look better than you, and
I mean straight up have beaten you this seas if
you can't keep up that what you said about that

(01:20:03):
Super Bowl window, that that that one Sunday afternoon in
Santa Clara, you might have been prophesizing, not predicting.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
The most to lose really here is the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
Because if for whatever reason, the Steelers lose and the Ravens,
as you said, come up with the win, all of
a sudden, the Steelers season is going.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Real bad, real bad bad all of a.

Speaker 5 (01:20:26):
Sudden, the most to lose is definitely the Steelers in
this situation. Maybe the most of game is Dan Campbell,
but the most to lose is the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
The division is on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
You know what, Monsie, I'm giving us the point because
he just keeps it interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Radio broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, Monsey Belos,
Marin Ye Snell, Fox Sports Saturday, and Monzi. Malik Willis
is gonna finish this game out for the Packers. Jordan
Love is now ruled out with that concussion that's didn't
clear to protocol.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Every time I see Malik Willis, I think Will Levis.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
Why because will Elevis got drafted and started over Malik
Willis and had four of the worst interceptions you'll having,
like a four week span, and then Malik Willis came
in one games in Green Bay. I remember, I just
I'll never get it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
I could argue that they were some of the greatest
interceptions because of how he reacted to that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
I would say it depends on who that's one of.
We were just talking about that, like the difference in.

Speaker 9 (01:21:28):
Perspective, Yes, right, Yeah, for will Levis the worst.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
For us the best, because his reactions were so he
you could tell how much it broke his heart.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
You know, he would go to his knees.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Just devastating. What did they call that, Oh, the surrender cobra. Yeah,
when you interlace your hands behind your head and he's
like this universal, I can't believe this just happened. And
I think honestly was started by that poor girl at
the Michigan game when the punter had trouble with the
snap Michigan, Michigan State. She puts her hands on her head.

(01:22:03):
If you just google the Michigan girl upset in the stands,
you'll find exactly what we're talking about. She's probably like
making millions of dollars. Now, let's want to see if
we can make some money.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Let's make some picks.

Speaker 8 (01:22:12):
There's the music, all right.

Speaker 9 (01:22:13):
So to update from last week, Moncey, yeah, four and one,
Martin you went too and three. So if you guys
remember you were tied we were going into the week.
So now overall we said a Monsey forty and thirty two,
Martin thirty eight and thirty four. Still anyone's game on
the season. Right, let's jump into this week's game. So
week sixteen, Chargers are going to Dallas to face the Cowboys. Cowboys,

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the home team, are favored by a point and a half. Here,
Moncey will start with you.

Speaker 8 (01:22:39):
Who you got.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
Why are the Cowboys favored by one?

Speaker 8 (01:22:43):
That's my I guess it's being the home team.

Speaker 4 (01:22:45):
Yeah, yeah, And I know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
Listen, the Cowboys were a really fun story for three weeks,
and I was rooting for them. I thought it would
have been so good for all of those Cowboy fans
who had, you know, jumped off the vandwagon or like
dismiss their team that they had been a fan of
for so long, and then the Cowboys had three great weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
I love that conversation. But that is over now.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
That was just a fun little part of the story.
We've moved on the Cowboys. No Chargers are going to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
I actually had the Cowboys here because I hear you mons,
Charge is gonna cover. But the problem is who's covering.
Justin Herbert is the right tackle? Plan is left tackle
playing because those two players aren't playing. Justin Herbert apparently
a superman and he's got a broken left hand, And
I'm just saying that at some point, at some point,
is it a Christmas miracle?

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Like the Chargers' offense has to fall.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Down at some point, and the Cowboys with absolutely nothing
to play for because they tricked off a few games
early this year. What they do have to play for
is that Jerry is trying to get re signed by
Jerry Jones, which he's talked the last two days about
how much these games matter.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Give me the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
Logic and Cowboys always go hand in hand.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
You know what's costing me all? Hear, It's cost me
all year?

Speaker 8 (01:24:02):
Right next time?

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:24:03):
Yeah, Tampa Bay Bucks are going to Carolina to face
the Panthers. Bucks are favored by a field goal here
three points.

Speaker 8 (01:24:11):
Who you got, Martin?

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
So you're telling me Tampa's favored on the road, they are.

Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
I already teams are seven and seven too, both team
seven and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
But the way you get into seven and seven is
a lot different way different man. You know, It's like
you could weigh two hundred and fifteen pounds, but the
way you got their matterage if you weigh three hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
Before you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna go ahead,
and I'm gonna go with the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
The diminutive one. Bryce Young in the Carolina Panthers. I
think they win this division, man. And it's partly because
they have a really good run game, but also Tampa
fields the like Tampa. If you're doing a Vibe Power rankings,
they're no higher than twenty seven and they have them.
They're sitting at five hundred right now.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
I don't like this one.

Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
As we just talked to, I don't TRUSTe either of
these teams in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 8 (01:25:01):
It's just which version are you going to get?

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
And they have to face each other, right like two
They're gonna face each other again in.

