January 13, 2025 • 50 mins
Talkin' Jake is getting ready for Roki Sasaki's decision as teams are starting to be eliminated from his sweepstakes and breaks down this week's playoff action in both the NFL and College Football
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Roki Sasaki Week
7:40 What if it isn't the Dodgers?
10:10 Yankees Have a LEGITIMATE Chance
12:50 Jeff Hoffman Signs with Toronto
16:00 What Should I Think of the Orioles or Blue Jays?
18:10 Texans Beat Chargers
21:25 Ravens Beat Steelers
24:05 Broncos Lose to the Bills
27:30 Eagles Beat Packers
30:00 What's Next for the Packers?
31:30 Washington Doinks Past Tampa
36:20 Minnesota vs. LA Tonight
37:55 Divisional Round Preview
39:55 College Football Playoffs
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Myself, Jake's Story, Ellie, producer, Big Baby, David Mendelssohn.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We'll cover a.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Little bit of baseball today. Let's be honest, it's kind
of football season. We had some college football games, bring
us into the weekend wild card weekend of the NFL.
We'll chew through all of that, and we'll tease you
with the little baseball because it could be a big week.
Roki Sasaki Week is here. That's gonna get one team
very excited and a lot of teams probably angry. Your
(00:31):
boy Jeff Hoffman signed with the Blue Jays pretty significant.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And you know I'm not missing that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Andrew Kittridge signing to Baltimore. God, that's seventh inning, watch
out Crossfire. He's actually pretty good, So I don't know
why I'm talking like that. Let's do some baseball quick.
It'll be a football heavy episode. Thank you guys for
being a part of Waken Jake. And if you're subscribing, cool,
(00:59):
We appreciate all of that. So let's do some baseball quick.
It's Sasaki Week? What does that mean for you? Roki
Sasaki will get posted at midnight the fourteenth, which is
technically the fifteenth. That one's always thrown me off. How
do you say that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, it's on the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Twelve, a m of the fifteenth eligible to sign again,
and it's just gonna be a massive move for whatever
team gets them. We did a talk and Yanks deep
dive on it, and I'll just use some anecdotal examples
because you'll have them for your team. But if the
Yankee sign Roki Sasaki, which I blindly for some reason
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think will happen, maybe that's just fandom. We'll walk through
that in a second. But if the Yankee signed Roky Saki,
they probably they're definitely training Marcus Stroman, which we've dreamt
of as part of their offseason anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But then you know, is a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Luis Heil Clark Schmidt would be on the table, probably
for a different bat in the lineup. Like you have
just locked up six years of a cost controlled guy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who's supposed to be a dude. Uh, he's at.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Least one a with Yamamoto, and Yamamoto got three hundred
million dollars and I think I think he's a little younger,
and I think there's more upside in his arm talent
like v low stuff if you will, and just the
fact that he's built like a traditional starting pitcher, you know, Yamamoto.
(02:36):
There was all this wait to see a little guy?
Is he Tim Lindsea? Come, what's going on here? Well,
our guy, Roki Sasaki is listed.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Listed. Wow, no website for him? Height, I'm seeing six '
four comes up.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's okay. Now I'm seeing another six to two. Call
him sixty three.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Split the gap.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But yeah, he's big, he's got velo, he can touch
triple digits and it's a fun part of his free
agency that supposedly he's very vested in improving, which maybe
that sounds dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But he's young.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
God, what year is he born? That's gonna make me mad?
Is he at two thousands?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is everyone at two thousand?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do I just need to get over that?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Looks like his date of birth is November third, two
thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, okay, so that's good. He's twenty three years old.
So he's doing it the Otani route if you remember
otanih he's basically getting international signing pool money, probably around
seven mil. And then he's essentially a rookie with options,
so you'll have him throughout his ARB ers his pre
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ARB years and again has similar to Yamamoto, who had
a three flat ERA. If you only saw his first
start of the year, I'm sorry for you. Last year
it was like one of the first games of the year,
so I kind of get it. We were at the airport.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, we're you know, Korea Gameya.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Moto is great last year. Go check out the numbers. Anyways,
this guy is a game changer. Uh, if you're into
the nerdy side of baseball and how you're building a
team and how you're spending your money, is a massive asset.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know, there's an argument he's the most valuable asset
in free agency.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Uh, we could do that another day if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So, yeah, you could be getting a top of the
rotation starter for the next chunk of years for the
price of essentially on the house, and you're probably gonna
reallocate other assets to improve your team. So it seems
like it's the Dodgers because everything seems like it's the Dodgers.
It's the Dodgers until it's not. There's interesting arguments on
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both sides. With the Dodgers, you know, would you want
to be with two other stars of Japan with shohe
who's the star of the world, and Yamamoto, you know,
and there's other teams that also have Japanese stars. The
Cubs they have Saya and Nimnaga. The Padres have you
Darvish that supposedly is idol. So there's you can start
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stripping it either way, and it just depends who the
person is, Like, does he, you know, does he want
to travel and eat dinners with people he could easily
communicate with and kind of grow grew up with and
knows a little bit. Yeah, I could absolutely see that.
Does he want to be his own star? The New
York Yankees haven't signed a Japanese player, uh since Masahiro Tanaka.
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So if he thinks he's the guy and he wants
to come to New York and do the whole thing, whoa,
I mean, he will have eyeballs on him and an exciting,
riveted fan base coming off the World Series. And you know,
quote unquote losing Soto, I guess I didn't need a
quote unquo quote that felt Yankee Fanish. We did lose Soto,
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and that's fine. We went to different directions. But Roki
would really cover up that wound. And so the other
teams in play. I mentioned the Cubs, Blue Jays supposedly
are in play on everyone, the Texas Rangers, there's one
or two others. We'll see what it'll come down to.
And it's just interesting. What does he want? Is the
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being on the West coast matter like it has for
a lot of Japanese baseball players because the need like
to think it's San Diego and the Dodgers for San Diego,
I mean for the nightmare of the offseason slash what
their team is turning into as they're fighting for ownership.
They haven't made really any transactions this offseason. Getting six
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years of a cost controlled potential ACE would be massive
for them. This was the team that was up two
to one against those Dodgers with a chance to beat
them in the division series. That their offseason would almost
be complete, like incredible. So let's see what happens. Uh.
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The potential signing could start, like I said, midnight on Wednesday,
which is the end of Tuesday for a lot of people,
and then that opens up an eight day window for
him to sign. So we will be getting that news
coming up. The thing that is fun and It's part
of the reason I've talked myself into the Yankees a
little bit. And I have to preface this, and I
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think this was already like clipped out and stuff. So
if Socials is in here, chill out, yo. That Like,
if it's not the Dodgers, which it could be the Dogs,
it could be a layup. The Dodgers are crushing, they
just won the World Series. Show has there seems like
he's having a blastyam mootos there seem like he's having
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a good time. It's a squad, You're gonna be really good.
They've been a pitching factory. That, Yeah, this could all
be for not if you will, if it's not the Dodgers,
because the other side of that, say, he wants to
be his own star, and let's say he doesn't want
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to be like the sixth guy in a rotation. Maybe
he wants to be the dude that if these other
teams are in play San Diego, sure you, Darvish is there.
Apparently that's his idol. West Coast cool all about it.
Only problem is what are the Padres going to be?
That's a really tough division. What's going on with the
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ownership group? Are they gonna spend more money. Is their
money spent like what as a pitching As far as
a pitching factory go, I mean San Diego has been fine.
I don't think when you think of the teams that
jump to mind, I don't think San Diego jumps to
the forefront. I mean they've had strong pitching in general.
They are like good at player development. I'm not sure
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if that reputation. I'm not sure if that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Reputation persists at the MLB level, but they always I
feel like, turn guys in well regarded prospects at the
very least.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It feels like they've brought in good pitchers who have
been good. Interesting, But that is the the fun part
about this for Roki Sasaki is he cares very much
about getting better and signing with one of the pitching
factories and becoming better because when he if he waited
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two more years, he would have gotten the Yamamoto s
contract three hundred mil, four hundred mil. Who knows where
money's at in two years. Instead, he's going through the
grind five to six years MLB ball, and then he
will hit free agency proper or get a contract that
he's looking for one of these teams at age twenty
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nine or something like that, and who knows where money's
at then, So if he plays his cards right, look
at Showhy slightly different, but he played his card right,
cards right and got seven hundred mil, which never really
made sense, but it did. And now Sodo's getting more money.
So maybe that's the play. And I think you'd want
to be an environment that you know we're going to
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be playing good baseball, and that's where I think the
Yankees do have a legitimate chance.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You can be the star of all stars.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know, the Yankees have had a history of this,
going back to Matsui Tanaka. It is the Yankees, the
Yankees of all their faults, all their faults.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's that about? Salty Jake comes out?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They had their worst season in thirty years in twenty
twenty three, they were above five hundred. So you're ensuring
that you are going to be part of a very
good baseball team for the upcoming five or six years
on various scales. And the Yankees have been a bit
of a pitching factory. Matt Blake, the pitching coach. They've
tapped into a ton of relievers, look what Michael King
turned into now in the Padres, Like they have really
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done a great job. I mean Clay Holmes was a
throw in for a quadruple a player of sorts and
they turned him into a closer for a couple of years.
Should he have been the closer. That's a discussion for
another time. But it's the point of they definitely can
hit the pitching. They have done well tapping into pitchers.
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They're going to be a good baseball team. And some
of the other teams on the list, I don't know
what I can guarantee you. So it's probably the Dodgers.
