Hour 1 – NFL Week 17 Recap, Mistakes Were Made

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Speaker 3: Going on, Rich, I warry you making a new forty nine.

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Speaker 2: I got the other day pumped about last night I can't believe they are one game away from somehow becoming the one seed in the NFC. Kyle Shanahan is coaching the best football I think you've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: Coach of the year, no doubt, no Piggy.

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Speaker 2: You know, we'll say Ben Johnson and they throw other names out there. Well, Kyle Shanahan has done. Some people could say whatever they want. I see it with my own eyes.

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Speaker 4: Man, the way they're moving the ball, the way they're playing, the way they've dealt with injuries, the spirit of that team, the forty two they play with. Dude, they just look unstoppable right now. I mean, the Bears played a hell of a game. Lots of great games, you know what. Let's get right into it again. Happy Holidays from your boys, Cavino and Rich. Clearly Rich is a big forty nine Ers fan. He's super fired up. We had some great games. What a great game last night. We take your phone calls every Monday. We get you involved, We get you in included. That's what we do, Cavino and Rich and we do something called things that made you go hmmm, anything you observed from this past weekend, anything in the world of football in the world of life, in the world of holiday movies, in the world of the grundle of the holidays, the space between you know, whatever it is you observed, you call and let us know and we discuss it. And Rich your team the forty nine ers are clicking. Like we said last weekend, I think even more so at the right time.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: My first observation was the fact that brock Party never gets rattled.

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Speaker 3: After that first pick six.

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Speaker 2: Within fifteen seconds in the game, it's seven nothing, and everyone's like, oh no, well here we go.

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Speaker 3: This is it's unraveling.

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Speaker 4: And he's playing with a little bit of confidence, a little cockiness, a little gustone. His dance moves are improving, like he is leading that team, man, and they're moving the.

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Speaker 3: Ball with ease. Dude, their offense looks unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: I worried that without Kittle they would struggle in certain areas. But yo, tongus, this this guy's you know, really a solid filling.

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Speaker 4: He's been clearly under the tutelage. Well, I want George Kid too. Rich, I'm not swinging from the forty nine ers bean bag. I am a little Rich is a forty nine Ers fan. I'm watching unbiased just watching the game. Of course, I'm familiar, more familiar with the forty nine ers, and we've a little bit harder because of Rich. I don't want to see him sad in the studio. I don't root against them, but props to the Bears putting up a fight.

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Speaker 3: They look great too.

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Speaker 4: But the forty nine Ers, again minus Kittle, every team has injuries Rich, So clearly the forty nine Ers defense isn't what it should be right now.

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Speaker 3: But man, what a game. What an exciting weekend, And.

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Speaker 4: That's gotta be observation number one. What a battle is gonna be with the Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: I would say the thing that made me go hm the most was that the game is it's you know, it really is a game of a play here, play there. The Bears fans and I'm not trying to, you know, be condescending, you have nothing to be ashamed of, no, but they're really like you're you're one play, one pass away, and all of a sudden, if Caleb Williams on that final play find someone in the end zone, then the Bears are the greatest and the Niners blew it like it really is like those teams last night battled where I wouldn't be shocking either one like that.

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Speaker 3: That's not a game when.

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Speaker 2: Your team loses where you're like, oh man, we suck like you were a play away.

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Speaker 3: You really were, you were a playaway. You ran out of time.

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Speaker 4: Well, the Bears blew it on that like second last drive where they didn't score a touch they should have scored a touchdown and had to go for the field goal because you knew the forty nine ers would come back. It was just such a back in fourth game, just a back and forth, explosive offensive game, and both teams look great and we reaped the benefits of it. So even if you're a Chicago fan, you gotta be pumped. But man, what a weekend, guys. And this is again where we get you involved. Even on our show Monday through Friday, Covino and Rich were on five to seven on the East, two to four on the West. So when did you buy that forty nine er shirt? Over the weekend, I bought my kids.

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Speaker 2: Some new forty nine ers, you know, some new sports gear for Christmas, and I was like, you know what, I saw this shirt. I'm like, you know what, I need a new T shirt? So let me let me grab one, so figuring it, I had Rocket Proud.

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Speaker 5: Today he's burying the lead. He also bought them some new Dodger gear.

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Speaker 2: No, I refused, I thought Danny. I was at the shop at the mall, the like you know, the I don't know what it's not.

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Speaker 3: It's not the it's just some random jersey shops sports treasures.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did see some Dodger stuff and I'm like, I can't do it. I can't buy my kids Dodger stuff yet. If you don't, if you don't know my kids are Dodgers fans, I am not.

