Summary
In this episode of Shrewdness, hosts Pru and Chiz dive into a variety of sports topics, starting with the historic victory of the Indiana Hoosiers as they claim their first college football championship. They discuss the remarkable turnaround of the Hoosiers under coach Kurt Signetti, who transformed the team from the nation's all-time leading program in losses to a national champion. The conversation shifts to the NFL, where they analyze the recent firings of coaches, including Sean McDermott of the Buffalo Bills, and the implications of these changes on team dynamics and future prospects. The hosts also touch on the MLB Hall of Fame announcements, highlighting Carlos Beltran's candidacy and his significant contributions to the game over his 20-year career. In this episode, the hosts dive deep into the latest NFL coaching changes and playoff matchups, analyzing the implications of recent hires and the performance of teams leading up to the championship games. They discuss the surprising coaching decisions, such as the Chargers hiring former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel as their offensive coordinator, and the potential impact of new coaches on team dynamics. The conversation shifts to the playoff games, highlighting the struggles of quarterbacks like CJ Stroud and Josh Allen, and the importance of turnovers in determining game outcomes. The hosts also preview the upcoming AFC and NFC championship games, emphasizing the significance of quarterback performance and coaching strategies in these high-stakes matchups.
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Hey shrewdness fans, welcome to the show today.
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You may have noticed we are down a member, at least temporarily.
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Dex will be joining us in a short while, but Chiz and I are
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here. We're going to get started.
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Got a lot of things to talk about this week.
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We have a brand new college football champion for the first
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time in their history. We want to talk a little bit
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about Indiana Hall of Fame inductions for baseball were
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announced today and we have a player near and dear to our
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hearts that we want to highlight his accomplishments.
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So we'll go through that. And then a few NFL front office
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type things happening this week. The Chiefs hired a couple new
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coaches. Sean McDermott got fired this
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week after the Bills unfortunate demise against Denver.
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Standard. Standard playoff demise.
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Yes. And then we'll we'll go a little
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bit more into those games from last weekend, a recap of those
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and, and looking ahead to the AFC and NFC Championship games
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and all the entertainment that will provide or ridicule
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depending on which team you're rooting for.
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And then we'll go into our picks as usual and and tell you which
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games we like and why we like them.
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So. Chizz Chizz, Let's roll into a
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newly crowned college football champion.
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And, and what a crazy story this is, we may have the ability to
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do a Hoosiers 2 now. Great sequel to that awesome
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basketball movie would be this year's 16 and O Indiana
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Hoosiers. If you had come to anyone in
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college football world five years ago and said, hey, five
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years the Indiana Hoosiers are going to win the national
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championship, they would have laughed their butts off at you.
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Even two years ago. Right, Yeah, when Signetti came
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their their coach Kurt Signetti, who's like a football lifer and
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he's like 6364 years old. Yeah, they were the nation's all
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time leading program and losses. So like, talk about ridiculous
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rags to riches story to go to 16 and O.
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They were playing EU Miami. Miami was going for their sixth
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national championship. Line was like 8.
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I told everybody last week I did not like Indiana -8 I thought it
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was way too much. There was too much hype around
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Indiana. Indiana is great team, but you
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know, Miami stepped up. Miami played really good.
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They played really good defense. They made them earn every bit of
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it. I have to say I was impressed
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with Fernando Mendoza. He's an interesting dude on a on
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a couple levels. One, he's a guy who won the
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Heisman and he didn't put up like crazy numbers, like right.
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Yep, if you. Look at his stat lines, like you
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know he would throw for like 200 yards, you know, a couple
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touchdown like. Maybe two, yeah, yeah, almost
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always one, but never 2 or sometimes two, yeah.
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It was like nothing eye popping about him.
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So I was kind of like, I don't know that I buy this guy.
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What I saw in that game was a leadership factor.
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That was that was wild. And the the game changing play
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was Indiana was up 17 to 14 and in the third quarter and they
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were it was fourth and two or three, I think, 4th and four I
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think. And they just they made the
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decision to kick the field goal to go up six.
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And then Signetti called timeout and they re huddled and they
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decided, no, we're going we're going to go for it.
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And they called Mendoza keeper on 4th and four.
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It was the fourth quarter. It was 9 minutes left for the
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four to go and he not only got the first down, he ran 12 yards.
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He got hit hard, bounced back, ran again and then twisted.
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Spun around. Yeah, spun.
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Dove made it and scored. It was an incredible run.
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It was like, it was like probably the best touchdown run
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in college football championships since like Vince
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Young back in the day. It was like ridiculous and it
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was a. Pure effort play.
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Oh, and it totally like was like a microcosm of Mendoza.
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I feel like just kind of like what he is.
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He's going to, he's not like necessarily the most
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athletically talented guy, but he's going to leave every single
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thing out there. His teammates love him.
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When he got interviewed at the end of the game.
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Like he's a strange cat. He's a strange cat.
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He's a would you say he's maybe, maybe on the spectrum?
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Maybe he's mercurial, maybe on the spectrum a little bit.
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Like like seems like heart of gold.
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Like you'd love your daughter to marry him.
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Like he just seems like the kind of guy that you you want.
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Yeah. Like he, he's just a good dude.
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He's he's, he's like straight out of like the 50s kind of and
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some of the way he talks. Yeah, we need to have him on the
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show. He'd be perfect.
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He would be, he would be a great fit.
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He would be great on the show. So it was like, but, but I, I
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will on the on the flip side, I'll give Miami's defence
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credit. They were really good.
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They were really good all year. They did not disappoint.
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They made Miami make a couple of really, really difficult third
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down conversions and Mendoza put the ball a couple different
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times back shouldered a throw to receivers.
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And I, I, I have to say that the defensive acts for Miami, they
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did nothing wrong. They were, they had great
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coverage. They were right there and
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Indiana just executed and they truly earned the championship.
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And, and you know the, the good thing about this, there weren't
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like any crazy. There's always calls in these
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games and people are like, and like the college officiating
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there's, it's always a little suspect or whatever, but like
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there wasn't anything that people could have like pointed
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to and said, Oh, well, that was what changed.
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The game or whatever, Yeah. Yeah, which is which you hate to
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see, but if you watch this whole game, you saw like 2 teams
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playing incredibly well, giving it their all.
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And I think anybody who watched it would say, yeah, the better
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team, the better team came out on top.
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And I think if they play this game 10 times, Indiana wins at
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8:00, and it's probably pretty close every time because you've
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got a really great defense against a really good team.
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Yeah, we talked about that last week and we were saying, you
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know, which could have been, could have been a total beat
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down, whatever, but I don't know.
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What do you think? You think it was Miami's defense
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playing that well, or was there anything that Indiana struggled
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on that they could have done better?
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You know. To extend that lead, I mean.
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I I feel like, I feel like Indiana played good ball on
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offense. Like, yeah, I think, I think
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Miami's defense just made good plays.
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And honestly, you know, Indiana had a special team's touchdown
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block punt for recovered for a touchdown, which ends up being
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the the difference in the game, you know, if you want to look at
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that way. But but Carson Beck played
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better than I expected on the Miami side.
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Tony, their fresh and wide receiver, 10 catches, 122 yards.
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Like as a freshman is crazy. And you watch that guy and like
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he's going to be playing NFL ball and it's going to be fun to
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watch. He's electric.
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He's got another Year 2 in Miami, but he's legit.
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I don't think Carson Beck, I know he came back.
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You know, he's a Georgia guy. He went to Miami and he's making
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a lot of money in college and they were like guys, he's going
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to Miami's going to improve his draft sock.
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I don't know that he improved his draft sock.
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I think what you saw in Carson Beck is what you saw his whole
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career. He's a guy who's very talented.
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He's not very clutch and he's probably, if he's in the NFL,
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he's probably like a low tier starter, probably better fit as
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like a a backup. Quarterback I yeah, I based on
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what you're saying, it sounds like he's, he's a Michael Pinnix
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junior type guy that you're building your team around Bijan
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Robinson, right. But he's a like a serviceable
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quarterback. You could mix in there to right
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not lose the game. Or whatever.
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It is totally. Your job is to hand it to Bijan
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and get out of the way. Yes, yes.
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Whereas I feel like Mendoza, you know, he's a guy you could
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definitely build around. He's not going to make him a
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homes like throws. He's not going to like bowl
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people over like Josh Allen. He's not as elusive as Lamar
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Jackson, but there's definitely some qualities to him.
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Maybe Drake Mayesh is more of a a comp for him.
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I. Was going to, I was going to say
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Baker, like more of a feels like a a blue collar type guy that's
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like, yeah, I'm going to lower my head and run over if that's
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what I need to do to get a first down.
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Absolutely. He he's got a incredibly strong
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will to win. Yeah.
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And, and, and that definitely translated to the rest of his
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team. Like they always a team always
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felt like they were going to find a way to win.
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And I mean, that's why they're coaches.
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A lot of people don't like him. He's an arrogant guy.
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He is arrogant. He's the Google me guy.
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And if I was a Google marketing, by the way, I would already have
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a deal signed with that guy. He would he would he would he
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would be an ad right now. Google me.
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But he he delivered. He delivered and for Indiana to
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go 16 and O 16 and O in football and and this fun fact that I
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sent you, you index today or last night the 1st or they are
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now Indiana, the last team to have undefeated seasons in
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football and basketball. So the last undefeated
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basketball team was Bobby Knights, Indiana Hoosiers back
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in the day. And now, of course, the
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undefeated Indiana Hoosier football, which is crazy again.
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Not predictable 2 years ago. At all.
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At all. But you gotta appreciate it.
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It isn't. It is a movie.
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I would not be at all surprised if it became a movie because it
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is just something that hadn't happened in so long.
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So it is fun to watch. It was fun to see.
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Now, does Bobby Knight play Signetti in the movie?
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I think that would be perfect if we could get Bobby Knight to
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play Signetti in the. Movie I need to I need to buy
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the rights to that or something like that Could be could.
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You cast by. Brilliant idea.
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Brilliant idea. Scared.
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Signetti in the movie, but all. Right, Congrats to Indiana.
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Let's all wrap that up. Hard transition to baseball
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news. MLB announced their Hall of Fame
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class for 2026 and our long time Royal Carlos Beltran on the list
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this year. Absolutely.
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Carlos Beltran and Andrew Jones. Very small class.
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Andrew Jones primarily because of his defense, although we did
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have really good years in his 20s offensively, but then he
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kind of fell off a Cliff in his 30s.
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Beltran for just consistently really good production over the
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course of a really long career. And honestly, if not for the
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taint of the Houston debacle when they won their title by
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dubious means, I think he, Beltran, would have already been
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in. But you know, I think he paid a
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little, paid a little price for that and taking a few years to
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get in. If you look at his numbers, I
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mean they're Hall of Fame numbers, he played almost
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exactly split time in the AL and the NL, so he played 20 years.
