C&R - NFL Week 14…Make You Go Hmm

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Speaker 3: All right, we know exactly what we're doing. Hell, have you ready for Monday Night blues Ball. I'm talking about all the games and everything you did this weekend. Like we always do, we call it things that make you go. We say hello, yes, yes, yes, let's have a great week Hope we had a nice weekend. We're Cadino and Rich and we got Bo hanging out with us today in for Danny g What up bow Buddy?

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Speaker 1: So I'm Steve Cavino. That's Rich Davis.

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Speaker 3: Hope you had a great weekend of Steelers, Jags, Bills, Texans sort of weekend.

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Speaker 1: Not a pit Bull cruise Lamont.

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Speaker 2: Roach fight ends in a draw sort of weekend, not a Henry Shudo got his ass kicks sort of weekend.

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Speaker 1: What's the worst draw or tie? Isn't an NFL game? Is it a fight? Oh, that's a good one. Is it probably nflick?

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Speaker 2: Because of how short the season is, you're like a tie or like anytime you.

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Speaker 1: Play with your little kid and you're like you have to die. You guys both win. It always sucks.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, Yeah, people complain about judges scoring and boxing and there's always claim of robberies and man, well, first of all, that's why you don't leave it in the judge's hands. Right, train harder, go for the knockout, make it convincing. But I think they actually got it right. I think Pitbull Cruise and Lamont Roach was a draw. Cruz had the first half of the fight, Roach had the second half. Look, we'll talk about it, we'll get into it. Why waste any time? Io Samuel hit us up with things that make you.

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Speaker 1: Go hmmm, things that make you go, things that make your goal. Now.

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Speaker 3: Reminder, if you miss any of today's show, catch the podcast Coveno and Rich wherever you stream and rate it five stars. And again you could watch it on YouTube. You can watch it later on Covino and Rich FSR. But we do this every Monday. Any observations that you made and week fourteen did not disappoint Rich. We continue tonight, but alone with all the football, I did watch the fights and UFC three twenty three was pretty bloody. I mentioned Henry Sujudo got his ass beat. He announced his retirement. We're going to talk more about that later.

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Speaker 2: He say, what are you leading with a fight that no one cared about? There was like five NFL games that have major implications, one of which eliminated our Kansas City Chiefs. I wasn't necessarily leading with it. I was just making reference to it. We'll talk about that one that watched that. To me, thanks for reprimanding me on national radio. But yeah, Week fourteen, I think a lot of people watched the fight rich. It didn't interfere with football at all. In fact, it was Saturday night and it was a great boxing match. But yeah, we'll get to that later. People doing holiday stuff, absolutely right. So things that made you go hmmm is not just the NFL. But let's break it down, let's talk about it. I want to talk about how your team, the forty nine ers, benefit from Daniel Jones being out.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: That's something we're going to get to for sure. But I think Kansas City the big story, would you agree?

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Speaker 1: Is that.

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Speaker 3: I think of all the upsets and big wins, the Chiefs losing is the biggest story of the weekend. Their loss is bigger than any win that happened because they were a dynasty for the past ten years or in the playoffs for the past decade.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is it.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't an upset as much as just you've had this feeling like you always make the reference when Tyson was losing to James Buster Douglas. He kept thinking like, oh, they're doing talking boxing, we're talking football. He'll turn it around, and you know he never did, and Buster Douglas upset him. I think all season were like, all right, the Chiefs are, you know, they'll they'll figure it out, and here we are and they are not going to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: They're six and seven.

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Speaker 2: It's over. I'm sorry, what are they? Six seven?

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Speaker 1: Sorry? Got it?

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Speaker 2: Because it's so slowly gone by now. Visit there out here on the West coast?

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Speaker 1: In and out? Didn't they debut the new six seven special?

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Speaker 3: They skip No in and out has now skipped number sixty six to number sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: They actually emanated, oh they I read the headline quick. I thought they were leaning into it.

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Speaker 3: They're like, we don't want anything to do with this because of Hooligan's causing rutcus anytime someone yells out, all right, order for number sixty seven.

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Speaker 1: So the Chiefs are six and seven.

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Speaker 3: And I actually agree with rich On that their loss is bigger than any other story this weekend because of what they meant to the NFL for the past decade. I would that they're most likely not going to be in the playoffs and the Texans defense.