I think the Padres are even second in the clubhouse,
but I think the Yankees are there, and then like Cubs. Hey,
maybe this is their ace in the hole. Maybe his
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boys with Imanaga and Suzuki. He's heard great things about
Chicago in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Who hasn't that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it's it's going to significantly impact the team, not
only because are you getting probably one hundred and fifty
hundred and sixty innings of a potential star pitcher, but
you're also going to be able to reallocate other assets
into improving your team. Uh that Yeah, we're going to
be getting on that in the upcoming week. It's going
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to significantly change the outlook for one baseball team. And
if you remember Sigano who signed, he hit it off
with the Orioles, no connections to Baltimore. I don't know
how he felt about the city going in. Maybe he's
a Ravens guy, maybe like Sterrick Henry. He didn't say that.
He said he hit it off with their pitching crew,
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like their pitching department. So we could see one of
those come out of the woodwork that maybe he wants
to be at a stadium that fits his pitching style
the best, the right coaches, the right teammates. It's gonna
be exciting and it is one of the more impactful
moves of this free agency. So that'll drop this week.
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The other one, like I mentioned, Jeff Hoffman signed with
the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Pretty cool. He was drafted by them years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And I always think it's interesting to be like, you know,
when you're a first round draft pick, you know you're
instantly telling yourself, like, yeah, I'm gonna sign with this team.
They're gonna put my number in the rafters and all
that fun stuff. Different path for Jeff Hoffman, but he
timed up his free agency well. There was a cool
uh Bryce Harper connection in there that got him linked
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with Philly that allowed him to take off and become
an All Star last year. One of the best relievers
in baseball that he definitely hit that. Okay, former starter,
more success as a reliever, has a pitch mix. Can
we make him a starter? So we'll see what Toronto
does with that. They do have somewhat full rotation. You're
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gonna use Jeff Hoffman. Fangrafts currently has him listed in
the bullpen, and I would wonder what came back with
his shoulder injury review, because the URLs supposedly offered him
forty million dollars and he turned that down, and they
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have a little bit of a history of that. Dalton
was running hot in the streets this morning talking about
how they've turned down over the years. Let's see, I
just had the listen Gai Air Jurgens. Of course in
twenty thirteen, Grant Ball four, Tyler, Colvin Bronson, Arroyo, Giovanni Gallardo.
I mean, a lot of those are close to a
decade old, so I wouldn't say it's a trend. But yeah,
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he gets three years for thirty three. He was hoping
to get around three for thirty eight. That's what Clay
Holmes got, as the Mets are going to try to
convert him while also using him in the bullpen, similar
to Jordan Hicks the previous year. A couple funny connections,
Jeff Hoffman got the same exact contract as Robert Stevenson
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got a couple of years ago. They were traded for
each other at one point, and Jeff Hoffman and Jordan
Romano changed teams and similar deals. So the former closer
of the Blue Jays goes over to Philly, the reliever
for the Phillies goes over to Toronto. Uh, they get
a move in and for Baltimore, it's interesting to know
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they think they need more pitching, And again, how are
they gonna use Jeff Hoffman in a swing roll maybe
start to start the year and end up in the
bullpen instead? They audible to Andrew Kittridge, former Raise reliever
pitch really well for Saint Louis last year. He got
a real contract to pitch for them ten mil, nine
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mil something like that. So yeah, so the Orioles a
couple alies pitching moves. The Baltimore Orioles, who I continue
to talk myself in and out of every day because
I do value having a lockdown closer and Felix Bautista
coming back. He was that in a very special way
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when he pitched for them. Now with Kittridge, they add
the Philly guys, Sir Anthony Dominguez, Gregory Soto, Yenny your
Cano is in there. Keegan Aiken had a good year.
The Oriols have a nice bullpen. They have enough starting
options that something should be figured out there that I
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all this excitement over the Boston Red Sox. I think
Oriole's excitement is going to pick up. Let's see what
happens with Santan Dare and free agency, but I think
Baltimore is gonna be back this year in Toronto. Speaking
of Santander, what else are they gonna do to try
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to help out Bow and Vladdie for one more year again?
You can partially talk yourself into their rotation. You could
partially talk yourself into their bullpen. The lineup you kind
of can't right now. But if Laddie can be MVP
of Laddie, if Bashett can bounce back one or two
other pieces in that lineup could make it impactful. Good
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for Jeff Offman, currently listed as the closer for your
Toronto Blue Jay, so let's see how they roll him
out for next season. That's kind of your baseball what's
up in the streets for now, still waiting on Pete
Braggy Santander, has Soong, Kim, Jack Flaherty sures are. There's
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a couple other pitchers out there full pension Piveta of course,
and some more bullpen arms. So as we a month
to go or so till pitchers and catchers, jerks and
profar will not be left out unless he is. Let's
see what comes with that. But it's time to talk
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football people. It was a massive football weekend for some
the best football weekend of the year. I would argue
this upcoming weekend, wild card weekend usually has a few blowouts,
and we saw that and you'll get the college notional
title National title game. Is that how you talk, Jake
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uh kind of? That kind is how I talk. Let's
do NFL first, because I think people probably care about
that a little more. Although it's not in chronological order,
you know that stings.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
But it's probably.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Easier to make your way through because on Saturday, the
Chargers face off with the Texans. Texans not hot in
the streets. We talked about it a little bit like
from where they were with Stroud with one of the
best rookie seasons ever, and these Texans are set up DeMarco.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know, one of the.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Seemingly coolest, sexiest young head coaches in the league, Bobby
Slowik at offensive coordinator. It sounded like he was turning
down jobs last offseason. The Texans became unsexy this season
to the fact that the Chargers on the road were
three point favorites, and they come out, they put up
a six spot and then Harbaugh got put in that
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SpongeBob Dirty Bubble. Do you know what that's about, are you?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
One of the Nickelodeon games? And Dirty Bubble came and
snatched Tarbon. Then it all fell off, fell apart for
the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The whole thing thirty two to six, the rest away
for your Texans. Justin Herbert, who had been judicious with
the ball had three interceptions during the radio season, had
four in this game. Chargers couldn't run the ball and
didn't order a lot of runs. Dobbins with nine carries
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for twenty six gusp bus with seven for twenty two
no action on the ground where the Texans ended up
finding it and kind of icing the game with Joe
Mixon showing his head again twenty five carries for one
zero six in a touchdown. The Texans day was awesome.
They were all over Herbert and and they just took
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control of this game and a proud kind of Texans
franchise at home dogs and Rex Ryan was talking trash
and they kept the receipts on that crazy what this
game turned into six nothing, Chargers ten six at the
half and then Houston just steamrolled them thirty two to
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twelve seven one two for Nico Collins, he's he's really awesome.
That has people questioning like, wait, are the Texans did
they save something for this postseason? Stroud finding it?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't know. I think there's a case that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The Chargers aren't that good. I think it's the cases
they had a lot of harbaw juice this year that
turned around the team. And Herbert is solid and Ladd
McConkie's very good. After Ladd McConkie skill wise, I think
the Chargers are a little thin so it's a massive
building year for them to get back to the playoffs
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win season. You have Herbert, his playoff woes are ugly,
and everyone want to make sure everyone talks about that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Good.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Let's see if they can get back there next year,
and let's see if they can build on that. But yeah,
I think another wide receiver, a tight end, or a
more dangerous running back and the Chargers would be a
much scarier team for next season. The other game that day,
Ravens Stillers, happened fast. Ravens go up twenty one to
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nothing in the first half. There was some crazy stats.
The Steelers were just completely outclassed. I think there was
something like the Ravens had more first downs and the
Steelers had plays in the first half, something along those lines.
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I don't think that was right, but it's one of
those stats that you hear and you're like, whoa, that
is right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Credit to the Steelers a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
They showed a bit of fight coming out in the
second half that I think, you know, Michaels, al Michaels
and Herbstreet were laughing on the broadcast that they were like,
you know, this is a blowout, this is ugly and
then they changed their tone to the they're a possession
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away from being a possession away. That's a good way
of That's a very nice way of phrasing it for
a Steelers team that didn't really have a chance against
one of the class teams in football and the AFC.
The Baltimore ravens Lamar has a very strong playoff game.
He was running it so much. Fifteen carries total eighty
one yards, King henry Man twenty six carries for a
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buck eighty six. He had one hundred in the first half.
I mean, that's just just bizarre. We've gotten too comfortable
with what he is continuing to do. No crazy receiving.
I mean, Zay Flowers didn't play in this game for Baltimore,
and Lamar just spread the ball out that no one
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had really a crazy game, but no one had a
bad game. Leaves Pittsburgh kind of wondering what are their
next steps at quarterbacks? Some people questioning the head coach.