Speaker 16 (01:25:06):
Two weeks, right, So it's like I think they're gonna
crazy on its own, I know, and.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
I truly think they're gonna split. It's just like, how
are they gonna split it?

Speaker 16 (01:25:14):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:25:14):
And because I truly, truly I feel like it's a
flip a.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
Coin in this game, I don't trust either of them.
I'm gonna take give me Tampa, give me Tampa to cover.

Speaker 8 (01:25:28):
You're ditching Bryce Young.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
I am, And honestly, it's because I'm flipping a coin,
I might as well go opposite of you, because I
don't really know the answer.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
About to say, this is a moment in time.

Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
So it's like, it's not that I'm rooting against Bryce,
I just because I truly don't know the answer, and
he picked one first, I'm gonna go with the other one.

Speaker 9 (01:25:45):
And like that also gives you the chance to if
you get it right, you gain some separation, exactly. It
also gives Martin a chance to come back though, if
he gets it right.

Speaker 5 (01:25:51):
Yeah, I just I truly don't know how that's gonna
play out that game.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
I don't trus see either of them.

Speaker 8 (01:25:55):
All right.

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
Next game, Jaguars at Broncos. We previewed it a little
bit earlier, but the Broncos are favored by three and
a half points in this one, Moncy, what.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Do you think I don't understand, I mean I do
why the Broncos are favored.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
I guess I don't understand why they're favored.

Speaker 5 (01:26:08):
By so much, to be honest with you, because the
Jaguars offense the last couple of weeks has clicked. The
Broncos offense has been question mark this entire time. Now,
I know the big question is, how is Trevor Lawrence
going to handle the defense that comes at him from
the Broncos. But I do think the Jags cover in Denver.
I know altitude and the all thing, I get it.

(01:26:29):
I think Jags cover.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
I'll give you a Jags cover at three and a half.
But the Broncos win this game. I think that this
is a backdoor cover type of situation where.

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
This is a tie game.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Uh mcmanaged field goal, McManus field goal to win it
in Denver. That's the way I see these things playing out.
I just did it all in the more to lose.
The Jaguars are not a real Super Bowl contender, like if.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
They win, if they win this game, they are undeniable.
They are, and they're not.

Speaker 8 (01:27:00):
You're picking the Jaguars to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
I'm picking them to cover. But I want to be clear,
I think Denver wins this game. This is gonna be
in something that we look at the Broncos on a
twelve game win streak and we forget all that they
even covered.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
You know what I mean, that didn't cover?

Speaker 9 (01:27:14):
Next up, We've also been looking at this game throughout
the show. But Steelers at Lions, Lions with the home
team favored by seven points here, what do you think Martin.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
I'm gonna go with the Lions to cover because that
seven Fantasy football playoffs are here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
Jamiir Gibbs has been boom or bus. He's gonna boom.
I'm betting on a big Jamir Gibbs.

Speaker 8 (01:27:36):
One of his three touchdown weeks or one of his
zero tes.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
That's what I'm saying. I'm setting it at two and
a half and taking it over right. This is a
team that Steelers run defense, can get got. The Lions
want to run the ball. I like them. I still
think the Steelers make the playoffs, but give me the
Lions here up in the seventh Monty.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
Lions win this for sure, But do I want to
make it interesting since you took the Lions to cover,
Because here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:03):
The Lions are gonna win.

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
But I could see a situation where the Lions are
up by ten late in the fourth quarter and then somehow,
some way Steelers get in the end.

Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
Zone, but it's over. Do you get you know, like
I can. I can see that happening.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
That's basically what I see. Broncos Zaguar, That's how you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
See it, right, Like that's what I see here with
the Steelers and the lines.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
But I don't know the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
I don't really trust the Steelers right now, and I
don't think that their offense.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
The thing is like the Lions offense.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
Is offensing, you know what I'm saying, Like they see you,
gums islight. They they score, they would well, and they
do it at home. So I feel like I'd be stupid. No,
give me the Lions to cover, you know. I feel
like that would be a stupid risk.

Speaker 9 (01:28:45):
All right, Last one here, Patriots at Ravens. Ravens are
the home team favored by a field goal three points here.

Speaker 8 (01:28:51):
Who you got, Manti?

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
How are the Ravens favored?

Speaker 5 (01:28:55):
I get there at home, but by three, you're favored
by three with the Patriots coming off that embarrassing loss.

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
Give me the Patriots to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
I'm with Patriots to me as the better team. Yeah,
I just I think the Patriots are the better team.
This is to me respect for Lamar Jackson, of which
I have a ton. However, I also know this. I
know that he has missed practiced every week, well at
least one day since he's gotten back from injury. Due
to injury. This week, he missed multiple because he was sick.

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Lamar Jackson is the only starting quarterback in the NFL
that I know that gets sick every single year to
the point that he has to miss a day of work.
That has to be a major impact in the way
that he's been playing thus far. And again up twenty
one to nothing on the Bills, Josh Allen puts on
the Cape. Right, I get it, Josh Allen, Superman is
Lamar is not playing at Superman level this year.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Give me a I'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
And you know what, secretly, Drake may is playing better
than Mr Jackson is this year. That's right, I said it.