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Speaker 3: But I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 6: So let's go over this. Things that made you go hmmm, week seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Things that make you go all right.

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Speaker 1: So things that make you go that make gid goal hm.

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Speaker 2: I would say anyone that ever called brock Party a game manager has to be seeing some of the things he's doing and they're like, all right, like we've we may have like misread this whole situation a year ago because some of the players brock Party was making, and the way he moves around in moments, you can't in any way say he's a game manager.

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Speaker 3: The way he.

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Speaker 4: Moves around the poise and Rich when you're watching through other people's eyes, you know, through the holidays, you're probably watching with mixed company and everything.

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Speaker 3: Two other observations I made, Oh people, you don't usually watch.

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Speaker 4: One Yeah, yeah, because you don't normally watch with these people is oh, my god, is this guy eighteen? Like how young he looks, How young he is yet how confident he plays like he has a really this sounds corny, Rich, but it's noticeable. He has a really great touch, so again or feel for the ball. You know, might have the strongest start, might not be the fastest guy, but he has all the those and tangibles, those qualities. He has a really great touch, He makes really great passes, really great timing, and he jels really well with this team. It's really fun to watch Rich. If I were you, and I know you don't want to get ahead of yourself. As the resident forty nine Ers fan, I'd be really pumped about this.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: I've been to you know, a couple of Super Bowls in the last handful of years, two times lost to the Chiefs under Kyle Shanahan, and like I feel like we talked about did their window close, it looks a little open right now.

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Speaker 3: The window. The windows open right now, So the NFC is wide open.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's another observation where you look around the NFC and I don't think there is a team you'd be shocked if they didn't make it or did make it. I still think the Rams are the best team in the NFC. And you know they're not gonna be your one seed. They're a wild card, and I think the Rams could very well be the best team. Didn't think about it. We talked about the game of inches, like last night, the forty nine ers are the greatest because the Bears couldn't convert on fourth and goal with four seconds left. Rewind them a week ago or so, where on Thursday night the Seahawks go for two, make it and win. If they missed that, the Rams are the ones secen I'm like, dude, this is the Rams here, So it's it really is a matter of who's gonna be hot in the month of January.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're lucky that that hook and ladder play did not develop further down the field.

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Speaker 3: Oh lenor stop that?

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Speaker 2: My goodness, that scared the crap out of every Niners fan, but all your observations from week seventeen, let's hear him in for Dan, Patrick, Covino and Rich. I think that you don't like to live on hope of like this guy's gonna return. You remember last year, Danny, the Lions who ended up faltering down the stretch against the Commanders. You remember the sentiment was if they make it to the NFC Championship Game or Super Bowl, Aiden Hutchinson's gonna make a comeback.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember that that story last year?

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Speaker 2: Of course, and then they fall short against the Commanders and Jayde and Daniels and it's like, oh, man, would Aiden Hutchinson have come out in that like in that glorious moment and be like, I'm here to save the defense. The forty nine ers have a situation now where Fred Warner such a conditioned guy. I don't know if you saw Fred Warner jumping on the field congratulating his teammates there.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they showed him a bunch of times.

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Speaker 2: He started the game by getting the Niners crowd fired up Dumb City. There's the sentiment that he's saying, I'll be back if the forty nine Ers make the NFC championship game, which makes this game against the Seahawks even more high level because if they win, they a bye, which means they'd have to win a divisional game. And then you're telling me, you beat the Seahawks, then you win one playoff game and you get Fred warnerback for the NFC Championship.

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Speaker 6: I don't know how real that is, but that sounds insane.

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Speaker 4: No, it sounds It sounds real inspiring, It sounds real great, really motivating for your forty nine ers. But you know, not to get far too far ahead. But that is the next game. How do you think they size up? Is something else that makes you go hmmm at this point of the season, forty nine or Seahawks?

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Speaker 3: What a battle. By the way, I do want.

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Speaker 4: To wish our guy, our producer, super producer, Danny G a happy belated birthday. He celebrated his birthday weekend during the tainh of the holidays.

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Speaker 3: So happy birthday, Danny G.

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Speaker 4: He's got the smooth, this most buttery voice in all the radio land, and he's on the phones at eighty seven to seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Wish Dan a happy birthday again. In for Dan, Patrick Covino and rich So Richie, I think you have every every, every reason to be excited, and that just gives you another layer to your forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I'll give you another thing that made not just me, but everyone go hm hm. And again any observation from week seventeen, a casual Monday.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's pump it up a little bit.

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Speaker 6: As you said, the taint of the holiday season.

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Speaker 3: What day is it? Where are we? Everyone's like off from work?