I mean, I think Tomlin is sure of a thing
as you can have. It just feels like they haven't
had good quarterback playing so long. So will they continue
to go stopgap options? Will someone come available that can
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be more of a solution, whether in the draft or
Donald or.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Something like that. We will see.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And Baltimore goes on to play the game of next
weekend that we'll talk about in a second.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So that was Saturday.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's pretty disappointing, like to see Raven's chart, Raven Steelers
land at twenty eight to fourteen. That's not what that
game was. It was twenty one nothing and the first
game didn't really have the juice either.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That led us to Saturday.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And my Denver Broncos put on my Terrell Davis jersey
little big on me audible to my Brian Greasy jersey
fits pretty well, h slash, a little uncomfortable. If I
had like children's football pads on, I think it would
look great. Not gonna wear a lot of those. Uh
there's a tebow jersey too, but that's holidays. And here
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come the Denver Broncos. Sean Payton coaching him up.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
First drive. What did he see?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Troy Franklin the first ever rookie to rookie playoff.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Touchdown in NFL history? How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
As bon Nicks hits him for the deep ball, it's
seven to nothing. Broncos get ready.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
For a fight Buffalo. This was all the pregame shows.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Hey the Broncos might, the Broncos could. It's Sean Payton
bone Nicks has been playing better. The Broncos defense the
most sacks in the league. Like you're coming up with
an upset formula playing defense getting in the quarterback's face.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That was all the Bill's going to score the next
thirty one points. James Cook has been awesome for them
out of the backfield. I think they're starting to call
him Jimbo in audible to that if we need to
one hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Curtis Samuel felt like he killed.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
My fantasy teams for two seasons, but he has the
longest touchdown of the weekend. Shakir with a really solid game.
Starting to like him a lot. He's gonna probably ruin
some fantasy teams next year.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
For me, that's rude. He could be great.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But yeah, they spread the ball around, Josh Allen running
for it when they needed it, and yeah, again I
think there was I think the problem with wildcard weekend,
especially now that there's only two teams that get a bye,
is that let's say there's five elite teams in a
given NFL season. Okay, so two of them have a bye.
That means three of those teams are going to be
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playing wildcard weekend round numbers all around here. The Broncos
are just in a different class. The Broncos are nice.
They won games that I didn't think they'd win this year,
but the majority of their games are against ugly teams.
Broncos wins. I'll go down the line Buccaneers Week three,
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so we're going back then it's Jets, Raiders, Saints, Panthers, Falcons, Raiders, Browns, Colts,
and then they beat the Chiefs, who didn't play their players,
So the Broncos. It's a weird thing with the NFL
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and finding that that middle area. The only playoff team
the Broncos beat were the Buccaneers in Week three. Yes,
they beat the Chiefs, they didn't play their starters. So
from where the Broncos were from benching Russ to make
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sure he doesn't hit part of his contract goals to
where they are now, it's a massive turnaround. Excited for
some Bronco football next year. Bonix seems like, seems like
the responsive military man that Sean Payton needs and it's
gonna be interesting to see where they take this team.
So that was the start. Obviously, was looking for a
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little more fight out of the horses, but not shocked
at the results. What was I think people were hoping
was the game of the weekend was Packers Eagles. Eagles,
and Eagles come out and they play some Eagle football.
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They go up ten to nothing in the first Johan
Dotson with the first TD, A couple tough first TD
scores this weekend if that's your lane on the DraftKings sportsbook.
And then they get the shorty field goal, look like
they were gonna punch it in again, but it's ten
to nothing. And then the game just felt so ugly.
No scoring in the second quarter, but the Eagles were
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dominating the game. They're talking about on the broadcast. They
were saying it felt like it the Eagles should be
up like seventy three. Nothing, little harsh, but they were
in control. Packers missed a field goal in the first half.
Mc mann just makes want to start midway through the
second half that you're like, Okay, it's a ten to
three game. Wait, is this Eagles thing just gonna implode
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on itself? Like we've kind of seen before, like is
this gonna take a turn on? Sirianni and the Eagles
offense just looks so clunky for a couple possessions. No,
Dallas god Her with a man touchdown just did a
short on it that might be out before or after
you're watching this. Truck stick, double stiff arm, Josh Jacobs
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with a couple man runs of his own, My God,
carrying bodies, guy hanging onto a shirt and it didn't rip,
so he's just dragging guy in a shirt. That was
kind of that. It was still a one score game.
It was sixteen to ten Eagles field goal, Eagles field
goal run out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The clock wasn't pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sometimes with the Eagles it's not, but their defense is disgusting.
In Saquon, it's where the Eagles are frustrating. It feels
like they could hand it off to him every play
and win football games pretty easily, and they don't do that.
Aj Brown reading on the sideline that was interesting. Everyone
was like, Okay, is this is this for show? What's
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the book? Turns out it's like a good motivational book
and he said he reads it every game and this
was the first time he got caught.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So what's that about.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Eagles take care of the Packers. Packers Jordan Love three interceptions.
Nobody really knows what to do with the Packers. Like
Josh Jacobs had a monster year.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
They had a bunch of wide receivers get hurt throughout
this game and before the game with Watson. Next year
is going to be a very interesting year because I mentioned,
you know, okay, if the Broncos are middle class, the
top tier teams, the Eagles, the Ravens, Chiefs, you know,
there's a couple more the top tier teams. It feels
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like the Packers are somewhere in the middle. But we
don't know if they should be lumped up or lumped down.
This kind of team hasn't shown us they should be
lumped up that I don't know. It'll be an interesting
pivot peer pivot year even for the pack next year.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Some on your heart, there beabs.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I just thought you might want to know. San Francisco
Giants have been told they will not sign Roki Sasaki. Okay,
so he's ruling out teams, and the Giants are the
first ones in this cycle that we're being told are
ruled out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Tough for Giants fans.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Why are we doing it like that?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's crazy. It's gonna be two teams at once. Giant,
It's no.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Apparently that was brought up at justin Verlanders presser with
the Giants that I think is happening now, and the
gm got asked about all that. Okay, so they don't
know when they got informed exactly, but did it on
their own terms. Okay, they got an in person meeting
and have now been told.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Though you'd like to think he knows where he's signing.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Your final game again, After kind of a tough NFL Sunday,
that Eagles Packers game was clunky, even though it got
close for a second there, Commanders Bucks. I think everyone
was kind of hoping for a shootout here. Two kind
of shoddy defenses Baker against Jaden Daniels in Tampa. A
big Washington crowd in Tampa who got to see their
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commanders win. Jade and Daniels doing things rookie has never
done before. He ends up two touchdown passes twenty four
or thirty five. He also had the most carries and
rushing yards on the team, first rookie to lead in
passing and rushing in a game. You know, the rushing
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numbers aren't impressive, but he did get the big fourth
down to ice the game when they needed it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And yeah, this was this was playoff football.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
There was something like it felt like the big plays
weren't gonna happen. It felt like stars were doing it
in moments Mike Evans when they needed a big play.
Bucky was starting to kick in a gear in that
second half. Scary Terry McLaurin with a couple big plays,
but the one that's gonna haunt Bucks fans for a while.
They got a little cheeky trying to do a wide
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receiver end a round play that the timing was just
off on football bumps into the wide receiver. McMillan balls out,
Washington jumps on it. If you are a baseball person
listening to this, you're not sure what to do with football.
If you're a football person, Jayden daniels Man, I don't.
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It was awesome to watch him play at LSU, and
that's what rope him in. There's a couple interviews that
wrote me into also just his general running style, you know,
finding out a little bit about the guy. You're like, yeah,
it seems like a cool dude whatever, he's the man
he uh. Before the big third down to ice the game,
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they brought in Marcus Mariota to do a trick play
hard count and Jaden Daniels is at running back, so
this star quarterback he goes in motion from the running
back position and Mariota.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They don't draw off sides, they.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Call time out and uh, Jayden Daniels, there's a cut
of him laughing with the bucks d line like he's
just giggling and it's not okay. So Bay on the
other side, other side has had moments where people think
it's a little over the top.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He's rubbed some people the wrong way over the years.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
A great way to put it, it feels like it
feels like Jaden Daniels has the traits where you'd say
the word like you could say, Jaden Daniels is cocky,
but it's never rubbed anyone the wrong way and he
just has fun and he's just himself. That on that
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final third down that they ended up picking up after
the Mariota fake snap count, he stiff arms a two
hundred eighty pound defensive line and Clancy, who is having
an awesome game, and he does it with ease and
his blood pressure never rises. It always seems like he
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does the right thing. In his postgame interview, Bobby Wagner,
who's a Hall of Famer Seattle, you know those Seattle defenses,
like Bobby Wagner, he's he's going into the Hall. He's
now playing for Washington and he's been huge for them
on defense. Well arguably a legend of the game. He's
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the one that recovered the fumble and he's Jane Daniels
is doing the interview with after the game and he's like,
they asked him about Bobby Wagner. He's like, yeah, he
he fell on the ball, like he was. He was
kind of joshing. It's just like not poking in prodden.
But you know, he he obviously knew that he's talking
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about an inner circle Hall of Famer that has made
their defense a serviceable playoff defense. He's within earshot and
you know he could have gone rookie quarterback in front
of a microhne. Yeah, you know that's Bobby Wagner, and
what a play by him to get it done. And
he goes, uh, yeah, Bobby fell on the ball. If
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you're looking for a guy to like. I think Jay
Daniels is that guy. The way he plays, who he
is off the field, personality, he's all of it. So
that's why the DMV Washington area is so excited about him.
They get the win, and that sets up, well, there's
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a game tonight Minnesota LA essentially a pick them. The
game is in Arizona because of the LA wildfires, which
that's just crazy. Minnesota it's where football can just win.
