January 24, 2024 • 40 mins
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It's time for the fantasy football guys, like a hot night in Tijuana.
They're the Donkey Show of fantasy football. Here they are Lyle con Keel and
Kevin Moore leave fantasy football guys.That's right where the fantasy football guys.
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I'm Kevin, I'm ah and Icannot wait for the Ravens to beat the
ship out of the Chiefs this weekend. I you know what we'll see.
You know the funny thing about thatis, as the game started, I
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realized that we all three put ourfake money behind the Bills. That was
that was just super foolish. Asit turned out, it was. And
here's the thing that breaks my heartthe most. The Bills packers too,
But the Bills they will never getaway from Scott Orriod Like Nick Okay,
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Susan went wide right. I meaneverybody's brain went to you know, first
watched that game as a child,right, And here we are again forty
thirty years later, thirty five yearslater, and it's the same thing.
How is that possible? And youknow what, this is the kind of
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thing that makes me believe, Yes, there is a god and he hates
the Buffalo Bills. Well, thething. I've told you guys that on
the TV show The X Files,there was a you know, high level
shadowy government with a figure that basicallysaid, you know, they'll never win
as long as I'm alive. Well, I guess that character is still alive
in the government because the Bills can'tseem to get past the divisional It's amazing
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to me, and in my opinion, they're the better team. Yeah,
but not that day. Well,when your thirty million dollars a year receiver
drops quite possibly the best pass toever be thrown in the past, like
ten years, seventy five yard bombin the air right through his hands.
Talk about putting the biscuit in thebasket ode lord ye who's got a tribute
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on his shoulder. I mean,listen, that kind of stuff happens.
You can't depend on a seventy fiveyard bomb. They should have rolled Casey,
should have at home. And bythe way, I'm a spoiler alert,
I expect Baltimore to roll Casey.Well, we'll get to that.
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We'll get to that later and stufflike you know, you never know with
the veteran presidents and you know Patmahomes the tempo swift factor yeah, man,
and the Casey defense is super legitfor sure. Yeah, I have
some information about that game when weget to it. With regard to the
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first let's talk about the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, so, yeah, they
fired everybody, but maybe the dudethey should have fired. Apparently he's just
going to be a cheerleader. Now, well, I guess, I mean
because they they get they got ridof the guy who was running his offense,
and if they bring any other offensivecoordinator in from the outside, they're
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not going to want to run Siriannesoffense. They're going to run theirs.
They're better. Is what is it? Third and twenty? Let's run a
bubble screen or a quarterback draw?Is KB draw? Dude? Yeah?
Sorry? Third and fifteen? Right? So, did see in the news
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today that Vic Fangio was released fromhis contract with the Dolphins and that allegedly
they did it so that he couldcome back and be closer to his family
in Pennsylvania. Like like a dealwith the Eagles to be their d Q
or DC is imminent. Well,the Eagles are bringing in the guy to
run the system of the guys thatthey already had. Here's the problem that
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system sucks. The Dolphins defense wasterrible. It wasn't great. I am
not. Everybody's like VIC fans.You know, VIC fan, What where
are the numbers? He's had somegood defenses in his lifetime. Not on
the Dolphins. He didn't. Noton the Dolphins, he did not.
They were twenty seventh, twenty eighthin points allowed. They in the red
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zone, they gave up sixty fivepercent touchdowns. They're not good. Yeah,
I don't listen. I want someone. I hate zone defense. I
hate this bend we don't break,you know, I hate it. And
it's all analytics, but it's bs. You know, where's the thing I
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want? Jim Johnson's get in yourface and blitz every other play, blitz
when you should run man unless it'sshort yardage so they can't pick you.
Zone defenses, there are so manyrules in the NFL. Zone defenses don't
work because of the rules for theoffense. They don't work well. Well,
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you can run them every once ina while to confuse somebody, but
you can't run them every play.It's super easy to beat man under zone
deep that's you know, that's thewhere you go. That's it, and
and bring an extra man every thirdplay, fourth play. Yeah, just
the man under struggles against the riseof the running quarterback. Because if you
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if you have to play man,you're a defensive backer, linebacker and you
have to turn your back to LamarJackson to cover somebody that's not gonna I
would rather get beat that way thanto didn't have people wide open every third
downplay, Yeah, you got thatthat Like third and fifteen nobody should be
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open. Ever. Yeah, youwatch you watch defensees it primarily plays zone
and third and fifteen is not outof the realm with possibility, No,
because there's gonna be somebody in theseam. Somebody's open, and unless you
bring pressure right, the quarterback's gonnahave time. And if you have time,
they'll find a pocket. It drivesme nuts. And listen, I'm
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not a football guy. I don'tI didn't grow up coaching or you know,
I played when I was a kid. You're a fantasy football guy,
oh eh, but but this isthis seems obvious to me. I don't
know. It drives me nuts.I look at the game and I'm like,
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dude, what are you guys doing. I think what happens a lot
nowadays from from watching the games andalso seeing people break down film. It's
not necessarily that the zone doesn't work, but the disguise the zone doesn't work
because the offense comes to the tothe line with one or two plays intending
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to beat whatever covers of the defenseis showing. So if you're actually running
you know, Cover four, youdisguise it like Cover three, the offense
audibles to a Cover three beater,but then you're actually playing Cover four,
you're gonna win that rep. Butif the disguise is bad, if the
players can't execute getting back to theirpositions because of the disguise, that's when
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you get beat. I don't knowspecifically if that's what the Eagles are doing
or if they just weren't disguising atall, and so it was easy to
you know, because if you knowyou're running Cover three and you run a
Cover three beater, is that itis? So the zone I don't think,
yeah, because like the zone,I don't think is an issue because
like the Niners run a lot ofzone. The Niners have maybe the best
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defense in the league, but it'sbecause they run their defense better. Here's
why they're rody. They can getpressure with their front four. Yeah,
if you can get pressure at yourfront four, definitely run a zone.
There's no reason not to. Thequarterback doesn't have time, right, Yeah,
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but the Eagles had that, No, we lost you. Then they
had what they had that last year, not this year. Yeah, the
Eagles did in twenty twenty twenty three, they had that pressure. Yeah,
they had more, you know,like third most sacks in the history of
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the league. So yeah, absolutelyright. So they were able to get
in your face and run that zone, right, and it was fine.
But this year they had no pressure. Quarterback had time against the zone.
If you have time, it's over, yeah, because the quarterback will find
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a pocket and it might not belong. It might be five yard out,
but it's there and it's six yards, seven yards, eight yards,
whatever it is, and keep movingthe chains. Matriculate the ball down the
field boys whatever. Yeah, combinedwith bad tackling and all that. Did
you just throw a hang scram atme? You did? I did matriculate
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the ball down the field balls.I don't know if you guys saw this.
You just me saying about bad tackling. That reminded me of this.
I don't even know what the originaltweet was about But somebody was saying something
about a basketball team or a footballteam, and Darius Slay responded to the
tweet and said something or other,and somebody responded to Darius Slay with a
YouTube video of proper form tackling.No words, just our video is like,
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hey, you should check this out. Man pass this around the locker
room. What that's amazing. Bythe way, did you see him b
drop seventy the other night? Ohyeah, you see. Doc Rivers is
now the coach of the Bucks.So so here's the thing. If Doc
Rivers eliminate the Sixers uh in thesecond round of the playoffs, it will
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be the worst thing that's ever happenedin Philadelphia. I don't know about that.
It will be. There's been somebad things happened in Philadelphia. Yeah,
the move movement was was pretty bad, like the whole bombing and stuff.