Speaker 8 (01:29:58):
You guys want to do one more?

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
Six to one?

Speaker 9 (01:30:01):
All right, let's do the stoppable force versus a movable
object game the Jets at Saints. The Saints are favored
by six and a half points in this one as
the home team coming off a win two over the
over the Panthers last week.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
But you go, I'm gonna flush for the toilet Bowl
game and the toilet Bowl Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
You know, you know I just talked all that stuff about.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Do you think that if you know what's gonna happens happen,
the Jets are gonna get their first interception stop of
Tyler Shuck.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Because you know why, It's because I spent that whole
first time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
I was talking about if you have Brady Cook and
Philip Rivers with the Jets interception, they're gonna have like
two this two tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Watch.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Okay, I'll take the Jets in the six and a
half in a game that Look, it's the holidays. You
could be shopping, you could There's so many other things
to do to watch this football game.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
You could be shopping, spend time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
With family, you know, shovel the driveway, shovel the neighbors
driveway and anything.

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
But this.

Speaker 9 (01:31:00):
Yeah, I really don't know if people understand how difficult
it is to not get a single interception over the
course of an NFLC To ask the exactly these teams
just stumble into interceptions. It's crazy. I've already seen a few,
just like dropped man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Donald hit a defensive lineman in the face mask on
Thursday night and the killed it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
You know what I'm saying, it's.

Speaker 9 (01:31:19):
The idea that not a single one has made its
way into your hands yet It's just crazy, you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:23):
Know what, I see that happening. But the Saints have
been playing decent football.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
I I got to hear one more person say this. Okay,
all right, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Our producer, yeah, our producer ian In in the text
before our pre game, you know, our pre show, A
pregame show text whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Why I say, pregame, pre show tech whatever you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:45):
Got you, Yeah, pregame. I just I tend to pregame
a lot. I guess that's what that means. You mentioned,
like which quarterback next year I would want as my
starting quarterback, and you mentioned three.

Speaker 4 (01:31:57):
You said, Tyler Shuck.

Speaker 8 (01:31:58):
Tyler Shock, Jackson Dark Art or JJ McCarty.

Speaker 4 (01:32:01):
JJ McCarthy. And I was like, oh, this is interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
Why Because I would pick Tyler Shuk out of those three,
give me the Saints to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Out of those three, I would pick cam Ward. Let's
pick Atomic Dogs.

Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
All right, that's right, it is the Atomic Dogs. Where
every week here on Martin and Moncey, we picked one
underdog to win outright in their game in the NFL.
So last week neither of yours hit. Martin, you took
the Raiders over the Eagles. That did not happen. Mancy,
you took the Bengals over the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
Both pick teams that got shut out.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Yes, I was about.

Speaker 8 (01:32:31):
To bring up that fun fact.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
This is not the first time I've picked the underdogs
went out right, they didn't score a single points.

Speaker 9 (01:32:38):
It's the first time both of you picked it. We're
collaboration there. But Week sixteen, nice slay the games.

Speaker 8 (01:32:46):
Here. Who you guys got is your atomic dogs.

Speaker 5 (01:32:48):
We'll start with you, Manci, you want me to go first, Okay,
y'all call me crazy?

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
This is crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
Honestly, the big reason I'm picking this is because there
is no you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Win eleven, Monty just kind of to eleven.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
There's no way Broncos win twelve in a row. There's
no way Broncos win twelve in a row. That's honestly,
That's literally it. I mean, simplify it. There's no way
you win twelve in a row. Give me the Jogs
as my underdog pick, like I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
It's hard to win. You're gonna win twelve? No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
I think they do win twelve in a row. Yes,
I'll say this. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
All right, if it's hard to win twelve in a row,
is it hard? How hard is it to lose twelve
out of thirteen I'm going back. I'll pick it a
few times.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
I just gave a little bit of teaser.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
You asked me Tyler Shuck, JJ McCarthy or R Jackson Dark, Yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Cam Ward Baby the hamern Ward that this is fully fully,
just full disclosure.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
I think the Chiefs have been paper mache all season long. Sure,
and the string just broke right. But Patrick mahomes like
he's been holding that team together by spit and glue
for the last to me, the last two seasons. Really
when you look at it and it all kind of
fell apart in the super Bowl, wasn't able to do
enough this season to get it out. Hopefully, rest well, Pat,

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get that knee back together. We'll see you next season.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
He's already rehabby and tabah, He's gonna be ready.

Speaker 8 (01:34:23):
For Week one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
I hope, I hope that's a good decision for you, there, Pal,
But I know this right now, betting against Gardner Mitschew
is a good decision for me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
I'll take Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
I don't hate that one. I don't hate that one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
This is the thing that I get into. I fall
into this habit, especially down down. As the season progresses,
you know, you know that, like they gotta win it,
Like they're not gonna win two games. I gotta win
three games. They gotta win at least. Like there's like
who goes winless in the NFL? Who only wins two
as in the NFL, only one team's gonna be that
bad and that's the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Do you know what I'm saying? The Raiders are gonna
be the team that's that bad. What do you do
if you're the Raiders?