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Speaker 1: It was what a battle defense? I know, what a game. I know you say most likely and you're absolutely right, but.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying percentage wise no, I know, but I just can't see a path for them to win. I know it's like percentage wise, yes, of course there's a chance, but you know, dude, that was that was it.

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Speaker 1: I don't care.

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Speaker 2: I guess Travis Kelsey didn't have Taylor Swift and Selena Gomes cheering hard enough.

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Speaker 3: I just asked, you know, what made the Chiefs magic is the It was the things that went their way, right, those magical moments, you know in these dropped passes that normally went Mahomes's way and that she his way just aren't happening this year. Everything that they tried to do just didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Just any work.

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Speaker 2: Travis Lusta's temper through his helmet and someone was going to give it back to him, and Andy Reid's like, no, like, don't give it back to him. You'll do chief, you know, I mean, the Chiefs weren't chief in and the Texans have slowly gotten better as the season has gone on. Their defense has stepped up. It was a masterful game of defense to watch a lot of battle in a great battle, and the Texans win twenty to ten. So it's just a matter of the Texans getting better and the Chiefs not getting better the entire season. So there's six to seven most likely out. Texans now eight and five. But that was a fun ass game to watch. But I think their loss and a sad Mahomes but an accountable Yeah, but an accountable Mames, you know, because everything he said in the press conference was dead on. He's always well thought out and well spoken and realistic about the outcome. We gotta be realistic that they have the same record as the Miami Dolphins. So let's not make it seem like the Chiefs are this team that's like fighting there.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Dolph. It's one four in a row.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is, Mike, you know, Mike McDaniel may have saved his job, who knows.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying, the ship's passing in the Yeah, you can't.

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Speaker 2: You can't look at the Chiefs like, oh, maybe they're as good as the Dolphins, and they're as good as the Ravens, who look like ass a team would really have to collapse for the Chiefs to find a way in. Right now, the seventh seed is the eight and five Texans, and right on their heels is the eight and five Colts. I just think that where it's over, it's over for the Chiefs, the own man, there's no real way.

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Speaker 4: And also added to all this, which makes it more difficult, they lose a tiebreaker if the Jaguars were to falter, they lose the tiebreaker to the Texans because of the head on loss. They lose a tie breaker to the Bills because they lost to the Bills. If it ever came down to that, and you got another game with the Chargers coming up, but the Chargers already beat you earlier on in the season, so you don't when that game, you're not even winning any tie breakers against any of these teams that you may be tied with because you lost to all of them.

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Speaker 1: You know what's I'll Dan Bayer and that's fantastic. Inside.

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Speaker 2: What's wild is when we were kids, there was one year, like the Niners didn't make the playoffs, and I remember with Tom Brady there was the year he was hurt, Matt Castle took over. There was one year the Patriots didn't make it. Is this that one year or could we be seeing the beginning of a non think it's the biggest stories.

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Speaker 3: It's the sad ending of a dynasty, of a sweet run. That's how I feel anyway.

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Speaker 1: And to even go.

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Speaker 4: On top of that, I think I have more appreciation for what the Chiefs did after they lost to the Buccaneers and they made it all the way to the AFC Championship Game. The next year lost to the Bengals when Cincinnati ended up going, but that was the dip, but the Chiefs made it that far that year, Like I have appreciation for that run now seeing what is happening this year, because it is difficult to lose a Super Bowl and bounce back with the same sort of emotion, especially if you're Kansas City and won two Super Bowls previous to that.

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Speaker 1: This is just bound to happen at some point. Last year we're talking about three peete and now we're talking like, yeah over not even in the playoffs. And it adds to that feeling rich is the fact that you're seeing Kelsey probably looking toward retirement, which again we'll talk about later on.

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Speaker 2: The playoffs were symbolically were Rashi Rice and that hit, dude, I haven't seen a hit like that since running Lot.

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Speaker 1: That was a legal hit. I'm glad there was no flag, But what was the less of you saw?

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Speaker 2: That was a violent What was the less of you saw a hit of that magnitude in the NFL without a flag.

