NFL Cover Zero: The Playoff Push!

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Speaker 1: NFL Covers Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and iHeart podcast.

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Speaker 2: All Right.

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Speaker 1: Week fifteen NFL Cover zero Matt Jones and Drew Franklin. Big shout out to Billy and Drew for filling in for me the last couple shows that I had to miss due to family health situation. But glad to be here today. It was exciting week of games and now we get into the week fifteen. This is where you start to get the finales of who's going to make the playoffs and who's not. And Drew, I'm glad you're wearing that hat because that way everybody knows what letter your name starts with.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to actually stand for dad. It's a dad hat. So shut up a minute.

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Speaker 1: That's a dad hat. It just has a D on it. How am I.

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Speaker 3: Supposed to know that? It's like a secret club all in, there's other things here. It says, if you know, you know, because.

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Speaker 1: There's other things that start with a D.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people think it's a Dallas Cowboys hat. Honestly, it looks like that.

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Speaker 1: It's just like one word.

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Speaker 3: Probably my first name would be the best there are others. Yeah, but so that's for that correct. Okay, I'm interesting from my dad. Era came straight from an appointment straight here, So people don't have my dad. You're pregnant. I am pregnant. I am enjoying the pregnancy cravings. I joke with my wife, but I am eating is more unhealthy than I've ever eaten.

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Speaker 1: You get to do that, well, I don't know if.

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Speaker 3: I'm allowed to, but I'm doing it. So even like last night, I got out of bed, went downstairs and I ate ice cream. When I was like, it's pregnancy craving. Just let me. Let me be pregnant. So I'm enjoying the rule. So you Kraft mac and Cheese for a girl? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right? Do we know the name yet?

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Speaker 3: We don't. We have some some in mind. We have like a top five, but not ready to commit to any That's that's much harder than I ever imagine. I have an idea. Okay, do you Martina Martina bar team Bartina? Okay, why are we going with Bartina?

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Speaker 1: Just came to me.

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Speaker 3: It's not on the list.

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Speaker 1: I think it's unique. Okay, all right, people will be like Martina, you go no, Martina Okay, as you met didn't you meet Abby at a bar?

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Speaker 3: Well? I did meet her at a bar, and you were broke up with a little girl named Tina. I mean, it's right there in front of me. I can't believe that's not on the list already.

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Speaker 1: I think, I think that makes perfect, perfect sense.

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Speaker 3: Mario's on the list.

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Speaker 1: How are you going to decide? Though? It's tough.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I knew that would be on the list, but now that it's Martina, like something I had to do, yes, just like buying a crib. I knew got to come up with a name. But when you get down to it, this is someone's life, like they have to school.

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Speaker 1: Does that scare you at all? Like this is gonna be like this little thing of flesh and organs and you're in charge and you can't really do anything.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty confident in that part. I think you are your baby. Again, we'll say, naming someone else and not having to deal with the consequences. I kind of feel like babies should be able to name themselves, see, because I have a good idea. But then I'm like, well, she might hate it, and she will have to live with it. Yeah, I think you're looking at this throng. I think actually rearing the child's going to be harder than the name. I mean, you could pick a name. Obviously, you could just.

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Speaker 1: Call her Sarah and it's gonna be fine. Like you could you, I wouldn't worry unless you go with Bartina. I'm just saying that could hurt her.

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Speaker 3: And I thought all the things you're thinking till you're in the moment of deciding, and then you're playing in your head. She's going to be in a job interview at whatever age, and they're gonna address her as this, and she's gonna have no saying what that name is.

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Speaker 1: I have to let's do this. Let's play a game. I want you to google Billy baby girl Nates.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: I done this for four months, and I just want you to just look at a list and read me every third one until we have five names, and we're going to act like it has to be one of them.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go.

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Speaker 1: Through the So what is the third name? Olivia? Olivia?

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Speaker 3: I could have told you that's number one on every list here, getting ready, there's gonna be so they're already your bunch, But get ready, Olivia's are going to be a tribe.

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Speaker 1: A question the other night at the bar. It is the most it's the most popular name in twenty twenty five? Is Olivia? All right?

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Speaker 3: Go twenty twenty four and maybe twenty twenty three. Get ready, Olivia's are going to own the earth soon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Charlotte Charlotte? All right? What's the third?

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Speaker 3: Isabella?

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Speaker 1: Isabella? What's the fourth?

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Speaker 3: Sophia?

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Speaker 1: Sophia? All right? In fifth? Barbara Barbara? Okay, so we have bar we have Olivia, Charlotte, Isabella, Sophia and Barbara. You can only name your child one of these fun That's the rule, not in real life, but in our faith world. Which one are you naming?

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Speaker 3: First of all, thank you all. This is what I do when I go home. So my my distraction here of talking football. Thank you for bringing this game back into my life. I do like the name Olivia, but seriously, there's two. Every list in the world has Olivia umber one every year. There's gonna be too many to live. It's gonna throw that out. This is honestly the first time, and I feel bad not having an abby here to hear me say this. This first time I've considered Barb. Barb, Barb moved the noodle. You wouldn't really name your kid Barbara. I don't believe her names are in what the older names that you thought were Call your baby Barb.

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Speaker 1: She comes out smoking a cigarette and she works as a waitress at a truck stop.

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Speaker 4: She'd love Billy suitcase from Buffalom. You can't be like, hey, Barb, your tired. So Olivia, Charlotte, Isabella, Sophia. First of all, I can't be Isabella because that's cultural appropriation. Yeah, would you either Sophia, Charlotte or Olivia.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you said Charlotte, my brain immediately went if I had one hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 1: Things, think about that, you name him Charlotte, Panthers fan, Carolina, Mike Godfather. I see no problem with any of this. Favorite band can be good. Charlotte is also up.

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Speaker 3: I can tell her about male mix, how it used to be a thing, and then you can tell her.

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Speaker 1: You can say your namesake is the banking capital of the and NASCAR or of the South. Maybe not so so.

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Speaker 3: Charlotte is to check something off the list. Now I can go build a nursery.

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Franklin, Go buy shar Charlotte Bartina Franklin. We will welcome to this earth.

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Speaker 3: Charbar Oh, I like this ab. He's gonna be so excited.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be excited about Sharbar some I'm gonna call your kid no matter what you name it. People don't like when I say it for baby. They think I should say her, right, but I can't say it. It's still like this. It's not a real thing yet. I guess it is.

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Speaker 3: I have pictures that hero otherwise, but I'm with you. I understand, but it can't talk to me, so I don't. I don't consider it really well. Charbar will talk to you soon. Me and she listens to covers of your friends. All right, so we get started.