But I was just talking about sports. Yeah, I mean, obviously
the whole you know, destroying theneighborhood was a pretty bad thing. By
the way, I don't know ifyou guys know the story about that Robbie
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You probably don't, but it ishistorically horrible. Yeah, everybody, Yeah,
we shouldn't talk about, you know, because Lia will make a joke
about it inevitably. I mean,the police bombed. They did. They
bombed an area, the whole andand it's caught on fire and literally burnt
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down a whole neighborhood and people died. Yeah, it was horrific. I'm
not going to make a joke aboutthat. Move on, there's the joke
right there there. It is somereal quick news here. Zach Ertz signed
with the Lions. Homie wants aring. Good for him, man,
I don't know with the right team, but I'm just saying, yeah,
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I mean, what the hell Imean Ertz is what like thirty two thirty
three? Maybe have an announcer toa gas left in the tank. We'll
see, let's see. Titans didhire Brian Callahan as their coach Bengals offensive
coordinator. I don't know much aboutthe dude, but you know, the
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push is now a lot of peoplewant that young head coach here. He
is a dude's thirty nine, sohe's not like he's a baby. But
you go from the toughness that isMike Vrabel to the offensive, you know,
head coach apparently looking to build WillLevis up to be their quarterback of
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the future. We'll see how thatout. It's interesting because like when you
think of the Bengals offense past fewyears, I mean, it's it's been
good, but it's not like phenomenal. Yeah, so not real sure,
you know. And he'll probably bringsomebody from his offensive staff there to be
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his offensive coordinator, as they do, somebody who can run quote unquote his
offense. So we'll see how thatgoes. One thing I'm really curious about,
you know, we've heard about obviouslythat dude got the gig. You
know, it looks like Harball couldbe going to to San Diego. He's
postponed a meeting he was supposed tohave with the Falcons. Really curious that
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the two, I mean, theGoat hasn't had much love from these teams
looking for a coach. Belichick andPete Carroll's allegedly out there. Do you
guys think it's it's an age thing, or do you think it's a you
know, perhaps the game has movedthese moved past these guys or what do
you think The reason is not awhole lot of love for Bill Belichick or
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Pete Carroll getting me I mean Belichick'sreally easy. Yeah, it was Brady
Well, we think got out herein the world. But do you think
that the football community think that isreven Belichick wanted Brady out, he left,
he went to Tampa and won anotherSuper Bowl. Yeah, so,
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and people are like, dude,what the hell? Well, I do
think that that the fact they broughtMatt Jones in, they probably hastened the
departure. But that was Bill's decisionto do that. Yeah, I get
it. I mean, everybody knowsBill the general manager is way less of
a success than Bill the coach.But and I think that's probably part of
the reason why he's not getting muchlove, is that the owners and the
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presidents probably know if they're gonna ifyou're gonna bring in Bill Belichick to a
new team, you got to givehim everything. And I don't think he
probably does. Yeah, I thinkthe only one that's going to do that
is Pepper. I don't know.I think Bill wants to go live in
Carolina. Yeah, Now there's nothing. There's not enough access to to boting
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from where that team is, Idon't think. But uh, plus,
we we all know what a shitshow Carolina is. As far as the
ownership and all that sort of thing. So, yeah, Pete Carroll,
I don't really know because I thinkhis him getting removed slash stepping down.
It was kind of a murky situation. He got quote unquote kicked upstairs.
Yeah, but like some confusion therebecause it's he He came out and said
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that he was fighting to keep thejob. He wanted to stay a coach.
So I'm wondering why he even acceptedthe job when you could leave and
go be the head coach for theFalcons or the Titans. I think your
your question answers itself. Well,yeah, I don't know. Uh,
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and and maybe you know Pete doesn'twant to leave Seattle. Who knows,
And you know, maybe he acceptedthe and he wasn't only given a choice.
You know, we're gonna get ridof you as head coach. You
can come to the front office ifyou like, be an advisor if you
like. But I've not even heardanybody talking about him getting interviews. We
know the Belichick interview with Atlanta twice, but we don't know if he's gone
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anywhere else, if he you know, teams, if they're gonna if you're
gonna bring Bill in for an interview. You're letting the NFL world know about
it. Yeah, we're just nothearing it. It's a little odd to
me. Yeah, what are yougonna do? So a couple of injuries
here, isaiaha Checko not practicing dueto a tow and probably the biggest news
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of the week injury wise is DeeboSamuel with that shoulder injury. Because San
Francisco without Debo does not have awinning record over the past couple of years.
With Debo, they have a superiorwinning record. He's the X factor.
Doesn't matter who else is on theteam. It's Debo being able to
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do crazy stuff and next thing youknow, he's dancing in the end zone.
Without him, I think the Lionsgot a shot. Yeah. I
would have thought they have a shoteven without him. But even with him,
yeah yeah, even even if he'shealthy, I think they still have
a shot. But I mean,really, Deebo's outing the X factor.
But I think the largest contributor tothe success of the Niners is Trent Williams.
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I think they like, they haven'twon a game where he's not played
in like three years, So thefact that he's in is it's very good
for them, doesn't hurt all right, So looking at you want to you
want to talk anything about any lastweekends games? We can talk about the
Texans Ravens. But yeah, Imean, yeah, good, well we
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I'm sure we have take takes thatnobody said should have won. Yeah,
so you had so many opportunities towin that. I mean, you know,
Savage dropped to pick six or acouple of it. They are opportunity.
They are super dangerous and people betterbe super careful. Did they they
fired or did not re up thecontract for Joe Berry their DC, So
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they're going to have someone else inthere next year. Yeah, we'll see,
which I know some Packers fans arevery happy about. Indeed, Yeah
you bet. I mean it wasit was a nine point nine and a
half point spread, but they onlywon by three and it was a missfield
goal that cost them that tie,and there were a lot of other opportunities
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to get points that they just missed. So that's that's what makes me think
the Lions have a shot this comingweekend because, you know, mediocre defenses
like the Packers held them to twentyfour points and the Lions have a you
know, potentially explosive offense. We'veseen it, so be curious to see
how that works out. Buccaneers Lions, I mean pretty much went as a
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spect. Do you think Baker's backin Tampa next year? Yes, that
makes me happy that he's gonna havea starting gig in the NFL. R
I P Kyle. He was prettygood, honestly, Yeah, he was.
He won the division. He hadsome Baker esque moments where you know,
things didn't go the way you wouldhope. He's not one of the
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best in the NFL, but hewas pretty good. I think the issue,
what do you want? I don'tknow. I mean, I meant
to a playoff game, won aplayoff game, like, I don't know.
I know. I think the issuethey're gonna have next year is that
I don't think they're going to bepaying Mike Evans and they can save a
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lot of cap space moving on fromChris Godwin. So those are big mistakes.
But I agree, But I thinkhe gotta keep one of you Godwin's
under contract. I think they keephim or restruck. Yeah, he has
he has one more one more likelike real year, which is twenty four,
and then he's got like three voidyears. On the back end of
that, he signed an extension.I think it might have been before this
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past like in this past offseason,but it just added a year and like
restructure the void year stuff, solike they could trade him before the draft,
gain some cast space and some draftcapital, or keep him on.
But Evans is going to be reallyexpensive, and I think that was the
last year of his contract that hejust paid. I think he's a free
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agent. So I don't see themresigning, even though he's amazing, like
he's he's been putting up a thousandyard seasons for eleven years. Ever,
yeah, yeah, pretty much.Ever, he's gonna be really expensive,
and I don't think they're really ina position to, you know, pay
our thirty one, thirty two yearold receiver thirty five million dollars a year.
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You know, they barely won therein the worst division in the league.