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Speaker 1: He had like a slight convulsion at the end of that. He saw his feet.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was concussion. I think it was more like shivers up his fine like, I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 3: It was very dramatic though maybe he added some theatrics to that hit. I'm not sure, but that was that was a pop for sure. If you watched the game, you know what we're talking about. That made me go because you're right, Rich, I'm surprised they didn't give him a minute. But the Chiefs, I think the dynasties over at least for now. I don't think they come back in the next few years. I know, I feel like they have to start all over the year.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying mahomes so, but I'm saying you think mahomes and I'm not saying you're saying this. Let me just pose the question, are you saying that Patrick Mahomes is now the quarterback of a team that will miss the playoffs for a few years in a row, because that seems weird. Mahomes is going to be a QB of a five hundred or sub team for.

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Speaker 1: Any said, it's not easy to get back.

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Speaker 3: So even if they do get some great additions, could it be the were tight.

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Speaker 2: End, Like you still got to build some chemistry. There's going to be some some growing pains. Could we were spoiled Kavino in that, Like I said, some of the other legends I mentioned never really had losing seasons. While they didn't win the Super Bowl, they never really had losing seasons. Like once Indianapolis got going, did Peyton Manning have a losing season? Did Tom Brady have a losing season? Did Joe Montana have a losing season? None of these guys that earned that conversation. Aaron Rodgers until he moved on from Green Bay, did he have a losing season? You know what I'm saying, Like we're talking about we're talking about like I could look at Drew Brees. Maybe there's a year where they went eight to nine or something, but most most quarterbacks of that magnitude somehow find a way to get into the playoffs even with a mediocre team. And if we're saying that this is over and you got the Chargers and Denver, who's eleven and two, if their division's good, it would be awfully strange to see Mahomes go through a couple of years where it's like, oh, wow, the Chiefs are like pedestrians.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's awfully strange to see the fact that both the Chiefs and the Ravens might be asked it's a different NFL. They're both six and seven, and you know, it's interesting to see how quickly that shifted. Right, we're living in the upside down Stranger Things style where the teams that were good just last year and the year before, and the teams that were so used to seeing being the dominant teams in the NFL are no longer. And that's the parody and the beauty of the NFL. Can give me what are your observations? Eight seven, seven ninety nine, one fox, let's go, can't give you a very unsexy things that made you go? Sure, hit me up with the little things making know who I'm sam oh, I gotta spice this one up because it's not that exciting.

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Speaker 2: It's two teams that aren't again, very sexy. But the Bucks lost a game that may come back to bite them. They lose to the Saints, and Caroline is hanging around and they play each other two times in the final four weeks. The Panthers Bucks have not played this year. They're both seven and six, but they play each other two times in the final four And I think that is a very interesting thing because either Baker buckles up and he's like, all right, let's stop the silliness. We're gonna do this, or this is the opportunity for Carolina to say, all right, we're not there yet, but we're there enough to win this division.

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Speaker 1: Tampa is not good right now.

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Speaker 4: They are in a bad spot and they lost three coming out of the by And I know this because my survivver pool hopes. I went with the Buccaneers yesterday and they ended like many the circa the Big Circle one in Las Vegas. Buccaneers were the most popular pick this past week because you thought, with the Saints coming to town, but they're in a bad spot. They played like a team that wasn't the favorite in the game. Guys, they had seven. They were two of seven on fourth down yesterday. Now there was the end of the game. They didn't get it where they had to go on fourth down. There were there was a folly of errors.

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Speaker 2: Yees seem like like in the Kansas City game, they were the Baker. Guys were dropping past his interceptions. The defense could have turned around the game. They bobbled what could have been interceptions.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Chris Godwin had a first down on fourth and three and was hit and they jarred the ball loose and was it just It's that's what happens to bad teams. And you're absolutely right, Like, Tampa is in a bad spot right now. The good news is they have the Falcons on a short week in Atlanta. Maybe in a worse spot. But to think that the Buccaneers could do any damage, I mean, their defense is not what it once was. And yeah, the ain'ts Saints had a couple of great plays on third down to convert it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tampa is. Tampa's in a bad spot right now.

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Speaker 2: They've been playing bad for the past four games, like Dan said, one wing one game losing streak.

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Speaker 1: Though they won last week, but barely barely. Yeah, like a red zone target.

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Speaker 2: Even if they were to make the playoffs, like, they're not it. You know, they're not the No.

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Speaker 3: Like, I know it's anyone's season and we've been saying that all year, but I think it's safe to say at this point, like even if a team like that were to sneak in rich like, they're not the team.