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Speaker 1: I think the thing I wanted to start with was the Chiefs are are dead. So the dynasty, and it is a pretty amazing dynasty set In last seven years, Chiefs have made the AFC Championship Game every single year. They've won three Super Bowls, they've lost two Super Bowls, and they've been to the AFC Championship twice. Pretty astounding run. I mean, if you're looking at long runs, you could make an argument that along with the Patriots run, the Steelers run in the seventies, that might maybe the Packers in the sixties, those are the best runs of all time, of multiple years. I mean, you had you know, the Cowboys in the forty nine Ers would win like two out of three or whatever, three out of four. But that's I don't think the same as being that good for seven straight years and it seems to now be over. Does that make you sad? I mean had to end at some point.

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Speaker 3: It did, and this year has been kind of roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: I thought it ended. Then they'd win a big game.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I'm an idiot for doubting them, and then they'd go lose a game and I'd write them off again and then go win another one. But this past week felt like the end. Even Travis Kelsey's got comments out there where he's like, anytime we face did versity before, I felt like I had an answer. I don't have an answer this time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's probably going to retire, and I think they'll be a second act for Mahomes. I think he'll.

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Speaker 3: Brycet and Worthy are great joy.

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Speaker 1: Did this too. I mean, Brady had his first run. Then they had two or three years like twenty ten, eleven, twelve, something like that, where they weren't as good, and then he had a second run. Right. I think that'll happen with Mahomes too. They're probably gonna have to I mean, Kelsey's gonna retire, but then they'll probably lose a couple of other guys as well, and then they'll be a next act where but he may be the only him and worthy or right, I think they may be the only ones left. Andy Reid seventy so you got it. You wonder will he's still be the guy? So it's I'm a little sad. I think the Chiefs are the Chiefs are what make the NFL great. You had star power in a secondary city, right, that's it was just in a secondary place. One of the best fan bases, a great fan base. In every game was an event with the Chiefs, And so the fact that it ends does make me a little bit sad.

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Speaker 3: It does. And like when you're in it, you're like, oh, the Chiefs in the super Bowl again, you almost get the exhaustion like anyone else. But then when you're seeing that kind of end, there is a little bit of change in the Guard. There is a little bit of like, oh, well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not gonna say they get tired of that. And I think they're wrong because I mean, let's say we get a Broncos Ram super Bowl, heading straight for it. You're telling me that Chiefs Rams would not be more fun. I mean, you're telling me like, of course it would be. You know, it's like Twin Tiger. People got tired of Tiger winning. Know who wins now some guy named Max? Yeah, And you know, I mean, I.

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Speaker 3: I Stars, star Power matters, And we probably won't get that Bill's U's AFC Championship. We all thought we were heading straight again. But when we get there, there will be a little bit like, oh.

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Speaker 1: This isn't see Bow Knicks versus Trevor Lawrence. I want to see mahomes Al And then we're just we're just not going to get that. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: There is a weird part of like when you're in it, it's a little too repetitive, but then when you're moving to the new Guard, it's like, well, wait a minute, where where's why aren't they in the mix?

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Speaker 1: What was it? Ed Helms said on the Office, wouldn't it be great if you knew it was the glory years when you're in them.

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Speaker 3: Wish you knew they were the good times when you're in them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these were the good times. And I feel like CJ. Stroud and Will Anderson ended them Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: That was a nasty defense. The Chiefs won't be done. They've drafted well. The Kelsey stepping away is a big changing of the guard there. I wonder so much if they had just finished the job against the Eagles last year and he just has a walk off, I think he would have retired. It has to be haunting him that they couldn't just get over again.

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Speaker 1: On further, think about how many games they should have won this year. I mean, I think about that Jaguars game where he threw They were going in to take I think a two score lead and Mahomes throws a pick six and then the Jaguars win. I kind of think that was the game that they sort of fell apart.

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Speaker 3: And they have several examples of like Kelsey passing him in the numbers and popping in the air and get an interceptions.

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Speaker 1: Three interceptions, and two of them were not Mahome's fault in the last game.

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Speaker 3: That's what I mean. They almost have like bloopers that are adding to it, where if you had any thought of, well, maybe they're fine, you see them making the mistakes that they never made before, and that adds to the to the fall.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do wonder if Kelsey retires last year, like if.

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Speaker 3: They beat the Eagle, Taylor's there, that was a big story already. Yeah, it's Jason Kelsey's team.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder if he was going to ask her to marry at the game, if they were had it in the hocket, just had to win the game. By the way, that the wedding date is June thirteenth, I saw.

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Speaker 3: The day after my birthday. We're gonna go are we gonna?

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna? Are we gonna have a party?

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Speaker 3: We should billionai bar you? Yeah, Billy and I brought this up Wednesday, but skipped over quite a bit. We mentioned it briefly, but they just there's like this castle and like someone already had the date in their wedding plan and they just bought them out. Like what do you think Taylor Swift offered to just be like, no, I want the date, like people are already established.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. So they they said get out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you had to have gotten Like what would you have gone for? I mean, at the very least, I'm getting my entire wedding paid for with a little bit of honeymoon money. But when you know, on the other end, you have a mega billionaire super slowly though they're really rich.

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Speaker 1: If they had already gotten the castles, Taylor want so like I would want, I don't know, and concept i'd invite to.

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Speaker 3: Them, there you go, if you're already that wealthy, what's the one thing you can't I can't buy experience? Great answer, you know, so maybe that couple will be front row at Travis and Taylor show.

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Speaker 1: I would say, sit me at your all's wedding. Trying to think of who will be at that wedding.

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Speaker 3: I'd want to sit with Jason Kelsey, Andy Reid, Oh definitely.

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Speaker 1: I mean some people would say, LEO, I don't want something Andy Reid.

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Speaker 3: What a great call being Andy Reid. Sert's coming off of the reception.

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Speaker 1: That's a good questions who who from the NFL is going to that wedding.

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Speaker 3: It's awkward in that locker room because theyre not inviting everybody. Oh no, that's why I have to retire, because you can't invite the whole team. Right, He'll invite Mahomes because he has to. I don't know if they're close or not, but they got They got the steakhouse together. They knew Taylor before this from Philly when he was so so. Andy Reid is gonna which side of the he said on he knew Taylor first, had ring has read.

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Speaker 1: Travis is gonna need anymore.

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Speaker 3: It's true. Maybe he's the best man, or Taylor is gonna have a lot more options. I bet Andy Reid cross though you know.

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Speaker 1: We I've talked about. I met Tony Pike, who is his quarterback at Cincinnati, and he said they were close, and I was like, are you getting the invite? And he was like, I assume not. It's tough one.

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Speaker 3: You gotta can't invite Tony Pike. They should have picked more inviting venue. I don't think a castle in Rhode Island. It's off by itself. They're looking for a big wedding. Tony Pike should be there. Though, Tony Pike should just show up. Hello, I'm sure you meant to have me here. Well, I wish him.

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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations to the couple. Yeah, who never fights?