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20 year career in MLB is just impressive anyway.
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That's yeah, almost unheard of now.
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Right, If you could, if you could play for that long over
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the over the course of his over the course of his career, his
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his WAR was 70. He ever, yeah, so 70 WAR player,
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which which is is pretty incredible.
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He's a guy who won nine. He was an All Star 9 times.
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He was a rookie of the year, World Series winner and he
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started with the Royals. And that's kind of where we're
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near why he's near and dear to our hearts.
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Right. And you were saying I I didn't
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realize how many teams he had played for.
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You're saying Royals, Houston for just a, a rental season?
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Yeah, I thought he'd part of the season.
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Longer than he had, for whatever reason.
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Maybe because he won the title, right?
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That's why I associated him there.
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He went over the Mets for a while.
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He was in the Mets. And the Royals, for the longest
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period of time, he was about about 7 years with both of them
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and then three years with the Yankees.
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I thought he was there longer. Yep.
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Shocked that he had spent two years of the Cardinals.
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Both you and I were would have definitely missed that on the
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trip. Which is weird because being
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Missouri boys, I would have thought we would.
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Yeah, Dexter would have shamed us both for that one full.
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Totally. I do not remember that at all.
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And then a couple years with Houston, a year with Texas and a
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year with the Giants. But you know, with the, he
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started out with the Royals. So his age, 21 through 27 years
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were with the Royals. He was an incredible player.
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Pretty much we we were talking to Patreon, pretty much a 3030
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guy. He was like right on the edge
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every year of 3030. If you look at his home run
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totals in the last four years at Kansas City was 24/29/26 and
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then he had 38 in the combined year with the the the Mets and
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then. He's more like a prototypical
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2733 guy. Exactly.
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Exactly. Yes.
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Not quite 3030 if. There was a 2733 category that
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would be where he kind of fell because he was like constantly
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stealing bases. In the first part of his career
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when he was at the Royals, he stole a lot of bases, you know?
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Hey, Dex, what's up? Here's Beltran I know.
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It's right talking about we, we, we were, we were just talking
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Beltran. We, we talked about the, we
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talked about the national championship football.
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Now we're, we're hitting Beltran and just how we didn't realize,
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I mean, he's a 20 year career. We didn't know neither Pruitt or
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I knew that he played for the Cardinals.
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Shame on us. I had no recollection of that.
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I blocked that from my memory. That he was there for two years.
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Yes, two years with the Cardinals and we were like,
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wait, what? Yeah, they're talking about that
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on the Cardinals radio. 7. Teams.
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Today in total, but the majority of it with the Mets, 14 years
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with the Mets and Royals, 7 apiece there.
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So those are the big dogs. And the question is, as a Royals
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fan, does he go in as a Royal? What do you guys think?
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He's he's got his pick. You know, he, he could put all
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those pinstripes like, you know, so many halves say I want to go
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in as a Yankee. He won a title with Houston.
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He could go in as even though he's only there two years, he
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could do that Houston thing. The Mets.
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He played, yeah. I My first inclination was that
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he would go in as a met because he was there later in his career
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and for for almost seven years. Yeah.
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Almost a third of his career. He was there age 28.
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He was there age 20. 8 to 34, yeah.
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Yeah, 28 to 34. And I was telling Dex he was
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there 21 to to 27 with the Royals 2728.
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So, you know, it's a question of and obviously, like selfishly, I
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wanted to go in as a royal because like, you know, like he
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was our guy. Yeah, he was our guy.
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You're. The one that found him.
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So like, come on. We made him into the rookie of
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the year. Right.
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And there's not that many Royals in the Hall of Fame.
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So come on, you can be like a little more unique and go in as
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a royal. But I kind of agree.
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I'm afraid he's going to go in as a Met.
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I don't know, yeah. Just expect a Met if we get the
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Royals. If we get anyone else besides
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Mets, that'll be just a shock. Be Royals be too I would think.
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I just don't think he'd go in with a team they did a couple
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years with even if he did win. Exactly cares he won with
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Houston. Good job, but.
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I agree, but if if you let me to to give you guys a a feel on on
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what he did on his average. Now remember, he played till he
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was he played. It was 40.
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Yeah, those last years were not were not good years.
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They were. They were good.
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For leadership. Right.
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That's right. You think it's 162 game average
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Over the course of that 20 year career he hit 279 with an 837
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OPS. He averaged 20 stolen bases and
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27 home runs and 99 RBI's over the course of a 20 year career
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to. Average.
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Pretty awesome. 99, yeah. It's crazy because if you look
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at. D an extreme power hitter.
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I mean, 27 homers is yeah, he's. He's speed, power, average.
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He was the prototypical, yeah, I guess of the day.
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I don't know if he did he do 3030 ever.
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He did he. Did a few times the same thing
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but. He did 30.
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We were saying he would if if 2733 were a category, that would
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be more. I was.
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Going to say he's always close as he was always.
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We actually did it. He was in in 2004, where he
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split time between the Royals and the Astros.
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He hit a combined 38 home runs and 42 stolen bases that.
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Year Beast. So he was almost 4040 that year
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and then his then his speed fell off after that.
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So you know. As will happen in your 30s.
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Right after that. After that, his career high and
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stolen bases were 25. But if if you if you look at
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2525, he did that a lot. He was a lot of. 25/25/2020 Guy
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all day oh. Yeah, yeah.
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So I love seeing Beltran go in. I had a soft spot for him.
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I would have loved to have actually seen him come back at
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the end of his career, the end of his career.
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He's bouncing around teams he went to.
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He was one year at Texas, one year at Houston at the end.
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And I was like, man, it would have been cool for him to come
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back like Grinky if he did a grinky and and.
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What was his? What was his rookie year?
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His rookie year was 1998. OK it.
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Seemed like that long ago. Gee, we're old.
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Although although he only played, he only played in 14
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games in 98, so I don't know. Oh.
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Actually. 99 was his when he actually won the rookie of the
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year. So that was his technical
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rookie. So he just got the he probably
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got the September call up and yeah, in 98 and then in 99 he
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came on and as a rookie, as a rookie had 194 hits, 22 home
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runs, 108 RBIs, 27 stolen bases as a rookie.
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That's no Bob Hamlin, but it's pretty good, right?
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That picture on my wall is of Kauffman Stadium.
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It's a fly over shot 2004 opening day when he hit a walk
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off Homer to win opening day. Oh yeah.
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And I was at that game and had to get a a picture to remember
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that. That was pretty cool.
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So. Came up.
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If you guys remember, Pruitt and I were talking to Patreon.
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He was one of dos. Carlos, he came up.
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Him Carlos Beltran and Carlos Fabless.
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Yeah, not quite the same career, Beltran.
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I thought he was up with who are the other two guys?
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He was with those. Is Goodwin, right?
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Goodwin. And then who's the other like
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outfielder? We had three young dudes all at
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once. It was.
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Probably die. Jermaine die.
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Is it Jermaine? Die.
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Probably that was. They had a pretty kick ass
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outfield that year, I remember that.
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Yeah, they they definitely had. Let me see if I can.
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I'll look it up. But if you look at their, The
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funny thing was, you know, his first manager was anyone name
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this anyone. I'll be really impressed.
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Hmm, not boom 1999. I can't remember.
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User Tony Muser. Oh yes, wow, that doesn't seem
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like that long ago. Either years, years we'd like to
00:22:41
forget, however, left field, starting left fielder, his
00:22:45
rookie year, Johnny Damon. Johnny Damon.
00:22:48
Starting He was a starting center fielder, so Damon was 25,
00:22:53
Beltran was 22, and then Wright was Jermaine Dye at 25.
00:22:57
That was the that was the outfield.
00:22:58
I was thinking, yeah, yeah. Johnny Davis, That was a heck of
00:23:01
an outfield. The infield not so good, but the
00:23:05
outfield? I wanna say, I wanna say it was
00:23:08
like pretty close between Fabulous and and Beltran early
00:23:12
in that season. Yep, Like they were both like
00:23:16
lighten it up and both potential rookies of the year or whatever,
00:23:19
and then all of a sudden it was like cheer. 11 fell off a Cliff
00:23:25
and the other didn't. Climb the mountain.
00:23:29
Right. And 20 years later is being
00:23:31
inducted. That kind of glory days Damon
00:23:34
that year hit three O 7 Beltran 293 and died 294.
00:23:39
Wow, so like that is a that was an incredible outfield.
00:23:44
Completely in the opposite of the 2025 Royals.
00:23:48
Yeah, just. No outfield. 0.
00:23:52
Bobby Witt, junior on the infield.
00:23:53
Totally. Trying to.
00:23:55
Care totally by himself, absolutely.
00:23:57
So we wanted to give congratulations to him.
00:24:00
I could talk about Beltran all day, but.
00:24:02
Yeah, we won't. As a sidebar, I had a had a
00:24:06
group of girls asked me to take a selfie of them today and.
00:24:11
You're in it. That's pretty cool.
00:24:14
I actually turned around and and with them took the picture and
00:24:19
they were like. What are you doing like?
00:24:21
Oh, you want a photo? Oh okay, I'll take a photo.
00:24:24
You said selfie. I just gave you what you asked
00:24:28
for. That's awesome.
00:24:30
Anyway, anyway, that's an aside, all right.
00:24:34
So that's a good baseball preview.
00:24:37
We don't want to get hung up too much on baseball yet.
00:24:39
I know you guys are excited to get into baseball, very excited.
00:24:42
We try. Anyway, Carlos Beltran, Hall of
00:24:46
Famer, Congrats hard. Transition now let's hard
00:24:50
transition to another sport. Proof.
00:24:52
Take a Yeah, do that. All right, so we're talking
00:24:54
about college football, MLB now. Let's go.
00:24:59
Premier League No. No, not from.
00:25:04
Curling, curling. It's almost winter.
00:25:07
Olympics. Now let's go to about the.
00:25:08
Alpine downhills slow. Let's go to the Chiefs front
00:25:12
office. So the Chiefs this week hired a
00:25:16
new wide receivers coach, which is a welcome edition.
00:25:21
Chad O'Shea, former Patriots and Browns assistant coach.
00:25:26
OK. Suppose we're just.
00:25:28
Going to coach wide receivers before.
00:25:29
Yeah, supposedly this is a great fit for the Chiefs wide receiver
00:25:34
room. I haven't read a whole lot of
00:25:35
articles on the guy but anyway seems like a a decent hire and a
00:25:40
welcome addition compared to the guy that was in there last year
00:25:43
that I think we can all agree did no favors to Xavier Worthy
00:25:48
and Rishi Rice and company. So you.
00:25:50
Showed them how to hit people and get in trouble.
00:25:53
Yeah. Here's how you.
00:25:54
Speed and get out this. Guy's been arrested before this
00:25:58
Yeah fellow because. Not unless it's in a like like
00:26:03
Irish bar or something. Intervention.