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Speaker 1: There's no way. Trust me, You're not that guy. They're not that guy. They're not that guy.

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Speaker 2: Even though I like that team and I root for Mayfield, like they're not that good. There's so many observations from the NFL and we haven't even talked about college football and Notre Dame being out and yo, I want to talk about Fernando Mendoz at this kid's excitement level. But dB I saw because it was not a game that was on my radar because I thought you is gonna whoop him six to six at half time. I'm like, did the Seahawks just not show up in the first half and then they outscore the Falcons thirty one to three in the second half?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or she'd she he took the second half opening kickoff, opening kickoff of the second half back for a score.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just early start, you know, across the country, one o'clock Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Start.

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Speaker 4: Let's get our feet under us. And I honestly think that was a part of it. Jas N turned it on in the second half, couple of touchdowns. Yeah, it took him a half to get going, but had a key turnover Bejon Robinson fumbled it in the red zone, which holded any Falcons momentum of them in the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember being like six to sixes, could they steal a game from Dan's mighty Seahawks, And then very quickly, every time I looked another touch that was added Hawks ten and three. Now THOUGHQUI at ten and three, I thought, you know, it could be the most important game of the year.

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Speaker 1: Week from Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, but also the final wrong, the final game.

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Speaker 1: Of the year.

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Speaker 2: The final game of the year is Dan byer Seahawks and my forty nine ers and Dan.

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Speaker 1: If your Seahawks beat the.

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Speaker 2: Rams, which is the game you're insinuita, Yes, if you beat the Rams and the Niners beat Tampa Tampa Titans, Titans and the Colts and teams that now look the cult without Daniel Jones, there's a chance that Week eighteen, Niner Seahawks could be for the one seed.

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Speaker 1: Is that crazy? Yes?

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Speaker 4: And it makes it crazy that a team like Tampa or Carolina would get a first round home game. Yeah, Like I mean, it's just it's so absurd that that is the case, and it could be better than any of the other teams in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: So that and it's happened before with our teams where the loser, the winner was the one seed loser was.

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Speaker 1: A wildcare Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So hey, Rich, you know made me saying that's going to be very interesting. And you know, Daniel Jones, you hate to see that guy go down, no doubt. But it seems like now that team free falling to begin with, and now Indianapolis has to play, They have to play the Seahawks and the Niners back to back. I just feel like that's a punishment for a team that doesn't even have a QB one right now.

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Speaker 1: Who's their quarterback?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, roll Ridley Leonard, the backup has got a knee in ja and they don't know if he's going to be able to go, So.

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Speaker 1: I think they'd call Vinie Testaverdi bring him out. Ry Fitzpator, Philip Rivers was the name that was Doug Gottlie brought up earlier. My goodness.

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Speaker 2: Jokingly, I think there's certain teams. I think what we're getting at is there's certain teams now that we just don't want to give that credit to that completely deserve the credit. For whatever reason, they're not sexier, don't sound sexier, or we're not used to seeing them be dominant because we're so used to a Ravens Chief sort of league, dance Seahawks one of those teams. The Jaguars one of those teams. And I think that's what we're getting at right now. Daniel Jones is out, that benefits Rich's forty nine ers. Probably Jaguars win nine and four now they went thirty six nineteen, and I was getting that Joe Burrow because I think the Bills are a big story here.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen had a game.

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Speaker 2: But what do you think about a lot of times when you see a quarterback talk about their team, the answers are always look at Dak Prescott's sort of thing of like, we got the team, we're angry, we got a chip on our shoulder, we'll be better.

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Speaker 1: We'll get him next week.

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's attitude is an attitude of honesty and you know, mixed with swag. I guess what are your thoughts, Rich, because it makes me say hm when I hear Joe Burrow fall short against the Bills thirty nine, thirty four and he looks at the record and he's like, that's just not good.

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Speaker 1: We're just not good. Do you like that honesty? I do?

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Speaker 2: I do, and I don't like the I respect the positive outlook, but I also respect seeing that Joe Burrow expects a lot more from the team he's playing.

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Speaker 1: For, but himself. I mean, listen, Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: You watch the Bengals cuffway their season on back to back interceptions late in the game in the snow that one we just highlight.

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Speaker 1: I was rolling on one.