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Speaker 1: All right, So the biggest story today, in my opinion, Philip Rivers has signed with the Colts. He is forty four years old and may start this week Riley Leonard, who, by the way, as a rookie, you gotta think your career is done if they're like, if they're like, we don't want you, we'd like a man who hasn't played football in five years. By the way, did you see what someb he did. Somebody took his NFL profile Philip Rivers and replaced the picture with Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: Oh that old.

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Speaker 1: I have to say. It made me laugh. I'm not gonna lie. I thought that was very clever. But this is a battle. Have we ever seen anything like this? To sit out a sport for five years, that's a long time. And he looked old when he played.

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Speaker 3: I gotta meant at first when they signed him, my phone, what are they doing? I watched that press conference. He nailed the press commerce who cares? But first he walked down. I mean, just like the self deprecating like I don't know my weight? Why would I possibly know my weight? But doing he has he been like, he's got nine kids, he's been busy.

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Speaker 1: Hey, but has he been working out?

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. The man that he's been thinking about it. I kind of kind of feel like Flacco and that Roger's gonna Flacco though. I know that game. That game gave everyone so hope when forty year olds were just throwing haymakers.

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Speaker 1: Like, what's he There's no way he's going to be good. First of all, he's going he's gonna get hurt.

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Speaker 3: He needs a good offensive line. He said to himself, I'm not outrunning anybody.

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Speaker 1: But there's no way his timing and his speed can be right. I wouldn't think he's not been coaching right. No, and that far out of the game. I believe he was selling lawnmowing equipment. Is that what he was doing. I believe I saw he was selling lawnmowing equipment. I think he's.

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Speaker 3: Probably with this with the big family, probably just running around the house all the time.

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Speaker 1: You say he's not selling longmo he could have been.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what he's doing in his free time.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know they did. They did a post on on on ESPN which was other guys who left the League at the same time as Philip Oh.

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Speaker 3: This would be good.

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Speaker 1: Rivers and what they're doing now if they decided to start playing. They got their LinkedIn program. This is a good Toby Gerhart Do you remember Toby Gerhart running back, running bat? He is the senior director of sales and Enablement at a Sureion.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good for him. Life after football, that's important.

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Speaker 1: Mike glennon the never and you take the neck.

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Speaker 3: He walks so Davis Mills could run.

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Speaker 1: He's a commercial real estate broker. Okay, that's nice. Prince, I'm a Kamora Mara remember him?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Giants.

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Speaker 1: He is the CEO of Mister Chat It was. It's a children's chatting app. Okay.

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Speaker 3: I'm very impressed all these guys finding second careers after football.

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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen quarterback, Yeah, former card He is getting in his NBA at the Wharton School. For him, it's a really good school to get an education.

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Speaker 3: What do you think Ryan Leaf is doing. I've actually seen him on on my NFL network.

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Speaker 1: He retired before.

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Speaker 3: He is doing Samanos stuff.

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Speaker 1: The CEO of Ram Consultants and Puction. That's good. What about Jake Plumber, what do you think Jake Plummer, Jake Shake the Snake, he's the vice president of Peace, Love and Mushrooms.

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Speaker 3: I already had suspicions of what he might be doing that actually confirmed them.

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Speaker 1: I like that one that Cardinals legend. That one maybe maybe one of my favorites. So there you go. That's who else no idea if those guys would all get brought back to play as well.

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Speaker 3: I saw that it works in like Rivers had to consider his Hall of Fame induction because this will now he was already on a timeline and where was coming up. This resets it, I guess, so he had to take that interesting consideration too.

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Speaker 1: So he now wasn't he the same year as Eli or No and Jake Plumber. Yeah, well, i'd be funny.

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Speaker 3: Mushrooms to give up, you know, the Hall of Fame resetting that clock. You know, he really wants to be part of this and wants to play. Well, point about right, Leonard, just you get there, you live your dream. And they're like, can anyone else let's call a forty four year old, We can't possibly.

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Speaker 1: That's like if they decided tomorrow, they'd be like, Matt, we're gonna put you his backup post for cover zero. We're bringing in Pat summer Ale. I'm like he did, like, yeah, but give him a chance. I let you know where you are though, or Paul Harvey good day. Well, I wish him the best. The thing is the Koch still like, I guess they're doing this because they think they have a shot to win it, right.

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Speaker 3: Well, when they opened seven to one, they went out and got sauce gardener, which is a win now thing. I mean, it's a lot of they were I kind of think they were unexpected to be where they were, not just to fans, but even in their own eyes, like, whoa, we're in contention the AFC. Let's make some moves, And that has over the course of the last five six weeks turned into now you have let's bring this old. Yeah, what a weird the coaster year for them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. Well there you go. So those are those are the Matt Jones headlines. Now Billy has what I call our secondary headlines. Billy, Uh, nice to see you in your official roblow NFL hat. That's right, what do we got?

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Speaker 5: I'm here ready to go. I do have one more note on Philip Rivers. You mentioned he has ten kids. His oldest child is as old as Riley Leonard.

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Speaker 1: Is three years old.

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Speaker 3: He has a twenty three year old.

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Speaker 5: Twenty three year old.

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Speaker 1: First, that's got to be weird. Is it weirder that your oldest kid is the same as your backup or if your girlfriend same is your oldest kid? Which one's weird? It's tough, right, probably great friend?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, girlfriend?

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Speaker 1: You know you see that sometimes where it's usually like a girlfriend in life like a daughter and that daughter has to hate that woman, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's just in the back to your brain at all times, like you don't want to focus on it, but like the math maths right there, you can't it can't ignore it.

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Speaker 1: But we had we had home room together, I believe. All right, what's next?

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Speaker 5: We need to talk about Jordan Love during Toyota than Matt. You know a Toyota than right.

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Speaker 1: Is that where you get like a deal on Toyota.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, you go buy a car the deals at Toyota. But strangely, Jordan Love always plays well during Toyota thon. It's usually from mid November to the first week of January. In nineteen games over the last three seasons, Jordan Love has thirty five touchdowns, three interceptions, and is completing sixty eight percent of his passes.

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Speaker 1: So who figured this out?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Who is like the great question? Jordan Love's been playing well in the month of November. It also happens to have been during Toyota th On.

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Speaker 5: Maybe a Toyota lover and a Green Bay fan has.

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Speaker 1: To be someone that works it Toyota, because I mean, I've all like, if you told me Jordan Love is always good in these few weeks, there's no scenario where I would think that's Toyota Thon. I think I don't know when you could have told me Toyota than was at any point in life, and I wouldn't have known.

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Speaker 3: And they trust me Toyota and I will tell you about it. They'll advertise, but I'm with you. My brain would not go, oh, he's good from mid November to the beginning of January. Whatever it is that's Toyota has to be a Toyota toy This is big Toyota trying to work.

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Speaker 1: They knows when Toyota Thon is. Car dealerships, though, are serious about their deals. If I told you my story about buying my car a couple of weeks ago. So I got a new car. It's a it's like a BMW. So this was like the nicest thing I've ever bought. So and I don't know if when you buy a new car, if you are like this, like I'm I'm so scared the point yeah, like I think I'm going to crash getting I'm not like that in regular life. But right when you.