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
I know this is like pre much blow it up.
I know, like it's just one year of it. But
it did not work. Gino Smith did not work. Pete Carroll,
it's not working. I you have Brock Bowers, you have
an Ashton Genty. You've got to make some drastic changes because.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
This was not it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:24):
You don't you didn't have to win ten games or
anything like that, but you look awful.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
I almost think that they should and it's not because
of anything we've seen thus far, but I almost think
they should keep everybody just for a level of continuity
that the Raiders have never had over the last like
ten years. Like I'm not saying, and again, you know,
this is a conversation of like would you rather drown
or jump out of a plane without air, Jump out

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of a plane without a parachute, right.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
Jump out of a plane.

Speaker 6 (01:35:52):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
But it's like, but you know what I'm saying, Like
I'd rather I'd rather stay on the boat, I'd rather
stay on a plane, Like I'd rather do neither one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Of these things. But I just, you know, just curious.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
He saw the report that Brady's supposed to be around
the facility more coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
Well, I'm sure they got to do something.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
But you know what, going back to your underdog pick,
the only reason your pick can go badly is if
the Titans are trying to tank.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
They trying to tank, They've already they're there.

Speaker 5 (01:36:22):
If they win all of a sudden there they may
not have the number one pick.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
Maybe they're trying to get that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
You know, I've always had the belief that teams or organizations.

Speaker 8 (01:36:33):
Don't want to lose tank.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Yeah, well, organizations may have a tanking mentality, but individual players.

Speaker 5 (01:36:38):
It's fair because they're playing for a contract, they're playing
for their future, they're playing from anything like.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
The idea that you of the fifty three men who
will play for Tennessee tomorrow against Kansas city.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Only a few are guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Well, not only that, it's just one of them. If
everything goes well, one of them is guaranteed to be
replaced by whoever you take with the first over pick right.
So it's like, if that I'm that guy, I'm playing
as hard as I can. No, they're guaranteed to take,
guaranteed to have a replacement. Speaking of I would have

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thought that this place would have been guaranteed to have
a replacement.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
But the options are dwindling.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Prom is getting closer and closer and closer, and all
the girls have dates.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
What are they gonna do? Get to that? Coming up next.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Comes to your life for the Fox Sports Radio studios
and Smart and White and Monsi Bolanos Monsey. You know
what the worst part about Michigan not having a coach
right now is for me personally selfishly, is now you
sit there and it's the ultimate comparison, right, did you
sit there watching Alabama play yesterday? They fall down seventeen nothing,

(01:37:48):
You're like, I don't want candle on the board if
be my head coach. Then they come back and then
the one thought is I told y'all, yeah, this Oklahoma
team sucked that Michigan should have been you know what
I'm saying all year at Michigan blew it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
That's when that was the first time I said this,
I's wrong with this season.

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
It was I was at my Dodgers holiday party yesterday
and I had the game on my phone and it
was literally like, Oh my god, Oklahoma's just gonna just
gonna run away with us.

Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
Sure it looked like that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
It just looked like Alabama couldn't stop them in Oklahoma
for that short amount of time, could do whatever they want.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
And then there was a pick six right before the half.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Right and that's when you were like, uh oh uh oh,
those freezing hot takes happened real fast.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
So the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
So it's like, then, with the Michigan head coaching search,
we're sitting here watching two playoff games with two coaches
Bob Chesney I almost called them Kenny for James Madison,
who will be coaching UCLA after this game is over
with unless there is a quick math fifty or thirty
five point comeback in James Madison and John Somerall, who

(01:38:58):
was coaching Tulane is then coach at Florida. So like
even teams who've made the playoff, don't have their coaching
situation together. All missed the team that they beat also,
and then they're the coaching situation together. So it's like,
what is Michigan. What's it tealing Michigan supposed to do
right now? And then my number one candidate, who is

(01:39:20):
Kenny Dillingham?

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Oh yeah, no, he's a five year deal areas in
the state. And I'll just say this, Kenny, you signed
that five year deal.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
And on the same day you signed a five year
did you cry for twenty million dollars or somebody you
know who would have gave you a ten year deal
twenty million dollars plus.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
I know Ann Arbor. Anyway, stay down there, stay hot.

Speaker 4 (01:39:38):
Stay hot, stay hot. I told you this last week
when we talked about Michigan.

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
I just don't know how attractive that looks right now.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
It looks like a messy place to take a job.
So that's what I remember. I was like, you should
take a non name, but I don't. That doesn't exist,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
Like, it's not it's just I like some of the names,
like like jesse Mincher, don't touch jesse mentor don't you
dare touch him?

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
Stay in l a here.