I'm not sure it's going to getany better next year, to be
right. But I'm saying so resigningMike Evans, I don't think it's necessary
puts them over. They need theyneed more work than just that agreed Chiefs
bills. I mean, we kindof talked about it already. I don't
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know what the Bills have to do. I don't. I don't think it's
Josh Allen. I think it's Ithink it's really the rest of the team,
to be honest with you, Andyou see it every game, every
Bills game that you can almost it'salmost like a flip is switched where the
team goes, Okay, Josh,you've got to win this for us.
We're gonna hop on your shoulders andyou're either going to carry us across the
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line or you don't. And youknow he he comes up short with with
that much responsibility. You know,Cooke wasn't wasn't running like he has been
running the past several games, alot of drops, some questionable defense.
I don't know. So you knowwhat it reminds me of, because in
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the way you just describe that,I think it's is appropriate for what I'm
about to say here, is thatthere's a point in the game where the
team says, you got to winthis. I think Mahomes has the same
thing happened to him and has hadit happened for the last several years,
where it's all right, Mahomes hasto win this game, and historically he
does. But this year when thatswitch has to get flipped. He wasn't
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winning. Well, he won eleventimes, he did, but like you
know, dropped passes, like overthrows, play like fourth down conversions not happening
like they normally do. Like thatwas happening, and I'm like this,
this is exactly what happens to theBills. Yeah, well, like Mahomes
doing everything he can do and it'sjust the rest of the teams just kind
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of let him down. But herethey are in the AFC Championship game.
Yeah again, Yeah, so Ithink you're I think you're probably you're spot
on with it's like the surrounding pieces. Unfortunately for the Bills that they are,
the windows like just about shut becausethey're like one hundred and fifty million
under like over the cap next year. Yeah, they're really in the hole
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with all the stuff, all thecontracts they have to pay out and there's
Josh Allen's gonna be thirty by thetime they actually can like put a competitive
team out there again. With howin the hole they are, I don't
know, they're gonna have to completelyrebuild. I mean, they're gonna have
to make some moves to clear upcap space to be sure, but you
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know they're they're in a position Ithink where they just, you know,
bring a couple guys in and theytake another run at it. I mean,
Miami is going to be a problemin their division next year. Who
knows if Aaron Rodgers can stay upright, Maybe the Jets are a problem.
Who knows what the girod Mayo Patriotsare going to look like. So
maybe their window to dominate the divisionis closing a bit. And it's not
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because they're not gonna I don't thinkthey're gonna get worse. I think just
other teams in their division are goingto get better. Yeah, I think.
I don't know if Diggs is onthe team next year. Gave Davis's
contract is up? You hate him, though, Yeah? You hate games.
I don't hate him in real life. You hate his face, you
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hate his game, you hate hiscontribution to the Bills offense. I hate
it. I hate his statistical performances. That's what I hate. Do you
have five touchdowns in one game?What's your problem? How many touchdowns did
you have the five games before thatone? Yeah? So so he scores
point two touchdowns per game over five? All right, boys, let's look
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at the conference. Uh situation hereright, So deal, and there's two
games, man, there's three NFLgames left for the season. Bros.
You're coming over for Super Bowl,of course? I am, Well,
I don't know. Roma keeps askingme about it. Is he gonna get
Is he gonna throw some lfgs?I'm sure he will if we ask him
to. Well, you know,that's that's up to you. That's up
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to you. All right. Soyou got Chiefs at Ravens, Ravens at
home of course, three and ahalf point favorites the over all. Let
me talk about last week. Solast week it was Texans at Ravens.
Ravens gave nine and a half andthe over under was forty three. We
all picked the Texans. The actualscore was thirty forty all wrong, right,
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We were right at halftime, that'strue, and we all picked the
over. So the actual was fortyfour points. So we did pop the
over. So each of us gotthree points a point for that, but
the Ravens covered the nine and ahalf, so three a point for each
of us. And that so thePackers at the forty nine ers forty nine
ers also laying nine and a halfthe fifty point five over under was not
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reached. The score was twenty fourto twenty one, so that's forty five.
You guys picked the Packers. Youtook the Packers and the points.
As it turns out, foolishly,I took the forty nine ers. They
did not cover. You guys bothget a point, but I did take
the under. You guys took theover, so I pop a point there.
So each of us get a pointfrom that game. So now we're
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still leaving. We're well, we'reeven through this week, and like we
were, well, no, Robbiewas actually a point up. I know,
but we're so far this Yeah,this game, yes, everybody has
two points going into game three.So the Bucks at the Lions, Lions
giving six and a half over underforty eight and a half. Lions won
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the game thirty one to twenty three, so they covered the spread. The
over under was forty eight and ahalf. Total score was fifty four.
So Robbie and I picked the Lionsin the over, so each of us
got two points. But lyle,you picked one on the under, so
you only get one point, okay, And then you got the Chiefs Bills
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Bills giving two and a half pointsover under forty five. All of us
took the bills foolishly Chiefs. Onthe game total points was fifty one.
The over under was forty five,so the overpays. We all took bills,
so we get nothing. Robbie andI took the over, So Robbie
and I get points. So forthe week, Robby and I got five
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points. Lyle got three. Sothe total right now is Robbie with twelve,
Me with eleven, and Lyle withnine. I suck. I'm shocked
as it turns out, so Ard, I'll make up four it on prop
bets in the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's all. It always works.
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Let's see what we got here.So he got the Chiefs and the Ravens.
The Ravens are giving three and ahalf the over unders forty four forty
four point five. So Robbie theleader, you pick first three and a
half. This is this is interesting. So I saw a piece of news
earlier today about the referee for thisgame. The referee is going to be
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Sean Smith. If you're familiar withthat guy, he does have a tendency
he calls penalties on the home team, like thirty five percent more often than
any other referee in the NFL.Wow, you think the fix is in?
Well it was? I mean,who was handed? He was hand
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selected for this game. Like thevideo I watch went down a bunch of
different types of penalties and he's like, it's like twice as many penalties on
the home team versus the average otherreferee. It's like kind of ridiculous.
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So interesting. Yeah, that's that'snot great. However, the Ravens offense
is real good. The Ravens defenseI think is the best in the league.
Huh. I would normally want totake the Chiefs getting points whenever I
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can, if it was like Imight, but three and a half,
I'm gonna stick with the Ravens.And what was he over under? Do
you ever? Under? Is fortyfour and a half. I'm gonna take
the under. Okay, so I'llgo second since I'm in second. So
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you know, I'm not the sharpestknife in the drawer. You guys probably
know that better than most, ohway, But I do learn from my
mistakes. I bet against Pat Mahomesand the Chiefs last week. I'm not
gonna do it again this week.I'm taking the Chiefs. Patty Mahomes the
points and the over bitches. Wow. Yeah, I wish I could disagree
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with you, Kevin. But there'stwo reasons, right. One is Pat
Mahomes, he's the new Tom Brady. Why are we betting against him in
the playoffs because we're stupid? Yeah. The other thing is I don't think
the NFL will allow a non TaylorSwift Super Bowl or Travis Kelsey screaming like
a dinosaur outside the Travis, howdare you my bad? But yeah,
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dude, like so, hang on, I was talking Travis was Jason was
talking on the on the their podcasttoday talking about how his wife was like,
we're gonna be meeting Taylor. Don'tmake a fool of yourself an embarrassing
on your best behavior, right,And he's like what Jason was like,
I'm taking my shirt off and jumpingin the stands. That is the that
is impression. So you've seen you'veseen the him out there bellowing at the
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top of his long shirtless and overhis shoulder toward the back of the room
behind him. Is his wife justlooking at him, going, oh,
why how can you not love thatguy? I do? I absolutely love
him? Uh So seriously, thoughI don't think the NFL will allow it.
I really really really don't want theSuper Bowl to be about Swift,
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but I feel like it's gonna bebecause that's what they want, and so
I'm going Casey in the over aswell. Huh, all right, fine,
look forward to getting two points onyou boys. I hope you do.