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Speaker 2: Of the TV's a goal, but he was like, four to nine, it is not you know, we're not good, A little tip of a pick six, Like it's yeah, listen, it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: DBU had that game circled as a ooh interesting, and it was until that until it wasn't.

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Speaker 4: They had a ten point lead in the fourth quarter, Like midway through the fourth quarter, Josh Allen rips off that run for forty yards, his longest career touchdown run and then as you mentioned, the back to back interceptions, and it was just yeah, they I mean, they scored a touch they scored a touchdown late to make it closer than what it ended up being for as much as the Bills had that whirlwind of success.

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Speaker 3: So a fun game to watch, especially the snow game. But the Bills look like they're on track right now. So over the Bengals, that made me say hmmm, because I don't know. I thought Joe Burrow was going to pull that one out. We got to talk Packers Bears. We have a lot to get to, but I also want to get to your phone calls. At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Any Observation. Rich mentioned Fernando Mendoza and he gave God lots of props. He had a fun speech that went viral. We got to talk about that, some of the fights and more.

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Speaker 2: About week fourteen and anything that went down this past weekend. It made you go hmm eight seven seven ninety nine O. Fox Chris says, let's go Texans. They're his I guess you wouldn't even say dark horse to go all the way. They're looking good. Wes hit us up in Vegas saying the Seahawks spotted them at half and then just destroyed him in the second.

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Speaker 1: I saw that as well.

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Speaker 3: I was is that a matter of like making adjustments at halftime or they just stepped it into high gear?

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Speaker 1: That's you know.

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Speaker 2: That that team again, like you said, it's just not that's just not a sexy team. That's it's just we're not accustomed to say and that these teams are dominant, but we're seeing a like a role reversal, a stranger things upside down sort of situation because it's a new NFL, it's a new year, and we're seeing some of these other teams emerge as the dominant teams. But again, you still got the Bills in the mix, who look good this weekend. Well, let me ask you, did the Steelers and the team the Steelers win, shut people up?

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Speaker 1: Or what Metcalf had a game? However, that is is likely catch that was a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what anyone says that Isaiah likely catch was a tuddy. It was you looked at that the eye testing and tell you that that there was a catch and then it just got knocked out once the catch was was made.

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Speaker 3: But Steelers are tops of the AFC North and man, I wouldn't have guessed that, So props to that, you know, when you're just subjective, even if it goes against your team. I would imagine even Steeler fans like, yeah, that was a catch, right, I mean Dan Byer. Do you know anyone that was saying no, that was not a coach that likely that likely catch was a catch?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there have been a few, you know, Steeler fans. It reminds me of when the Seahawks caught the fail Mary against the Packers when they had the replacement refs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it totally.

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Speaker 4: Was an interception, you know, like it never should have been a Seahawks touchdown. Like you understand you laugh and like Seahawks fans can laugh at I'm sure Steelers fans will laugh at this.

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Speaker 1: But you have to say they also had the one where Rogers had the.

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Speaker 4: Ball deflected and it was still up in the air and he was down on the ground, and they reversed it and said that he had possession and was down and it wasn't the Ravens call. So that adds on to the likely missed call that they called it a touchdown on the field, but replay reverse.

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Speaker 2: Usually it's the opposite. It's like, you go, you need a lot of evidence.

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Speaker 1: I don't. That was a wild one.

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Speaker 7: So when you watch that in real time, it did not look like catch. When you watch it in slow motion, I thought it looked like a catch because he firmly had it, he had got a couple of feet down. But then when you watch it in real time, you're like, it didn't have it long enough. Dude, Pretty wild, bro, pretty wild question.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: There were times there was a few passes Aaron Rodgers made in that game where he looked like the Aaron Rodgers of old.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: Like yeah, like look good.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: There was there was one particular still got something, one particular play where he where he at metcalf and he was moving around the pocket, dipping and weaving and then he does spin it. But you know what, can he spin it like Jordan loves spinning it?

00:25:20
Speaker 8: Bro?

00:25:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I thought Aaron Rodgers shut some people up. He did, he did. I thought that bears Packers game. I'm excited.

00:25:28
Speaker 2: Let's run it back in a couple of weeks. I thought that was fantastic. That was a really fun game. I think Tom Brady's getting better in the booth. I like his leather jacket. You know, it went kind of viral over the weekend if you saw it. But him and Burkhart are old pal. We did TV with Burkehrt in New York and it's crazy to see his career just take off. For so.