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Speaker 4: He ain't quite as the fisher, Yeah, because it ain't quite Christmas, ain't quite New Year's.

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Speaker 3: He ain't quite of the holidays.

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Speaker 2: So while we all sit around, you know, scratching our bellies on our pajamas, I think for football, hell yeh, Saturday Night Niners hosting the Seahawks for the one seed and for the NFC West or everything is fun as a viewer because now you got this primo Saturday night, primetime eight pm on the East Coast, five out here on the West. That's the matchup. But do you think both teams got a little bit of a raw deal? Short week they have to plan on Saturday, and that game is not your Sunday night game because the network's decided to go with Aaron Rodgers against the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I noticed that, which is also a big game. We got to talk about.

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Speaker 4: The Steelers two blowing it and the Raven's stepping up big time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know Aaron Rodgers, I know he's ratings, and you could say, well, the forty nine Ers had primetime games the last couple weeks. Yeah, but Saturday Night's also a primetime game, and it's the game with the highest level of significance. I just can't understand how and the forty nine has went from Monday Night to Sunday Night to now Saturday Night.

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Speaker 3: Their schedules all over the place.

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Speaker 2: But I guess if they're rolling and jelling and they got that camaraderie, I guess it doesn't matter. But when you got a guy like Kittle, and you saw Trent Williams, big Trent Williams get banged up last night, you don't think those guys want one extra day before the biggest game of the season.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's any question.

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Speaker 4: I know Aaron Rodgers' ratings, like you said, but that's not the most exciting matchup of the weekend. Yeah, I do think the forty nine er Seahawks game got hosed a little bit, Yeah, a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit, No Metcalf.

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Speaker 5: Of course for the Steelers, that's gonna hurt, just us hurt yesterday and then also bad back for Lamar right now, so that seems like it's gonna be a defensive game and maybe ugly.

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Speaker 2: So that Lions fan is the Ravens MVP this year without DK Metcalf, the Ravens seem to that.

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Speaker 4: I believe they're like three and a half point favorites opening up. That Lions fan spoke out over the weekend too. You may have been returning presence. You may have missed it. Again, it's a confusing time. That's just between the holidays.

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Speaker 3: Did you like his folding table us comfort.

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Speaker 4: He had his own little press conference just asking DK Metcalf for an apology because he said two things he doesn't stand for is animal cruelty and racism, and he goes he wants the world to know. He says his family's getting death threats. So DK Metcalf please do the right thing and tell the world that I said nothing that you claim I said nothing racist whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: He's just a Lions fan.

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Speaker 4: No, and honestly, Richard, part of me believes him and did he Metcalf not being there? And that spin they tried to put on the story like if there was any truth to it, the NFL wouldn't have suspended him the way they did, you know, as fast as they did, And it played huge dividends for Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers, and I was Rogers dude, I would be so pissed about that because there were so many plays and they made a point of it during the game that were designed for DK Metcalf, and had he been there, it would have been a different outcoming.

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Speaker 3: Now all the pressure on them against the Ravens next week.

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Speaker 2: I said it a week ago, and I'm not moonwalking, I'm not back pedaling. I still think that Lions fans an ask clown, but probably the type of guy you'd have a beer with.

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Speaker 3: But he's a dope.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know that doesn't make him a race but but you know who a bigger fool is Dk Metcalf. I heard LeVar on Two Pros and a Cup of Joe driving in this morning.

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Speaker 3: He was chopping up with Jonas and.

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Speaker 2: There they were talking about how you know LeVar played in the NFL. It was a superstar Penn State. He goes, fans taunt you, He's like, you know, I would just casually be like, yeah, you mother like that? That was his response, you know, he would he would yeah your mother is That was his thing. He goes whatever someone said, he jokingly with in jest, said that back because he's like, you can't let someone get you out of your zone and out.

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Speaker 4: Of your zone, weak skin, thin scan again, superstar not trying to could he call out DK? But he put his team in such a bad situation with that selfish move of not being able to control himself. I know he doesn't care about the money, but still took a major hit. What over five hundred thousand dollars and the games.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers could have got out of some financial long term commitments, but they didn't. They did the right quote moral thing because they have a commitment to DK. But I'll tell you what, DK didn't seem to have a commitment to the betterment of the Steelers. When you when you act like an asked and respond to a fan like that. Again, I still think that fans like ass jackass?

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Speaker 3: But why why? Though Rich.

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Speaker 4: He's a goofball fan because he has a wig on. Every guy they's showing the stands has a stupid hat on, by the way, has a stupid chain on.

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Speaker 3: If you want to have face paint on. Look at. Uh, he's not the only.