Is Minnesota is coming off their worst game. It's to
the Lions, Donald look bad and it's like, okay, so
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is this how the Donald fairytale ends? Like could you
not see tomorrow morning? It's like, damn Donald and the
Vikings ran out of steam. They're playing an LA team
that's playing with a little more of an edge. Their
young d line has picked it up, they've got both
their receivers. They've played better when those guys have been
out there and gets it done. Maybe they're playing with
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for for La a little bit, which is crazy and
you don't, you know, you don't want to tie stuff
like that with sports, but it does. Or could you
see the Vikings where motivation kicks in and it's like, hey,
you know they got beat up by the Lions going
into their playoff game. That gave tall, handsome coach Kevin
O'Connell a week to coach them up, coach them hard,
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and make the right game plan. You'd absolutely see both
of those happening. So another one that I think if
you laid out the slate for this playoff weekend, you
would have said that probably has a top two or
three chance Minnesota and the Rams of having one of
the best games of the weekend. So hopefully we get
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that tonight and we'll be able to tee it up more.
But the winner of that game will go on to
face Philadelphia, which either of those fan bases will have
a little bit of hope. More so the Vikings, I
think if they win, but not if the Rams win
and Stafford looks good and McVeigh in LA like, you'll
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be able to talk yourself into either of those teams. Otherwise,
on Saturday, a tradition unlike any other, Houston will play
Kansas City. Yeah, Kansas City twenty four days off. Going
into that game, Yeah, pretty wild, Andy Reid and I
it'll be it's just gonna be interesting on that one, Like,
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are they gonna be fully prepped and in playoff mode.
This is a team that waited for the postseason. They
did it last year to us. That's the Saturday game
on Sunday, Baltimore and Buffalo. Those are two. It's everything
you want. Those are two super Bowl teams with MVP
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candidates like that has a chance to be the game
of the year before even teeing up the next weekend's
game or the Super Bowl. And Washington goes to Detroit,
which I hope that's fun. Detroit should roll them. They're dominant,
their defense looks like they're getting healthy, and they just
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did that to Minnesota. Jayden's got a little bit of
the magic magic sauce, and don't be surprised if that
game turns out being very fun, a playoff shootout of
sorts that puts Jayden fully kind of on the national stage.
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So that was your NFL weekend. I'm trying to get
you guys college football because the last time we spoke,
those games were still yet to happen, and it led
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us into the weekend, which if you were a football head,
you had yourself a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Notre Dame Penn State.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Wow, this is why people talk about stuff right when
it happens, because this game does feel forever ago.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
This was Thursday.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Wo Yeah, Notre Dame versus Penn State. Penn State came
out and they felt like the better team, and they
were starting to get it going on the lines and
they were getting pretty dominant. They get a field goal,
a fourteen play drive twenty yard field goal, so they
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come up a little short there. Then they run it
in fifteen plays ninety yards and it's like, oh man,
they are dominating the ball. The Notre Dame defense looks tired.
They haven't been able to drum up anything on offense.
Notre Dame gets the field goal before the half. Jeter,
we like that. Notre Dame comes out of the half
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and they look like a different squad.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
The touchdown to tie it ten to ten.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
They get the touchdown to take the lead at seventeen
to ten. Both running backs. I think there was NFL
running backs on the field for this game, with Jeremiah Love,
Nicholas Singleton, k Tron Allen Even. I think a Nias Williams.
I believe he's a true freshman in a couple of years.
The big tight end Tyler Warren out there doing his
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damn Is to make plays. You will see him a
lot on NFL Sundays. The problem might have been, you
won't see a lot of Penn state wide receivers on
NFL Sundays. No catches from Penn state wide receivers was
the going away kind of hot take from this one.
Notre Dame, they scored a touchdown after two Nick Singleton
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rushing touchdowns. In the fourth great House defender slipped and
fell fifty four yard touchdown beats twenty four to twenty four.
This was a fun college football game.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
It felt like Penn State might have just been the
better team and Big ten and all of that jazz,
and then Notre Dame fought back and there's kind of
contrasting styles of play. It's everything you want in a
college football game. And then, unfortunately for Penn State fans,
Drew Aller with an interception that'll be remembered in Happy
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Valley for a long time. They have the ball there
in an area of the field you just can't make
the mistake, and he goes through his progressions and he's
laid on it and it just felt like it was
happening in slow motion. Interception gives Notre Dame. The ball
back gives Jeter another kick at it, and they win
that game. Awesome for college football. I've gone on a
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couple rants to people like I don't believe sports are
fake because it's my whole existence. But there's ten percent
of me that's like, maybe stuff gets rigged and maybe
this is all AI or something. Notre Dame Penn State
to have that kind of game in this new college
playoff format, which reminder is a whole tie into the
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playoff format. I know college football had some duds, but
this game was great and these two teams would not
have linked up previously. So that's a win. And I mean,
just getting the Notre Dame fan base for college football huge.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
So that led into.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Friday Friday Day night, thinking that we just might Ohio
State versus Texas Texas forever my friend. And again Ohio
State has turned into the heavy favorite in the gambling
world and in this world that they come out. Speaking
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of NFL running backs, they there's a couple in this game.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Judkins.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
He gets the first touchdown in the first quarter, and
again like Texas is in survival mode. It's like you're
watching Ohio State and they clearly feel like the better team.
They get a penalty on their next drive and it
ends up being the theme of their next few drives.
They constantly were setting themselves back second in twenty four
second and twenty that Texas.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
They put a.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Drive together right before the half, a nice wheel route
touchdown pass to Jaden Blue fun name that Texas ties
it up at seven going into the half. There's twenty
nine seconds left. You know, in college football with timeouts
in the first down, that's a lot of times that
if Ohio State and their wide receivers can could put
a couple passes together that you could get a field goal.
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Look right, Texas sends the blitz with everyone else in
deep coverage, and Ohio State draws up a screenplay that'll
be remembered in Columbus for a long time. Traveon Henderson
seventy five yards. Texas. That felt like they survived. They survived.
They were going to go into halftime tied with this
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team that they didn't really have ground to stand on
early on, but then they were finding it like their
defense was playing better. I know the Ohio State penalties
were happening, but penalties happened when the other team is
also making place like that's how you get holding penalties.
That screen pass, it felt like it was over and
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it still wasn't. Texas in the third quarter another touchdown
pass to Jaden Blue. It's Fourteen's up Ohio State. They
answer thirteen plays eighty eight yards, finishes with a Judkins
touchdown twenty one to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Texas. They get it back.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
They're driving there at the one yard line, and that
was an oh for a lot of people. Ohio State's
d line defense as a whole has been credible on
goal line stands, and they do it again. Texas gets
caught trying to do kind of a trick play, but
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an outside reverse run of sorts clipped up and they
lose yards on it. They're backed up. It's now fourth down,
and this is where college football wins that all sports
do not have. Jack Sawyer looking like a first round
pick outside linebacker defensive end for Ohio State. He's from Columbus.
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He grew up idolizing Ohio State and everything it's supposed
to represent. He was the guy that Michigan planted their
flag on the field and he went and took it
out and got into a fisticuffs which I don't know,
led to a lot of good sports commentary. My guy
Riscilla was on it that he was like, you know what,
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what's Ohio State supposed to do in that situation? He
lost a football game, Just let him plant a flag
and celebrate, like, no, go get them quinn Ewers. They
were freshman roommate. It's together, like what how can you?
You don't write this stuff and other sports don't really
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have this stuff the college football does. Uh. He takes
it to the house. The whole place is going bonkers.
Quinn Ewres is an interesting cat man. He's one of
those you know I mentioned Jayden Daniels is kind of
a low polse guy.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
It's almost like Jane Daniels just doesn't have a bad button,
Like it's just flat or it's fun. Quinn Ewers is
just like so flat that it's kind of like what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Man?
Speaker 2 (47:36):
And he had a couple of tough moments in this game.
I'm interested to see what he does. I think he'd
be good to do a transfer year a la bo
Nicks Jaden. A couple other quarterbacks have done that and
found success. Could see him doing that as well, But
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it sets up Notre Dame in the Ohio State Buckeyes
maybe the two most hated fan bases in college football.
Ohio State's a nine and a half point favorite. Let's see,
they'll roll the ball out there next Monday, so they've
more than a week to prepare for each other. And yeah,
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this is just a jake end thought. That could be nothing.
Definitely is nothing. I still think in twenty years and
fifty years, we're gonna see a whole other creative side
to football, because sometimes I see trick plays and I'm
just like, wait, that's legal. Texas had one in this game.
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What's becoming a popular play is on fourth and short,
having the tight end take the snap and do a
QB sneak. You see it in the NFL, you see
it at the college level. Texas did one where they
had Arch manning in the game. The tight end comes
in motion, he goes behind the center to take the
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fourth and one snap. They snapped it through his legs
to Arch behind him. Arch took it ran for the
first down. And for me, that's just a moment of like,
we can get so much more creativity in offensive football.
Sometimes there's trick plays when you see like Okay, the
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interior lineman can go out for the pass, but the
outside linemen couldn't because of how they're aligned. And it's like,
I think there's gonna be a kooky high school coach
that starts pressing more of those buttons, and you're gonna
start seeing more of that. At the same time, my
buddies in the group chat, we're pretty pissed off that
there are some coordinators calm plays this weekend. You know,
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the Buccaneers kind of end around play that one kind
of ended their season. They were kind of in control
of that game. That you gotta be careful when you
push that button in how you execute, and it's why
a lot of football guys say, no, we're not doing
that crap. Put the heavy boys in front, let's run
it behind him and yehaw, And there's probably a reason
they do that, and there's probably a reason I'm not
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a football coach. But there will be more creativity coming.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I see that. So that's your football weekend.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
So a little Rokie at the start, a live Rokie update.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
We'll see if.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Anything goes on. Braggy Pete Santander. There's still runs to
be had out there, and there's a few. There's some pitching,
a lot of fun back end guys out there that
a lot of those guys are going to find a
home before spring training. You wonder if anyone lingers our guy,
like our Jack Flaherty who's looking for his number. Does
he wait for an injury or two to lead camp?