00:25:47
Speaker 1: I love keV. He's got that swag about him. He is a superstar.

00:25:51
Speaker 2: But they're in the booth and he mentions that it's chili there and Brady pauses.

00:25:55
Speaker 9: Like, chili, this is freezing here. You can see our breath in the book. They could see their breath in the booth, and that's gone viral. So yeah, props him because he's feeling more natural and less robotic.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: And look, man, he does things at a high level. He takes it serious. There's no doubt that he was going to get better as time went on. Much like the Texans, there's a lot of teams just getting better and better every week.

00:26:17
Speaker 1: I have a question.

00:26:18
Speaker 3: It's not NFL related, but it's football related, Dan mentioned, you know, Ohio State losing over the weekend Indiana wins. You mentioned Fernando Mendoza. Did that clip go viral because it's beautifully endearing when he talks about their victory? Or people just mocking this dude because he's kind of goofy and corny.

00:26:38
Speaker 1: I think we're both. I think it's more endearing. Okay, I agree, Yeah, I think so too.

00:26:44
Speaker 3: But when you read the comments, there's a lot of people taking shots at them, and I'm like, oh, okay, now I'm confused, but I agree with you.

00:26:50
Speaker 1: I thought like, what a nice kid. How can you all love a kid with this excitement?

00:26:54
Speaker 6: Oh?

00:26:54
Speaker 1: Congratulations Indiana the Big ten champs. How does that sound? It sounds so beautiful.

00:27:01
Speaker 7: I want to give all the glory to God. We're never supposed to be in this decision, but the glory of God, the great coach is great team.

00:27:08
Speaker 1: I'm around school. We were able to pull this off. Whoever thought who would be here? But are flipping champs?

00:27:14
Speaker 6: Let's go?

00:27:17
Speaker 2: And he he's a young kid of faith. And can you know when I were saying that. On a side note, I grew up in New York. We live in Los Angeles. Now we forget the middle of the country. All these young dudes are very religious. It's hard to have you did you notice that that uh so many young kids. I mean we're talking about the middle of the country. We think it's a very different world in major cities. You said it, Buster.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: Brown, you know agree, right, Yeah, the world doesn't evolve around these freaks out here in Los Angeles and New York.

00:27:43
Speaker 1: Where we grew up. I hear you.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: It was it was nice to see this thanking God. If that was me, I think Mike who runs this place?

00:27:49
Speaker 1: First? And then God?

00:27:51
Speaker 2: Of course that you gotta you know, you know, Mike runs his place, then go Mike who runs his place? It was if you want an award, you wouldn't thank God.

00:28:00
Speaker 1: It was. It was. It was excitement, dude. And no, just just a little background.

00:28:05
Speaker 4: Mendoza is spent not even a year at Indiana, so he was at cal previously. He's from Miami, so he's been all around the United States, but been.

00:28:16
Speaker 1: Around the world.

00:28:16
Speaker 7: And I the kind of the funny thing about that clip is like he would turn his head and look directly at the camera like every five seconds, like so he'd like he'd kind of break the fourth wall.

00:28:25
Speaker 2: I almost felt like they will do something with this on SNL or something only. But yeah, he was so camera like. He's he was the opposite of a dud, but his camera awareness like he was a camera one. Let me stare at it, get a little extra clothes something.

00:28:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was hyped up and it kind of reminded me that Willem Defoe Gift, where he's like does the crazy smile, then turns the camera and like consumes in him.

00:28:50
Speaker 2: He's like rich in your speculation, do it thanking God. He's he's a Cuban heritage as Cuban background. So I'm not surprised that I wasn't criticizing. I was just saying, you see a lot of these young kids, especially that play for you know, colleges in the middle of the country, a.

00:29:08
Speaker 1: Lot of faith out there, a lot of religion out.

00:29:09
Speaker 3: They look, when things go bad, you turn to somebody. So when things are going good, you know, be sure to be thankful. And it was, and I thought it was really nice to see.

00:29:18
Speaker 1: It was really interesting because, like Dan Bayer said, it's the Big ten.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you, there's a part of me that thinks it's gone viral, not only because it was sweet and endearing and authentic, and I did love it, right. That was his pure excitement right there. But people do think, like, man, this guy's a cornball or something and that's a cardival that's going to be the Heisman Trophy winner. And he won the Big Ten Championship. However, as Dan Bayer said, it's not the national championship. Slow down, right, dB, Yes, it's it's not.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: I loving his voice crackstand in the beginning.