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
That's you saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
And the reason your nose is your voice turned on
nasally is because you don't want to charge your defensive that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
Don't don't touch him. You stay there. You know you
know who you don't want.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Jed Fisher, Jetfish.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
But honestly, honestly, at this point, for Michigan, I'm ready
to divorce from the Harbor era in general.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
Completely.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
There was a championship one, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
There's also been a whole lot of smoke around the
Michigan program that did not exist prior to and it's
just you look at what's I just am good to
go ahead and and honestly, at this point, if they told,
if they said they were going to be able to

(01:40:57):
now this is all contendental on being able to maintain
the recruiting class and the strength of the collective because
I think at this point I'm not believing that Sharon
Moore had all those guys lined up, like, Sharon, are you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Telling me Sharon Moore flipped bright?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
So no, the money did right, So as long as
the money doesn't turn off, I'm not super worried about
going forward and away or like like because the money
is what's going to drive this. Of course, my fear
is is that they hire the wrong guy to do
it and the on field because that was what slipped.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
On field was slipping.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
You could see it slipping under Sharon Moore, right, and
so they need to have somebody that's going to be
able to re establish the on field because to me,
the off field is going to take care of itself
with a lot of this stuff like that's why, that's
the same, it's the same logic, monsters. Why people prior
to Ryan Day's National Championship game they're ready to fire

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Ryan Day. Why because the off the field apparatus is
going to be what it is. On the field is
what you do. So you say, on the fielder is
where you got to improve this. I said we made this.
Now I made going into this, the problem is getting
closer and there's no date at this point. Like at
this point, I don't want none of the cheerleaders. I
don't want to get the nerd.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
Get the nerd, Go get the nerd.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Who's the nerd for you?

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
That I don't want to I don't want to have
heard of them. Yeah, that whoever is the next head coach.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
I actually had to Google to figure out who he is,
because that should mean your research was so exhaustive that
you were able to identify because people you can't fire
the next Kurt Chicknetty. I get that because he coaches
Alabama and all the other Find the next guy, find
the next Bob Chez, Find whoever you deem to be
the programmed builder who's not already done it before, because

(01:42:43):
at this point there's nobody there, So you got whoever.
It is either that or you're getting Penn State's fifth option.
Do you know what I'm saying? Like the guy that
had it turned down before they got the mach like
you know it's not optimal.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
It sounds like you've joined my side.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Well, but I disagree that it's I disagree that the
job itself is not attractive.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
I just think it's not. You're right. You're right because
it's Michigan the job. It's Michigan. The job is attractive.
It's just right now.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
It comes with parts of it that you wish you
could not deal with from the start, like stepping into it.
It's like, I gotta I have to deal with this
off field stuff that had nothing to do with me.
I'm gonna have to deal with it, and that's what
I'm saying. It's unattractive.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Well, ask JD.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
Pakel about this and all the other stuff in college football,
and just second, but first, Steve de Seger will update
us on the quick math thirty five.

Speaker 3 (01:43:38):
Point margin in the college football Playoff for our.

Speaker 13 (01:43:40):
Coop and score after a block punt at Oregon Ducks
forty eight thirteen over James Madison about five minutes left
in the third quarter. This is a first round college
football playoff game. Looks like it'll be Oregon facing Texas
Tech in the Orange Bowl quarterfinal on New Year's Day.
Old Miss will play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl Quarterfinal.
New Year's Night, ole Miss won at home against Tulane

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forty one to ten, and Miami will play number two
Ohio State on New Year's Eve.

Speaker 10 (01:44:07):
At the Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 13 (01:44:08):
Miami eliminated Texas A and M winning at College Station
ten to three on a touchdown with under two minutes left.
Alabama had a comeback win at Oklahoma last night. It
will be in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana.
Bama's co offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan will leave to be
a Michigan State assistant after Alabama's run ends. Where Arizona

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State did re sign coach Kenny Dillingham five year deal.
Iowa State quarterback rock O Beck is entering the transfer
portal his coach left for Penn State. As far as
bowl games Monday and Boise, Washington State against Utah State
three other bowl games Tuesday, Hawaii hosts the Hawaii Bowl
on Christmas Eve against Cal Wednesday night, the Rams fired

(01:44:49):
special teams coordinator Chase Blackburn. LA special teams have helped
cause three of its four losses this season. Philadelphia clinched
a division title with a win at Washington in a
comeback twenty nine to eighteen. Eagles trailblate third quarter ten
to seven Saquon Barkley on twenty one carries at one
hundred thirty two yards rushing in a score. Washington QB

(01:45:09):
Marcus Marioto left with a right hand injury tonight. Packers
quarterback Jordan Love left in the first half with a
concussion on a roughing the passer penalty, but off the bench.
Malik Willis with a thirty three yard touchdown pass late
third quarter to Romeo Dobbs Packers now lead at Chicago
thirteen to three, very windy, temperature around thirty The only

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Bear scoring so far, a forty six yard field goal,
threw the win from Cairo Santo's. Green Bay had a
couple of long drives in the second quarter that's settled
for short field goals. So thirteen to three for the
visiting Packers, who again are without their starting quarterback, who
got twelve minutes left in the fourth of this game.
Right now, Caleb Williams nine to fifteen, passing one hundred

(01:45:51):
and twenty nine yards. DeAndre Swift up to fifty yards
rushing on eleven carries for the Bears. Josh Jacob's twelve
carries just thirty six yards for the Packers and a fumble.
There was a fumble inside the ten for Green Bay.
They also went forward on a fourth and one inside
the ten first drive and failed. Bears on their first