00:26:06
Sounds like you might be on a bar stool tipping 1 back
00:26:09
somewhere. That's right.
00:26:12
Anyway, glad to see him come on board.
00:26:15
Eric the enemy coming back in as the Chiefs offensive
00:26:18
coordinator. Mixed feelings.
00:26:22
Yeah, slow clap, I think from the shrewdness.
00:26:25
Is unanimous. That's the best deal.
00:26:28
I don't. Know anything anymore?
00:26:31
So I. Saw nice offensive coordinator.
00:26:35
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did see kind
00:26:39
of fan. I wish I would have saved it.
00:26:42
So I'm going off memory here but I saw a comparison to the Chiefs
00:26:47
rankings and points per game from 2018 to 22 and then Naggy's
00:26:56
tenure 232425 and when the enemy was offensive coordinator the
00:27:02
the Chiefs ranking and points was like 14631 something like
00:27:10
that. That's right.
00:27:11
And then Naggy comes in and it's 15/15/20.
00:27:15
Yep. So the enemy had this guy called
00:27:20
Tyree kill. I mean, he he certainly helped
00:27:24
the wide receiver corps. He does.
00:27:26
And yeah, I. Mean let's.
00:27:28
Just start right there. I mean this impact player had
00:27:31
Kelsey in his prime. That is you get home 20 version.
00:27:36
Mahomes in his, I would say raw talent phase.
00:27:40
Yeah, it. Is I think he does Slinger mode
00:27:42
version where he just hooked it and got 50 touchdowns.
00:27:46
Yeah, that's helpful. So.
00:27:48
I think there's some talent that helped.
00:27:51
There's some like. For sure.
00:27:53
There's also a a a flip defensively too.
00:27:56
Like they play a different game now they have a defense.
00:27:58
They don't have to rely on 50 points a game either, so.
00:28:02
Yeah. You're right, it's just a
00:28:04
different team, but. It the the numbers don't lie.
00:28:08
Nagy has not had the same offense as the enemy.
00:28:13
Yeah, however I remember just 3-4 years ago when we were as
00:28:19
Chiefs Kingdom, like how can we peddle the enemy off to anyone
00:28:24
and why can't he get another job anywhere?
00:28:27
Yeah. So what's he doing in these
00:28:29
interviews? Like we, we didn't understand
00:28:32
why the man couldn't get a, a head coaching job and and then
00:28:37
he he couldn't. And then he went to become an
00:28:39
assistant head coach somewhere and.
00:28:42
UCLA wasn't it? Yeah, an assistant offensive
00:28:45
coordinator. Assistant to the Assistant.
00:28:48
Assistant Regional. Manager and it was did not go
00:28:52
well there and now he's a running backs coach for the
00:28:58
Bears. I don't know it he is a he is a
00:29:03
mystery wrapped inside an enigma to me.
00:29:05
I thought that he is mercurial and I thought I thought the
00:29:10
players didn't like him necessarily right.
00:29:13
But you have to think the first thing you do is call up Pat hey.
00:29:17
What do you think? About this, right?
00:29:19
Like it had to have pat approval.
00:29:21
You would. Think I I would be shocked if
00:29:24
they didn't. This has got to be pad approval.
00:29:27
So even though remember them heading off at half time at the
00:29:29
AFC championship game, screaming at each other, you know, like, I
00:29:34
don't know, maybe maybe things are different now.
00:29:38
Maybe. But but here's my bigger issue
00:29:40
with it. I and I hate to say this because
00:29:42
I love me some Andy Reid so much.
00:29:45
I love him so much. He's just a big teddy bear and I
00:29:47
want to hug him and he's like, he just wins.
00:29:52
I think every coach has a flaw. His flaw is loyalty.
00:29:57
He is loyal to a fault. And it's like if he if you're
00:30:03
one of his guys, he is going to always have you as his guy.
00:30:07
And like, you try to introduce somebody from outside of his
00:30:11
fear and he's like, Nope, don't want that.
00:30:13
Like, yeah, I'll take him back. I'll take him back.
00:30:16
I'll take him back. I mean.
00:30:18
Glide. The Glide.
00:30:22
Yeah. Exhibit A Sky Moore.
00:30:26
Sky. Moore, Nicole Hardiman.
00:30:28
Yeah, Michael Hardiman. It's like we just kept bringing
00:30:32
these guys back and giving them chances and, and I feel like we
00:30:37
did that with, you know, what we've got right now, Matt Nagy,
00:30:40
he went off to be a head coach. He failed miserably.
00:30:43
We'll take him back, you know, Yeah.
00:30:44
The other thing I thought was weird about this was Matt.
00:30:47
Maggie has not been announced as a head coach anywhere yet.
00:30:51
No. So.
00:30:53
I think he's just out is this. A little strange.
00:30:55
Is this order a little strange to anyone else but me?
00:30:58
Yeah. I don't know what's going on.
00:31:00
The coach of Carousel is in full bloom right now.
00:31:04
Yeah, Miami's new head coach. I've never heard that name
00:31:06
before, like Jeff Hanley or something.
00:31:09
I'm like, I didn't. Hear they hired anybody.
00:31:12
Like who the hell is this? Then you look at his record,
00:31:13
he's like a sub 500 college coach or something.
00:31:16
Like wow, he wins everywhere. Just Google him.
00:31:19
Like yeah, I thought we were in the age of winning in results.
00:31:24
I didn't know you could just be daggy and get hired or head
00:31:26
coach jobs. But.
00:31:28
That says a lot, doesn't it? But yes, the the net, the this
00:31:33
will be interesting because this will either be the kick start
00:31:37
that they need and I think everybody agree we needed
00:31:38
something different on offense. I don't know.
00:31:40
Going back to the enemy is what any of us.
00:31:42
Expected, but like I was thinking big game.
00:31:45
Something different like what we had.
00:31:47
Before I. Don't know or something
00:31:49
different. Totally.
00:31:52
Or it could be the millstone around Reed's neck.
00:31:55
It it could be the thing that ends his tenure.
00:31:58
Like if, if they if they precipitously fall after this,
00:32:02
it might be, you know, goodbye whole crew.
00:32:06
Yeah, time to start over. It could be exactly what you
00:32:09
said actually could have been personnel.
00:32:12
Kelsey and his prime, Tyreke Mahomes, those three carrying
00:32:16
the offense, not necessarily the the magic of their the enemy.
00:32:20
Yeah. Right.
00:32:22
Just, I mean, he had Graham Hunt in his prime too, right?
00:32:25
Yeah, that. Yeah, that too.
00:32:27
Yeah. So I.
00:32:28
Mean, who was Rookie of the Year, wasn't he?
00:32:31
Or offensive. Rookie or or close?
00:32:33
If not he. Yeah, I.
00:32:35
Don't know if it was before. I know because I don't know.
00:32:38
If he he kind of maybe it was an asterisk.
00:32:41
He's like would have been because he was dominant and then
00:32:45
he screwed us. He was definitely the rookie of
00:32:48
the year in the California Pena League for sure.
00:32:51
Nothing else. Von Rick von.
00:32:54
Cream Hunt. They're cellmates.
00:32:57
So let's talk about that coaching carousel.
00:32:59
Yeah, exactly. So more news this week after the
00:33:03
Bills tragic loss against Denver.
00:33:07
Tragic. Is that the right word?
00:33:08
I don't know. It's pretty bad it.
00:33:11
Was unfortunate just. Moralizing beating of a fan base
00:33:16
and a franchise. That was, yeah, it was a little
00:33:19
bit hard to watch the Josh Allen press conference.
00:33:22
I felt really bad for the guy. It was.
00:33:25
Painful. I mean, he knows it was his
00:33:27
window. He knows that was it.
00:33:29
It's like, Oh my God, allies go down that road, take a left at
00:33:33
the Smitty's and I was going to be set me in the Super Bowl.
00:33:36
Totally. And.
00:33:37
Like. Lo and behold, they they lose,
00:33:40
Sean McDermott gets fired. He was, I think we talked about
00:33:43
this a few weeks ago. He was the second most tenured
00:33:45
coach now. All the 10 years going away and
00:33:48
he's got to watch out. After, yeah, Harbaugh and Tomlin
00:33:52
go down and McDermott in the same year.
00:33:54
That's that's rough dude. That is I mention I believe the
00:33:57
winningest coach in the last like 6 years if you look at.
00:34:02
The wins. He's like, I, I, they showed it
00:34:05
on the screen of the day and I want to say it was like 106 and
00:34:08
54 or something crazy like that. Like he's winning at like a 67%
00:34:13
clip in the NFLI. Get it?
00:34:16
They crap out in the playoffs. But McDermott didn't call the
00:34:19
five turnover plays. That's like, yeah, I, I don't.
00:34:22
Understand that, Brandon cooks down by contact.
00:34:26
No, just kidding. You're not down by contact now
00:34:27
it's a pick. It's an interception.
00:34:29
And then that weird fumble that Alan did at the I'm not mad that
00:34:32
they went aggressive at the end of the half.
00:34:34
What was he like? Why did he ever He's never done
00:34:36
that. He doesn't run or throw the ball
00:34:38
freaking backwards. And I mean he.
00:34:40
Was running like all he had to do is just go down in the half
00:34:43
inning and it wasn't there. That's not McDermott.
00:34:47
He's like, oh, I shouldn't have found anything.
00:34:48
He's just taking a knee and going to the half.
00:34:51
Come on man, that's not how you win.
00:34:55
It's not it's not from one game, I don't think right.
00:35:00
That would be a huge overreaction to fiery coach
00:35:02
after one one bad game. But but I even Even so it
00:35:06
doesn't seem like I mean the bills have been perennial
00:35:10
playoff. You know, high chance of winning
00:35:12
the Super Bowl every year save Pat Mahomes in the way, yes.
00:35:18
It probably would have happened 15 playoff games like once.
00:35:21
This. If this fan base gets a coach,
00:35:23
it sucks because we know from the Chiefs we had Rottenheimer
00:35:27
and Marty Ball. Marty Ball, gotcha.
00:35:31
But then then we went into the abyss where we couldn't.
00:35:34
We didn't even think about having a winning season.
00:35:37
We were drafting early and drafting all trash bags in the
00:35:40
top 10 every single year. We were so bad.
00:35:43
So Dermot, I just don't understand.
00:35:46
He's winning and he's not doing like, if you look at the game,
00:35:49
it wasn't a coaching decision. That cost me a clock management
00:35:53
thing. Why did you have Josh Allen
00:35:55
throw A to single covered brain at coax like that's a great
00:35:58
play. I mean that's what you do right?
00:36:00
The single covered match. You trust your MVP quarterback.
00:36:02
I don't think McDermott did anything wrong from the coaching
00:36:05
decisions like then anyone else right then anyone else.