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Speaker 3: Buy it, are you like I've only done it once ever, and it wasn't for me.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I hold out my hand when I'm doing the turn, just to make sure everybody knows. But there was some sort of financing deal where on December first, the rate was going to be point nine to nine percent. It's like an amazing rate. But then the next day we go back to market, which is like six point one. Okay, it's weird to me you have a system where it can fluctuate that much in a day. But Mario dropped me off to get it. The paperwork had to be in and signed by five o'clock, not I guess. I don't know why. It was their internal system. But this woman was running around like crazy and she was like hurry, hurry, and I'm like, I don't know what I'm signing my name and she's like, it's four fifty three faster, faster. I may have signed away the rights to Billy. I don't know. I signed whatever sheet they put in front of me, and like, you know, you had to figure out you're gonna get the extended maintenance. I did to Sidne in like two and.

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Speaker 3: A half minutes, an uncomfortable situation, and.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I probably won't change the way. Yes, give me the extend. So anyway, they're serious about these thorns at these cars.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I think there might be listen. I don't want to I don't want to bow if any I don't want to blow up anybody spots here. And we appreciate the NFL sponsors. Everyone needs to have a car dealership.

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Speaker 1: Well you can beep out BMW and just say whatever car sponsors this show, Hyundai, all right, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I do worry there's a little bit of dishonesty in the process. They want you to be as uncomfortable as possible. I think, so there's like put pressure on, like screaming. I always have the thing of I'm.

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Speaker 1: Going on the radio. I tell him that up front.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a barber.

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Speaker 1: My dad, Larry. His his method of doing cars is the one I've done. He would sit down and look at the person and go I don't like to haggle, So bottom line, I'm gonna give you one chance to give me an offer. I will either take it or leave it. There will be no negotiating, so you have to make a profit. I understand that, but this is it and we will get something else. If you do not surprisingly effective, because they're not, you're taking the power from them.

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Speaker 3: I like that idea.

00:25:54
Speaker 1: It's a power move. Larry had a power move, and I've adopted that. But I throw in an extra line. I'm going on the radio.

00:26:07
Speaker 3: Don't take this out of the thread. I'm just letting you know.

00:26:09
Speaker 1: No, it's I'll do it with a smile, and that, I think is how you make sure and and then you get. You might get a little more, might cost a little more than if you really haggled, but it guarantees you don't get screwed, so shout out. Feel free to use Larry's move. It's the Larry power move.

00:26:29
Speaker 3: Swey guy. I've never done something like that over a car, but I've been in negotiations where you have to turn your back and say I'm leaving, and even though that first step you're like, I don't know if I'm doing this right. They're the ones freaking out. But you have to be down. You have to be willing to leave like that, they'll chase you. You have to be willing to walk out the door, and then they know you've meant business because if you really walk out that door, they're getting nothing. Anyway.

00:26:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, they also said to me, They're like, Matt, this is a car that you must do the maintenance. Then Mario said, it's all because, like you know, I had the Lexus and the thing will drive into the book. They were like, you have to do the maintenance on this, so I won't this.

00:27:14
Speaker 3: You're not a big oil change. We all know our weaknesses yours might be oil changes, so I gotta do it on this one.

00:27:20
Speaker 1: Apparently the car like calls you it's time, doesn't It.

00:27:28
Speaker 3: Locks the doors and won't let you out until you take it for an oil change.

00:27:30
Speaker 1: That's right, right, what's next?

00:27:32
Speaker 3: It was a big win for the Chargers on Monday Night Football.

00:27:34
Speaker 5: They beat the Eagles in overtime twenty two to nineteen, but probably what got the most attention was Justin Herbert and Laura Rutledge.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: After the game.

00:27:41
Speaker 1: I didn't like this.

00:27:43
Speaker 5: Laura was trying to interview him for the TV broadcast, and Justin was blowing her off. He said he was trying to celebrate with my team. He eventually rolled his eyes and did do the interview with Laura Rutledge. But in a week where there have been a lot of questions about Justin Herbert, he had surgery last week on his left hand before they played. Maybe he was a little bit too defensive.

00:28:02
Speaker 1: I'm rolling. Laura Rutledge is the nicest person in the world. I've known Laura Rutledge for years. She's so nice, she's sweet, she's smart. He was, that was not He owes her an apology. Go celebrate with your team, that's fine, but you can do the interview or just walk away, But don't roll your eyes at Laura Rutledge. I didn't like this trip.

00:28:28
Speaker 3: And you're Everything you said about Laura Religie is accurate, but also a big part of why you're Justin Herbert are these media deals. This wasn't like a random thing on the street. Every player after every game has done that quick interview coaches like, that's just part of it is.

00:28:43
Speaker 1: This is part of the somebody holding up and going rate yourself on a scale one to ten for the video.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: This is you know, they're not interrupting his dinner. This was postgame on the field. Everyone does it. Everyone then goes and celebrates with their teammate. This wasn't like some big intrusive thing that Laura relives was doing. It's something that's been done after every game for decades. He should have expected her.

00:29:03
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. He started dating Madison Beer and he's gotten to fancy. I thought that was an interesting game though. The Eagles. Ever since that dude from Philly co hosted with me on ESPN and said the Eagles weren't good, and I went, how can you say that they've been awful? Are you out on the Eagles?

00:29:21
Speaker 3: I thought they had figured out and that's found some kind of defensive identity. But then there it's kind of the point, like the offense can't really do much of anything. They have the nice fake tush push where Saquon looks like, but yeah, AJ Brown had a bad drop. I mean, I don't have their numbers in front of me. But they haven't been putting up points really at all lately, and that won't be able to take them far into the playoffs and get to their ultimate goal.

00:29:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't get it. I don't understand how Jalen Hurts can be so inconsistent at times, because at times he looks like one of the best five quarterbacks in the league. And then I mean that's Lamar has completely fallen off the planet too. I mean, what happened to Lamar?

00:30:03
Speaker 3: You know, for a while you could be like, oh, he's coming back from injury, but it just keeps going, going and going, and then it's bad interceptions and.

00:30:09
Speaker 1: And it's not just even the scrambling, like he just makes bad decisions. I don't know, He's just not Lamar, and it makes me sad. I mean, we're losing Mahomes will be back, but we're losing Mahomes, losing Lamar. Josh Allen had big, Josh Allen's been great ross come back, so that's good. But I don't want to live in a world that Drake may is one of the three best quarterbacks. I don't want that. Bo Nicks Nicks, you wait, Bo Nicks is gonna lose Bodix is losing his first round playoff game and throwing three interceptions. Write it down. You're right about those, Lamar.

00:30:50
Speaker 3: I'm not even a Lamar fan from Markentucky louisvill days, but you know, but I I know that the NFL needs him to be good because he is, when he's at his peak, the most entertaining player in the league.