00:29:52
Speaker 1: At the end, the Big Ten chimps. How does that sound? It sounds so beautiful.

00:29:57
Speaker 7: I want to give all the glory to God. Would be the position, but glory golf, the great coaches, great team.

00:30:04
Speaker 1: I'm around those school we were able to pull this off. Whoever thought would be here but the hos or flipping champs.

00:30:12
Speaker 7: It's mind blowing though, because they showed you how many losses Indiana has in their history and they've never ever been in this position except for last year. So it's like this, you're in this two year spurt of like we're living in the twilight zone. The Indiana football is twelve thirteen and o now and the number one seed in the bracket. It's nuts, very extremely ra They hadn't beaten Ohio State since the late eighties.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: Again, and I'm not just trying to kiss Dan Bayer's asked if Ohio State wins or loses that again, it's it's not it's not the national championship, but a great moment for Indiana, and they must.

00:30:43
Speaker 1: Score at all in the second half. But looking look.

00:30:48
Speaker 2: At that last all right, so you let's say they make that field goalfy, they don't miss that chip shot, which college is interesting because I love how in college you could kick the ball with fields so far left or far right, like the hash marks, they're so different.

00:31:00
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, there's so much wider, So it makes it so you'd probably better off kicking a thirty two yard field goal as opposed to a twenty seven yarder.

00:31:08
Speaker 1: Because of the tell that kid it was in the angle, was in his head.

00:31:11
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and these he had issues. He missed two big kicks against Michigan last year, So it is it is a weakness of Ohio State, and I think that was magnified in that spot of a big game kick that was missed.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: But even if he does make that, it's a tie game. It's thirteen to thirteen.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: Hey, then Indiana.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: Then Indiana gets the ball back, and you could just say, I don't blame that kid, is what I'm saying. I feel like Indiana gets the ball back with a minute and a half, two minutes. I just feel like that game wasn't going Ohio States either way.

00:31:39
Speaker 4: I've told I said this to Sam, I've said this to bo Ohio State. Beating Michigan last week was the biggest win of this year for they needed to beat Michigan last week. I felt even more so than a playoff run, like they needed to beat Michigan last week. Now to have this game sandwiched in between the Michigan game and a potential playoff run, yeah, I'm totally fine with it. Indiana, I felt it meant way much more to them. It feels like such a backhanded compliment, but I think that that's the reality of it, and I think that interview shows it.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: Did you see speaking of football and kicking and chip shots and all the other stuff Donald Trump put out there that we should change football recently the name Yeah, oh, you didn't see that, because the World Cup draw was announced over the weekend and he was saying that the NFL got it wrong they should come up with a new name.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: For the sport. Any suggestion, No, but you didn't see that trump ball.

00:32:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, this is the kind of discussion people have when they've had five beers and they're just talking about the bones of the sport. I've heard this before so many times. Why is it called football? Doesn't be called a handball? He's not wrong.

00:32:52
Speaker 1: He's not wrong.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: When he's not wrong, now I'm turning into him when you realize and that the rest of the world calls soccer football. He did make that reference over the weekend, So just throwing it out. Well, you know what, there's still so much more to get to. In fact, the phones are all lit. We're gonna talk some NFL, some college.

00:33:10
Speaker 1: But let's go to dB. We're running lay for an update.

00:33:12
Speaker 8: Yah.

00:33:13
Speaker 4: Maybe on another show we could come up with alternate names because handball wouldn't work, because it's all well.

00:33:19
Speaker 7: They could take the name handball from handball, and then their football becomes handball, and then handball.

00:33:23
Speaker 1: Can find nominee pigskin. Yeah, how about send the vegans? Though, who cares about vegans?

00:33:31
Speaker 4: Notre Dame Athletic director Pete Pavakua until the Dan Patrick Show today. Well, I'll let him tell you on what he thinks about the relationship between Notre Dame and the ACC after the ACC, in his mind, made an all out push to put Miami in the college football playoffs.

00:33:44
Speaker 10: I have tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team, great school. But we were mystified by the actions of the conference to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in football and a member of their conference in twenty four of our other sports. I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference in Notre Dame.