00:36:08
And I think if any of the coaches that got fired,
00:36:11
Harbaugh's the one that was choking in the fourth quarter
00:36:14
regularly. He lost so many games in the
00:36:17
fourth quarter up double digit points, 2 score leads he'd.
00:36:20
Go. Yeah, yeah.
00:36:21
That one, I'm like, all right, if you're going to see like a
00:36:23
coaching decision wise, like why are you not running with Derrick
00:36:26
Kenyon? Why does he have two carries in
00:36:27
the fourth quarter when you're up two scores?
00:36:29
Those are coaching decisions. McDermott like what did point at
00:36:33
something? I can't find it.
00:36:35
I've been trying to defend him like the last couple.
00:36:38
Days like he's screwed. The quarterbacks decision has
00:36:41
nothing to do with the play that's called and all that like.
00:36:45
The the, the thing that the thing that I keep keep coming
00:36:49
across and I think that Bills and and the Ravens are about to
00:36:53
find out is like, what are you going to get better?
00:36:58
That's is out there. That's like, it's not like.
00:37:02
You can have this to have. Like.
00:37:04
Yeah, different is not always better.
00:37:06
Yeah, right. No, it's so you're basically
00:37:08
you're basic, you're you're playing Let's Make a deal.
00:37:11
I used to love watching Let's Make a make a deal whenever I
00:37:13
was sick, stay home sick and I'd watch Let's Make a Deal on the
00:37:16
game show. And like, it's the same
00:37:19
tendency. I always talk about it in
00:37:21
marketing too. People are drawn to door #2 and
00:37:26
door it's like. Hey.
00:37:28
There's $500 or door #2 and it's like it.
00:37:33
Could be 0, it could be $100. You have $500, nine times out of
00:37:39
10, they take door #2 and I think it's, it's the phenomenon
00:37:42
of the backup quarterback too. Well, we put the backup in,
00:37:45
it'll be better, you know, And it's like, no, it won't be
00:37:47
better. You.
00:37:49
You got Sean McDermott. There's a reason for the backup,
00:37:52
it's. It's, it's, it's like Sean
00:37:55
McDermott and Jim Jim or John Harbaugh have been winners for a
00:38:01
long period of time. I I would love to get them.
00:38:03
And we learned this as Chiefs king with Schottenheimer.
00:38:07
Listen, yes, Schottenheimer didn't win the big game.
00:38:10
Schottenheimer has in the playoffs every year.
00:38:12
We're in the playoffs every year.
00:38:14
And he made a lot of coaching errors that frustrated you in
00:38:17
the playoffs, but he got you in the playoffs every year.
00:38:19
And then we went through 20 years of hell like nothing.
00:38:23
Nothing. And and you know, what are you
00:38:27
guys going to get? There's nobody out there.
00:38:30
The best thing they could do is swap coaches.
00:38:33
I think so that. 'D be the best thing they could
00:38:35
do. These other openings out there,
00:38:36
how does McDermott not get one of those?
00:38:38
Like if the Raiders are looking for someone, I don't know if I
00:38:41
must go to Vegas, but I mean, you're going to get Mendoza and
00:38:45
you've got Gente and you've got some some whiteouts to work
00:38:48
with. You've got a Max Crosby, at
00:38:50
least something on defense. And then you get a, you're going
00:38:53
to be drafting first pick up every round.
00:38:55
Yeah, you can get talent really quick that way.
00:38:58
So I don't know. I think it's kind of attractive
00:39:01
in that way. I mean the ownership having just
00:39:03
the weirdest owner of all time. Be it'd be shocking to not have
00:39:08
him go somewhere. He's got to, he's got to take.
00:39:13
I don't want him in the division for sure.
00:39:15
I don't want McDermott. I don't we've, I mean the, the
00:39:20
division coaches are already ridiculous.
00:39:22
I don't. Think he wants to go against
00:39:23
Mahomes twice every year now? I was like Jesus, I had to go
00:39:26
through. Even though he beats him in the
00:39:28
regular season all the time. That's true.
00:39:30
Record. He does.
00:39:32
So where do you think he goes? What's up?
00:39:36
Well, let's so let's recap. We've had some news since we've
00:39:38
talked about this last. So the the Giants job is off the
00:39:43
table now and the Atlanta jobs off the table now.
00:39:46
Yeah, I think the Harbaugh Giants is a great fit.
00:39:49
Yep. And then who went to Atlanta?
00:39:55
Stefanski, right? Yep.
00:39:58
So he went from Cleveland to Atlanta.
00:39:59
I mean, do you think he just tickled pink?
00:40:01
I would be. So yeah.
00:40:03
Those are our first 2 predictions, right?
00:40:05
Those are the two most covenant teams.
00:40:08
Desirable teams to go coach. Yep, and weird and 1st.
00:40:12
Two of our probably top 4 picks for best coaches available.
00:40:17
Yep. But don't you think the Bills is
00:40:19
the Bills job? Jump right to the top of
00:40:21
desirability, though. I think it does.
00:40:24
I think it's similar to the Ravens, like you got a lot to
00:40:26
step into. And Pittsburgh, that's true.
00:40:29
Now you have to. And Pittsburgh don't win if you
00:40:31
don't win a championship. I mean, they got fired because
00:40:33
they go to the playoffs every year and they go like AFC
00:40:37
championship games. They only are divisional.
00:40:39
Right, they only got to the playoffs every year.
00:40:41
Yeah, for like 8 years in a row. Didn't win the Super Bowl.
00:40:46
And totally. And you don't win with your MVP
00:40:48
quarterbacks. So Lamar Jackson couldn't do it.
00:40:51
Josh Allen couldn't do it. We expect you to come in and
00:40:54
just sprinkle some. Yeah.
00:40:57
And make it work. Do Andy Reid's thing.
00:41:00
Yes, but I think that's still probably a better situation to
00:41:03
step into than Cleveland, Yeah. I'll take Lamar or Josh Allen as
00:41:10
AI. Guess I'll work with you.
00:41:11
We'll see what we can do with you.
00:41:13
That covers up a lot of sins, but.
00:41:15
Yeah, and I really liked McDermott to Miami.
00:41:18
I really liked that. I would have, I think that would
00:41:21
have been great. He could have gone against the
00:41:23
Bills twice a year. But evidently, you know, they're
00:41:28
actually act they actively tried to downgrade from Mike McDaniel
00:41:33
and hiring somebody that no one's.
00:41:34
Ever heard of Yeah That? Doesn't have a winning record.
00:41:37
I think it when I was it 22 and 25, it was something weird like
00:41:41
that is a strikingly low number of games one and he lost more
00:41:45
need one. That's not a good combo right
00:41:48
there. But maybe I don't know enough
00:41:49
about wherever he came from. What's the NFL coach with
00:41:53
exactly 22 wins ever? Jeff half, Jeff half.
00:41:58
Henley or Halfley or something? He's the Packers, DC.
00:42:04
Oh. And this update just in hot off
00:42:10
the press. Chargers plan to hire ex
00:42:13
Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel as OC.
00:42:17
Yep. I.
00:42:18
Saw that one. So the Chargers are going to
00:42:20
hire McDaniels and see, I would have liked to see that.
00:42:23
I'm not going to lie. I would have liked to see that.
00:42:25
But interesting. So he's going to go work for
00:42:30
Jimmy Harbaugh there. That's going to be a formidable
00:42:34
duo together and then. Yep, You got her instead of Tua
00:42:39
and Mcconkey. I think that'll be that's a,
00:42:42
that's pretty good job. It's not too bad.
00:42:45
You got some talent to work with and you got to marry in Hampton.
00:42:47
You got your running back. You don't have an A champ, but
00:42:49
you got you do have Hampton. Yeah, and Hampton's kind of hurt
00:42:54
this year. We don't know really what he's
00:42:55
going to be yet, but I mean, he got drafted high overall out of
00:43:00
North Carolina for a reason. I think he's got all the skills.
00:43:03
We'll just see what happens, but.
00:43:06
Who knows? Let's see how these.
00:43:08
Play out. It'll be interesting to see how
00:43:10
these this trifecta of of quality teams gets restaffed
00:43:14
with coaches. Pittsburgh and and Baltimore and
00:43:18
now the Bills. Oh, another announcement just
00:43:22
hot off the press. Tennessee has hired a coach,
00:43:26
Robert Sayla. Really.
00:43:29
Oh, from San Francisco. Yeah, yes.
00:43:33
So he defensive coordinator. They're DC, you remember.
00:43:37
He was former Jets coach. He was The Jets coach for
00:43:41
several years, so he's getting another chance in Tennessee.
00:43:44
I don't. I don't hate it.
00:43:46
I like that I like him as AI mean he didn't do great.
00:43:50
Well, he had The Jets. With The Jets, The Jets aren't
00:43:53
jets, yeah. Right.
00:43:54
The Jets. It is The Jets.
00:43:57
He's, I mean. The Jets.
00:43:59
They talked a lot about his, his, you know, his defensive
00:44:03
coordinator skills or whatever coaching skills for San
00:44:07
Francisco. Like he's like a wizard with the
00:44:10
team that they had with all their injuries and stuff like
00:44:12
that. And he kept them in the game.
00:44:14
Duct tape and Elmer's glue to keep that defense together.
00:44:18
They still got second round of the playoffs pretty good.
00:44:21
Yeah. The Steelers have interviewed
00:44:25
several candidates, Chris Shula being one of them.
00:44:31
The Rams. I think he's going to get one of
00:44:33
these jobs for sure. It'd be funny.
00:44:36
Shula. This is the one I keep going
00:44:38
back to. Chiz is where would Shula
00:44:40
naturally fit? That's where I keep thinking.
00:44:44
And I don't think they'll hire until after they lose like.
00:44:49
That's interesting. But I think Miami and Shula.
00:44:52
That that would have been, that would have been a great.
00:44:57
Obviously it's not going to work that way.
00:44:58
That's where I kept thinking he was going to go.
00:45:01
I would I would have liked to have seen that, too.
00:45:04
So the Steelers are interviewing folks, you know.
00:45:07
Noticeably absent from these, though, I do not see, I do not
00:45:13
see the Chiefs offensive coordinator as a coaching
00:45:17
candidate as being rumored. Not.
00:45:19
Seeing him as as one of these top things.
00:45:22
So it was a situation where the chiefs, so she kind of said, OK,
00:45:26
thanks. You should go be a head coach
00:45:30
somewhere. Oh, you're going to be a head
00:45:32
coach? Go, go be a head coach and then
00:45:36
grab the enemy. Bizarrely, but I hear.
00:45:39
I hear the Tennessee Titans are looking for a coach.
00:45:42
You should go coach there. Right.
00:45:45
So the Titans. So this was interesting.
00:45:47
The Athletic had an article out. Apparently Harbaugh was really
00:45:52
close to that one. Really so?
00:45:55
That that's an interesting one and you got to look at it.
00:45:57
I mean you have those are the Cam ward.