00:31:01
Speaker 1: Tony da Koppel is the new anchor at CBS.

00:31:05
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know that.

00:31:07
Speaker 1: Is He's the guy he's on CBS this morning. I don't know any about him, said my ex is when it is his producer and says he's like the nicest guy in the world. He's the guy who did the interview with Bill Belichick's girlfriend or no, but Bill Belichick where his girlfriend was like.

00:31:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not talking about that.

00:31:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was him. Okay, really good hair does and he's apparently very very nice. So then I support it was that on your list of news.

00:31:38
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought it up.

00:31:39
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't want to take one of your scoops. Go ahead.

00:31:42
Speaker 5: It is week fifteen, so we have clenching scenarios when it comes to the playoffs.

00:31:46
Speaker 1: This week, the paper, wondering what the next word was going to be.

00:31:48
Speaker 5: The Patriots can clinch the AFC East this week with a win versus the Bills. Meanwhile, both one seeds the Rams and the Broncos can clench a playoff berth with a win.

00:31:57
Speaker 3: So we're almost there.

00:31:58
Speaker 1: Patriots Bill is a great game. I want the Bills to win a lot this the Bills. This is the year for them to get this. I feel like we're going to pass. I feel like this is the year the Chiefs should hand it to the Bills for two years. I don't think we're in Broncos time yet. And that's and or Pats. And that's why I really want the Bills to win this game.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they've been so close for so long. If somebody deserves it as them, and even the way they're turning it on late. We just mentioned Josh Allen, but I mean the Bengals had them dead in a snow game in Buffalo. But then you get a little bit of that Bill's magic. Part was part of it was the Bengals collapse. But just like the Josh Allen forty yard running the snow, getting those turnovers to pick six, it's like the Bills are starting to find a little magic right as we're creeping up on the playoffs. For a lot of those teams that we thought would be in the conversation are going the other way.

00:32:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm for the Bills. Now. The game is in uh is in New England, right, what do you what's the name of the city, Funsborosboro, Jillette.

00:32:58
Speaker 3: That's a fun dam the best a man can get.

00:33:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm going with the Bill. And it's also a rare like best game of the weekends at one o'clock. They've been doing that more. I mean the the main event game in the late window is Lines Rams. I would argue Patriots Bill is a better game, don't you think?

00:33:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the even though the Lions Rams is huge, Lines are down a little bit and this is this is big for me.

00:33:20
Speaker 1: Oh, No, Packers Broncos, that's probably the game they'll have. It's the big one.

00:33:23
Speaker 3: My brain's still not ready to have Broncos as that one seed, as you've been saying this whole show. But for me, it's Bills Patriots because if are the Patriots for real? I know they've won a million games in a row and all that some of them still not beating the best teams. Can you get the bills again? You're at home? Yeah, see if they've truly changed the guard there in that division?

00:33:41
Speaker 1: Breaking news oneyn A, Michigan is firing Charon Moren.

00:33:49
Speaker 3: It's big news for cause they just don't want to pay that buyout.

00:33:55
Speaker 2: Was he?

00:33:56
Speaker 1: Part of the cheating thing was the ntil they start losing and then say it.

00:34:01
Speaker 3: Was bringing up that staff back in twenty twenty three. Every year a minute you were a water boy back. What do you get to bring that up?

00:34:10
Speaker 1: So that's a big job coming open, right, Definitely, this is a wild carousel when they just won the title, but that was with Harball, So all right, what's next?

00:34:32
Speaker 5: NFL teams voted today at the Virtual December League Meetings to support financially the development and launch of a professional flag football league. They will invest up to thirty two million dollars for this league and they hope to build on the momentum that the flag football will have when it debuts at the LA Olympic Games.

00:34:50
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty eight.

00:34:52
Speaker 1: So who owns it?

00:34:53
Speaker 3: The NFL is, Well, then it's a good idea I want to develop and launch I wish I could be there right now. It plays like something they can have us podcasts about.

00:35:06
Speaker 1: True.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: I feel like the cover of the Flags, I kind of feel like I'll.

00:35:09
Speaker 1: Be a sideline reporter for the NFL flag football.

00:35:12
Speaker 3: You're gonna be tracking down the star quarterback like Larrela is justin Herbert to get that postgame interview, trying could be.

00:35:20
Speaker 1: The Laura Rutledge for the No So flag Football. I like when kids get to play flag football and women. I don't know about flag football for for guys. I mean, we had this conversation about a year ago about because because the dude who's like the best flag football quarterback said he'd be better at it than my home. Yeah, do you remember that? Do we think that's plausible? Is there a different skill to it? There is a different skill to it? What is it?

00:35:54
Speaker 3: I couldn't break it down. But like Rajon Rondo, who played point guard in the NBA and here in Kentucky is like ranked as one of the best quarterbacks in flag football.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: In the country.

00:36:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, could be on our Olympi team. That's not true, that's fact. You're making it, Mario tell.

00:36:10
Speaker 1: Him, but he's like forty two. I know that's the thing. No, he's not that you're making that up, Like that's not true. Rondo be on the Olympic team.

00:36:19
Speaker 3: I mean probably won't be on the Olympic team, but he is one of the best flags I mean, like.

00:36:22
Speaker 1: Okay, I believe, like in his league he's pretty good, but like worldwide, Rondo is not playing flag football at a high level.

00:36:31
Speaker 3: In twenty two he plays for Team USA and I don't know what flag football top ranked flag football quarterback. You're making this up like you like our Team USA system, not like some Louisville rec league.

00:36:44
Speaker 1: You're telling me that Raijon Rondo is a contender to play for Team USA flag football.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: That is from August twenty twenty six. Jon Rondo is officially twenty six excuse me. August twenty twenty five, Rajon Rondo is officially the top ranked flag football quarterback in the United States. There's a graphic by USA flag foot Well.

00:37:07
Speaker 1: If it's the NFL and you're doing this, then he's got a play, right, Like, if you want to build a flag football league, you want someone I know with.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: Some name Reckon, because I know the guy you brought up couldn't tell you his name, Like, I know that story, but I know Rajon Rondo.

00:37:24
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe it. I mean, just think about what the equivalent of that would be. Right, There's a three on three football league, there's a three on three basketball league, and apparently the best player is Drew Brees.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: Come on, I mean, it's it's the world we're living in. Do you want to watch and throw it around? There's highlights.

00:37:48
Speaker 5: The NFL is allowing their players to participate in flag football in the twenty eight Olympics.

00:37:53
Speaker 1: No, that's cool. So the skill that is different is what elusiveness? I guess hips. It's all like Shakira in the hips.

00:38:02
Speaker 3: Gotta be in the hips just avoid getting that flag pooled. Yeah, I'm with you on how I don't love it. But if you know we're gonna play it it's in the Olympics, I guess I get behind it. We don't want to be losers. We've gotta roll Rondo out there and get behind it. We will.