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
We'll find out soon. We'll find out with BBD's uncle,
Weikul
Speaker 3 (50:48):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
We'll cover a.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Little bit of baseball today. Let's be honest, it's kind
of football season. We had some college football games, bring
us into the weekend wild card weekend of the NFL.
We'll chew through all of that, and we'll tease you
with the little baseball because it could be a big week.
Roki Sasaki Week is here. That's gonna get one team
very excited and a lot of teams probably angry. Your
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boy Jeff Hoffman signed with the Blue Jays pretty significant.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And you know I'm not missing that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Andrew Kittridge signing to Baltimore. God, that's seventh inning, watch
out Crossfire. He's actually pretty good, So I don't know
why I'm talking like that. Let's do some baseball quick.
It'll be a football heavy episode. Thank you guys for
being a part of Waken Jake. And if you're subscribing, cool,
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We appreciate all of that. So let's do some baseball quick.
It's Sasaki Week? What does that mean for you? Roki
Sasaki will get posted at midnight the fourteenth, which is
technically the fifteenth. That one's always thrown me off. How
do you say that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, it's on the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Twelve, a m of the fifteenth eligible to sign again,
and it's just gonna be a massive move for whatever
team gets them. We did a talk and Yanks deep
dive on it, and I'll just use some anecdotal examples
because you'll have them for your team. But if the
Yankee sign Roki Sasaki, which I blindly for some reason
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think will happen, maybe that's just fandom. We'll walk through
that in a second. But if the Yankee signed Roky Saki,
they probably they're definitely training Marcus Stroman, which we've dreamt
of as part of their offseason anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But then you know, is a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Luis Heil Clark Schmidt would be on the table, probably
for a different bat in the lineup. Like you have
just locked up six years of a cost controlled guy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who's supposed to be a dude. Uh, he's at.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Least one a with Yamamoto, and Yamamoto got three hundred
million dollars and I think I think he's a little younger,
and I think there's more upside in his arm talent
like v low stuff if you will, and just the
fact that he's built like a traditional starting pitcher, you know, Yamamoto.
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There was all this wait to see a little guy?
Is he Tim Lindsea? Come, what's going on here? Well,
our guy, Roki Sasaki is listed.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Listed. Wow, no website for him? Height, I'm seeing six '
four comes up.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's okay. Now I'm seeing another six to two. Call
him sixty three.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Split the gap.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But yeah, he's big, he's got velo, he can touch
triple digits and it's a fun part of his free
agency that supposedly he's very vested in improving, which maybe
that sounds dumb.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But he's young.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
God, what year is he born? That's gonna make me mad?
Is he at two thousands?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is everyone at two thousand?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do I just need to get over that?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Looks like his date of birth is November third, two
thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, okay, so that's good. He's twenty three years old.
So he's doing it the Otani route if you remember
otanih he's basically getting international signing pool money, probably around
seven mil. And then he's essentially a rookie with options,
so you'll have him throughout his ARB ers his pre
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ARB years and again has similar to Yamamoto, who had
a three flat ERA. If you only saw his first
start of the year, I'm sorry for you. Last year
it was like one of the first games of the year,
so I kind of get it. We were at the airport.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, we're you know, Korea Gameya.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Moto is great last year. Go check out the numbers. Anyways,
this guy is a game changer. Uh, if you're into
the nerdy side of baseball and how you're building a
team and how you're spending your money, is a massive asset.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know, there's an argument he's the most valuable asset
in free agency.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Uh, we could do that another day if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So, yeah, you could be getting a top of the
rotation starter for the next chunk of years for the
price of essentially on the house, and you're probably gonna
reallocate other assets to improve your team. So it seems
like it's the Dodgers because everything seems like it's the Dodgers.
It's the Dodgers until it's not. There's interesting arguments on
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both sides. With the Dodgers, you know, would you want
to be with two other stars of Japan with shohe
who's the star of the world, and Yamamoto, you know,
and there's other teams that also have Japanese stars. The
Cubs they have Saya and Nimnaga. The Padres have you
Darvish that supposedly is idol. So there's you can start
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stripping it either way, and it just depends who the
person is, Like, does he, you know, does he want
to travel and eat dinners with people he could easily
communicate with and kind of grow grew up with and
knows a little bit. Yeah, I could absolutely see that.
Does he want to be his own star? The New
York Yankees haven't signed a Japanese player, uh since Masahiro Tanaka.
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So if he thinks he's the guy and he wants
to come to New York and do the whole thing, whoa,
I mean, he will have eyeballs on him and an exciting,
riveted fan base coming off the World Series. And you know,
quote unquote losing Soto, I guess I didn't need a
quote unquo quote that felt Yankee Fanish. We did lose Soto,
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and that's fine. We went to different directions. But Roki
would really cover up that wound. And so the other
teams in play. I mentioned the Cubs, Blue Jays supposedly
are in play on everyone, the Texas Rangers, there's one
or two others. We'll see what it'll come down to.
And it's just interesting. What does he want? Is the
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being on the West coast matter like it has for
a lot of Japanese baseball players because the need like
to think it's San Diego and the Dodgers for San Diego,
I mean for the nightmare of the offseason slash what
their team is turning into as they're fighting for ownership.
They haven't made really any transactions this offseason. Getting six
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years of a cost controlled potential ACE would be massive
for them. This was the team that was up two
to one against those Dodgers with a chance to beat
them in the division series. That their offseason would almost
be complete, like incredible. So let's see what happens. Uh.
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The potential signing could start, like I said, midnight on Wednesday,
which is the end of Tuesday for a lot of people,
and then that opens up an eight day window for
him to sign. So we will be getting that news
coming up. The thing that is fun and It's part
of the reason I've talked myself into the Yankees a
little bit. And I have to preface this, and I
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think this was already like clipped out and stuff. So
if Socials is in here, chill out, yo. That Like,
if it's not the Dodgers, which it could be the Dogs,
it could be a layup. The Dodgers are crushing, they
just won the World Series. Show has there seems like
he's having a blastyam mootos there seem like he's having
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a good time. It's a squad, You're gonna be really good.
They've been a pitching factory. That, Yeah, this could all
be for not if you will, if it's not the Dodgers,
because the other side of that, say, he wants to
be his own star, and let's say he doesn't want
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to be like the sixth guy in a rotation. Maybe
he wants to be the dude that if these other
teams are in play San Diego, sure you, Darvish is there.
Apparently that's his idol. West Coast cool all about it.
Only problem is what are the Padres going to be?
That's a really tough division. What's going on with the
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ownership group? Are they gonna spend more money. Is their
money spent like what as a pitching As far as
a pitching factory go, I mean San Diego has been fine.
I don't think when you think of the teams that
jump to mind, I don't think San Diego jumps to
the forefront. I mean they've had strong pitching in general.
They are like good at player development. I'm not sure
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if that reputation. I'm not sure if that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Reputation persists at the MLB level, but they always I
feel like, turn guys in well regarded prospects at the
very least.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It feels like they've brought in good pitchers who have
been good. Interesting, But that is the the fun part
about this for Roki Sasaki is he cares very much
about getting better and signing with one of the pitching
factories and becoming better because when he if he waited
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two more years, he would have gotten the Yamamoto s
contract three hundred mil, four hundred mil. Who knows where
money's at in two years. Instead, he's going through the
grind five to six years MLB ball, and then he
will hit free agency proper or get a contract that
he's looking for one of these teams at age twenty
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nine or something like that, and who knows where money's
at then, So if he plays his cards right, look
at Showhy slightly different, but he played his card right,
cards right and got seven hundred mil, which never really
made sense, but it did. And now Sodo's getting more money.
So maybe that's the play. And I think you'd want
to be an environment that you know we're going to
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be playing good baseball, and that's where I think the
Yankees do have a legitimate chance.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You can be the star of all stars.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know, the Yankees have had a history of this,
going back to Matsui Tanaka. It is the Yankees, the
Yankees of all their faults, all their faults.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's that about? Salty Jake comes out?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They had their worst season in thirty years in twenty
twenty three, they were above five hundred. So you're ensuring
that you are going to be part of a very
good baseball team for the upcoming five or six years
on various scales. And the Yankees have been a bit
of a pitching factory. Matt Blake, the pitching coach. They've
tapped into a ton of relievers, look what Michael King
turned into now in the Padres, Like they have really
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done a great job. I mean Clay Holmes was a
throw in for a quadruple a player of sorts and
they turned him into a closer for a couple of years.
Should he have been the closer. That's a discussion for
another time. But it's the point of they definitely can
hit the pitching. They have done well tapping into pitchers.
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They're going to be a good baseball team. And some
of the other teams on the list, I don't know
what I can guarantee you. So it's probably the Dodgers.
I think the Padres are even second in the clubhouse,
but I think the Yankees are there, and then like Cubs. Hey,
maybe this is their ace in the hole. Maybe his
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boys with Imanaga and Suzuki. He's heard great things about
Chicago in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Who hasn't that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it's it's going to significantly impact the team, not
only because are you getting probably one hundred and fifty
hundred and sixty innings of a potential star pitcher, but
you're also going to be able to reallocate other assets
into improving your team. Uh that Yeah, we're going to
be getting on that in the upcoming week. It's going
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to significantly change the outlook for one baseball team. And
if you remember Sigano who signed, he hit it off
with the Orioles, no connections to Baltimore. I don't know
how he felt about the city going in. Maybe he's
a Ravens guy, maybe like Sterrick Henry. He didn't say that.