00:46:00
Situation and you. Have a brand new stadium opening
00:46:04
up. I don't know if it's next year
00:46:05
or the year after. I mean, I think yeah, certainly
00:46:09
the outside zone. I just I can't remember if it's
00:46:11
opening up next year or the year after, but you'll have a new
00:46:13
stadium. You got a young talented
00:46:15
quarterback. Your whiteouts are not bad.
00:46:18
I mean, they're young and I think there's some some stuff
00:46:21
there. So that's not a bad job either.
00:46:23
It's it's in Tennessee. I mean, they're they've got some
00:46:27
history of being good. I mean, Vrabel was that history
00:46:29
of making them good. But at the end of the day,
00:46:31
that's not a bad franchise. I don't think.
00:46:34
I think it's probably pretty attractive with what's what's
00:46:36
there, especially compared to, I don't know, Cleveland.
00:46:40
Cleveland That's my example, but.
00:46:43
Yeah, I mean, that's just still a circus.
00:46:45
And we made fun of it last year. Here we are again.
00:46:49
I mean, what a shish kebab show. I mean, now you got to come in.
00:46:53
You still have Shuduer drama. Now he's going to like.
00:46:56
Yeah, I won like 2 games, man. What's up?
00:46:59
But if you don't believe in them, do you want to be tied to
00:47:02
your success? I don't know if I want him as my
00:47:06
franchise quarterback, but this year's doesn't really have
00:47:10
anybody other than Mendoza, and he's going to the Raiders,
00:47:12
probably. Right, you have four other
00:47:14
quarterbacks to choose as your franchise quarterbacks.
00:47:17
That's true. That's right.
00:47:18
Sean. How you doing buddy?
00:47:20
Like lots of, lots of, lots of franchise quarterback options
00:47:24
there. The coach in Cleveland, Deshaun
00:47:27
Watson be back in the fold. Totally.
00:47:29
Absolutely. Come on.
00:47:31
What's? Old is new again.
00:47:32
Let's do this. That's right.
00:47:33
Well, the two other pieces of news hot off the press today to
00:47:36
close the coaching news out, I guess.
00:47:39
The Eagles interviewed Brian Dabel for the OC role.
00:47:43
Interesting. And that's Mike McCarthy.
00:47:47
Remember old Mike McCarthy interviewed for the Steelers job
00:47:53
today So. About that one.
00:47:56
That kind of seems perfect to me.
00:47:57
I think he'd be about 8:00 and 7:00 or 10:00 and 7:00, nine and
00:48:02
eight. That's how I think from that
00:48:04
point of view, I think it they would nail it, dude.
00:48:07
He seems very Steelers. He's very 500 and it worked in
00:48:12
Dallas. Why not?
00:48:12
But he's still riding the coattails of his prior success,
00:48:16
which that's what it is. But he's also, he hasn't really
00:48:20
been talked about that much. He's been like lead candidates.
00:48:23
I think one of the ones they're talking about is, oh, my God,
00:48:26
I'm totally blanking the the Vikings defensive coordinator.
00:48:29
That's one they're looking at in Pittsburgh as well.
00:48:32
Yeah, Flores. But The thing is he comes with
00:48:34
some baggage too, like he's a rabble rouser, which I don't
00:48:39
know if that's what you want. Like, I don't need you fighting
00:48:42
the fight. I just need you to coach my team
00:48:43
and get everything out of them and do better than 10 and seven.
00:48:46
I need you to. He is getting a lot of buzz.
00:48:50
He's on a lot of the lists of of interviews that have been had.
00:48:55
Flores The. Vikings are giving him a
00:48:58
contract to stay on his defensive coordinator, too,
00:49:00
though. Yeah, he seems like it's a
00:49:03
candidate for the Raiders or something.
00:49:05
Yeah. That would be a perfect fit
00:49:08
actually. Misfit toys, but I don't know.
00:49:12
We'll see what happens. So we've got, we got more
00:49:15
coaching news. We'll keep up with that.
00:49:17
But the interesting stuff we want to update you on now let's
00:49:20
talk about the games. So we've got we had, we had four
00:49:26
games, we're down to two to preview for this weekend.
00:49:29
We'll talk about the the games briefly here and what happened.
00:49:34
And then we'll talk about the two games that are coming, AFC
00:49:38
and NFC Championship and Championship weekend.
00:49:41
Two games no one would have predicted, probably.
00:49:44
And I don't know how thrilled the NFL is about them.
00:49:49
But we'll see. People will watch still.
00:49:52
Still Championship weekend and people are still going to watch,
00:49:54
but this past weekend we had quite an interesting set of
00:49:58
games, starting with Houston and New England.
00:50:04
Let's discuss this game. Our betting we'll talk about
00:50:09
later. It was not a great weekend for
00:50:12
the shrewdness and betting this was a game I personally missed.
00:50:18
Expected Houston to hold within three points.
00:50:23
Actually, it's pretty bullish on them to win this game given how
00:50:26
well their defense is playing. And how well and then playing
00:50:29
me. Then CJ Stroud said, wait a
00:50:33
second. Whenever I told him, hey,
00:50:35
there's no way you guys go back and listen to the shrewdness.
00:50:37
I was like, there's no way CJ Stroud has that bad of a game
00:50:40
two games in a row. And.
00:50:42
He said and he said beer holds my non alcoholic beer.
00:50:46
That's right, David Mills, get ready.
00:50:48
I'm out there. Play so bad they're going to
00:50:50
contemplate it at halftime. While I turned the ball over
00:50:53
five times. Oh my gosh.
00:50:58
Brutal. This was just an absolute
00:51:02
disgustingness. There was 8 turnovers in this
00:51:06
game. Yeah. 5 by the Texans, 3 by the
00:51:10
patent. No one wanted to win this game.
00:51:11
They were like, you win. No, you win here.
00:51:13
No, you. Win.
00:51:13
Nobody could hold on to the ball.
00:51:15
It was like frozen, frozen ball or something.
00:51:18
And yeah, I mean. Stroud, if he had played
00:51:24
somewhat average for him, they'd probably win this game.
00:51:27
Yeah, the four interceptions really kind of hurt the
00:51:30
momentum. Couldn't really keep the drives
00:51:33
going when he kept ending up in New England's hands.
00:51:36
I mean, he was 20 of 47 to 112 yards tutty and four
00:51:44
interceptions. He was sacked 3 times.
00:51:47
But he ran for 11 yards. That is rough to come back from,
00:51:50
especially when you're when you're leading.
00:51:52
Rush was Woody Marks with 14 carries for 17 yards.
00:51:57
Ladies and gentlemen. I missed on that one.
00:51:59
My bad, my bad. Shrewdness.
00:52:02
So it's funny, I thought he would get about 14 to 17
00:52:05
carries. In my head, I was doing 3 1/2,
00:52:07
four yards to carry. I'm like, yeah, 52 yards all
00:52:10
day. That's going to be easy mode.
00:52:12
I mean, New England's good, but they're not phenomenal.
00:52:15
You didn't count on 1.2 yards of care.
00:52:18
Did not. It wasn't that.
00:52:20
Yeah, it was. I couldn't really.
00:52:22
Just kept running. Just dropped like a sack each
00:52:26
time I was. They rest they they rest as a
00:52:30
team 22 times for a total of 48 yards.
00:52:34
They averaged 2.2 yards of carry in that game.
00:52:38
So when you can't run the ball and CJ Stroud looked like he was
00:52:43
actively attempting to throw to the other team.
00:52:45
For the second week in a row, yeah.
00:52:49
I think here's an interesting one.
00:52:52
If you're Houston and you've now seen we we're joking about it
00:52:57
during just kind of in our text group.
00:52:59
He peaked his rookie year. He's not been good since.
00:53:03
And then he see this in the playoffs.
00:53:05
Like, at least Justin Herbert's not throwing the game.
00:53:09
Lord, he might be getting sacked nonstop, but he's not 910
00:53:13
turnovers. I mean, this is unacceptable.
00:53:17
There's no way there's. You just can't.
00:53:20
Feel good going in the next year with this.
00:53:22
The the problem is they were in a horrible situation too,
00:53:24
because you watch this game and you're like at half time I was
00:53:26
like, you need to bench him. You need to put Davis.
00:53:29
Mills in Davis. Mills is not going to turn the
00:53:31
ball over and really, if you don't turn the ball over, you
00:53:34
had a good chance to win this game.
00:53:35
You. Absolutely.
00:53:36
Yeah, and. But then if you benched.
00:53:39
But then if you bench him and you put Davis Mills in and you
00:53:41
win, what do you do the next week?
00:53:44
So it's like you're. Yeah, that.
00:53:47
Was just awful. It was just you really don't
00:53:48
want actually quarterback controversy going into the AFC
00:53:52
championship game. No, no.
00:53:54
So then on the other side of the ball, Drake May, potential MVP,
00:53:58
Drake May. He didn't look that great
00:54:02
either, honestly. I mean.
00:54:03
I don't think he was that bad, though.
00:54:05
I mean, he had 180 yards and three touchdowns and he was
00:54:08
doing the game plan as you're supposed to be doing the game
00:54:11
plan. And they were running the ball
00:54:13
just fine. I mean, refumble Stevenson, 16
00:54:15
for 70, that's pretty good. And he was getting the, he had
00:54:20
some good passes, man, that he was dropping these things in
00:54:23
buckets, which is what we've seen from Drake May a lot.
00:54:26
That's a testament to Houston's defense that they.
00:54:29
That's what I'm saying. It's more Houston's defense and
00:54:31
he still threw 3 touchdowns against you.
00:54:33
He did. Fumble the ball four times.
00:54:36
Yes. He fumble the ball 4.
00:54:38
He only lost two of them, but he fumble.
00:54:40
Four times and. I'm like, dear God, man, these
00:54:43
guys, like these young quarterbacks, they got to figure
00:54:46
out what guys like Alex Smith knew, which is like, you can win
00:54:50
a lot of a lot of games. Just not turning it over exactly
00:54:53
being league average, not turning it.
00:54:55
Over like it's OK to punch sometimes.
00:54:57
Manage the game, manage the game.
00:55:00
Just keep the ball moving down the field and if you get stopped
00:55:04
you kick it away and you start again the next time.
00:55:06
Yeah, the weird thing was this was kind of the de facto chant
00:55:11
AFC. Chant.
00:55:12
Oh, because of what happened? Yeah, let's talk.
00:55:14
About that game. So the other AFC game.
00:55:16
Buffalo, Denver. Holy cow, that was a phenomenal
00:55:21
game. Probably the I don't think
00:55:24
they're I mean, there's two games or game of the weekend.
00:55:26
So Rams, Bears and Bills Broncos.
00:55:29
Those were both overtime playoff games that went down the wire.