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Speaker 2: Guy look at I mean at work when they come back from commercial breaking, they pants all those people in the crowd. There's a lot of fanatical crazy people. I'm saying he's an ass clown, but then again, we have a bunch of our friends are ass clowns. I'm just saying, DK really put the Steelers in a bad spot.

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Speaker 4: Really, and I feel for Aaron Rodgers too, because you know, even that last play Taylor made for DK metcalf. He would have scooped that up, jumped up the corner of the end zone and got that one and the Steelers win. But that's not the case. Now, all the pressure on them playing a hot All of a sudden, the Ravens are hot. Derrick Henry's unstoppable, running people over. You know, he had two game balls at the end of the game. How are you going to stop them?

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Speaker 2: As they say, most people, a lot of people had their fantasy football. I would imagine Danny championships this week as no one really plays in the week eighteen, right, If you heard your fantasy football championship and you had DK Metcalf, who I'm sorry. If you had Derek Henry, who really didn't do much all year for the most part, Yeah, and you had him yesterday, My goodness.

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Speaker 4: I just felt for the Steelers in that moment because you know, and there's a lot of people yelling and screaming at Tomlin. A lot of that offense and Danny GEO backed me up clearly designed around DK Metcalf, and I don't want to be too hard on Dk Metcalf, but that mistake it played, played huge dividends.

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Speaker 6: But it's for them this weekend. It's not just like a little mistake.

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Speaker 2: It's a you took the best you could argue, the biggest stake, the best player on that offense, out of the final two games of the season in a playoff push.

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Speaker 3: And you know, look at it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying we're geniuses, because everyone made a ton of like weak ass predictions and awesome predictions going into the season. But I think the one thing we were all agreement on, and it's not just us that this is no pat on the back. I'm not a Barry Horrowitz in the eighties wrestling patting myself on the back.

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Speaker 6: Remember that guy? Is that a reference anyone gets?

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Speaker 3: Barry? Barry? I was in an a weaker reference.

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Speaker 4: So it's all good, okay, But I was gonna say, Pat, who pat on the back?

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Speaker 3: Pat? Who? Pat? From SNL Are you the guys that hate everything? That's a good one? So maybe yours. I feel like I'm hanging out with my pops right now. Ah, you guys, remember it's Pat pat on the back? Dude. Awesome to lame eighties and nineties references. I don't know, Pat. Some are all could have thrown Pat some aer on there.

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Speaker 2: I love that legend recide. But we all said the same thing. We said that the Steelers probably go nine and eight or ten and seven, and we all said they'll probably go ten and seven. Got a little better because of Rogers, and they're they're ten and seven sneaking the playoffs. And then the thing was we all said, and if the Steeler's been one playoff game, it would be considered like a victory. And they are and it's really exactly where they are right now, and DK Metcalf could be the reason why it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't go down. I don't see it going their way. Man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like momentum is not on their side right now, and it is on the Ravens side. And man, it is a great game. See NATA, we're talking about it. Yeah, it is a great game. But I don't think it takes precedence over your forty nine or Seahawks game.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if both teams were healthy or had somebody that wasn't suspended, then I think it would be a better matchup obviously, But Rich it's kind of like when Kittle is missing from your offense. He makes your offense go yeah. Metcalf makes that Steelers offense go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Which is why I was so surprising the Niners last night. It just shows that maybe it's just Shanahan or Tongus is good. But interestingly enough, the games that matter the most next week. I think the NFL, hey, they lucked out. I wish they was more excitement than that. NFC North I wish I wish the dead lines didn't phase off at the end, and I wish the Packers, I wish there was something at stake in that division because it's a really exciting division in my mind. But there's three real good games significance. There's a couple for seating purposes, but three of them. Two of them are Saturday, one a Sunday night. I just think they got the order a little wrong Saturday because the two games that division, other than the Niner Seahawks, the two other games that determine in and win out if you lose division titles, should be Saturday. I feel like Bucks Carolina and the Steelers raven should have been like your doubleheader on Saturday, and they could even have made a gimmick Cavino like in and win it like this is like round zero of the playoffs essentially, because in those two games, losers out, winner moves on, So why would they not? And the ones an NFC matchup, ones an AFC matchup. I think the NFL should have stacked Ravens, Steelers, Bucks Panthers and made that your Saturday almost.

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Speaker 6: I call it like the mini wild Card or something.

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Speaker 4: Because there's gotta be a reason, though, Rich, you know, there's got to be a ratings reason, any reason. The NFL very calculated and how they do this so I'm sure there's a reason that we don't know. We as fans though see.