He said he hit it off with their pitching crew,
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like their pitching department. So we could see one of
those come out of the woodwork that maybe he wants
to be at a stadium that fits his pitching style
the best, the right coaches, the right teammates. It's gonna
be exciting and it is one of the more impactful
moves of this free agency. So that'll drop this week.
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The other one, like I mentioned, Jeff Hoffman signed with
the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Pretty cool. He was drafted by them years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And I always think it's interesting to be like, you know,
when you're a first round draft pick, you know you're
instantly telling yourself, like, yeah, I'm gonna sign with this team.
They're gonna put my number in the rafters and all
that fun stuff. Different path for Jeff Hoffman, but he
timed up his free agency well. There was a cool
uh Bryce Harper connection in there that got him linked
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with Philly that allowed him to take off and become
an All Star last year. One of the best relievers
in baseball that he definitely hit that. Okay, former starter,
more success as a reliever, has a pitch mix. Can
we make him a starter? So we'll see what Toronto
does with that. They do have somewhat full rotation. You're
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gonna use Jeff Hoffman. Fangrafts currently has him listed in
the bullpen, and I would wonder what came back with
his shoulder injury review, because the URLs supposedly offered him
forty million dollars and he turned that down, and they
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have a little bit of a history of that. Dalton
was running hot in the streets this morning talking about
how they've turned down over the years. Let's see, I
just had the listen Gai Air Jurgens. Of course in
twenty thirteen, Grant Ball four, Tyler, Colvin Bronson, Arroyo, Giovanni Gallardo.
I mean, a lot of those are close to a
decade old, so I wouldn't say it's a trend. But yeah,
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he gets three years for thirty three. He was hoping
to get around three for thirty eight. That's what Clay
Holmes got, as the Mets are going to try to
convert him while also using him in the bullpen, similar
to Jordan Hicks the previous year. A couple funny connections,
Jeff Hoffman got the same exact contract as Robert Stevenson
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got a couple of years ago. They were traded for
each other at one point, and Jeff Hoffman and Jordan
Romano changed teams and similar deals. So the former closer
of the Blue Jays goes over to Philly, the reliever
for the Phillies goes over to Toronto. Uh, they get
a move in and for Baltimore, it's interesting to know
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they think they need more pitching, And again, how are
they gonna use Jeff Hoffman in a swing roll maybe
start to start the year and end up in the
bullpen instead? They audible to Andrew Kittridge, former Raise reliever
pitch really well for Saint Louis last year. He got
a real contract to pitch for them ten mil, nine
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mil something like that. So yeah, so the Orioles a
couple alies pitching moves. The Baltimore Orioles, who I continue
to talk myself in and out of every day because
I do value having a lockdown closer and Felix Bautista
coming back. He was that in a very special way
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when he pitched for them. Now with Kittridge, they add
the Philly guys, Sir Anthony Dominguez, Gregory Soto, Yenny your
Cano is in there. Keegan Aiken had a good year.
The Oriols have a nice bullpen. They have enough starting
options that something should be figured out there that I
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all this excitement over the Boston Red Sox. I think
Oriole's excitement is going to pick up. Let's see what
happens with Santan Dare and free agency, but I think
Baltimore is gonna be back this year in Toronto. Speaking
of Santander, what else are they gonna do to try
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to help out Bow and Vladdie for one more year again?
You can partially talk yourself into their rotation. You could
partially talk yourself into their bullpen. The lineup you kind
of can't right now. But if Laddie can be MVP
of Laddie, if Bashett can bounce back one or two
other pieces in that lineup could make it impactful. Good
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for Jeff Offman, currently listed as the closer for your
Toronto Blue Jay, so let's see how they roll him
out for next season. That's kind of your baseball what's
up in the streets for now, still waiting on Pete
Braggy Santander, has Soong, Kim, Jack Flaherty sures are. There's
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a couple other pitchers out there full pension Piveta of course,
and some more bullpen arms. So as we a month
to go or so till pitchers and catchers, jerks and
profar will not be left out unless he is. Let's
see what comes with that. But it's time to talk
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football people. It was a massive football weekend for some
the best football weekend of the year. I would argue
this upcoming weekend, wild card weekend usually has a few blowouts,
and we saw that and you'll get the college notional
title National title game. Is that how you talk, Jake
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uh kind of? That kind is how I talk. Let's
do NFL first, because I think people probably care about
that a little more. Although it's not in chronological order,
you know that stings.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
But it's probably.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Easier to make your way through because on Saturday, the
Chargers face off with the Texans. Texans not hot in
the streets. We talked about it a little bit like
from where they were with Stroud with one of the
best rookie seasons ever, and these Texans are set up DeMarco.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know, one of the.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Seemingly coolest, sexiest young head coaches in the league, Bobby
Slowik at offensive coordinator. It sounded like he was turning
down jobs last offseason. The Texans became unsexy this season
to the fact that the Chargers on the road were
three point favorites, and they come out, they put up
a six spot and then Harbaugh got put in that
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SpongeBob Dirty Bubble. Do you know what that's about, are you?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
One of the Nickelodeon games? And Dirty Bubble came and
snatched Tarbon. Then it all fell off, fell apart for
the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The whole thing thirty two to six, the rest away
for your Texans. Justin Herbert, who had been judicious with
the ball had three interceptions during the radio season, had
four in this game. Chargers couldn't run the ball and
didn't order a lot of runs. Dobbins with nine carries
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for twenty six gusp bus with seven for twenty two
no action on the ground where the Texans ended up
finding it and kind of icing the game with Joe
Mixon showing his head again twenty five carries for one
zero six in a touchdown. The Texans day was awesome.
They were all over Herbert and and they just took
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control of this game and a proud kind of Texans
franchise at home dogs and Rex Ryan was talking trash
and they kept the receipts on that crazy what this
game turned into six nothing, Chargers ten six at the
half and then Houston just steamrolled them thirty two to
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twelve seven one two for Nico Collins, he's he's really awesome.
That has people questioning like, wait, are the Texans did
they save something for this postseason? Stroud finding it?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I don't know. I think there's a case that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The Chargers aren't that good. I think it's the cases
they had a lot of harbaw juice this year that
turned around the team. And Herbert is solid and Ladd
McConkie's very good. After Ladd McConkie skill wise, I think
the Chargers are a little thin so it's a massive
building year for them to get back to the playoffs
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win season. You have Herbert, his playoff woes are ugly,
and everyone want to make sure everyone talks about that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Good.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Let's see if they can get back there next year,
and let's see if they can build on that. But yeah,
I think another wide receiver, a tight end, or a
more dangerous running back and the Chargers would be a
much scarier team for next season. The other game that day,
Ravens Stillers, happened fast. Ravens go up twenty one to
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nothing in the first half. There was some crazy stats.
The Steelers were just completely outclassed. I think there was
something like the Ravens had more first downs and the
Steelers had plays in the first half, something along those lines.
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I don't think that was right, but it's one of
those stats that you hear and you're like, whoa, that
is right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Credit to the Steelers a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
They showed a bit of fight coming out in the
second half that I think, you know, Michaels, al Michaels
and Herbstreet were laughing on the broadcast that they were like,
you know, this is a blowout, this is ugly and
then they changed their tone to the they're a possession
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away from being a possession away. That's a good way
of That's a very nice way of phrasing it for
a Steelers team that didn't really have a chance against
one of the class teams in football and the AFC.
The Baltimore ravens Lamar has a very strong playoff game.
He was running it so much. Fifteen carries total eighty
one yards, King henry Man twenty six carries for a
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buck eighty six. He had one hundred in the first half.
I mean, that's just just bizarre. We've gotten too comfortable
with what he is continuing to do. No crazy receiving.
I mean, Zay Flowers didn't play in this game for Baltimore,
and Lamar just spread the ball out that no one
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had really a crazy game, but no one had a
bad game. Leaves Pittsburgh kind of wondering what are their
next steps at quarterbacks? Some people questioning the head coach.
I mean, I think Tomlin is sure of a thing
as you can have. It just feels like they haven't
had good quarterback playing so long. So will they continue
to go stopgap options? Will someone come available that can
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be more of a solution, whether in the draft or
Donald or.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Something like that. We will see.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And Baltimore goes on to play the game of next
weekend that we'll talk about in a second.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So that was Saturday.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's pretty disappointing, like to see Raven's chart, Raven Steelers
land at twenty eight to fourteen. That's not what that
game was. It was twenty one nothing and the first
game didn't really have the juice either.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That led us to Saturday.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And my Denver Broncos put on my Terrell Davis jersey
little big on me audible to my Brian Greasy jersey
fits pretty well, h slash, a little uncomfortable. If I
had like children's football pads on, I think it would
look great. Not gonna wear a lot of those. Uh
there's a tebow jersey too, but that's holidays. And here
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come the Denver Broncos. Sean Payton coaching him up.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
First drive. What did he see?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Troy Franklin the first ever rookie to rookie playoff.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Touchdown in NFL history? How do you like that?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
As bon Nicks hits him for the deep ball, it's
seven to nothing. Broncos get ready.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
For a fight Buffalo. This was all the pregame shows.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Hey the Broncos might, the Broncos could. It's Sean Payton
bone Nicks has been playing better. The Broncos defense the
most sacks in the league. Like you're coming up with
an upset formula playing defense getting in the quarterback's face.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That was all the Bill's going to score the next
thirty one points. James Cook has been awesome for them
out of the backfield. I think they're starting to call
him Jimbo in audible to that if we need to
one hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Curtis Samuel felt like he killed.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
My fantasy teams for two seasons, but he has the
longest touchdown of the weekend. Shakir with a really solid game.