00:38:16
Speaker 1: It's like, let's be real, I'll watch anything except pickleball.

00:38:21
Speaker 3: So what if they did just trot out for the Olympics like the NFL's best. We have Jackson Smith and Jigbile.

00:38:27
Speaker 1: There playing in the Olympics other countries, but no one else plays football.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: That's why it feels like we just threw this in there.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: Right on Italy. Yeah, I mean, are they gonna be like, who? No one plays football anywhere?

00:38:42
Speaker 3: I know, So we're taking a secondary level of sports that.

00:38:46
Speaker 1: They don't play. Where are we gonna play?

00:38:48
Speaker 3: We're just gonna beat there, buddy. You know they get us in soccer. This is our way of getting back.

00:38:52
Speaker 1: That's gotta be a We're just trying to pad the gold metal snats.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: You know that's I don't hate it.

00:39:00
Speaker 1: You're fine with that, just making up sports only we play.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: I'm fine with winning.

00:39:05
Speaker 1: Okay, We're like I have an a Real Housewives of Salt Lake trivia contest.

00:39:11
Speaker 3: We're going Miles Garrett out there and just ripping flags off of people who have never played.

00:39:14
Speaker 1: For I don't know that Miles Garrett would be the skill set. He wouldn't be good.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: He'd be intimidating. If you want to.

00:39:20
Speaker 1: See I think I would think the talent is is speed, that's right.

00:39:26
Speaker 3: But if you're one of these other countries, you don't even know what football is, and there's Miles Garrett. I would think that's a little intimidating.

00:39:31
Speaker 1: Well, if you go to the Olympics and you don't know what football is, I think it's going to be a hard, hard sell for you.

00:39:36
Speaker 3: Do we support it though, Good job, NFL. Yeah, we were in for it, and we'd love to cover a game.

00:39:41
Speaker 5: What's next, Well, while we're speaking about the international game, the NFL will play regular season games in Munich, Germany in both twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight, announced this week. Germany actually has the largest American football fan base in Europe, with about twenty million fans. So they will play a game in Germany. Did we do that the four straight years?

00:40:00
Speaker 3: They did? Do it again?

00:40:01
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean we're gonna end up playing these games everywhere, which is fine. I mean, I'm good with it. Germans. You know, there is the part of Europe that likes football the most, is like Germany, the Czech Republic, I think, like Poland, Like that's where I think the NFL Europe has has had some success as that sort of Eastern European to Germany areas, So it doesn't it makes sense.

00:40:27
Speaker 3: They would play there and there, you know, we see when they make these trips on these Sunday mornings, we're up at nine to thirty. We see the appetite for it over there. They get great crowds. I think a lot of times they might not know what they're looking at and they're always wearing Jacksonville jerseys. But that's it. That's a start. They want more of it, and the NFL will be crazy not to go.

00:40:43
Speaker 1: They have a lot of stadiums they can play in because they built these huge stadiums to host the World Cup in the European Championships. So you know, part of the problem is in Europe there aren't They don't have these mega stadiums like we have a lot of them. But but Germany I think does, so that probably makes sense to go there all for it.

00:41:01
Speaker 3: And for me just selfishly, I like the unique times and you don't one o'clock, four thirty, eight o'clock. That's great. Been doing that my whole life. Yeah, sure, six in the morning, whenever you got to put them on. Give me more NFL.

00:41:12
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something, my bit you didn't know. Okay, do you realize how much more North countries in Europe are than America? So I want you to think about where Rome, Italy is on the man. Okay, yeah, where do you think Rome, Italy is in relation to North America? Like this? In terms of latitude, where do you think Rome is compared to North America?

00:41:39
Speaker 3: Like above Florida slag?

00:41:41
Speaker 1: Where do you think it is?

00:41:42
Speaker 3: Never even thought about it, I'll say somewhere along the lines of Baltimore.

00:41:47
Speaker 1: How about Montreal?

00:41:50
Speaker 3: Really?

00:41:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, Montreal, Madrid? What you think of is like hot is New York. So people don't realize so like Germany is like mid Canada. Interesting, So my I don't know what my point is. We're expanding our minds. I've never even thought about it because you see the globe and the way the globe looks. You know that they flatten it so us to see. But so you don't really realize that it's the same latitude, Like I like, i 'n't even see. If I can find real quick, I'm going to give you cities that are the same. Laddite cities that are same is it latitude or longitude? I never know which ones which.

00:42:36
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't either.

00:42:37
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so San Francisco it's the same as Beijing.

00:42:42
Speaker 3: Okay, did you know that I didn't. I'm trying to picture the globe in my head. Here.

00:42:49
Speaker 1: What else let's see, Oh, Fairback Banks, Alaska is the same as Rajavik, Iceland.

00:43:01
Speaker 3: I could see that one. I would have predicted a little bit. I see, I envisioned both those as being far north.

00:43:05
Speaker 1: Yeah. If I listened Grease, Yeah, where would you if you just thought about it, you probably think Athens.

00:43:10
Speaker 3: Grease is like mel y southern climate.

00:43:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, San Francisco.

00:43:15
Speaker 5: That is interesting.

00:43:17
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm here for.

00:43:18
Speaker 3: The stuff for learning on this should give you.

00:43:21
Speaker 1: I mean, does that anything to do with the NFL?

00:43:23
Speaker 4: Know?

00:43:24
Speaker 1: But it just felt like something he'd.

00:43:25
Speaker 3: But if you listen to cover zero this week, this episode, you're walking away knowing more about how to buy a car and more about our planet.

00:43:35
Speaker 1: And tell me no more about the NFL. Maybe not? Well, no, you know what Mike Glennon's doing.

00:43:40
Speaker 3: Say, yeah, you've taught us a lot.

00:43:42
Speaker 1: What's next?

00:43:44
Speaker 2: Uh?

00:43:44
Speaker 5: The Bears, after falling from the one to the seventh seed in the NFC, hosts the Browns at home this week. They're saying, it's negative twenty windshill at this game.

00:43:53
Speaker 3: That's crazy.

00:43:53
Speaker 5: But Kevin Stefanski announced that Shader Sanders would be the Cleveland starting quarterback for the rest of the season after he threw for three hundred and sixty four yards and three touchdowns versus Drew's Titans and a loss.

00:44:04
Speaker 1: The most praise I've ever seen someone get for losing to the Titans.

00:44:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, we let him have a day, but well, it played well in the fourth quarter, but they did lose to the Titans.

00:44:15
Speaker 1: But I mean they should let him start through the end of the year. I think that makes sense. Would you go sit in the cold? Let's say you were me, your Bears are nine and four, you're playing at home. Would you go sit to watch this game? This is I would prefer it.

00:44:29
Speaker 3: Like when we went to Lambeau. I wanted I wanted a blizzard. Like I sure you'll be a little cold, but it'll get a little colder in the game, but that's like, that's the experience, that's what you'd remember.