00:34:08
Speaker 4: Strong words from Bavaqua. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips released a statement this afternoon saying, quote, when it comes to football, we have a responsibility to support and advocate for all seventeen of our football playing member institutions, and I stand behind our conference efforts to do just that leading up to the College Football Playoff Committee selections on Sunday end. Quote, every goal starts with an assist on and off the field. That's why Haley On and US Soccer are launching for the Assist, a celebration of everyday acts of support that help people achieve their goals with iconic brands like sense It, I'm Toms, Adville, and Sentrum. To learn more, go to Haley on assist dot com. Browns quarterback Shudor Sanders will be the team starter for the rest of the season, according to head coach Kevin Stefanski. Colt quarterback Daniel Jones out for the year with the torn achilles T Higgins and concussion protocol for the Bengals, while the defensive entry Hendrickson's going to have core muscle surgery and we have a flex alert. Week sixteen, Sunday Night football will now be Patriots and Ravens, Bengals and Dolphins. Moves to one o'clock Eastern guys. Back to you, No thank you, dB.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: We got to we'll talk more college and NFL action and uh yo.

00:35:13
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00:35:14
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00:35:20
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00:35:25
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00:35:29
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00:35:51
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00:35:55
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00:35:56
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00:35:58
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00:36:14
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00:36:19
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00:36:22
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00:36:23
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00:36:38
Speaker 1: H I hope so it's not looking good. If they don't, it's gonna say what helped you guys a lot? Was the Cowboys losing on Thursday night? Yeah, because it gave you a little breathing room.

00:36:48
Speaker 10: Magic number is two and Jayden Daniels has done for the year, so they should be able to get a couple more wins.

00:36:52
Speaker 1: So that he's on the video.

00:36:53
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00:37:09
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00:37:14
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00:37:19
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00:37:26
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00:37:33
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00:37:34
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00:38:07
Speaker 3: Excited for tonight. Rich'll give you his picks on that. Oh we're wrapping up things that made you go. Any observation you made? What the pundes are all lit.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: I don't want to keep people waiting. So let's say I had to let's start a trip in oh, you know what trip? Please hold because he has a topic that I think we got to get into it. It's the Raiders and some Shenanigans with the points spread. So hold on, go to indian Rhode Islands.

00:38:27
Speaker 1: What's up Indy?

00:38:29
Speaker 8: Hey Byza so things that made me go home this weekend. I'm gonna have to go with John Morant. This guy he's getting off the bench of street clothes. He wants to, you know, start talking junks. The guys are on the floor and I'm not digging it to me, I just look at it. This guy, he's just trying to prove to everyone that he's not someone that he's trying to be. And sometimes you have to be careful for that because I feel like he has some Aposta syndrome.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I'm around. I just want to, don't you want to just be like listen, man.

00:39:02
Speaker 3: This is alwayssier to get back on that. I can remind everybody that he's a force on the NBA.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: Stop sabotaging yourself out of them. Let's go to Indianapolis and say how to Brad?

00:39:11
Speaker 1: What's up? You read? Hey? Be you read hey?

00:39:14
Speaker 5: Guys?

00:39:14
Speaker 6: First of all, I love this show. Oh thanks man as a former radio guy, relatable content in the evening it's always a good thing. So great job of guys every single day.

00:39:25
Speaker 1: Thank you man.

00:39:27
Speaker 6: A couple of thoughts as a lifelong Indiana fan, you know when Signetty fold the fan base when he got there, he had to change the way they think. Well, that was mostly in Bloomington, but with that win last night or on Saturday, I think he changed the think of the entire fan base station wide. And there's a lot of Indiana fans out there, so I think they made a statement. And that Big ten championship is a lot bigger deal than most people think it is because that's going to set us up for many years down the road.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: Honestly, what a morale boost and what a what a statement by the by the organization, by the college. As dB rolls his eyes because he knew, he's like, it's not a championship, guys, relaxed, it's.

00:40:05
Speaker 1: Not the national championship. Hey, it's a Big ten championship. And there's a lot of people who I.

00:40:09
Speaker 2: Thought of dB over the weekend, something about Dan Bayer came to mind. Boy, something made me go, hmmm, we'll get to that and more a lot of NFL right, that's we got to get to Today on CNR hank T