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Speaker 3: It that way.

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Speaker 2: It can't simply be a network thing where the Niners played too many times on primetime games on a certain network.

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Speaker 3: Or what is maybe who gets that Saturday night game, Danny? Is that Fox?

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Speaker 2: Is Fox get that Saturday night forty nine Ers game? Let me take a look, because maybe it's a network that God picks, because isn't there something to be said about how the networks do get preferences when they wanted times.

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Speaker 3: There's probably something like that that we're not seeing right.

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Speaker 2: Well, ABC, Saturday your Saturday NFL this week Bucks Panthers nine or Seahawks, those two NFC battles. They're both on ABC and ESPN. So maybe part of the Monday Night football package is they got a pick maybe you know, like, oh, you pick your game?

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Speaker 3: What do you want to be your primetime game? ABC?

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Speaker 2: And then on Sunday, of course Sunday Night Football, last game of the year, that's on MB so.

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Speaker 4: So much more to get too rich And that's where we get you involved. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we touched on the forty nine Ers and the Steelers for the most part, we haven't even talked about any other games, so we got to get into it. So much drama in the LBC. So many things happened over the weekend. You know, the Bills. Should they have went for the tie? That's another one, right, that another game.

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Speaker 2: And Josh Allen answering a question just as honest as he could. So we'll get to all your week seventeen stuff. Just a lot of fun. Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas with friends and family and his Covino said, not to be a cliche, but every this is the week where I think everyone is in chill mode, which is nice because you got a lot of football. You have a lot of laying on your laying on your couch watching football time. So we'll get to all your feedback next right here on Coveno on Rich.

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00:23:45
Speaker 3: What's the date?

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Speaker 2: Even the twenty ninth, Monday the twenty ninth, As we get ready for the final week of the NFL season, can you believe that we're there already?

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Speaker 3: What's up? CoV Hold on one second? Can you know you there? Buddy boy?

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're getting to everything that went down yesterday Week seventeen of the NFL.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: I think we're looking at the feedback.

00:24:16
Speaker 2: Someone said, you know, there's a reason why Aaron Rodgers is gonna be on Sunday Night Football, one last opportunity for Chris Collinsworth to stroke mister Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that's a good thought.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, hey, well we'll get Cavino back up and running. But hey, any other thoughts you have, Let's go to your phone calls. Let's start with Frank. Frank, you're on Coveno and Rich into the Great DP.

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Speaker 8: What's up right, Hey, guys, I have a theory on the why they have the sand Fan Seattle game on Saturday this week? Could it be because wild Card weekend starts next Saturday, and knowing that both San fran and Seattle are going to be playing next weekend, to at least give those guys those teams seven days rest.

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Speaker 2: You're saying one of the way, whoever, whoever loses, whatever team loses nine er Seahawks, you're saying that they've already mentally slated that is one of your Saturday Wildcard games. So if the Niners drop this one or see, someone's gonna drop the game. So one of those teams is gonna have to play as a wildcard, the other get to buy. So you're saying, might as well give him that that one week off exactly into the postseason.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense. I could see that. Rich. You have Kyle Shanahan coaching your team, you only need four days rest.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, my only thought that bothers me about this short week are two of the most important players on the Niners right now are a little hobby. And that's George Kittle, who said he wanted to come back yesterday. He said it was a game time decision, so likely Kittles get to go in week eighteen. And Big Trent Williams, who I think Scott Van Pelt JINXD do you remember after that Indianapolis game, He's like, Trent, you're one of the best offensive linemen in NFL history, but you've been banged up over the years. This is your first season where you've played every game. I'm like, shut the hell up Van Pelt And here we are a week later. He's a little banged up, but hopefully he's back. What's up, Covina?

00:26:17
Speaker 3: All right, let's go.

00:26:20
Speaker 2: To your feedback at eight seven, seven, nine nine on Fox Wes and Idaho saying, YO, give me that Sunday Night crew or the Ulsen crew over Brady.

00:26:28
Speaker 3: I don't know what you thought, Brady. Was an observation I had.

00:26:30
Speaker 2: I thought Tom Brady over the weekend is proving that he's getting more and more entertaining in the booth. Not only more and more entertaining, but what was that the glove thing he was he was harping. You know, like sometimes you get fixated on something. I think tom Brady was fixated on how in those weather conditions?

00:26:46
Speaker 6: And who know better than him? So you almost have to take his ward more than anyone.

00:26:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, but most of all, he looked like a Bond villain.

00:26:53
Speaker 6: I can't go for the turtleneck look. I've I don't know anyone.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if you're like a dude that's in like fashion and style, But Danny you do do you ever rock a turtleneck?