(01:46:12):
drive went forward on fourth and one inside the ten
and failed. So a low scoring game and a ten
point Packers lead as we approach eleven minutes to play
in the NBA. Houston, now seventeen and eight, got a
win at Denver one fifteen one oh one. Kevin Durant
thirty one points victories for Boston and Philadelphia. New Orleans
was six and twenty two, but it beat Indiana, which

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is now six and twenty two. Won twenty eight one
oh nine the finals. Ion Williamson twenty nine points off
the bench. Charlotte was a loser at Detroit because the
Pistons are twenty two and six. Beat Charlotte won twelve
eighty six. Pistons led by four early in the fourth quarter.
And among the games in progress, well Golden States, with

(01:46:55):
a record of thirteen and fifteen, is winning at home
against Phoenix one hundred to ninety with about eight minutes left.
Just final Washington wins at Memphis one thirty to one
twenty two. Washington was four and twenty one. Late game's
about to start Lakers at Clippers. Lakers missing three starters
Austin Reeves, DeAndre Aid and Ruey Hachimura, all due to

(01:47:16):
injuries to college basketball. The late game about to start
in Phoenix number one Arizona undefeated going up against San
Diego State. Duke was in action at Madison Square Garden
and Texas Tech beat him eighty two p eighty one
wins Earlier for Purdue and Houston wins for North Carolina
and Kentucky. That Carolina win was seventy one seventy over

(01:47:39):
Ohio States in Atlanta, NHL victories for Minnesota and Tampa
Bay pick to.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
You, Thanks Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
If you missed any today's show, you want to catch
the podcast, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get
those podcasts right after the show.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
Ian's been doing his job. You're doing a great job today, Budy.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
I want to just want to shock you out so
America knows that you're killing it. As soon as he
posts that go back rated five stars Pride review and
does go ahead right now and kick it over to
our next guest, j D Pakel, College Football Insider. He's
on the hard count on three and Jd, we missed
you last week, so I'm going to ask you about

(01:48:17):
the most pressing issue in college football currently. Who in
the hell is Misit gonna go hired to be the
head coach?

Speaker 7 (01:48:25):
Well, I'm glad that I'm upon we could go because
I would have given you bad intel and said, hey, Martin,
don't even worry about it. Kenny yilling him on the way.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
That's what I was saying. That's what I was saying
last week, JD.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Last week last week, I was saying Kenny dilling him
will burn it all down. And I'm telling you, I'm
sitting there watching Kenny Dillingham take that five year extension
and then minutes later beg for twenty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Say this is Phoenix, Arizona. Can we please get some money?
It made me sick, JD. Sick to my stomach.

Speaker 7 (01:48:53):
I mean, we're at this point too where it's like
the number like what name is left that gets you
fired up? Like what what's the name left that lifts
the script? Because he was the guy that where I
was like, Okay, the energy is weird right now to
say the least an ant ar, but with the horse
shrum Ward wanted to get into that, like bring someone
and that's gonna just give me good vibes, new juice,
new energy offense, not necessarily from the Harbaugh tree.

Speaker 14 (01:49:13):
And now I'm like, I don't know who that is, mar.

Speaker 7 (01:49:15):
Like, And I was thinking about this before jumping on
with you, because I knew this would be one of
the topest that we hit on, like jan Gruden, Like,
I mean, is that that crazy? Like Jed Fish to me,
would feel underwhelming.

Speaker 14 (01:49:28):
Is also a quote unquote like Horrorbaugh guy.

Speaker 7 (01:49:31):
In some respects, which nothing against Horrorball, but I think
with the way things have gone with the most recent regime,
you probably want to dig without zags like John Gruden
to me, is like the most juiced up name I
could think of. Besides that, I don't know how gettable
either of these guys are, but I would love Jeff
Broum because of words did at Louisville. I know there's
Aweso extension being worked on there. Or Eli Drinkwitz. I

(01:49:54):
know he's already signed an extension at Missouri. But if
I'm a ward manual, I'm saying I don't care.

Speaker 14 (01:49:58):
We didn't have to pay anything to.

Speaker 7 (01:49:59):
Firestrom work this dude wings at Missouri. What could I
do with a different m bond his name? So I
would say drink it to be like my first pick.
But Martin, I wish I had something better for you, brother.

Speaker 14 (01:50:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
Before you came on, and I'll give it to minds.
Right after this, before you came on, I said, whoever
Michigan's next heads coaches, I better have to google him
because at this.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Point the research should have been so exhaustive.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
I should have never heard nothing about this guy and
needs going to come in and blow us all the way.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
Moncey Year up next, JD.

Speaker 5 (01:50:26):
Let's go to last night's game where everybody was watching
Oklahoma do what they wanted with Alabama for just a
hot second.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
You mean Michigan's next head coach. For ten minutes, Kayalen devor.

Speaker 5 (01:50:37):
Him hot second, it looked like Oklahoma could do.

Speaker 4 (01:50:42):
Whatever they want. Then things change.

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
After watching that game, were you also saying Notre Dame
should have been in the playoff?