00:44:40
Speaker 1: And you're playing a team that's also used to the cold. So I don't know that it'll have the impact it would if you're playing like the Dolphins or something like that.

00:44:49
Speaker 3: No, maybe throw shadur off a little bit here, but no. If I'm from a fan experience, I want the absolute worst. We were talking about how fun just that Buffalo Bengals game was Leslie just washing it home, like there's nothing better than a good snow. Snow games are the best. Yeah, and hopefully the Bears get one in Chicago this Sunday with the weather.

00:45:06
Speaker 1: There's loss to the Packers. But I actually was encouraged by the game. Came down to this final play. He was there a defensive play and he didn't make a good play. But you know what we were in that game. We were legit against the team that I think is one of the three or four best teams in the league. So I always felt good about that game. This is, however, the kind of game we would lose.

00:45:27
Speaker 3: Oh, come on out to the Browns.

00:45:28
Speaker 1: I bet I just what are they are? We like an eight and a half point favorite or seven and a half? Seven and a half? See like that to me is a bet the Browns game.

00:45:37
Speaker 3: Maybe. Even though the Browns didn't beat the Titans, I feel like they're acting like they did with Shad or having a good game. Miles Garrett's got every record you can think of. Right now, I feel like they're already celebrating from I.

00:45:49
Speaker 1: Think we win, but I think we win by like three.

00:45:52
Speaker 5: Browns beat the Packers earlier this year.

00:45:54
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I think the brown I think the Browns are. They're They're saucy, they are They're like a night out with Charbar.

00:46:06
Speaker 3: And they almost I mean, Shador threw an amazing throat to Harold Fan and Junior from Bowling Green to almost put the title away.

00:46:12
Speaker 1: And you, because of you. Every time they say the name, I just go from Bowlinger. I was so far in front of that. By the way, they didn't play a game yet. I don't think when I said watch to come up with him, everybody was talking about Njoku and this and that. I think I saw a preseason game where they targeted him a lot. It's like, wait a minute, this it's tight end from Bowling Green. And I'd never heard of him. If you'd asked me on Draft night, wouldn't known a thing about him. I just randomly watched a preseason game, probably for Shador, and saw that he was getting a lot of targets, okay, and then it panned out more than I ever met. He's done it He's done great, and uh, you know Caleb kind of say happy with Caleb. I saw a.

00:46:47
Speaker 3: Clip breaking down that interception. It was a bad interception, but the defender made a pretty spectacular place.

00:46:52
Speaker 1: Would you rank those quarterbacks in that class? Now? I mean, McCarthy and Pinnix are clearly five and six, But now you go Drake May, bow Nick's, Jaydeon Daniels, Caleb Williams. What would the order be? Now?

00:47:08
Speaker 3: Even though you're not ready to put him up there, I have to go Drake May first because he just keeps winning.

00:47:12
Speaker 1: Okay?

00:47:13
Speaker 3: Then who Michael Caleb Jayden Daniels has been so hurt this year it's hard to see what he is was last year just flashing the pan. He hadn't had much of an opportunity, So I Michael Caleb Williams.

00:47:25
Speaker 1: Okay, see, I would go Drake May probably number one. I don't want to, but I'd say Caleb two, Jade and Daniels three, bow Knicks four, just because I don't believe in Bownicks. But he keeps winning, so I'm not.

00:47:35
Speaker 3: I mean, it can't just just credit when every Sunday goes out wins a game.

00:47:39
Speaker 1: But it's interesting because at the end of last year you might have had Caleb Williams fifth, he might have even had Michael pinnockx ahead of him, and now he's moved up to where he's probably, in my opinion, either second or third between what you think about him and Daniels.

00:47:53
Speaker 3: And it shows so much the system and the coach. You know, Kayleb Williams has had a good turnaround for a year ago on his own, but getting Ben Johnson and an offense that really can produce has been a big part of him playing better too. And then you still get the pack. There's one more shot at him. Yeah, we do to try to even the score, Josh Allen Drake.

00:48:10
Speaker 1: May that may be for the MVP Sunday too, like we all expect. Yeah, that may be. What's next?

00:48:17
Speaker 5: You mentioned Jade Daniels. He will be out for this week's game versus the Giants after he reinjured his elbow injury.

00:48:23
Speaker 1: The injuries is he? I feel like he's gotten hurt.

00:48:24
Speaker 3: It's been a year leveled less week.

00:48:27
Speaker 2: Am.

00:48:41
Speaker 5: This is my final news note here. The Bucks are getting Mike Evans back this week. That's gonna be a big help versus the Falcons for Thursday night football.

00:48:49
Speaker 3: They do. They've lost five of their last seven.

00:48:51
Speaker 5: Their frauds, but they're pulling a little Indianapolis Colts here. Going back to the vault, they have signed thirty six year old Jason Pierre Paul to be their next edge rusher. You remember he won a Super Bowl with the Giants and the Bucks in twenty twenty. He also had a five work accidents in which he had to remove his right index finger and severely damaged his thumb.

00:49:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I I didn't know what Jason. I thought. He worked with Mike Glennon, so I didn't know what he was doing. I wish him the best, but your team stinks and your coach calls stupid fourth and ones that never work.

00:49:28
Speaker 3: Like Buca can't catch a game tying Touchdow drops.

00:49:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you are bad and it rains all the time.

00:49:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, Baker has not been good since we started.

00:49:38
Speaker 3: Really has business and.

00:49:39
Speaker 1: Like he's got to be hurt though, right.

00:49:41
Speaker 5: Well, Yeah, there was a couple of weeks he wasn't running at all and now he's he's doing a little bit more.

00:49:45
Speaker 3: But you got to think there's something.

00:49:46
Speaker 1: I've got to think he's hurt like that. Nothing else would explain the huge drop off unless he was hurt.

00:49:53
Speaker 3: In hindsight, I'm glad you didn't go ask for that picture in Buffalo. He seems to be down a little bit. Remember he had just taken it off. We thought he'll be fine, he'll be back.

00:50:00
Speaker 1: Well, you were going to ask him for a picture and he was like with his girlfriend and they were making out, and you wanted to like tap on his show older.

00:50:06
Speaker 3: And it's all been downhill from that moment.

00:50:08
Speaker 1: And I was like, don't they're making out.

00:50:10
Speaker 5: I could have cheered him up though they were sad. I think they have changed the season.

00:50:14
Speaker 3: Honestly, do you think you should have gone up and talked to you think in that he was he was not.

00:50:22
Speaker 1: He was talking to someone after a bad loss. They wanted to go up and go.

00:50:28
Speaker 3: I worked with the NFL.

00:50:32
Speaker 5: I just wanted to ask him a couple of questions, you know, and not asking, but it was like he was with his family. Yeah, well I didn't. I've got the respect.

00:50:38
Speaker 3: But if I did, I.

00:50:39
Speaker 1: Told you not to do it. If I did, maybe where you were going to I was on one shoulder to do it.