Yeah, I do too. Frankly, you know, if the Ravens
win by a point, we allwin except you, which is fine as
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well. I just hope the Ravenswin, but I don't think they will.
I think the Chiefs will win thisgame and be back in the Super
Bowl. What would be amazing isif it was a rematch from the first
game this year, Chiefs Lions.That would be bad. Yeah. So
I'll go first here Lions at fortynine ers, forty nine ers giving seven.
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The over under here is fifty one. If Deebo doesn't play, I
mean it's tough. It's it's Wednesdayas we record this, so if Debo's
out. I really like the Lions. I think the Lions right now are
kind of feel like they're playing withhouse money. I think they're all in
on Dan Campbell. I like theseven points the fact that the forty nine
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ers, you know, oh,could only take care of the seven seed
by three points. The Lions defenseis way better than the Packers defense.
I'm gonna actually take the Lions andthe points. I think the forty nine
ers probably will win this, butI don't think it's gonna be a walk
away. If it was six anda half points, I might not want
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to do it. But I'm goingto take the Lions, and I'm going
to take the under. Who's next. We'll let lyle go next. Lions
over baby. So here's the thing. It's gonna be a high scoring game.
I don't think the forty nine ersare as good as advertised. We've
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seen several times this year rock Purtyget a little rattled. This is a
big game. I got two wordsfor you, Aiden Hutchinson. Have you
seen have you seen the Hutchinson's family? I have? Yeah. I had
just smoke show after smoke show.Everybody's amazing. The mom is a smoke
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show. Forget the Kardashians. Theyshould do a show about them. How
does this happen? It's nutty?No, I just listen. I would
pick the Lions to win this gameout right, maybe because I just wanted
to happen. I want to lieand Brian Lyon, if you're still out
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there listening, man, I wantthis for you so bad. Oh yeah,
that would be amazing. I reallydo. Man. I want the
line in the super Bowl, andI if they go, I want them
to win the ring. The worstthing for me that can happen is it's
casey San Francisco. I'm bored todeath already, like you know so.
But given the points and all thatstuff, I don't think San Francisco can
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beat Detroit by seven. I don'tthink they can. Detroit's got a good
football team, they do, andif they come to play, it's gonna
be wild. Brock Party is hewas drafted in the seventh round for a
reason. Listen. He runs thisoffense well, he does what he's supposed
to do well. He does movethat guy off his spot. Though definitely
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susceptible to pressure, the blitz,all that kind of stuff. Well,
all quarterbacks are, but I thinkhe's more than most. It turned out
Semac saved their game last week,and he had an amazing last drive,
but that was not Brock Perdy.Rock Party did not have a good game.
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This is a tough, tough matchup. They thought Green Bay came to
play. Detroit hasn't been a championsince the nineteen fifties. Yeah, you
want to talk about reckless abandon They'recoming to f dude. Yeah, these
boys are gonna be buzzing. I'mgoing Detroit over. Yeah, I'm I'm
I'm with you on that. Iwould. I was going to say,
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I'm gonna take Detroit money line.Yeah, and uh and definitely the over.
You can't take the money line.You have to do the point.
I know I'm gonna take the points, but you're gonna take Lions. Yeah,
I would. We are all fools, bet niners, big big yeah.
But that's chiefs is where the money'sat. Yeah, sure, it's
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just I mean I agree, thatwould be a snooze of a super Bowl.
But like, yeah, the Lionshave like they've overachieved by a ridiculous
amount already. The players are completelybought in. They're full of energy,
Like what do you think what's theover under on fourth down attempts? In
your in their own territory? Allof them? Every are they ever gonna
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punt all of the No? Fourthand twenty from our own ten. We're
going going, They're going they'll neversuspect it. Yeah, Campbell doesn't give
a dude, He's going. I'mgetting I'm getting jazzed up just thinking about
watching the game because I know they'regonna see. This team is one call
away from this game being flipped andbeing played in Detroit. Yeah they are
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really absolutely Yes, if they wouldhave quote unquote beat Dallas, which they
did, this game would be playedin Detroit. Yeah. Yeah, that
that questionable, uh call of reporting. Yeah, I mean yeah, that
the Lions have beat a lot ofreally good teams, especially if especially if
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Deebo doesn't play, oh yeah,or he's diminished. I'll tell you what
this for Barry Sanders and all ofthem and Detroit back in the day.
Yeah, emin N Scott Mitchell,Yeah yeah, all those guys, man,
I want this for all them.I'll tell you this right now.
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If the Lion during the Super Bowl, I'm gonna buy merch to wear on
Super Bowl Sunday, Oh yeah Iwill. I'm gonna wear I'm gonna buy
that black on black Lions hat thatthat Campbell wears on the Sideline's sweet I
want that. Yeah. So,like I think Niners cheese is probably where
the money is because, like,but that would be boring. Ravens Lions
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would be such an electric game.Lamar Jackson doing all sorts of ship.
Dan Campbell wheelbarrows around on the sidelinecrying in the yeah halftime, you have
a whole press week of him crying. Amazing. So I mean I'm in.
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I just say, like, theNFL definitely want Kansas City, San
Francisco, but I don't think anybodyelse does. No, we're gonna watch
it in the or California. Yeah, so you're taking the over or the
under on this. He's over setover. Yeah, looks like I go
double over. No, you canyou want? You want one hundred and
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two points, I'll let you dothat. Yeah. I don't think that's
gonna happen. No, I don'tthink so. Wow, so we all
three take the line. I wouldlove for that to happen. Just just
the fact that they've never even beenthere. I saw the last time that
the Lions were in the NFC Championshipgame, Dan Campbell was fifteen years old.
Yeah. Yeah, And the thingis, it's not like like if
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the Bills had made it this year, they have a pretty old team.
They have a lot of like oldvets. So if they made it and
didn't win, that might have beenit for them. The Lions are a
really young team. Yeah, they'regonna be around. So if they go
and don't win, they're right back. Yeah. Man. Uh, the
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running game here, I think isgoing to be the key. You know,
just just give it to just Gibbshas has proven himself to be a
much more valuable back to his team. Now. It's not hard to deal
with what Atlanta did with Bjean,but he's the He was the best running
back this year. Yeah, comingout of the draft, So for sure,
for sure. I don't think he'sthe most talented. But if you
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get that guy in open field,uh, he's super dangerous man. Yeah,
so they'll look to get him thefootball. They they don't have anyone
that can catch him. No,no, they don't, you know,
I mean nobody does. He's reallythe McCaffery of that team. Yeah,
and the and the forty nine ersdon't have a Montgomery just saying they don't.
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They have c mac and like literallythey have Debo. Is there debo?
Yeah for sure? So yeah,I'm I was I'm more excited now
than before the show. About thatgame, me too is that will play,
but we'll see. I think theChiefs game is first. That'll probably
be three o'clock and then forty.Yeah, so yeah, I'm I'm excited.
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Yeah. Feel these nipples. Thesebad boys can cut glass right now,
nips. You know what I'm saying. A cat couldn't scratch it,
Lyle, I gotcha. You knowwhat I'm saying. I do. Let's
have some more. I'm all outof metaphors, not not out of nipple,
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never out of nipple, bro,I got nips for days, every
days. All right, we areout. We'll not be back next week.
It is ours our bye week.Yeah, we're not gonna do a
Pro Bowl preview, yeah, butwe will be back for superb Ol week.
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So after this, there's two moreshows till the off season, thank
god, where we rest back toour confins. All right, enjoy your
your conference championship weekend and we'll beback in two weeks. Sweet, I
love you. I mean it
It's time for the fantasy football guys, like a hot night in Tijuana.