00:27:06
Speaker 3: I think he could get away with it. I can't.

00:27:08
Speaker 2: Turtleneck with sports code is a look where I'm always like turtle liquid sports cut. Huh, you get you going with the turtle licking sports code. But tom Brady proving that. I think we were all very tough on him, and I get it. You know what we're tough on him when you sign a contract and you see the numbers, like, yo, tom Brady's making hundreds of millions of dollars in a long term deal to be a broadcaster.

00:27:28
Speaker 6: And he wasn't so sharp at the beginning.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: Very easy to say he sucks, But I don't think he's that bad.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: I'll be honest.

00:27:36
Speaker 2: I still think Greg Olsen might be my favorite guy that's in the in the world of color commentating for Fox.

00:27:44
Speaker 4: Dude, I think tom Brady's doing everything we expected him to do, get better at it, noticeably better. I thought he was great. I think we're overly critical. It's just because it's Tom Brady. Were hanging on every word he says, We're just listening extra close. He's great, you know what any is than he was when he started, for sure. And Dude, as far as criticizing his turtleneck, I'm with you. It's noticeable because he's Tom Brady, but not everybody could pull it off because they're not tom Brady.

00:28:11
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, we make fun of him, but Cam Newton pulls off those hats.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: You cunn't, you know.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: I mean like, yeah, some people could rock a style and some others can't.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: So it's noticeable, But yeah, does it look bad? Are they superstars? Can they pull it off? That's the truth.

00:28:27
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is that I guess if you got any retired star in any sport to do TV commentating, you start to see people's I want to say crutches, but their their go tos, like Dinny. If you started call him play by play or something, we'd be like, yo, you've noticed how Danny always does does this. People love to talk about how Collins earthles are like, here's a guy that blank.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: You know, Tom Brady man the way he slurs on Mahomes. Yeah, Tom Brady pointed out last night Tirico was slurping on your boy party. Yeah.

00:28:57
Speaker 2: They've even made a comment though, they're like, get Collins are beating the trolls on social media to it by at least admitting that he's you know, Brock pretty does some good stuff, and he immediately compares him to Patrick Mahomes.

00:29:10
Speaker 3: But you look at it this way.

00:29:12
Speaker 2: The the broadcasters that we knew as former players are all gonna have little things. We point out tom Brady's very excitable, he gets you can see what a football fan he is because he gets excited for the big plays, like.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: He's screaming in the booth. And I have no issue with that, right, I think that's great. I think that's what you want from an announcer. I just think because is Tom Brady, and he was so criticized when he first got in there, we still hang on to it.

00:29:39
Speaker 3: Instead of just listening.

00:29:41
Speaker 4: You know, it's like Rich, it's like when we as radio hosts, when our friends are listening, they're hanging on every word instead of just listening like you would to any other normal show. You're not overly criticizing everything. Just listen and enjoy Tom Brady. So things that made you go hmm, any option you made speaking to Tom Brady? Even more comparisons, Drake May to Tom Brady five tutties, the most for the Pats since TB twelve thirteen and three AFC East Clinch.

00:30:13
Speaker 3: Drake May the Mahahan. I just think it's wow.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: People are saying there's a lot of fun you know, rumors obviously Rich of how Tom Brady is an investor in you know, cloning, that cloning thing where he cloned his dog. They're like, dude, maybe Drake May has cloned because it is pretty amazing to see the stats he's putting up.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: You know, they just needed the right coach and the right quarterback. And you know, it's the most underrated thing in all of sports. Think about every sport, every sport you got what does it take to win?

00:30:45
Speaker 3: In baseball?

00:30:46
Speaker 2: You're like, well, you need to do you need an ace and you need, you know, you need a couple guys that could hit thirty five or more home runs, like you know basketball, you need the right you know leader every every sport you like, what is the equation to possibly win in the NFL?

00:30:59
Speaker 3: I think it's very simple.

00:31:00
Speaker 2: If you get a quarterback coach combo that gels together, and you're seeing it with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams within year one of them together, You're like, you get a coach at a quarterback that are like a little matchmate in heaven.

00:31:14
Speaker 3: That is all you really, that's all you really need.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: That again, you fill in the blanks around there, but you'll compete at minimum, you'll compete with that combo.

00:31:23
Speaker 3: You know where you were reminded of that.

00:31:25
Speaker 4: I don't know if people watched this over the Taint of the Holidays, but the John Elway documentary on Netflix, which I highly recommend, you keep talking about Kyle Shanahan, but he credits Lway, credits Mike Shanahan for changing his life and changing his career.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: It's true, though, think about all the teams that you really believe in, what do they have in common?