Starting to like him a lot. He's gonna probably ruin
some fantasy teams next year.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
For me, that's rude. He could be great.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But yeah, they spread the ball around, Josh Allen running
for it when they needed it, and yeah, again I
think there was I think the problem with wildcard weekend,
especially now that there's only two teams that get a bye,
is that let's say there's five elite teams in a
given NFL season. Okay, so two of them have a bye.
That means three of those teams are going to be
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playing wildcard weekend round numbers all around here. The Broncos
are just in a different class. The Broncos are nice.
They won games that I didn't think they'd win this year,
but the majority of their games are against ugly teams.
Broncos wins. I'll go down the line Buccaneers Week three,
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so we're going back then it's Jets, Raiders, Saints, Panthers, Falcons, Raiders, Browns, Colts,
and then they beat the Chiefs, who didn't play their players,
So the Broncos. It's a weird thing with the NFL
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and finding that that middle area. The only playoff team
the Broncos beat were the Buccaneers in Week three. Yes,
they beat the Chiefs, they didn't play their starters. So
from where the Broncos were from benching Russ to make
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sure he doesn't hit part of his contract goals to
where they are now, it's a massive turnaround. Excited for
some Bronco football next year. Bonix seems like, seems like
the responsive military man that Sean Payton needs and it's
gonna be interesting to see where they take this team.
So that was the start. Obviously, was looking for a
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little more fight out of the horses, but not shocked
at the results. What was I think people were hoping
was the game of the weekend was Packers Eagles. Eagles,
and Eagles come out and they play some Eagle football.
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They go up ten to nothing in the first Johan
Dotson with the first TD, A couple tough first TD
scores this weekend if that's your lane on the DraftKings sportsbook.
And then they get the shorty field goal, look like
they were gonna punch it in again, but it's ten
to nothing. And then the game just felt so ugly.
No scoring in the second quarter, but the Eagles were
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dominating the game. They're talking about on the broadcast. They
were saying it felt like it the Eagles should be
up like seventy three. Nothing, little harsh, but they were
in control. Packers missed a field goal in the first half.
Mc mann just makes want to start midway through the
second half that you're like, Okay, it's a ten to
three game. Wait, is this Eagles thing just gonna implode
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on itself? Like we've kind of seen before, like is
this gonna take a turn on? Sirianni and the Eagles
offense just looks so clunky for a couple possessions. No,
Dallas god Her with a man touchdown just did a
short on it that might be out before or after
you're watching this. Truck stick, double stiff arm, Josh Jacobs
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with a couple man runs of his own, My God,
carrying bodies, guy hanging onto a shirt and it didn't rip,
so he's just dragging guy in a shirt. That was
kind of that. It was still a one score game.
It was sixteen to ten Eagles field goal, Eagles field
goal run out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The clock wasn't pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sometimes with the Eagles it's not, but their defense is disgusting.
In Saquon, it's where the Eagles are frustrating. It feels
like they could hand it off to him every play
and win football games pretty easily, and they don't do that.
Aj Brown reading on the sideline that was interesting. Everyone
was like, Okay, is this is this for show? What's
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the book? Turns out it's like a good motivational book
and he said he reads it every game and this
was the first time he got caught.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So what's that about.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Eagles take care of the Packers. Packers Jordan Love three interceptions.
Nobody really knows what to do with the Packers. Like
Josh Jacobs had a monster year.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
They had a bunch of wide receivers get hurt throughout
this game and before the game with Watson. Next year
is going to be a very interesting year because I mentioned,
you know, okay, if the Broncos are middle class, the
top tier teams, the Eagles, the Ravens, Chiefs, you know,
there's a couple more the top tier teams. It feels
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like the Packers are somewhere in the middle. But we
don't know if they should be lumped up or lumped down.
This kind of team hasn't shown us they should be
lumped up that I don't know. It'll be an interesting
pivot peer pivot year even for the pack next year.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Some on your heart, there beabs.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I just thought you might want to know. San Francisco
Giants have been told they will not sign Roki Sasaki. Okay,
so he's ruling out teams, and the Giants are the
first ones in this cycle that we're being told are
ruled out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Tough for Giants fans.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Why are we doing it like that?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's crazy. It's gonna be two teams at once. Giant,
It's no.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Apparently that was brought up at justin Verlanders presser with
the Giants that I think is happening now, and the
gm got asked about all that. Okay, so they don't
know when they got informed exactly, but did it on
their own terms. Okay, they got an in person meeting
and have now been told.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Though you'd like to think he knows where he's signing.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Your final game again, After kind of a tough NFL Sunday,
that Eagles Packers game was clunky, even though it got
close for a second there, Commanders Bucks. I think everyone
was kind of hoping for a shootout here. Two kind
of shoddy defenses Baker against Jaden Daniels in Tampa. A
big Washington crowd in Tampa who got to see their
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commanders win. Jade and Daniels doing things rookie has never
done before. He ends up two touchdown passes twenty four
or thirty five. He also had the most carries and
rushing yards on the team, first rookie to lead in
passing and rushing in a game. You know, the rushing
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numbers aren't impressive, but he did get the big fourth
down to ice the game when they needed it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And yeah, this was this was playoff football.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
There was something like it felt like the big plays
weren't gonna happen. It felt like stars were doing it
in moments Mike Evans when they needed a big play.
Bucky was starting to kick in a gear in that
second half. Scary Terry McLaurin with a couple big plays,
but the one that's gonna haunt Bucks fans for a while.
They got a little cheeky trying to do a wide
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receiver end a round play that the timing was just
off on football bumps into the wide receiver. McMillan balls out,
Washington jumps on it. If you are a baseball person
listening to this, you're not sure what to do with football.
If you're a football person, Jayden daniels Man, I don't.
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It was awesome to watch him play at LSU, and
that's what rope him in. There's a couple interviews that
wrote me into also just his general running style, you know,
finding out a little bit about the guy. You're like, yeah,
it seems like a cool dude whatever, he's the man
he uh. Before the big third down to ice the game,
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they brought in Marcus Mariota to do a trick play
hard count and Jaden Daniels is at running back, so
this star quarterback he goes in motion from the running
back position and Mariota.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They don't draw off sides, they.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Call time out and uh, Jayden Daniels, there's a cut
of him laughing with the bucks d line like he's
just giggling and it's not okay. So Bay on the
other side, other side has had moments where people think
it's a little over the top.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He's rubbed some people the wrong way over the years.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
A great way to put it, it feels like it
feels like Jaden Daniels has the traits where you'd say
the word like you could say, Jaden Daniels is cocky,
but it's never rubbed anyone the wrong way and he
just has fun and he's just himself. That on that
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final third down that they ended up picking up after
the Mariota fake snap count, he stiff arms a two
hundred eighty pound defensive line and Clancy, who is having
an awesome game, and he does it with ease and
his blood pressure never rises. It always seems like he
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does the right thing. In his postgame interview, Bobby Wagner,
who's a Hall of Famer Seattle, you know those Seattle defenses,
like Bobby Wagner, he's he's going into the Hall. He's
now playing for Washington and he's been huge for them
on defense. Well arguably a legend of the game. He's
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the one that recovered the fumble and he's Jane Daniels
is doing the interview with after the game and he's like,
they asked him about Bobby Wagner. He's like, yeah, he
he fell on the ball, like he was. He was
kind of joshing. It's just like not poking in prodden.
But you know, he he obviously knew that he's talking
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about an inner circle Hall of Famer that has made
their defense a serviceable playoff defense. He's within earshot and
you know he could have gone rookie quarterback in front
of a microhne. Yeah, you know that's Bobby Wagner, and
what a play by him to get it done. And
he goes, uh, yeah, Bobby fell on the ball. If
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you're looking for a guy to like. I think Jay
Daniels is that guy. The way he plays, who he
is off the field, personality, he's all of it. So
that's why the DMV Washington area is so excited about him.
They get the win, and that sets up, well, there's
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a game tonight Minnesota LA essentially a pick them. The
game is in Arizona because of the LA wildfires, which
that's just crazy. Minnesota it's where football can just win.
Is Minnesota is coming off their worst game. It's to
the Lions, Donald look bad and it's like, okay, so
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is this how the Donald fairytale ends? Like could you
not see tomorrow morning? It's like, damn Donald and the
Vikings ran out of steam. They're playing an LA team
that's playing with a little more of an edge. Their
young d line has picked it up, they've got both
their receivers. They've played better when those guys have been
out there and gets it done. Maybe they're playing with
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for for La a little bit, which is crazy and
you don't, you know, you don't want to tie stuff
like that with sports, but it does. Or could you
see the Vikings where motivation kicks in and it's like, hey,
you know they got beat up by the Lions going
into their playoff game. That gave tall, handsome coach Kevin
O'Connell a week to coach them up, coach them hard,
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and make the right game plan. You'd absolutely see both
of those happening. So another one that I think if
you laid out the slate for this playoff weekend, you
would have said that probably has a top two or
three chance Minnesota and the Rams of having one of
the best games of the weekend. So hopefully we get
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that tonight and we'll be able to tee it up more.