They're the Donkey Show of fantasy football. Here they are Lyle con Keel and
Kevin Moore leave fantasy football guys.That's right where the fantasy football guys.
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I'm Kevin, I'm ah and Icannot wait for the Ravens to beat the
ship out of the Chiefs this weekend. I you know what we'll see.
You know the funny thing about thatis, as the game started, I
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realized that we all three put ourfake money behind the Bills. That was
that was just super foolish. Asit turned out, it was. And
here's the thing that breaks my heartthe most. The Bills packers too,
But the Bills they will never getaway from Scott Orriod Like Nick Okay,
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Susan went wide right. I meaneverybody's brain went to you know, first
watched that game as a child,right, And here we are again forty
thirty years later, thirty five yearslater, and it's the same thing.
How is that possible? And youknow what, this is the kind of
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thing that makes me believe, Yes, there is a god and he hates
the Buffalo Bills. Well, thething. I've told you guys that on
the TV show The X Files,there was a you know, high level
shadowy government with a figure that basicallysaid, you know, they'll never win
as long as I'm alive. Well, I guess that character is still alive
in the government because the Bills can'tseem to get past the divisional It's amazing
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to me, and in my opinion, they're the better team. Yeah,
but not that day. Well,when your thirty million dollars a year receiver
drops quite possibly the best pass toever be thrown in the past, like
ten years, seventy five yard bombin the air right through his hands.
Talk about putting the biscuit in thebasket ode lord ye who's got a tribute
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on his shoulder. I mean,listen, that kind of stuff happens.
You can't depend on a seventy fiveyard bomb. They should have rolled Casey,
should have at home. And bythe way, I'm a spoiler alert,
I expect Baltimore to roll Casey.Well, we'll get to that.
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We'll get to that later and stufflike you know, you never know with
the veteran presidents and you know Patmahomes the tempo swift factor yeah, man,
and the Casey defense is super legitfor sure. Yeah, I have
some information about that game when weget to it. With regard to the
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first let's talk about the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, so, yeah, they
fired everybody, but maybe the dudethey should have fired. Apparently he's just
going to be a cheerleader. Now, well, I guess, I mean
because they they get they got ridof the guy who was running his offense,
and if they bring any other offensivecoordinator in from the outside, they're
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not going to want to run Siriannesoffense. They're going to run theirs.
They're better. Is what is it? Third and twenty? Let's run a
bubble screen or a quarterback draw?Is KB draw? Dude? Yeah?
Sorry? Third and fifteen? Right? So, did see in the news
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today that Vic Fangio was released fromhis contract with the Dolphins and that allegedly
they did it so that he couldcome back and be closer to his family
in Pennsylvania. Like like a dealwith the Eagles to be their d Q
or DC is imminent. Well,the Eagles are bringing in the guy to
run the system of the guys thatthey already had. Here's the problem that
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system sucks. The Dolphins defense wasterrible. It wasn't great. I am
not. Everybody's like VIC fans.You know, VIC fan, What where
are the numbers? He's had somegood defenses in his lifetime. Not on
the Dolphins. He didn't. Noton the Dolphins, he did not.
They were twenty seventh, twenty eighthin points allowed. They in the red
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zone, they gave up sixty fivepercent touchdowns. They're not good. Yeah,
I don't listen. I want someone. I hate zone defense. I
hate this bend we don't break,you know, I hate it. And
it's all analytics, but it's bs. You know, where's the thing I
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want? Jim Johnson's get in yourface and blitz every other play, blitz
when you should run man unless it'sshort yardage so they can't pick you.
Zone defenses, there are so manyrules in the NFL. Zone defenses don't
work because of the rules for theoffense. They don't work well. Well,
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you can run them every once ina while to confuse somebody, but
you can't run them every play.It's super easy to beat man under zone
deep that's you know, that's thewhere you go. That's it, and
and bring an extra man every thirdplay, fourth play. Yeah, just
the man under struggles against the riseof the running quarterback. Because if you
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if you have to play man,you're a defensive backer, linebacker and you
have to turn your back to LamarJackson to cover somebody that's not gonna I
would rather get beat that way thanto didn't have people wide open every third
downplay, Yeah, you got thatthat Like third and fifteen nobody should be
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open. Ever. Yeah, youwatch you watch defensees it primarily plays zone
and third and fifteen is not outof the realm with possibility, No,
because there's gonna be somebody in theseam. Somebody's open, and unless you
bring pressure right, the quarterback's gonnahave time. And if you have time,
they'll find a pocket. It drivesme nuts. And listen, I'm
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not a football guy. I don'tI didn't grow up coaching or you know,
I played when I was a kid. You're a fantasy football guy,
oh eh, but but this isthis seems obvious to me. I don't
know. It drives me nuts.I look at the game and I'm like,
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dude, what are you guys doing. I think what happens a lot
nowadays from from watching the games andalso seeing people break down film. It's
not necessarily that the zone doesn't work, but the disguise the zone doesn't work
because the offense comes to the tothe line with one or two plays intending
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to beat whatever covers of the defenseis showing. So if you're actually running
you know, Cover four, youdisguise it like Cover three, the offense
audibles to a Cover three beater,but then you're actually playing Cover four,
you're gonna win that rep. Butif the disguise is bad, if the
players can't execute getting back to theirpositions because of the disguise, that's when
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you get beat. I don't knowspecifically if that's what the Eagles are doing
or if they just weren't disguising atall, and so it was easy to
you know, because if you knowyou're running Cover three and you run a
Cover three beater, is that itis? So the zone I don't think,
yeah, because like the zone,I don't think is an issue because
like the Niners run a lot ofzone. The Niners have maybe the best
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defense in the league, but it'sbecause they run their defense better. Here's
why they're rody. They can getpressure with their front four. Yeah,
if you can get pressure at yourfront four, definitely run a zone.
There's no reason not to. Thequarterback doesn't have time, right, Yeah,
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but the Eagles had that, No, we lost you. Then they
had what they had that last year, not this year. Yeah, the
Eagles did in twenty twenty twenty three, they had that pressure. Yeah,
they had more, you know,like third most sacks in the history of
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the league. So yeah, absolutelyright. So they were able to get
in your face and run that zone, right, and it was fine.
But this year they had no pressure. Quarterback had time against the zone.
If you have time, it's over, yeah, because the quarterback will find
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a pocket and it might not belong. It might be five yard out,
but it's there and it's six yards, seven yards, eight yards,
whatever it is, and keep movingthe chains. Matriculate the ball down the
field boys whatever. Yeah, combinedwith bad tackling and all that. Did
you just throw a hang scram atme? You did? I did matriculate
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the ball down the field balls.I don't know if you guys saw this.
You just me saying about bad tackling. That reminded me of this.
I don't even know what the originaltweet was about But somebody was saying something
about a basketball team or a footballteam, and Darius Slay responded to the
tweet and said something or other,and somebody responded to Darius Slay with a
YouTube video of proper form tackling.No words, just our video is like,
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hey, you should check this out. Man pass this around the locker
room. What that's amazing. Bythe way, did you see him b
drop seventy the other night? Ohyeah, you see. Doc Rivers is
now the coach of the Bucks.So so here's the thing. If Doc
Rivers eliminate the Sixers uh in thesecond round of the playoffs, it will
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be the worst thing that's ever happenedin Philadelphia. I don't know about that.
It will be. There's been somebad things happened in Philadelphia. Yeah,
the move movement was was pretty bad, like the whole bombing and stuff.