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Danny?

00:31:47
Speaker 2: This is the most common. This is the most obvious statement I brought up. But the Rams, you got McVeigh and Stafford any good team. And my point was you have a good young quarterback like Drake may and Vrabel who came in there, and we forget that Mayo was the coach of a year. Remember that one year one year and then it was just like, yeah, it's not working out of you. You were a former player. Everyone loved you, but as Rabel instead, like Rabel and Drake May seem to have clicked. And you have Sean Payton and bo Nicks. You get a quarterback coach combo that get each other, that almost pick each other, right, I mean, like you you find each other. It's almost like a relationship, and like you run with it as long as you can.

00:32:30
Speaker 5: There's a wild Drake maystat here he's the first player with five plus passing touchdowns and over a ninety percent completion percentage in a game since nineteen eighty one.

00:32:41
Speaker 6: Damn, and that Jake game could have got uglier.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: I was flipped. It's not a game.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone watched all four quarters of it was disgusting, and there were better games on But anytime you looked at a highlight or you had your multiple games up on the TV, like, yeah, this game is ugly and could have been worse. I almost sew like at one point the Patriots were like yeah. They were like, yeah, just take out some starters and relax. Like this game they could have beat them seventy to ten or whatever it was.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: It would have been disgusting.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: And then you wonder, is there any chance Aaron Glenn in the world gets another shot at this?

00:33:13
Speaker 3: Are they committed to him?

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Like, because you just start to hear like in a week from now, who's on the hot seat right, like what coaches are the first to go? I'd be shocked to see if they stick with him. And speaking of documentaries conving, I'm look at the feedback. Colin hit us up and said, you brought up the Lway one, which I'm gonna watch tonight.

00:33:32
Speaker 6: I think, oh, man, I haven't watched this yet.

00:33:34
Speaker 4: You're so reminded of what a winner he was, what he meant to Denver, how he put it on the map. You're reminded of the fact that this dude lost I mean common knowledge, but when you see how down he was three Super Bowls, right to come back to.

00:33:50
Speaker 2: AFC when we were kids. Dude, the AFC couldn't stack up. It was like, do you remember at one point it was like, all right, whoever wins the NFC, The Niners, the Cowboys, maybe the Giants of the Redskins, like there was a powerhouse in the NFC A but like three or four teams, and it was like, all right, who's gonna beat the Broncos this year?

00:34:07
Speaker 4: He wins the second Super Bowl, then wins a third as a GM I think the only player to win as a as a player at GM. And then he's watching his highlights. I'm not giving it away. Let's just say it's emotional. The guy has gone through a roller coaster, but he's a winner and he credits. Like Rich said, the quarterback coach combo is so significant, he couldn't do much. But with Shanahan, everything jeled and you know, a lot of times maybe we put it on the quarterback, but you know, maybe behind the scenes, it really is the fact that they're just not gelling with the system, with the quarterback and what's expected of them. Like, dang, I wonder if that's what's happening with your boy, Geno Smith.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not your answer.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: No, I know he's not the answer, but you got to do to fall off so hard, like something's not clicking with the Raiders.

00:34:53
Speaker 2: I think he just had a quick little rebirth and it was just is never the same. And by the way, when I said the documentary, ken was says Colin said, speaking of documentaries, not only the lay one. Did you see the first look we're getting at the speaking of coaches, Nick Cage is John Madden.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: That's been floating around.

00:35:07
Speaker 4: You know, I'm glad he brought that up because I was thinking about that too.

00:35:11
Speaker 3: I have seen it. I watched the trailer.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and dude, I gotta tell you, man, do you still see Nick cag or you oh you buy it?

00:35:18
Speaker 4: In Yeah, I see Nick Cage in a fat suit, Like that's really it. And it really bothers me because I hear he's a great show.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: Well I'm John Madden Boom to fact intern acting where boom boom, turnduck.

00:35:31
Speaker 4: In booms and all I see is Nick Cage's stupid face in a fat suit. And there's a lot of rumor and speculation on social media is like they should have whit were Frank Caliando and they always thought John Candy would have been Well John can't it would have been, but he's thirty years ago. Geez right, you know, but you know I wish, I wish this movie. Well, I'm gonna watch with an open mind, but I can't not see Nick Cage's face.

00:35:56
Speaker 3: But I am seeing it. I'm hearing good things. You know. There are so many other observations.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Things we got to get to week seventeen of the NFL and anything else that was going on in your life.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: What did you watch? Any good shows?

00:36:08
Speaker 2: Have you been killing time during the holiday season. We'll take all your feedback.