00:50:46
Speaker 3: But it's all been losing since then, right, there has there been a win since that game?

00:50:49
Speaker 5: Oh they got the Cardinals, they had the Cardinal Oh yeah, well we got the Panthers at the end of the year.

00:50:53
Speaker 3: That's all that matters, right, that made game that matters.

00:50:56
Speaker 1: All right? It is now time for the Victory Bundle, presented by Liberty Mutual. This is three picks, uh that we picked together from the game this weekend, and if you win, then you win. I'm going to take the Bengals to beat the Ravens. I believe the Ravens are a five and a half point favorite, and I in the game is in Cincinnati. I don't really understand that line. I don't know what the Ravens have done to be a five and a half point favorite. I would even pick the Bengals to win the game. So I'm going to take the Cincinnati Bengals to win. What about you?

00:51:34
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Sunday Night Football a team that I'll admit I had given up on. But the Dallas Cowboys are in the mix and staring down the Eagles and still in a spot in the NFC or in the playoffs. Out of the NFC, they play the Vikings, who I think just had a fluq win last week, and they'll get back to the real world and not be nearly as good that they took advantage of that thirty one oh shutout. So I think the Cowboys handle business at home in prime time against Minnesota. I believe they're four and a half five point favorite. Cowboys need to when they have something to play for the Vikings don't. I think it'll be a big bounce back for Pickens, and the Cowboys score a lot of points in that one.

00:52:13
Speaker 1: So you're taking Dallas to cover? Yes, all right, So I'm taking Cincinnati, you are taking Dallas, and then let's figure out. I'm sorry to being boy. That game started at five minute, only one and a half. Now, I'm still gonna take the Bengals, although I like it a lot less at one and a half. I also like the Bills getting one and a half in New England.

00:52:38
Speaker 3: I don't hate the Bills, as I was saying earlier that when a lot of teams are going in the wrong direction, we're throwing aside. The Bills have just they had some down games, some questions about their defense, but they're looking like they're starting to get back to their right form, just in the right of time. As the playoffs creeping up, Josh Allen had an enormous game and that comeback.

00:52:55
Speaker 1: Bills Bengals Cowboys. That's your victory Bundle, presented by Liberty Mutual. Start your quote at Libertymutual dot com. Are you still in the.

00:53:06
Speaker 3: Survivor I am still alive. We actually have to ask the committee. I'm not gonna take it away fromhim, but the pick he claimed he was going to have last week this questionable.

00:53:14
Speaker 5: Well, we didn't have a show on Sunday night on Wednesday last week. You did not do a show, correct, So we didn't have a pick. I told Drew I would have picked the Saints to beat the Bucks because I saw that game coming from a mile away. If you don't want to count that pick, you don't have to.

00:53:29
Speaker 1: I'm not well, I'm just gonna act like you didn't pick because you didn't.

00:53:32
Speaker 3: You were not going to pick big underdog, and no one's going.

00:53:35
Speaker 1: To pick a three and two and ten team on the road. Yeah, you can let him know he doesn't believe I don't believe you, and I'm not going to believe you. So let's just assume that you're let's just I'll give you another chance. Because most of the teams got knocked out last.

00:53:52
Speaker 3: Week and in the other weeks we missed. There's some I don't want to discredit what he's doing. I was out week one, so it didn't come for me.

00:53:59
Speaker 1: I think, I think you're you've been eliminated.

00:54:03
Speaker 3: Oh he picked too this week and it alright, Oh there's some big spreads this week. You should do this easily.

00:54:09
Speaker 5: I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles. That was going to be my first pick. I have not picked them yet. Can't he pick it? And the Raiders aren't going to get anything done?

00:54:15
Speaker 1: I think that's come back.

00:54:16
Speaker 3: There you go. And then I'm going Bears Bears over the Browns.

00:54:21
Speaker 1: All right, So you're taking Eagles and Bears. This is a two. You've got to get two to survive.

00:54:25
Speaker 3: I gotta have both.

00:54:26
Speaker 5: I haven't picked either team obviously, so.

00:54:28
Speaker 1: And I'll even let you pick the sites a kid if you want it sometime. All right, Eagles and Bears, Billy, that is his survivor league. Now where are we on our Am I still ahead by one? You are?

00:54:42
Speaker 5: We all missed Tweek thirteen? You picked pooka. I picked a Trevion Henderson and then Drew went Brozmer. Okay, so inside four to two is the score.

00:54:51
Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all. Trump told me out of that five for that was a terrible All right, Drew, I will let you go first, and I get any position player, any position. Trying to think have I used I know the forty nine ers play my Titans, and I like to fade my Titans. You go and see them, see, Yeah, I'll go McCaffrey. I don't think I think i've picked them. I don't think you have.

00:55:09
Speaker 1: So you got Christian McCaffrey. That means, Billy, you can pick either a wide receiver or a quarterback.

00:55:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a little Kentucky flavor here. I'm going Wandell Robinson versus the Commander's Commander's third worst passing defense to slot receivers. What they've given up the most receiving yards to slot receivers, the third most?

00:55:31
Speaker 3: Do you know the next that must be above the payfall on the website of the paywall.

00:55:36
Speaker 1: There's no way you know that. I need you to take that back, because I mean it might be true, but you don't.

00:55:43
Speaker 5: Know that I do the prep work that goes into the show.

00:55:47
Speaker 3: Last week, a stat was the Bears A want to know in games since Ben Johnson's taking his shirt off, So that's our new stat for watching.

00:55:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that that is a stat. That's uh.

00:55:59
Speaker 5: You don't like the Wandelle stat. I mean it's it's fantasy football playoffs this week. If you're trying to find the lamb.

00:56:05
Speaker 1: Was bragging about one on a podcast. I'll let you take more credit, all right. So I have to figure out what I'm gonna take here. And you know I've picked most of the running quarterbacks over the course of the year.

00:56:17
Speaker 3: Philip Rivers is right there in front of you. That would be all time. So Doure, Darner, Bears, Jackson Dark.

00:56:26
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Dak.

00:56:28
Speaker 3: There you go.

00:56:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Dak. I don't know, I haven't taken him. I'm gonna say, Dak gets it in the end zone and says, whomp, there it is thought you knew and gets it. Give me, Give me Dak Prescott.

00:56:41
Speaker 3: I like this. Every time I say I like it, we go on three. So we would be careful to be too optimistic.

00:56:46
Speaker 1: But got one yet. But that's that's okay, all right. So there you have it, all the news you need and some of you didn't. We will be back on Sunday to go over all the games.

00:56:58
Speaker 3: Big week, no buys.

00:56:59
Speaker 1: This is the There are more games on Sunday than any other week for the rest of the year because starting next week you start get games on Saturday and et cetera. So this is the fullest Sunday we'll have, so enjoy it.

00:57:11
Speaker 3: We'll see you las.

00:57:20
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