Speaker 4 (01:50:49):
This wouldn't have happened, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:50:51):
I so Notre Dame should be in the playoff, but
not for anything having to do with that game last night.
So I won't go down that rabble hole too much
on the ranks. I know we got we got limited
time there. I don't want to go a full thirty
minutes telling you why the playoff structure right now is stupid.
But for me, I'm looking at that game last night
and I'm like, hey, bamn't got a strong jaw now,
Like for Oklahoma's to have a good day at the

(01:51:11):
office offensively and to get up seventeen and for Bama
not to flinch and then win in the margins and
get a plan on special teams and run the pick
back like you have to think right around the time
where Zabi and Brown's running that pig six back to
in the first half, it's probably when Kenny Dillingham got
on the phone with Arizon the State and was like, Hey,
the Boor's not going to be there, Like, you might

(01:51:32):
as well throw me a bag to keep me here
at asudmission is about to come hard after me. But
to answer your question about the whole the whole playoff system,
I have no problem with the field given their logic.
I have massive problems with the structure we have in place,
which I think is the last time we see something
like this, to be clear.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
So with that being said, the last time we see
something like this, to be clear, when you say something
like this, you mean the complete and total mollywopping ass
weapons that we've seen up and down college football today.
When I'm looking at this, I wonder, is this going
to be the end of the little guy.

Speaker 14 (01:52:08):
I don't think it has to be a little guy.
I think it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:10):
Should be the end of the little guy that has
an automatic invite it's like we're trying to meet quota
here with little guys in the playoff, And I'm like why,
Like I understand this idea of we want the best
twelve teams, we want to conference champions, and like, if
that's your logic, that's fine, but don't include the verbage
best twelve teams when you have tu Lane who's ranked
twentieth and James Ma's ranked twenty fourth, Like we have

(01:52:31):
a committee literally telling us, hey, we think these teams
are twentieth and twenty fourth best.

Speaker 14 (01:52:36):
Also, by the way, twelve best teams. Like, you can't
have it both ways.

Speaker 7 (01:52:40):
And so I don't even have an issue with like
the blowouts necessarily because I think those are going to
happen in football in general. But when we have blowouts
and it's the twentieth and twenty fourth ranked team, I'm like, yeah,
this is pretty much what we already knew were signing
up for.

Speaker 14 (01:52:54):
Now, will there be.

Speaker 7 (01:52:55):
Cinderella runs and will there be you know, fun exciting
games that we keep the structure going forward every couple
of years for sure, Like that's just what sports is.
But college football is not March madness. You don't have
some dude you never heard of going to be account
next year, got hop from three and change the entire
trajector of the tournament.

Speaker 14 (01:53:13):
Because football is a violence spor so.

Speaker 7 (01:53:15):
That's my take on it, Like this is going to
change here next year. And I fully believe that the
Pete Bavaca's of the world, Metre Dame's ad the Greg
Sankees of the world, the commissioner at the SEC, they
are going to the bargaining table in this new playoff
format that we'll be discussed in January of twenty twenty six,
and they are leaving with guarantees for their respective.

Speaker 14 (01:53:37):
Companies.

Speaker 7 (01:53:38):
Lack of a better expression, that's what those two situations are.

Speaker 5 (01:53:41):
Jad I told Martin that I think that the top
four seeds are all going to send a thank you
basket to Miami for eliminating Texas A and M.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
But what do you think happened there?

Speaker 14 (01:53:54):
I think for me with I think it's a comp book.
I think one.

Speaker 7 (01:53:57):
I think Miami is actually who we thought they were
in the first part of the season. I know that
they've played a couple of, you know, lesser teams and
they got some big wins that we thought were big,
and then Age well, I think that what it was
is Miami's good upfront.

Speaker 14 (01:54:09):
And that showed up big today. And I also think that.

Speaker 7 (01:54:11):
AMM blew a little bit too close to the sun,
and the things that made people nervous about them to
begin with ended up being kind of the.

Speaker 14 (01:54:19):
Downfall for them.

Speaker 7 (01:54:20):
Like the concern was always, well, hey, we like Marcel Reid,
but he's also a bit of a wild card, and
that showed up on the last play of the game, like, hey,
we liked the defense, but like that run game not
always the most sound. It's like there's always symptoms before
there's actual sickness, and the symptoms for A and m
kept persisting. And you know, your four Zhoe one score games,
which is great, but why you win four different one

(01:54:41):
score games if you're a top ten team in college football?

Speaker 14 (01:54:43):
So I think it was a combination of things.

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Do you want to ask you? Who do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
I feel like nobody talked about the other Texas team
with the potential to win this thing, Texas Tech.

Speaker 11 (01:54:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
I think I haven't heard a single conversation about Texas
Tech and their potential to win it, which makes me
think they just might win the whole damn thing.

Speaker 14 (01:55:02):
I don't disagree at all.