00:36:12
Speaker 4: And well, I brought up Dandyg's Raiders too, because I want him to break down that Max Crosby drama, because that wasn't making me say, you.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: Mean how Max Crosby's on trampolines with his kids. Meanwhile the Raiders like, yeah, he's out, Like right, there's something there.

00:36:25
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00:37:05
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00:37:07
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00:38:37
Speaker 3: With no shirt on. Is he just rolling around flexing?

00:38:41
Speaker 4: No, hopefully, but anyway, wish people involved the best. But two people are left dead in a tragic story, So that makes me say, sad story there to keep you posted on. But Rich, I did want to backtrack a second before we get everybody involved eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You know, I was in there scratching my noug and watching with my buddy Colton again mixed company and family. It's the grundle of the holidays, the gooch of the holidays, the space between. And I'm thinking to myself, why aren't the Bills going for at least the tie here? Like why the win in this situation? And then I dismiss it because I'm like, well, I guess ballsy move props for them, like.

00:39:24
Speaker 2: He had his guys, Josh Allen said he had his guy. He just can't He's got to make that play. He's got to make that play.

00:39:30
Speaker 4: But it's just the matter of the Eagles not scoring at all in the second half and having no momentum at all. Wouldn't you go for the tie and then like safely go for the win after that? Like or again, am I missing something here? But it's end of the second. He made me made me go end of the season.

00:39:47
Speaker 6: Wear and tear. They had momentum.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: I do you even want to push games to overtime nowadays, I thought the real story there, believe it or not, that this guy not.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's off the.

00:39:59
Speaker 2: Hook, because it'd probably probably be replaced their backup placekicker missing that extra point to make it thirteen to six instead of thirteen to seven, the.

00:40:10
Speaker 3: Weakest something like that.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: Like I'm not saying no one's talking about it, because everyone's talking about Josh Allen missing that pass on the two point conversion. We wouldn't even have to have come to that had the placekicker got a little elevation on that previous extra point. We're talking about thirteen to seven. They score that touch, that extra point wins the game, no speculation, do they go for two or force overtime. You can't be missing extra points in clutch spots like that.

00:40:37
Speaker 3: That's horse, by the way.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: Sean McDermott said after the game, wanted to be aggressive there going for the win. We feel like there's obviously only a certain amount of time left at that point, and we felt like we had a great call in place, a great opportunity to go win it. I want to be aggressive. I'm not gonna sit back again.

00:40:56
Speaker 4: I like that attitude, Like Rich said good pass, we'd be singing a different tune.

00:41:01
Speaker 2: Think about it aggressive aggressive, being aggressive as a coach. It's it's all results based, right, Like think of how many times Dan Campbell was like the ballsiest guy in her own loved him. Then when the Lions started going like one for five on fourth downs, it's like what an idiot? Like you know, you're either ballsy and awesome and like, yo, that's my type of guy, man, ballsy coach going for it.

00:41:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the Eagles seemed to have nothing.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: And what is every fan base? Give me know, every fan base when your team does go for it on fourth and short, every fan base loves it because no one really wants to punt, right, Remember when you played street football as a kid, did anyone when there was a kicking or sticking? Did anyone kick you? Always you played when you played tech ball ball or Madden. I'm saying when you were when you were playing tech bo ball or Madden when you were a kid, did you ever punt?

00:41:46
Speaker 4: You know, you were like like mort I played cage football, Nick Cage.

00:41:52
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: I think to Covino's point, Rich, you had the same amount of passing yards as Jayala hurts did in the second half of that game.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, man, dude, he only had one hundred and ten yards the entire game, right, Yeah, they did nothing the second half. That's really what made me go home in that in that situation, I'm like, all right, just play it safe, go for the extra point, and just beat him because you clearly had the momentum at that point. Again, Easier said here on a Monday morning and for DP. But yes, Josh Allen, man, no one matter than him.

00:42:25
Speaker 2: Everyone's got a plan, everyone's got everyone's got a strategy or a game plan going into a fight, going into a game, going into anything, it's just a matter if it's if it's executed right. Josh Allen makes that pass, the guy's wide open, then all of a sudden, it's like, wow, why it'd be aggressive. You saw Kyle Shanahan didn't call time out because he said the Bears look discombobulated going into that. You know, fourth and goal. You know, I'm sorry, first and goal from the four yard line with four seconds. He could have called the time out, he didn't, and it worked out otherwise. It's like, why didn't he? Right, So your feedback all the things that Made You Go HM Week seventeen of the NFL. We Got More Next, convened on rich In for Dan Patrick