00:55:33
But boy, Josh Allen, I just can't believe he had that many
00:55:40
turnovers and they were costly. I mean that all of them are
00:55:44
costly. But like we were saying, CJ
00:55:47
Stroud could have thrown 2 picks and still been OK.
00:55:49
But the third and 4th one that really crippled the Houston.
00:55:53
These for Josh Allen though, I mean one of them is very
00:55:57
controversial right? So the the Brandon Cooks.
00:56:02
I still don't know that I I believe that call.
00:56:06
I don't know that I don't get. I get why they called it that
00:56:09
way, but it just. They kept saying he didn't have
00:56:13
full possession of it, but he just keeps seeing image after
00:56:16
image. It's in his chest, he's on the
00:56:18
ground and the guy just comes in and rolls over and takes him
00:56:21
like. Right.
00:56:23
Well, it wasn't an interception until after he rolled over.
00:56:26
Like I think if that ball hits the ground and then they roll
00:56:29
over, then it's just incomplete and like nobody had it until he
00:56:33
rolled over. But the controversy is that
00:56:35
Devante Adams had the same thing happened.
00:56:38
Yeah, the same weekend. Yeah.
00:56:41
Which doesn't help. You try and be consistent with
00:56:43
enforcement of rules and you get 2 and those are game.
00:56:47
All that was that was the game. Like you said, you kick a field
00:56:50
goal, that's it. It's over.
00:56:52
And instead it's the other direction.
00:56:54
I'm like, no. But to your point though, dex on
00:56:58
the on the turnover. So here's a couple stats for
00:57:00
you. Passing yards were dead even 283
00:57:04
to 279 Bills Broncos rushing yards.
00:57:07
Bills out rushed the Broncos 183 to 70.
00:57:11
Yeah, and they lost by hook killing it.
00:57:15
They lost by three points and it comes down to five turnovers to
00:57:19
1. Like if you had just turned the
00:57:21
ball over 4 times you would have won.
00:57:24
Yeah. Like that's crazy to have to
00:57:26
like you could have turned the ball over 4 times and won.
00:57:29
Yeah. And on the road.
00:57:32
That's what it I mean, if you look at the turnover battle, if
00:57:36
that's the only stat you look at, it's like I forget it's
00:57:40
something ridiculous. Like 80% of the time, the team
00:57:43
with fewer turnovers wins the game.
00:57:45
Yeah. Yeah, it's some it's super
00:57:46
lopsided and it it makes your point exactly just if you just
00:57:52
take care of the ball, you don't have to do anything magical to
00:57:56
win the game 80% of the time the.
00:57:59
Bills converted, The Bills converted on 67% of their third
00:58:02
downs, the Broncos 50% of their third downs and and you still
00:58:09
lose that, I mean, if you're a Bills.
00:58:11
Fan 67% against that Denver defense.
00:58:14
Yes, wow. 15 on 3rd down like. I think Buffalo's a better team.
00:58:24
I still think it, even though obviously we lost the prediction
00:58:27
and lost the bet last week. Buffalo's a better team and it's
00:58:32
now it's super sad because Bo Nick's obviously under a rock
00:58:36
and he breaks his ankle on the next to last play of the game.
00:58:40
That's horrible. Now you have Jarrett Stidham,
00:58:43
the AFC championship game for Denver.
00:58:48
I mean, this is kind of what you're talking about.
00:58:49
Shit, I don't know if the NFL want to see this.
00:58:51
I'd rather that's. What I was talking about.
00:58:53
Maybe Buffalo just cuts Josh Allen.
00:58:55
He gets signed by Denver this week and gets to go play in the
00:59:01
game game. Anyway, I'm getting there.
00:59:04
Jared Stidham, who it's fun fact for you out there, is the going
00:59:08
to be the first ever person to start and NFL championship
00:59:15
conference championship game without having taken a snap in.
00:59:18
That season. First ever, he is not taking a
00:59:21
snap yet, folks. So we're going to see Jared
00:59:24
said. And that's what I was talking
00:59:24
about. You're right, Dex, we'll talk
00:59:27
about that preview here in a second.
00:59:28
But if you're telling me that Josh Allen and AFC championship
00:59:32
game with a chance to go to a Super Bowl would not have been
00:59:35
massive ratings, it would have been.
00:59:37
But now you got Jared Stidham, so.
00:59:41
That games doesn't have quite the must see TV allures it did
00:59:45
before. And I I think that's why Buffalo
00:59:50
was so like visibly upset after the game.
00:59:52
It's like we were the better team and we felt like we had
00:59:58
wrestled away from us by the referees on that one play that I
01:00:02
get it, that's not the play that lost you the game, but.
01:00:05
But that was a huge shift in momentum and all that full.
01:00:09
Turnover plays you're right the the cost of the game, but OK.
01:00:13
So sad. It would have liked to see the
01:00:16
bills make run. I hey, I'm a Chiefs fan, but I
01:00:18
still would like to see Josh Allen have a shot and.
01:00:21
I got respect for them. I.
01:00:23
Do so now we go over to the NFC. The first game was Snoozeville.
01:00:28
I guess the 49ers injuries finally caught up with them.
01:00:31
They have hit the team out, yeah.
01:00:34
I didn't think they would play that bad though.
01:00:37
Oh my God. I didn't either.
01:00:40
I was. Hunt return touchdown to start
01:00:42
the game off was kind of like the Indiana, Oregon game or a
01:00:45
pick 6 on the first play and you see that and you're like, oh,
01:00:49
it's going to be that day. And then nothing went right.
01:00:54
Nothing went right. I took the under on points
01:00:59
because I was like, there's no way that San Francisco is going
01:01:02
to give up that many. I know they're not going to
01:01:04
score that many, but yeah, did not expect them to give up 41
01:01:08
points, yeah. Just they were getting crushed
01:01:11
and it wasn't much better. We we made fun of Woody Marks in
01:01:15
Houston. But Christian McCaffrey, who's
01:01:17
got a little better pedigree, 11 for 35, It's not like he was
01:01:21
running all over people. But what always does is catch.
01:01:24
But even that was held to a minimum.
01:01:26
And then he got kind of knocked out of the game, man.
01:01:29
So he had that Stinger for a while.
01:01:31
He didn't play chunks at a time. Then he came back in and heard
01:01:34
it again. The third quarter he was like,
01:01:37
yeah. On the third quarter, but by
01:01:39
then, yeah, this game. Was yeah, and.
01:01:42
For. Those of us who had the overall
01:01:44
receptions did not appreciate him being out that third quarter
01:01:48
at all. But yeah, if you look at, if you
01:01:51
look at their box score, you know why they lost?
01:01:54
Because I'm looking at these names and I see McCaffrey and
01:01:57
then I'm like, who are these guys?
01:02:00
Like I'm looking, Yeah. Listen, I'm like, Dang.
01:02:04
It's two or three guys run the ball and I was like, did this
01:02:08
guy play this year? Jordan James, he was that rookie
01:02:10
we previewed at the beginning of the season.
01:02:13
He hadn't taken any snaps all season.
01:02:16
He's taken 0 and like your first ones are in the divisional round
01:02:21
playoffs and. And as we've always, as we've
01:02:26
talked about many times, when you're leading rushers or
01:02:28
quarterback, it's not a good thing.
01:02:31
And they, they, and hey, Seattle, did I keep waiting?
01:02:36
And Dexter knows I keep waiting for Donald.
01:02:39
Pumpkin, this was another turnover battle.
01:02:41
San Francisco, 3 turnovers. Seattle, zero.
01:02:45
They didn't turn them all over. Donald did not turn them all
01:02:47
over. Now, The thing is with Darnold
01:02:49
so far is he hasn't been asked to really do much.
01:02:51
He was 12 to 17 for 124 yards. And it's actually 100 yards
01:02:56
because he only did a complete 5 passes, though.
01:02:59
And when you're running game, doing what the running game was
01:03:01
doing, I mean, 19 for 1/16 for Kenneth Walker.
01:03:04
And again, the defense was just destroying San Francisco.
01:03:07
I mean, they totally, they were shaking him around like a dog
01:03:09
with a toy, just throwing them all over the place.
01:03:12
It was totally woof. It was hard to watch.
01:03:15
Yeah. So he didn't need to do
01:03:18
anything. And it looked strikingly similar
01:03:19
to some of these quarterbacks that go through the playoffs.
01:03:22
I don't know Tom Brady and right Manning when he was with the the
01:03:26
later years, right, He didn't have to do anything in the
01:03:28
playoffs except hand the ball over and then get a couple third
01:03:32
down passes could. This be a Trent Dilfer.
01:03:36
He's way better than Trent Dilfer, though.
01:03:38
He was best to do it. He can do it, yeah.
01:03:42
Yeah, he's, that was a, that was an incredible throw to JSN.
01:03:46
Like in the corner of the end zone.
01:03:47
Yeah, it was rolling out, I mean.
01:03:50
I mean you had JSN to catch it too, which helps.
01:03:53
Yeah, it doesn't hurt. That looked almost exactly like
01:03:56
a Mahomes to Hardman pass. Yeah, but JSN.
01:04:02
Only played way back in the day. Only three for 19 for your
01:04:05
engine who led the league in either receptions or yards?
01:04:09
He was second in the other one. I can't remember.
01:04:10
Regardless, Jackson Smith and Jigbo is probably the offensive
01:04:13
player of the year. Yards, I think if it was first.
01:04:17
So that's going to be a tough, tough out and we'll talk about
01:04:19
that when we get the projection. They're a very good team.
01:04:22
So let's look at the other one, which was a much more
01:04:24
interesting game. Talk about all the drama.
01:04:27
My my son Isaac said. Dude, these two teams are the
01:04:32
most exciting teams left playing and they're playing each other.
01:04:35
And I'm like, yeah, you're probably right.
01:04:37
So you had Rams and Bears and you had a a superstar laden Rams
01:04:42
team with some veteran presences on it, going to Chicago to a
01:04:47
young electric, super exciting Bears team.
01:04:52
And it lived up to the hype. It absolutely lived up to the
01:04:56
hype the the Rams. You know, I'll give Kayla
01:05:02
Williams credit. He makes some plays.
01:05:06
He does make some plays and he I still don't know how cold
01:05:09
Command got that open. I said how in the world does
01:05:11
cold command get open and they. Sprint backwards.
01:05:14
It looked like playing old video games like Techno Bowl.
01:05:16
You don't backwards, avoid the sack and then just hit the A or
01:05:19
the B button, whoever you're throwing to.
01:05:21
And I could not believe that worked.
01:05:23
It never worked. He's done any work in video
01:05:25
games and the fact he pulled off a more, less probable play in
01:05:29
real life than he would do in a video game.
01:05:32
We tried that in Madden. I dare you to go drop a play on
01:05:35
Madden right now and just run backwards 20 yard to the
01:05:37
quarterback and throw it and hit a dime and have them be 5 yards
01:05:41
away from the defender. And they they said it was a push
01:05:43
off, but you looked at the replay.