But the winner of that game will go on to
face Philadelphia, which either of those fan bases will have
a little bit of hope. More so the Vikings, I
think if they win, but not if the Rams win
and Stafford looks good and McVeigh in LA like, you'll
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be able to talk yourself into either of those teams. Otherwise,
on Saturday, a tradition unlike any other, Houston will play
Kansas City. Yeah, Kansas City twenty four days off. Going
into that game, Yeah, pretty wild, Andy Reid and I
it'll be it's just gonna be interesting on that one, Like,
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are they gonna be fully prepped and in playoff mode.
This is a team that waited for the postseason. They
did it last year to us. That's the Saturday game
on Sunday, Baltimore and Buffalo. Those are two. It's everything
you want. Those are two super Bowl teams with MVP
(38:51):
candidates like that has a chance to be the game
of the year before even teeing up the next weekend's
game or the Super Bowl. And Washington goes to Detroit,
which I hope that's fun. Detroit should roll them. They're dominant,
their defense looks like they're getting healthy, and they just
(39:11):
did that to Minnesota. Jayden's got a little bit of
the magic magic sauce, and don't be surprised if that
game turns out being very fun, a playoff shootout of
sorts that puts Jayden fully kind of on the national stage.
(39:33):
So that was your NFL weekend. I'm trying to get
you guys college football because the last time we spoke,
those games were still yet to happen, and it led
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us into the weekend, which if you were a football head,
you had yourself a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Notre Dame Penn State.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Wow, this is why people talk about stuff right when
it happens, because this game does feel forever ago.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
This was Thursday.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Wo Yeah, Notre Dame versus Penn State. Penn State came
out and they felt like the better team, and they
were starting to get it going on the lines and
they were getting pretty dominant. They get a field goal,
a fourteen play drive twenty yard field goal, so they
(40:33):
come up a little short there. Then they run it
in fifteen plays ninety yards and it's like, oh man,
they are dominating the ball. The Notre Dame defense looks tired.
They haven't been able to drum up anything on offense.
Notre Dame gets the field goal before the half. Jeter,
we like that. Notre Dame comes out of the half
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and they look like a different squad.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
The touchdown to tie it ten to ten.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
They get the touchdown to take the lead at seventeen
to ten. Both running backs. I think there was NFL
running backs on the field for this game, with Jeremiah Love,
Nicholas Singleton, k Tron Allen Even. I think a Nias Williams.
I believe he's a true freshman in a couple of years.
The big tight end Tyler Warren out there doing his
(41:27):
damn Is to make plays. You will see him a
lot on NFL Sundays. The problem might have been, you
won't see a lot of Penn state wide receivers on
NFL Sundays. No catches from Penn state wide receivers was
the going away kind of hot take from this one.
Notre Dame, they scored a touchdown after two Nick Singleton
(41:50):
rushing touchdowns. In the fourth great House defender slipped and
fell fifty four yard touchdown beats twenty four to twenty four.
This was a fun college football game.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
It felt like Penn State might have just been the
better team and Big ten and all of that jazz,
and then Notre Dame fought back and there's kind of
contrasting styles of play. It's everything you want in a
college football game. And then, unfortunately for Penn State fans,
Drew Aller with an interception that'll be remembered in Happy
(42:21):
Valley for a long time. They have the ball there
in an area of the field you just can't make
the mistake, and he goes through his progressions and he's
laid on it and it just felt like it was
happening in slow motion. Interception gives Notre Dame. The ball
back gives Jeter another kick at it, and they win
that game. Awesome for college football. I've gone on a
(42:45):
couple rants to people like I don't believe sports are
fake because it's my whole existence. But there's ten percent
of me that's like, maybe stuff gets rigged and maybe
this is all AI or something. Notre Dame Penn State
to have that kind of game in this new college
playoff format, which reminder is a whole tie into the
(43:06):
playoff format. I know college football had some duds, but
this game was great and these two teams would not
have linked up previously. So that's a win. And I mean,
just getting the Notre Dame fan base for college football huge.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
So that led into.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Friday Friday Day night, thinking that we just might Ohio
State versus Texas Texas forever my friend. And again Ohio
State has turned into the heavy favorite in the gambling
world and in this world that they come out. Speaking
(43:48):
of NFL running backs, they there's a couple in this game.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Judkins.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
He gets the first touchdown in the first quarter, and
again like Texas is in survival mode. It's like you're
watching Ohio State and they clearly feel like the better team.
They get a penalty on their next drive and it
ends up being the theme of their next few drives.
They constantly were setting themselves back second in twenty four
second and twenty that Texas.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
They put a.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Drive together right before the half, a nice wheel route
touchdown pass to Jaden Blue fun name that Texas ties
it up at seven going into the half. There's twenty
nine seconds left. You know, in college football with timeouts
in the first down, that's a lot of times that
if Ohio State and their wide receivers can could put
a couple passes together that you could get a field goal.
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Look right, Texas sends the blitz with everyone else in
deep coverage, and Ohio State draws up a screenplay that'll
be remembered in Columbus for a long time. Traveon Henderson
seventy five yards. Texas. That felt like they survived. They survived.
They were going to go into halftime tied with this
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team that they didn't really have ground to stand on
early on, but then they were finding it like their
defense was playing better. I know the Ohio State penalties
were happening, but penalties happened when the other team is
also making place like that's how you get holding penalties.
That screen pass, it felt like it was over and
(45:21):
it still wasn't. Texas in the third quarter another touchdown
pass to Jaden Blue. It's Fourteen's up Ohio State. They
answer thirteen plays eighty eight yards, finishes with a Judkins
touchdown twenty one to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Texas. They get it back.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
They're driving there at the one yard line, and that
was an oh for a lot of people. Ohio State's
d line defense as a whole has been credible on
goal line stands, and they do it again. Texas gets
caught trying to do kind of a trick play, but
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an outside reverse run of sorts clipped up and they
lose yards on it. They're backed up. It's now fourth down,
and this is where college football wins that all sports
do not have. Jack Sawyer looking like a first round
pick outside linebacker defensive end for Ohio State. He's from Columbus.
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He grew up idolizing Ohio State and everything it's supposed
to represent. He was the guy that Michigan planted their
flag on the field and he went and took it
out and got into a fisticuffs which I don't know,
led to a lot of good sports commentary. My guy
Riscilla was on it that he was like, you know what,
(46:47):
what's Ohio State supposed to do in that situation? He
lost a football game, Just let him plant a flag
and celebrate, like, no, go get them quinn Ewers. They
were freshman roommate. It's together, like what how can you?
You don't write this stuff and other sports don't really
(47:08):
have this stuff the college football does. Uh. He takes
it to the house. The whole place is going bonkers.
Quinn Ewres is an interesting cat man. He's one of
those you know I mentioned Jayden Daniels is kind of
a low polse guy.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
It's almost like Jane Daniels just doesn't have a bad button,
Like it's just flat or it's fun. Quinn Ewers is
just like so flat that it's kind of like what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Man?
Speaker 2 (47:36):
And he had a couple of tough moments in this game.
I'm interested to see what he does. I think he'd
be good to do a transfer year a la bo
Nicks Jaden. A couple other quarterbacks have done that and
found success. Could see him doing that as well, But
(47:57):
it sets up Notre Dame in the Ohio State Buckeyes
maybe the two most hated fan bases in college football.
Ohio State's a nine and a half point favorite. Let's see,
they'll roll the ball out there next Monday, so they've
more than a week to prepare for each other. And yeah,
(48:20):
this is just a jake end thought. That could be nothing.
Definitely is nothing. I still think in twenty years and
fifty years, we're gonna see a whole other creative side
to football, because sometimes I see trick plays and I'm
just like, wait, that's legal. Texas had one in this game.
(48:42):
What's becoming a popular play is on fourth and short,
having the tight end take the snap and do a
QB sneak. You see it in the NFL, you see
it at the college level. Texas did one where they
had Arch manning in the game. The tight end comes
in motion, he goes behind the center to take the
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fourth and one snap. They snapped it through his legs
to Arch behind him. Arch took it ran for the
first down. And for me, that's just a moment of like,
we can get so much more creativity in offensive football.
Sometimes there's trick plays when you see like Okay, the
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interior lineman can go out for the pass, but the
outside linemen couldn't because of how they're aligned. And it's like,
I think there's gonna be a kooky high school coach
that starts pressing more of those buttons, and you're gonna
start seeing more of that. At the same time, my
buddies in the group chat, we're pretty pissed off that
there are some coordinators calm plays this weekend. You know,
(49:48):
the Buccaneers kind of end around play that one kind
of ended their season. They were kind of in control
of that game. That you gotta be careful when you
push that button in how you execute, and it's why
a lot of football guys say, no, we're not doing
that crap. Put the heavy boys in front, let's run
it behind him and yehaw, And there's probably a reason
they do that, and there's probably a reason I'm not
(50:09):
a football coach. But there will be more creativity coming.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I see that. So that's your football weekend.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
So a little Rokie at the start, a live Rokie update.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
We'll see if.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Anything goes on. Braggy Pete Santander. There's still runs to
be had out there, and there's a few. There's some pitching,
a lot of fun back end guys out there that
a lot of those guys are going to find a
home before spring training. You wonder if anyone lingers our guy,
like our Jack Flaherty who's looking for his number. Does
he wait for an injury or two to lead camp?
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
We'll find out soon. We'll find out with BBD's uncle,
Weikul
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Jack his production of Daan Patrick Production, Humble Media and
Workhouse Media.
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