But I was just talking about sports. Yeah, I mean, obviously
the whole you know, destroying theneighborhood was a pretty bad thing. By
the way, I don't know ifyou guys know the story about that Robbie
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You probably don't, but it ishistorically horrible. Yeah, everybody, Yeah,
we shouldn't talk about, you know, because Lia will make a joke
about it inevitably. I mean,the police bombed. They did. They
bombed an area, the whole andand it's caught on fire and literally burnt
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down a whole neighborhood and people died. Yeah, it was horrific. I'm
not going to make a joke aboutthat. Move on, there's the joke
right there there. It is somereal quick news here. Zach Ertz signed
with the Lions. Homie wants aring. Good for him, man,
I don't know with the right team, but I'm just saying, yeah,
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I mean, what the hell Imean Ertz is what like thirty two thirty
three? Maybe have an announcer toa gas left in the tank. We'll
see, let's see. Titans didhire Brian Callahan as their coach Bengals offensive
coordinator. I don't know much aboutthe dude, but you know, the
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push is now a lot of peoplewant that young head coach here. He
is a dude's thirty nine, sohe's not like he's a baby. But
you go from the toughness that isMike Vrabel to the offensive, you know,
head coach apparently looking to build WillLevis up to be their quarterback of
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the future. We'll see how thatout. It's interesting because like when you
think of the Bengals offense past fewyears, I mean, it's it's been
good, but it's not like phenomenal. Yeah, so not real sure,
you know. And he'll probably bringsomebody from his offensive staff there to be
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his offensive coordinator, as they do, somebody who can run quote unquote his
offense. So we'll see how thatgoes. One thing I'm really curious about,
you know, we've heard about obviouslythat dude got the gig. You
know, it looks like Harball couldbe going to to San Diego. He's
postponed a meeting he was supposed tohave with the Falcons. Really curious that
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the two, I mean, theGoat hasn't had much love from these teams
looking for a coach. Belichick andPete Carroll's allegedly out there. Do you
guys think it's it's an age thing, or do you think it's a you
know, perhaps the game has movedthese moved past these guys or what do
you think The reason is not awhole lot of love for Bill Belichick or
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Pete Carroll getting me I mean Belichick'sreally easy. Yeah, it was Brady
Well, we think got out herein the world. But do you think
that the football community think that isreven Belichick wanted Brady out, he left,
he went to Tampa and won anotherSuper Bowl. Yeah, so,
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and people are like, dude,what the hell? Well, I do
think that that the fact they broughtMatt Jones in, they probably hastened the
departure. But that was Bill's decisionto do that. Yeah, I get
it. I mean, everybody knowsBill the general manager is way less of
a success than Bill the coach.But and I think that's probably part of
the reason why he's not getting muchlove, is that the owners and the
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presidents probably know if they're gonna ifyou're gonna bring in Bill Belichick to a
new team, you got to givehim everything. And I don't think he
probably does. Yeah, I thinkthe only one that's going to do that
is Pepper. I don't know.I think Bill wants to go live in
Carolina. Yeah, Now there's nothing. There's not enough access to to boting
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from where that team is, Idon't think. But uh, plus,
we we all know what a shitshow Carolina is. As far as the
ownership and all that sort of thing. So, yeah, Pete Carroll,
I don't really know because I thinkhis him getting removed slash stepping down.
It was kind of a murky situation. He got quote unquote kicked upstairs.
Yeah, but like some confusion therebecause it's he He came out and said
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that he was fighting to keep thejob. He wanted to stay a coach.
So I'm wondering why he even acceptedthe job when you could leave and
go be the head coach for theFalcons or the Titans. I think your
your question answers itself. Well,yeah, I don't know. Uh,
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and and maybe you know Pete doesn'twant to leave Seattle. Who knows,
And you know, maybe he acceptedthe and he wasn't only given a choice.
You know, we're gonna get ridof you as head coach. You
can come to the front office ifyou like, be an advisor if you
like. But I've not even heardanybody talking about him getting interviews. We
know the Belichick interview with Atlanta twice, but we don't know if he's gone
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anywhere else, if he you know, teams, if they're gonna if you're
gonna bring Bill in for an interview. You're letting the NFL world know about
it. Yeah, we're just nothearing it. It's a little odd to
me. Yeah, what are yougonna do? So a couple of injuries
here, isaiaha Checko not practicing dueto a tow and probably the biggest news
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of the week injury wise is DeeboSamuel with that shoulder injury. Because San
Francisco without Debo does not have awinning record over the past couple of years.
With Debo, they have a superiorwinning record. He's the X factor.
Doesn't matter who else is on theteam. It's Debo being able to
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do crazy stuff and next thing youknow, he's dancing in the end zone.
Without him, I think the Lionsgot a shot. Yeah. I
would have thought they have a shoteven without him. But even with him,
yeah yeah, even even if he'shealthy, I think they still have
a shot. But I mean,really, Deebo's outing the X factor.
But I think the largest contributor tothe success of the Niners is Trent Williams.
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I think they like, they haven'twon a game where he's not played
in like three years, So thefact that he's in is it's very good
for them, doesn't hurt all right, So looking at you want to you
want to talk anything about any lastweekends games? We can talk about the
Texans Ravens. But yeah, Imean, yeah, good, well we
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I'm sure we have take takes thatnobody said should have won. Yeah,
so you had so many opportunities towin that. I mean, you know,
Savage dropped to pick six or acouple of it. They are opportunity.
They are super dangerous and people betterbe super careful. Did they they
fired or did not re up thecontract for Joe Berry their DC, So
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they're going to have someone else inthere next year. Yeah, we'll see,
which I know some Packers fans arevery happy about. Indeed, Yeah
you bet. I mean it wasit was a nine point nine and a
half point spread, but they onlywon by three and it was a missfield
goal that cost them that tie,and there were a lot of other opportunities
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to get points that they just missed. So that's that's what makes me think
the Lions have a shot this comingweekend because, you know, mediocre defenses
like the Packers held them to twentyfour points and the Lions have a you
know, potentially explosive offense. We'veseen it, so be curious to see
how that works out. Buccaneers Lions, I mean pretty much went as a
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spect. Do you think Baker's backin Tampa next year? Yes, that
makes me happy that he's gonna havea starting gig in the NFL. R
I P Kyle. He was prettygood, honestly, Yeah, he was.
He won the division. He hadsome Baker esque moments where you know,
things didn't go the way you wouldhope. He's not one of the
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best in the NFL, but hewas pretty good. I think the issue,
what do you want? I don'tknow. I mean, I meant
to a playoff game, won aplayoff game, like, I don't know.
I know. I think the issuethey're gonna have next year is that
I don't think they're going to bepaying Mike Evans and they can save a
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lot of cap space moving on fromChris Godwin. So those are big mistakes.
But I agree, But I thinkhe gotta keep one of you Godwin's
under contract. I think they keephim or restruck. Yeah, he has
he has one more one more likelike real year, which is twenty four,
and then he's got like three voidyears. On the back end of
that, he signed an extension.I think it might have been before this
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past like in this past offseason,but it just added a year and like
restructure the void year stuff, solike they could trade him before the draft,
gain some cast space and some draftcapital, or keep him on.
But Evans is going to be reallyexpensive, and I think that was the
last year of his contract that hejust paid. I think he's a free
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agent. So I don't see themresigning, even though he's amazing, like
he's he's been putting up a thousandyard seasons for eleven years. Ever,
yeah, yeah, pretty much.Ever, he's gonna be really expensive,
and I don't think they're really ina position to, you know, pay
our thirty one, thirty two yearold receiver thirty five million dollars a year.
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You know, they barely won therein the worst division in the league.
I'm not sure it's going to getany better next year, to be
right. But I'm saying so resigningMike Evans, I don't think it's necessary
puts them over. They need theyneed more work than just that agreed Chiefs
bills. I mean, we kindof talked about it already. I don't
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know what the Bills have to do. I don't. I don't think it's
Josh Allen. I think it's Ithink it's really the rest of the team,
to be honest with you, Andyou see it every game, every
Bills game that you can almost it'salmost like a flip is switched where the
team goes, Okay, Josh,you've got to win this for us.