01:05:45
No it wasn't. They were like it really wasn't.
01:05:47
Then he wasn't and went back and caught it.
01:05:49
Really wasn't to show how even the game was, too.
01:05:53
Caleb Williams threw for 257 yards.
01:05:55
Matthew Stafford threw for 258 yards.
01:05:58
Yeah. That was, you know, the
01:06:02
difference the. Difference is.
01:06:04
Really, you know, is the defense of the Rams played a little
01:06:13
better than the defense of the Bears.
01:06:14
The Bears defense needs help still.
01:06:16
They're not a championship defense yet.
01:06:18
They played. That was their best game though
01:06:19
I think. What's their best?
01:06:21
Game they did, Yeah. They commented several times on
01:06:23
how well the secondary was holding up against the Rams
01:06:26
receivers. And it's well.
01:06:27
The cool only had five catches. Yeah, cool only had five
01:06:31
catches. Now, some of that was because
01:06:32
it's snowy cold, right? Yeah.
01:06:33
He's getting beat up too, though.
01:06:35
They were covering them. I mean these they were totally
01:06:37
on him like. They played well, It was they.
01:06:40
Played a really good game. The turnover story in this one.
01:06:46
Hey, not a surprise. 3 turnovers for the Bears. 0 turnovers.
01:06:52
Like bears don't turn the ball over, they win the game.
01:06:58
And the last? One was a killer.
01:07:01
Caleb's got to learn he he 3 interceptions.
01:07:05
You can't throw 3 interceptions. Like, there's just no need for
01:07:08
the last one either. That's what the killer was.
01:07:10
You're driving, you're driving, you can run the ball, you've got
01:07:13
options, you're doing quick. Like everything was working.
01:07:16
And then he just tried to get greedy.
01:07:18
And you can yell at DJ Moore if you want Bears fans, but I also
01:07:22
don't. He didn't look like he was.
01:07:24
The play was. Designed for him.
01:07:25
Man, that dude was just running a route, probably trying just to
01:07:28
clear defense because he's not the main guy on the play.
01:07:30
Now, do you need to be aware? Yeah, you do.
01:07:33
But wow, why are you forced into a guy who doesn't know that
01:07:36
he's. Definitely if you're coming
01:07:38
across the middle and you see the safety running step for step
01:07:41
with you, do you expect the ball?
01:07:44
No. I mean part of him is probably
01:07:47
like, I'm covered dude why? Wait what?
01:07:50
Why are you throwing the? Line Well, the other thing that
01:07:52
was weird about the route is I know I saw people analyzing that
01:07:55
he should have gone under, right?
01:07:57
The DJ Morris should have gone under.
01:07:59
It looked like one of those routes though, that he could
01:08:01
have gone over or under and he had the option and like he was
01:08:06
still kind of in the middle of the option and and Caleb decided
01:08:09
he was. Caleb decided he was going
01:08:11
under. He threw under and it was like
01:08:13
he turned back and it was like, oh crap.
01:08:15
And it was. Like, yeah.
01:08:16
It was a. Great.
01:08:16
It was a great interception, actually.
01:08:18
But yeah, I thought, I thought Luther Burden looked like he was
01:08:21
more open totally on that play. Same.
01:08:26
He had two guys on him, but they were he'd beat them both.
01:08:28
Yeah, he had two steps on him and yeah, he float that ball
01:08:31
down the sideline. He may have run for a long ways.
01:08:35
I agree. So too, that was a good game.
01:08:38
I I kind of wanted the Bears to win this out of principle
01:08:41
because they were a very fun team to watch.
01:08:43
I think the Rams Seattle game is going to be really good.
01:08:45
Don't get me wrong. Like they've had a couple of
01:08:47
good games. I mean, I think the two games
01:08:49
combined have been separated by three points.
01:08:52
I think the first game was decided by two and then it was
01:08:55
3837 Seattle in the last one. So this is going to be 460 yards
01:09:02
I think last time. That was about.
01:09:06
So we got 2 championship games, one that I think most people
01:09:10
would say is decidedly more exciting to talk about than the
01:09:13
other. So let's talk about the less
01:09:16
exciting game first. Let's talk about New England and
01:09:20
Denver. And well, this game would have
01:09:22
been. Preseason Week 3 game.
01:09:25
Yes, the preseason, it's it's the Week 3 game, which is what
01:09:30
we're into getting now. Drake May is interesting.
01:09:34
He hasn't been quite as exciting, thrilling as I hoped
01:09:38
he would have been in the playoffs so far.
01:09:39
So maybe this is a game where he does that.
01:09:41
It's at Denver. Denver is a 5 1/2 point underdog
01:09:44
which I really hate a low scoring game with A5 and a half
01:09:49
one under. Like even if it's.
01:09:51
Still a little. I know little.
01:09:53
Little creepy to me. Vegas No.
01:09:54
Why is it only four and? 1/2 I told Chiz and the Patreon
01:09:58
like this is going to be like a 1713 game.
01:10:01
Yeah. Where Denver's defense is going
01:10:03
to keep it low enough that that five points is going to matter,
01:10:08
hey. Feels like a rock fight game.
01:10:11
The question is, could Jared Stidham do anything?
01:10:13
Is there do you guys? Is there any chance in your
01:10:17
minds you can you see any world where Jared Stidham pulls this
01:10:20
off? I hate there's not a lot of.
01:10:23
Tape on them so it's hard to study the game plan against them
01:10:27
if you're trying to go down that path.
01:10:29
I'm just trying to get some tangents here like what could
01:10:31
work. Does he use his legs?
01:10:34
I don't really know. I don't know.
01:10:36
He was mobile three years ago the last time he played, right?
01:10:40
But at the end of the day, you kind of have to trust that Sean
01:10:43
Payton will come up with a game plan to get whatever the best is
01:10:46
out of Jared Stidham. Now what that is, I don't know.
01:10:50
I mean, the Patriots defense is better than people give it
01:10:52
credit for. It's good.
01:10:53
It is championship good and they they've got all the pieces in
01:10:59
the right places to make a run. Now, are they the best best?
01:11:01
No, but they're they're a top 10 defense.
01:11:03
They're probably a top five defense really.
01:11:06
And the way they've been playing in the postseason, I don't know
01:11:09
how you doubt it. So Jared Stidham's not going to
01:11:11
be able to do much. I mean, the main benefits going
01:11:13
to be it'll be quiet. So we got to do that doesn't
01:11:17
he's going to know the plays. He's been there right, but it's
01:11:20
not going to be loud for him, which is nice and as opposed to
01:11:22
Drake Mays going to go have to deal with that noise in Denver.
01:11:26
We know that's that's a thing. It's.
01:11:28
Lousy thing, Yeah, Yeah. But is there a world where they
01:11:32
can win? I guess Like it's going to be
01:11:35
defense though. So it's going to be a Drake made
01:11:37
mistake or a fumble, scoop, a strip sack fumble.
01:11:40
Kick. In turn, special teams, it'll be
01:11:42
something. Like that 1713 game is the only
01:11:44
way they win this and they they got to get lucky once to get the
01:11:48
17. Well, he is.
01:11:50
He is. A little background on Jared
01:11:52
Steddam. He is now 29.
01:11:54
He came into the league at 23. He has started in six years a
01:12:00
grand total of four games, so this will be his fifth start.
01:12:08
He is career 59% passer. He's thrown 8 touchdowns and
01:12:16
eight interceptions here. We go.
01:12:19
This is like, this is like Dexter getting a phone call
01:12:22
tomorrow from the Royals being like, hey, we need a second
01:12:25
baseman. Yeah.
01:12:27
Can you, can you show up for, can you show up for opening day?
01:12:30
Be. Right there, right?
01:12:35
It's crazy. He is.
01:12:37
OK, maybe not quite that bad, but yeah, this is this is a lot
01:12:40
to ask of Mr. Stidham and. Oh my goodness, it's.
01:12:44
A. It seems like a.
01:12:44
Mountain to ask. Peyton will find a way to.
01:12:48
You know. It wouldn't shock me if they ran
01:12:50
the ball the 1st 15 plays of the game or something just to yeah.
01:12:55
Yeah, the the bad thing about that is you don't even have your
01:12:57
starting running back anymore. So you're now you're you got
01:13:00
Harvey who? Is a rookie.
01:13:03
You got a. Rookie running back and a 29
01:13:07
year old basically rookie quarterback.
01:13:10
Starting the. Game like if Denver gets to the
01:13:14
Super Bowl, holy hell, what an awful scenario for NFL.
01:13:19
They cannot, they cannot open. This happens if you get a Jared
01:13:22
Stidham. Like I was talking before, if
01:13:25
you get a Jared Stidham, Sam Darnell match up with the Super
01:13:28
Bowl, it may be the lowest rated Super Bowl in the history of
01:13:30
being kind. I mean, holy crap.
01:13:33
I mean, the twelves will be watching, but that's for sure.
01:13:35
Let's go to the other game though, so this one will be.
01:13:37
That'll be interesting. More New England's got to lose
01:13:41
the game rather than Denver winning the game.
01:13:43
I think that's what this one comes down to in my opinion.
01:13:46
But. Flipping over the other one, so
01:13:47
the Rams, Seahawks, these are two heavyweights.
01:13:51
These are two of the best teams, right?
01:13:53
Arguably 2 of the top five teams in the NFL battling each other
01:13:56
in this last last week. And the Rams, and again, we have
01:14:00
the 2 MVP favorites, right? Drake May in one side and then
01:14:04
you have Stafford on the other side.
01:14:05
They kind of got where they're supposed to be.
01:14:07
That's what you want out of your quarterbacks for having the best
01:14:12
career, best seasons. And then you got Sam Darnold,
01:14:15
who just keeps winning and everybody wants him to pumpkin
01:14:17
and everybody keeps waiting for it, even the commentators.
01:14:19
They're like, well, it is Sam Darnold, but I don't know what
01:14:23
this guy has to do. He back-to-back 14 win seasons
01:14:26
and it's just because of how sour last year ended.
01:14:28
That's really what it is, and everybody's a bad sourness of it
01:14:32
especially. Like.
01:14:33
But watch them just look horrible.
01:14:36
Just throw away a season. But I think he you've learned
01:14:41
from mistakes. Well, you should learn from
01:14:43
mistakes and get better and not put yourself in the same
01:14:46
situations to make the same mistakes again.
01:14:48
So I think what he's doing is improving.
01:14:50
He's making better reads and the fact that he was only 12/17,
01:14:54
that tells you something that if the running game is working, he
01:14:57
won't need to throw. But The thing is, he also threw
01:15:01
well over 4000 yards this year and close to 30 touchdowns.
01:15:05
If they need him to throw it to win, he'll be able to do it.
01:15:08
And you know, Stafford can. So I think this game with a 47
01:15:11
1/2, I kind of, I mean the overlooks kind of enticing
01:15:15
really. I think there's going to be.