Speaker 7 (01:55:04):
I think them in Indiana are hilarious because Austin's college
football fans were conditioned so much to the same logos,
like we're comfortable with Ohio State and Juni Oregon to
some degree, Georgia Bamba, like we're comfortable with logos, and
now for the first time, like these Indiana and Texas
techs have rewritten the rule book and went to the

(01:55:25):
portal and gotten a f random Mendoza and a whole
new front seven of Texas Tech, and so like they're
in the spot now where the logo has never mattered
less than college football.

Speaker 14 (01:55:34):
So the thing with me, Martin.

Speaker 7 (01:55:35):
If Texas Tech has figured out in the red zone,
they're eighty seventh in college football in converting for touchdowns
in the red zone, not scoring, but converting touchdowns.

Speaker 14 (01:55:46):
I like them a lot. Man.

Speaker 7 (01:55:47):
They got they got all the tools for sure to
go make a real run of this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
All right, So I got one more for you, JD. JD.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
Pakell on three College Football Insider. The hard count we
see in men's college ball women's college basketball, especially in
the last five years, especially the last five ten years,
stars are made in this postseason had been a basketball
side of things. If you have to talk about a guy,
we know who Fernando Mendoza is. We know who Dante
Moore is. Uh, maybe even trendid Dad Chamberlass. We may

(01:56:16):
have an idea who is because of the way that
he kind of burst onto the scene after the start
of the season. Who's the guy that we may see
throughout this playoff, this postseason in college football that when
it is time for them to go to the NFL Draft,
you will remember the plays that they had this week
are this stretch.

Speaker 7 (01:56:34):
Kenyan Sadiq is essentially an avenger playing tight end for Oregon.
The dude's like six three two forty jumps over people.
I've been saying that all offseason. He's like the Big
Tens answer to Brock Bauers of just like Freak Show
tight end. There is not an individual in this tournament,
not a m Caleb Downs that can guard him.

Speaker 14 (01:56:55):
He's a matchup nightmare.

Speaker 7 (01:56:56):
He's a big reason why Oregon and this Dante Moore
will play for a national championship against Georgia.

Speaker 14 (01:57:01):
Long jnuhere nineteenth in Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
JD was a little call.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
You shot Georgia, he said, Georgia and Oregon in the
National Championship game. Kenyon Sadik, the guy to look out for.
Oh you know what I actually think. I think George
has got a great shot too. That's good defense over here.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
JD.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Thanks a lot, buddy, Thanks for coming on on a
on a college football first round Shaturday. We'll keep you
locked in through the championship game.

Speaker 14 (01:57:24):
Let's go go.

Speaker 7 (01:57:25):
Get a head coach here, go get a head coach week.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
Hey man, at this rate, it might be in Biff.
We trust. Unfortunately, it might be in Biff we trust.
All right? Coming up back, a star quarterback is down.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
What does that mean for this team that has Super
Bowl aspirations?

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Me and Montio Let you know, Fox Sports Radio, Martin Weiss.

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
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Jason Martin and Aaron torres I. Determined to be the
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Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
Better day to do it, really though.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
Yeah, So let's think about this as we sit here
and watch the new coach for UCLA lose by twenty
eight points to his with his old team. We watched
the new coach for Florida lose by half a trillion
points to his old like with.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
His old team.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Like if I was a fan of Florida today or
UCLA today, I'd be like, you know what, I'm really
glad you wasted two weeks of being my head coach
just to get your ass up like this.

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
No, he had he had to go and finish this out.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
We say that Lane Kiffin didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:58:30):
I'm just sure it's going real well for him.

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
But LSU is the guy that LSU is the place
that hired him, right, and yes he works there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
Now you know what I'm saying. It's like, do you
see what I'm saying?

Speaker 4 (01:58:40):
Yeah, I understand. But the vibes around Lane Kiffin are
are negative? Are negative.

Speaker 3 (01:58:45):
Let's see TI week one.

Speaker 4 (01:58:46):
But I get you right now, they're negative.

Speaker 5 (01:58:48):
Let's see what happens the vibes around the James Madison
coach head into Ucla. It's not negative. There's still excitement.
They were never supposed to win this game.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Well that's also too James Madison, if they played right
now now, may beat UCLA right now. So that's the thing,
but like too late, Like I really was the thing
for summer off for me at Florida. Yeah, so I'm
sitting here watching him coach against an SEC team.

Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
Yeah, no, yeah, that though, this.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
Just feels this feels odd.

Speaker 4 (01:59:17):
Two Lane put up ten points. At least this is
a little bit more than that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
What was the margin to victory for thirty one?

Speaker 4 (01:59:23):
Thirty one?

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
This is twenty, This is forty eighth and twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:59:28):
At least you put up twenty points.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
I got in the that's very much in the land
of the blind. The man with one eye is king.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
That's very much.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
I just say, the smartest kid in summer school, Like,
that's very much that right there. You're the best behaved
prisoner on the yard. I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Okay, Hey, you've gotta.

Speaker 5 (01:59:48):
Look at the positives here. Okay, that's the positive.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
Positive for Green Bay ten right now for forty five
left in the fourth quarter, No.

Speaker 5 (01:59:58):
Jordan Love and who knows for maybe the next week
because it's concussion that could be a problem, or does
it work out for them.

Speaker 3 (02:00:05):
We'll find out.

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