We're gonna hop on your shoulders andyou're either going to carry us across the
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line or you don't. And youknow he he comes up short with with
that much responsibility. You know,Cooke wasn't wasn't running like he has been
running the past several games, alot of drops, some questionable defense.
I don't know. So you knowwhat it reminds me of, because in
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the way you just describe that,I think it's is appropriate for what I'm
about to say here, is thatthere's a point in the game where the
team says, you got to winthis. I think Mahomes has the same
thing happened to him and has hadit happened for the last several years,
where it's all right, Mahomes hasto win this game, and historically he
does. But this year when thatswitch has to get flipped. He wasn't
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winning. Well, he won eleventimes, he did, but like you
know, dropped passes, like overthrows, play like fourth down conversions not happening
like they normally do. Like thatwas happening, and I'm like this,
this is exactly what happens to theBills. Yeah, well, like Mahomes
doing everything he can do and it'sjust the rest of the teams just kind
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of let him down. But herethey are in the AFC Championship game.
Yeah again, Yeah, so Ithink you're I think you're probably you're spot
on with it's like the surrounding pieces. Unfortunately for the Bills that they are,
the windows like just about shut becausethey're like one hundred and fifty million
under like over the cap next year. Yeah, they're really in the hole
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with all the stuff, all thecontracts they have to pay out and there's
Josh Allen's gonna be thirty by thetime they actually can like put a competitive
team out there again. With howin the hole they are, I don't
know, they're gonna have to completelyrebuild. I mean, they're gonna have
to make some moves to clear upcap space to be sure, but you
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know they're they're in a position Ithink where they just, you know,
bring a couple guys in and theytake another run at it. I mean,
Miami is going to be a problemin their division next year. Who
knows if Aaron Rodgers can stay upright, Maybe the Jets are a problem.
Who knows what the girod Mayo Patriotsare going to look like. So
maybe their window to dominate the divisionis closing a bit. And it's not
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because they're not gonna I don't thinkthey're gonna get worse. I think just
other teams in their division are goingto get better. Yeah, I think.
I don't know if Diggs is onthe team next year. Gave Davis's
contract is up? You hate him, though, Yeah? You hate games.
I don't hate him in real life. You hate his face, you
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hate his game, you hate hiscontribution to the Bills offense. I hate
it. I hate his statistical performances. That's what I hate. Do you
have five touchdowns in one game?What's your problem? How many touchdowns did
you have the five games before thatone? Yeah? So so he scores
point two touchdowns per game over five? All right, boys, let's look
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at the conference. Uh situation hereright, So deal, and there's two
games, man, there's three NFLgames left for the season. Bros.
You're coming over for Super Bowl,of course? I am, Well,
I don't know. Roma keeps askingme about it. Is he gonna get
Is he gonna throw some lfgs?I'm sure he will if we ask him
to. Well, you know,that's that's up to you. That's up
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to you. All right. Soyou got Chiefs at Ravens, Ravens at
home of course, three and ahalf point favorites the over all. Let
me talk about last week. Solast week it was Texans at Ravens.
Ravens gave nine and a half andthe over under was forty three. We
all picked the Texans. The actualscore was thirty forty all wrong, right,
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We were right at halftime, that'strue, and we all picked the
over. So the actual was fortyfour points. So we did pop the
over. So each of us gotthree points a point for that, but
the Ravens covered the nine and ahalf, so three a point for each
of us. And that so thePackers at the forty nine ers forty nine
ers also laying nine and a halfthe fifty point five over under was not
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reached. The score was twenty fourto twenty one, so that's forty five.
You guys picked the Packers. Youtook the Packers and the points.
As it turns out, foolishly,I took the forty nine ers. They
did not cover. You guys bothget a point, but I did take
the under. You guys took theover, so I pop a point there.
So each of us get a pointfrom that game. So now we're
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still leaving. We're well, we'reeven through this week, and like we
were, well, no, Robbiewas actually a point up. I know,
but we're so far this Yeah,this game, yes, everybody has
two points going into game three.So the Bucks at the Lions, Lions
giving six and a half over underforty eight and a half. Lions won
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the game thirty one to twenty three, so they covered the spread. The
over under was forty eight and ahalf. Total score was fifty four.
So Robbie and I picked the Lionsin the over, so each of us
got two points. But lyle,you picked one on the under, so
you only get one point, okay, And then you got the Chiefs Bills
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Bills giving two and a half pointsover under forty five. All of us
took the bills foolishly Chiefs. Onthe game total points was fifty one.
The over under was forty five,so the overpays. We all took bills,
so we get nothing. Robbie andI took the over, So Robbie
and I get points. So forthe week, Robby and I got five
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points. Lyle got three. Sothe total right now is Robbie with twelve,
Me with eleven, and Lyle withnine. I suck. I'm shocked
as it turns out, so Ard, I'll make up four it on prop
bets in the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's all. It always works.
(26:33):
Let's see what we got here.So he got the Chiefs and the Ravens.
The Ravens are giving three and ahalf the over unders forty four forty
four point five. So Robbie theleader, you pick first three and a
half. This is this is interesting. So I saw a piece of news
earlier today about the referee for thisgame. The referee is going to be
(26:53):
Sean Smith. If you're familiar withthat guy, he does have a tendency
he calls penalties on the home team, like thirty five percent more often than
any other referee in the NFL.Wow, you think the fix is in?
Well it was? I mean,who was handed? He was hand
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selected for this game. Like thevideo I watch went down a bunch of
different types of penalties and he's like, it's like twice as many penalties on
the home team versus the average otherreferee. It's like kind of ridiculous.
(27:36):
So interesting. Yeah, that's that'snot great. However, the Ravens offense
is real good. The Ravens defenseI think is the best in the league.
Huh. I would normally want totake the Chiefs getting points whenever I
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can, if it was like Imight, but three and a half,
I'm gonna stick with the Ravens.And what was he over under? Do
you ever? Under? Is fortyfour and a half. I'm gonna take
the under. Okay, so I'llgo second since I'm in second. So
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you know, I'm not the sharpestknife in the drawer. You guys probably
know that better than most, ohway, But I do learn from my
mistakes. I bet against Pat Mahomesand the Chiefs last week. I'm not
gonna do it again this week.I'm taking the Chiefs. Patty Mahomes the
points and the over bitches. Wow. Yeah, I wish I could disagree
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with you, Kevin. But there'stwo reasons, right. One is Pat
Mahomes, he's the new Tom Brady. Why are we betting against him in
the playoffs because we're stupid? Yeah. The other thing is I don't think
the NFL will allow a non TaylorSwift Super Bowl or Travis Kelsey screaming like
a dinosaur outside the Travis, howdare you my bad? But yeah,
(29:14):
dude, like so, hang on, I was talking Travis was Jason was
talking on the on the their podcasttoday talking about how his wife was like,
we're gonna be meeting Taylor. Don'tmake a fool of yourself an embarrassing
on your best behavior, right,And he's like what Jason was like,
I'm taking my shirt off and jumpingin the stands. That is the that
is impression. So you've seen you'veseen the him out there bellowing at the
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top of his long shirtless and overhis shoulder toward the back of the room
behind him. Is his wife justlooking at him, going, oh,
why how can you not love thatguy? I do? I absolutely love
him? Uh So seriously, thoughI don't think the NFL will allow it.
I really really really don't want theSuper Bowl to be about Swift,
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but I feel like it's gonna bebecause that's what they want, and so
I'm going Casey in the over aswell. Huh, all right, fine,
look forward to getting two points onyou boys. I hope you do.