01:15:17
Well, they're 2 giving away Don't give anything away.
01:15:19
On picks, don't give anything away.
01:15:22
Anyway, over to you guys. I think we had two good running
01:15:24
backs. So, Kenneth?
01:15:26
I agree. So K Dub is going to be doing
01:15:28
the running because Charbonnay is out for the year now.
01:15:30
So for the Seahawks fans, Zach Charbonnay tore his ACL last
01:15:35
game, which really hurts. So now Kenneth Walker, the
01:15:38
third, is going to get all the carries, which is that good?
01:15:42
I don't know. He's been doing really well and
01:15:44
he's had two great games in a row.
01:15:46
So it's not the worst thing. They're both the teams are going
01:15:49
to be able to run. So Kyron Williams on one side,
01:15:52
Kenneth Walker on the other, you got Stafford and Darnold,
01:15:55
Jasmine Smith and Jigba and Puka Nakua.
01:15:58
I mean, you've got stars everywhere.
01:16:00
And the Seattle defense was probably the the biggest
01:16:04
differentiator of what they can be.
01:16:06
Now again, the last time they played it was 38 to 37.
01:16:09
So that doesn't look like the best defense in the league when
01:16:12
giving up 38 points, 37 points. But at the end of the day, I
01:16:17
think this one is going to be a phenomenal game.
01:16:20
Whoever wins, if it's a 3 point spread to Seattle, just
01:16:23
basically getting the home 3 for being home, that's the spread.
01:16:26
I think everyone expects us to be close and whatever.
01:16:29
It's just going to take one playmaker or one tip ball going
01:16:33
to the other team. I think it's going to be a
01:16:35
phenomenal game. Where you guys at?
01:16:37
Want you guys to to go back with me to our preseason predictions.
01:16:45
And if you'll notice, I picked Seattle to win the West, yes.
01:16:50
And my Super Bowl, I picked them to lose the Super Bowl because I
01:16:54
thought the Chiefs would be in it.
01:16:55
But I, I picked the Rams to go to the Super Bowl.
01:16:59
And I said something about Seattle might win the division,
01:17:03
but the Rams are going to be right there too.
01:17:05
Both phenomenal teams and that ended up, I mean, that's one of
01:17:09
that's the one thing I can point out and say, hey.
01:17:11
Astra Predict. On this you got you.
01:17:15
You got that now? It is pretty amazing that the
01:17:18
the final 3/3 of the final four NFC teams are all from the same
01:17:22
division. Yeah.
01:17:24
Really tight division, a lot of good matchups this year and and
01:17:27
this is going to be a great game.
01:17:29
Absolutely, absolutely. So predictions, what do you guys
01:17:34
think? New England and Seattle will be
01:17:38
in the Super Bowl. That's in Seattle.
01:17:40
Through it. Just because I took him before
01:17:45
the season, I'm going to say the Rams and I'll New England, New
01:17:50
England. OK.
01:17:52
I don't think Jared Stidham can. I just don't lead him to
01:17:55
victory. Yeah.
01:17:57
Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to go.
01:17:58
Rams, Rams New England as well. I think that's I think the Rams
01:18:03
are going to sneak it out. I just just like to coach in
01:18:05
their quarterback better. But I think that's going to be
01:18:08
really good game. And obviously whoever wins that
01:18:11
NFC battle is going to be favored.
01:18:14
You know, the if you look at Super Bowl odds right now, it's
01:18:17
probably Seattle and the Rams or just about even terms of
01:18:21
favorites to win the Super Bowl. And then it's going to go New
01:18:24
England and then Denver way down at 4:00 because of that injury
01:18:28
news. So it'll be interesting, but
01:18:30
we'll we'll see how it plays out.
01:18:32
Let's talk about betting. So we've been good all year.
01:18:37
Don't forget that guys, we've been good all year.
01:18:40
So it's a little bit of a rough patch for the shrewdness.
01:18:43
We had a rare over. We had been red hot.
01:18:46
So stupid statistics. They tend to come back and bite
01:18:50
you in the butt and they did for us this last week.
01:18:54
We went oh for three. After going 3 for three, we went
01:18:58
oh for three. So.
01:18:59
We didn't miss badly. After going 7 for 9, we went
01:19:03
right so it. Started with the Bills, this
01:19:06
stupid play, the pick that screwed us, that would have got
01:19:09
us A1 and O starting off to the good.
01:19:12
Yeah, good start right there. But instead it went the other
01:19:15
way. We're like, oh, now we're over
01:19:16
one right off the get go. Lost that one.
01:19:19
Then the San Francisco Seattle game went over barely.
01:19:24
So we had under 44. And a half we missed by one day.
01:19:28
Chiz, you said it started at 48 1/2.
01:19:32
Yep, it did. And it dropped to 44 1/2 when we
01:19:35
took it. That's why you got to get them
01:19:37
early, right? Yep.
01:19:38
The and then I picked Houston +3 and we'd already discussed that.
01:19:45
So, oh, for three on the weekend, but that's OK.
01:19:49
Never fear, never fear we are back.
01:19:51
Hey, we were oh for three last week.
01:19:53
It's good odds we're going to be 3 for three this week.
01:19:55
So it might be time to get on and make win that yacht.
01:19:58
So let's start out with Mr. Pruitt.
01:20:00
Mr. Pruitt, what do you like this week?
01:20:03
The other thing I'll say about our OH for three is that we've
01:20:06
never gone back-to-back over threes.
01:20:08
That's right. I think that's right.
01:20:11
Three plus years we've been doing this, we've never gone
01:20:13
back. To back over three, we don't go
01:20:15
over 3, so take that to the bank.
01:20:19
That's right. So San Fran, Seattle under 44
01:20:27
1/2. I was like, all right, there's
01:20:28
no way they can get there. I'm even more confident this
01:20:31
week that Denver and New England cannot get to 42 1/2.
01:20:36
I I'd be shocked if Denver scores more than 17 points and
01:20:42
and Denver has a very good defense.
01:20:44
I'm not sure New England can put up more than like 24.
01:20:47
So you combine those, maybe they get to about 42, but I just
01:20:51
don't see it. I think it's going to be a, a 20
01:20:55
to 10 type game. 20 to 1324 to 17 is about the highest I can
01:20:59
see. And that still gets you under.
01:21:01
So I like and it went under. I agree Prue, I think the only
01:21:06
way this game goes over is if the defenses and special teams
01:21:09
get a bunch of touchdowns and screw us that way.
01:21:11
But I love the under on the. I didn't think about a Jarrett
01:21:15
Stidham pick six or something like that, but hopefully, you
01:21:21
know, they'll just hand the ball off a lot and stick with short
01:21:24
passes and just be punting the ball away a lot.
01:21:27
So right. Pick six.
01:21:29
Pick 12. Pick 18.
01:21:30
That's. Right get.
01:21:32
Out of quickly, Yeah. Dex, what do you got this week?
01:21:37
So the one I like the best is just we've already talked about
01:21:40
it. I don't believe in Jared's did
01:21:41
them at all. I think the Patriots are going
01:21:43
to cover 4 1/2. I think they'll cover 5 1/2.
01:21:46
I think they will win by a touchdown.
01:21:48
I mean at least a touchdown. They just they don't have anyone
01:21:51
broke and whereas you look at the Broncos, it's the defense
01:21:55
and defense only. But Drake may, he's it's hard to
01:21:58
bet against MVP caliber quarterbacks in the season and
01:22:01
having their MVP season. I'm going to bank on that.
01:22:04
He's not going to make those mistakes again.
01:22:06
I think he's not going to dive forward and you have the ball
01:22:08
knocked out by some big fat lineman today.
01:22:10
I think it's going to be a better game.
01:22:12
And if he doesn't turn the ball over, they would be putting up
01:22:15
way more points. And so I think he puts a good
01:22:18
game playing together because they don't I'm not going to be
01:22:21
asked to do too much. I don't think Denver's going to
01:22:23
be able to score kind of while we're taking the under.
01:22:25
But I think New England can easily cover the spread.
01:22:28
And again, it would take something weird and I just I
01:22:31
don't see it again, I've been I don't think that Denver Broncos
01:22:35
defense is just wholly unbeatable.
01:22:38
I don't think that at all. And when you look at they gave
01:22:41
up thirty points to the Bills and they should have lost last
01:22:43
week. Why, why can't Drake May put up
01:22:46
30 points? I mean, I think he totally can.
01:22:49
So I'm on New England -4 1/2 or 5 1/2 depending on doesn't
01:22:52
matter where you're at. And I think they.
01:22:53
Wouldn't want him to put up 30 though.
01:22:55
We want him to put up about 20. 4 good call.
01:22:57
Good. Yeah, that's right.
01:22:59
Yeah, that's right. 30 to 10, that'll work.
01:23:01
So we got it. We've got so far Denver, New
01:23:04
England under and we've got New England minus and I'm going to
01:23:08
go to the NFC slate. We discussed this earlier.
01:23:12
I think we're going to have some fireworks in this NFC
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championship. I think it's going to be a
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really great game and it it could go defensive.
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We I could be totally off, but I don't think it's going to be
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defensive. I think I think there's going to
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be a lot of scoring in this game.
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So I really like the over 47 1/2.
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I mean, if you think about that, that that's a, do you think this
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game could be 2724 easy? I could easy see that. 2821 I
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can see the. Teams getting to 30s pretty
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easily in this game too, so I think I like that over and I'm
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super excited to watch the game in general.
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So championship Sunday is upon us.
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We have the Denver New England under 42 1/2, New England -5 1/2
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and we have the Rams and Seahawks over 47 1/2.
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Take it to the bank. Lock it up.
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Let's go get a yacht. All right, fellas, another
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incredible We are. We are one weekend away from
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understanding who's going to be in the Super Bowl and what's
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going to transpire. And another great year of the
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NFL. Take us home decks.
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All right, So as we get through again our prop bets, we're doing
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pretty good on those. We almost hit we missed it by
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1/2 yard in the last game. Colston Loveland got an 18 yard
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catch before getting his concussion and never coming back
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for the last bit of that game and then.
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All of overtime. So and then we had two or three,
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the other one too, except we missed the CMC, went out with a
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Stinger and then didn't come back in the fourth quarter
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because the game was so we've been doing pretty good on our
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props too. So look for those island games.
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We'll do a prop best for both of those this weekend.
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That'll be fun. And as we get around the corner,
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we already kind of teased it. Baseball's coming.
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We're excited about it. So we'll get you all spun up on
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that. But meantime, stay focused on
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football. Good luck if your teams are
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still in it and hearts out to you Denver for losing your
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quarterback right before the championship game.
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That's a that's a bummer, but at least you're in it, unlike Josh
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Allen, he would trade you places.
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So anyway, enjoy the week, be out there, be safe until next
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week, stay shrewd.