Yeah, I do too. Frankly, you know, if the Ravens
win by a point, we allwin except you, which is fine as
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well. I just hope the Ravenswin, but I don't think they will.
I think the Chiefs will win thisgame and be back in the Super
Bowl. What would be amazing isif it was a rematch from the first
game this year, Chiefs Lions.That would be bad. Yeah. So
I'll go first here Lions at fortynine ers, forty nine ers giving seven.
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The over under here is fifty one. If Deebo doesn't play, I
mean it's tough. It's it's Wednesdayas we record this, so if Debo's
out. I really like the Lions. I think the Lions right now are
kind of feel like they're playing withhouse money. I think they're all in
on Dan Campbell. I like theseven points the fact that the forty nine
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ers, you know, oh,could only take care of the seven seed
by three points. The Lions defenseis way better than the Packers defense.
I'm gonna actually take the Lions andthe points. I think the forty nine
ers probably will win this, butI don't think it's gonna be a walk
away. If it was six anda half points, I might not want
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to do it. But I'm goingto take the Lions, and I'm going
to take the under. Who's next. We'll let lyle go next. Lions
over baby. So here's the thing. It's gonna be a high scoring game.
I don't think the forty nine ersare as good as advertised. We've
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seen several times this year rock Purtyget a little rattled. This is a
big game. I got two wordsfor you, Aiden Hutchinson. Have you
seen have you seen the Hutchinson's family? I have? Yeah. I had
just smoke show after smoke show.Everybody's amazing. The mom is a smoke
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show. Forget the Kardashians. Theyshould do a show about them. How
does this happen? It's nutty?No, I just listen. I would
pick the Lions to win this gameout right, maybe because I just wanted
to happen. I want to lieand Brian Lyon, if you're still out
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there listening, man, I wantthis for you so bad. Oh yeah,
that would be amazing. I reallydo. Man. I want the
line in the super Bowl, andI if they go, I want them
to win the ring. The worstthing for me that can happen is it's
casey San Francisco. I'm bored todeath already, like you know so.
But given the points and all thatstuff, I don't think San Francisco can
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beat Detroit by seven. I don'tthink they can. Detroit's got a good
football team, they do, andif they come to play, it's gonna
be wild. Brock Party is hewas drafted in the seventh round for a
reason. Listen. He runs thisoffense well, he does what he's supposed
to do well. He does movethat guy off his spot. Though definitely
(33:23):
susceptible to pressure, the blitz,all that kind of stuff. Well,
all quarterbacks are, but I thinkhe's more than most. It turned out
Semac saved their game last week,and he had an amazing last drive,
but that was not Brock Perdy.Rock Party did not have a good game.
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This is a tough, tough matchup. They thought Green Bay came to
play. Detroit hasn't been a championsince the nineteen fifties. Yeah, you
want to talk about reckless abandon They'recoming to f dude. Yeah, these
boys are gonna be buzzing. I'mgoing Detroit over. Yeah, I'm I'm
I'm with you on that. Iwould. I was going to say,
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I'm gonna take Detroit money line.Yeah, and uh and definitely the over.
You can't take the money line.You have to do the point.
I know I'm gonna take the points, but you're gonna take Lions. Yeah,
I would. We are all fools, bet niners, big big yeah.
But that's chiefs is where the money'sat. Yeah, sure, it's
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just I mean I agree, thatwould be a snooze of a super Bowl.
But like, yeah, the Lionshave like they've overachieved by a ridiculous
amount already. The players are completelybought in. They're full of energy,
Like what do you think what's theover under on fourth down attempts? In
your in their own territory? Allof them? Every are they ever gonna
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punt all of the No? Fourthand twenty from our own ten. We're
going going, They're going they'll neversuspect it. Yeah, Campbell doesn't give
a dude, He's going. I'mgetting I'm getting jazzed up just thinking about
watching the game because I know they'regonna see. This team is one call
away from this game being flipped andbeing played in Detroit. Yeah they are
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really absolutely Yes, if they wouldhave quote unquote beat Dallas, which they
did, this game would be playedin Detroit. Yeah. Yeah, that
that questionable, uh call of reporting. Yeah, I mean yeah, that
the Lions have beat a lot ofreally good teams, especially if especially if
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Deebo doesn't play, oh yeah,or he's diminished. I'll tell you what
this for Barry Sanders and all ofthem and Detroit back in the day.
Yeah, emin N Scott Mitchell,Yeah yeah, all those guys, man,
I want this for all them.I'll tell you this right now.
(35:59):
If the Lion during the Super Bowl, I'm gonna buy merch to wear on
Super Bowl Sunday, Oh yeah Iwill. I'm gonna wear I'm gonna buy
that black on black Lions hat thatthat Campbell wears on the Sideline's sweet I
want that. Yeah. So,like I think Niners cheese is probably where
the money is because, like,but that would be boring. Ravens Lions
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would be such an electric game.Lamar Jackson doing all sorts of ship.
Dan Campbell wheelbarrows around on the sidelinecrying in the yeah halftime, you have
a whole press week of him crying. Amazing. So I mean I'm in.
(36:43):
I just say, like, theNFL definitely want Kansas City, San
Francisco, but I don't think anybodyelse does. No, we're gonna watch
it in the or California. Yeah, so you're taking the over or the
under on this. He's over setover. Yeah, looks like I go
double over. No, you canyou want? You want one hundred and
(37:06):
two points, I'll let you dothat. Yeah. I don't think that's
gonna happen. No, I don'tthink so. Wow, so we all
three take the line. I wouldlove for that to happen. Just just
the fact that they've never even beenthere. I saw the last time that
the Lions were in the NFC Championshipgame, Dan Campbell was fifteen years old.
Yeah. Yeah, And the thingis, it's not like like if
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the Bills had made it this year, they have a pretty old team.
They have a lot of like oldvets. So if they made it and
didn't win, that might have beenit for them. The Lions are a
really young team. Yeah, they'regonna be around. So if they go
and don't win, they're right back. Yeah. Man. Uh, the
(37:49):
running game here, I think isgoing to be the key. You know,
just just give it to just Gibbshas has proven himself to be a
much more valuable back to his team. Now. It's not hard to deal
with what Atlanta did with Bjean,but he's the He was the best running
back this year. Yeah, comingout of the draft, So for sure,
for sure. I don't think he'sthe most talented. But if you
(38:12):
get that guy in open field,uh, he's super dangerous man. Yeah,
so they'll look to get him thefootball. They they don't have anyone
that can catch him. No,no, they don't, you know,
I mean nobody does. He's reallythe McCaffery of that team. Yeah,
and the and the forty nine ersdon't have a Montgomery just saying they don't.
(38:32):
They have c mac and like literallythey have Debo. Is there debo?
Yeah for sure? So yeah,I'm I was I'm more excited now
than before the show. About thatgame, me too is that will play,
but we'll see. I think theChiefs game is first. That'll probably
be three o'clock and then forty.Yeah, so yeah, I'm I'm excited.
(39:01):
Yeah. Feel these nipples. Thesebad boys can cut glass right now,
nips. You know what I'm saying. A cat couldn't scratch it,
Lyle, I gotcha. You knowwhat I'm saying. I do. Let's
have some more. I'm all outof metaphors, not not out of nipple,
(39:25):
never out of nipple, bro,I got nips for days, every
days. All right, we areout. We'll not be back next week.
It is ours our bye week.Yeah, we're not gonna do a
Pro Bowl preview, yeah, butwe will be back for superb Ol week.
(39:45):
So after this, there's two moreshows till the off season, thank
god, where we rest back toour confins. All right, enjoy your
your conference championship weekend and we'll beback in two weeks. Sweet, I
love you. I mean it
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