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Show. I watched basketball

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last night, nice flipping back

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and forth with the Steelers Buffalo

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Bills. But I'm watching the Brooklyn

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Nets and the Washington Wizards,

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and I was glued to it because

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I wanted to see Kevin Durant play.

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And he looked good, and Kyrie

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Irving looked good. The Nets

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looked good. The Wizards not

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fully equipped. They didn't have Russell

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Westbrook Junior the third or Bradley Beale,

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but there's there's some positivity

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there. But I was watching the Nets. I

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just wanted to see how they were going

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to play, what it was going to look like. And

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you know, Kad looks like Kadi. Kyrie

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still can be incredible. You

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know. I started to wonder about this greatest handles

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of all time. I don't even know if

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it's a question. Kyrie has

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as good a handle as I've ever

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seen. Now. I always thought that Chris

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Jackson, Mack Mulda, abdul Rauf had

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a wonderful handle. There's players who

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have a great handle, you

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know, Isaiah Thomas was somebody had a great

1:13

handle. Now you could go back to Bob Kuzi if

1:15

you want, Nate Archibald.

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It felt like was just quick. He went left

1:20

every time. But somebody who

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in traffic has a great handle

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and in small spaces. Kyrie

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Irving is as good as anybody I've ever seen.

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And I've been watching the NBA for almost

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sixty years now. He

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has as I should say, fifty five

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years. He has as good a handle as I've

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ever seen in traffic,

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and so quick and somehow,

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some way can find these little

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nooks and crannies. I still think he's

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crazy at times. But you

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know, he still doesn't understand that you make thirty

1:54

three million dollars to play basketball,

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and all we're asking is they wanted

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you to to drop your fans a little nugget

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here, Why don't you talk a little bit like That's in your

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contract. Every player contract

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is you got to talk to the media.

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And Kyrie taking a stance

2:10

that he doesn't want to talk to the media what

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cost him, and then it cost his team. And

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then when it happened again, and then they double

2:17

it, and then they double it, and then they double it

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and then Kyrie. You can still

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continue to not talk, but this

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is part of the reciprocation.

2:27

Here you get paid and then

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we want you to talk about the game. And

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you may look at the media as pawns,

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but you still have an obligation to

2:37

the Nets fans to speak.

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And maybe it'll get through to Kyrie

2:42

one of these days. I don't know why he feels like he's

2:44

a victim. You know, he wanted his own

2:46

team in Cleveland. Lebron came to town, that

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got a little Frosty, won a title, went

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to Boston, he was a prima donna there.

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That didn't work out. And here you are

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with the Brooklyn Nets. Okay, you

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know, maybe it all works out, maybe you win a championship,

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but Kyrie has an obligation,

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according a contractual obligation,

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to speak to the media. I don't think

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it's asking a whole lot. But

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good luck Brooklyn, good luck with Kyrie.

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It's a good team. And with KD there, Steve

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Nash there, Mike D'Antoni there,

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you got either too much

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or just enough. I'm not quite sure

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how this is going to end up. I'm not using optimistic

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when it comes to Kyrie. World Traveler

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that he is. But maybe

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with the other pieces there the

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infrastructure that will help with Kyrie

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Irving. But a guy who seems to have

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all the answers, but he doesn't want to share

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answers anymore. We all

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lose in that eight seven seven

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We'll get to phone calls, best and words to the

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weekend. I just got my Heisman

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valid, just got

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it, and oh

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it's please read, dear elector,

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Please read the email carefully and

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retain it for later use. It

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contains important and necessary

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information required to

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access a secure voting website.

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Here the twenty twenty Heisman

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Memorial Trophy award. So

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I have it in there. My ballot number,

4:24

got my last name on it, and I

4:26

take it very very seriously. And

4:29

I started watching DeVante Smith

4:32

differently, watching the Alabama game against

4:34

Arkansas. He's

4:36

a great player, I mean, a valuable

4:39

player. And that's where it's really

4:41

hard to go. Okay, how do I determine

4:43

who's got great numbers, who's a

4:45

difference maker, who

4:48

deserves maybe that third spot? Because

4:50

I always have first, second, and third, and I'm

4:52

not allowed to tell you They ask last year

4:54

to not divulge who you're voting

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for, but I have a vote, and

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I really appreciate the opportunity

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to be able to vote. Looking at the Heisman

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odds right now, Mac Jones

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is the favorite because Trask and

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Florida lost this weekend against

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LSU. DeVante Smith is

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third, then Trevor Lawrence, Ian Book and

5:15

Justin Fields. But

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there's always an outlier. I always want to look

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at. It's like Army's

5:23

quarterback last year, Perry.

5:26

I thought he was as good and valuable as

5:28

any player in America.

5:31

Navy's quarterback, Perry, and I thought

5:33

he was as valuable as any quarterback,

5:36

any player, with what he meant to

5:38

his team. And I thought he was must see

5:40

TV weekend and week out. And

5:42

I think he's still with the Dolphins on their roster.

5:45

But you know, you certain I go

5:47

back to Golden Tate. Golden Tate at Notre

5:49

Dame. I put him third on my ballot one

5:51

year. You're just you see players

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that may not get as much exposure,

5:56

but DeVante Smith, I

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could certainly make a case is the best

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player in college football right now, Mac

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Jones. We love to give it to quarterbacks and

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if mac Jones has a big game against Florida,

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then he's probably going to win the Heisman. But horrible

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loss for Florida against LSU and

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Kyle Trask had a couple interceptions there.

6:17

Trevor Lawrence, who would have thought that

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he would go through his college career and

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not win a Heisman Trophy. He'll

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join his coming up on Wednesday. I believe

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on the program Ian book, Notre Dame quarterback

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deserves to be in the conversation. He

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has played great. They're the number two

6:32

team in the country justin fields

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based off what he did last year. Hasn't

6:38

had the opportunity this year to really showcase

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just how great he is or was

6:43

last year the Indiana game.

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I mean, he hasn't been great, but he's

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been good enough, and I think based off last

6:51

year, he'll be in the conversation. Yes, mclovin,

6:54

I saw a player cop for DeVante Smith to

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Lynn Swann. Does that make any sense

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you Lyn Swann at USC

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I thought that was pretty high praise, But I'm

7:04

curious if is he in that category.

7:09

I mean, Lyn Swine's one of the great

7:13

small receivers of all time. Yeah, but Davante

7:15

Smith beat you deep

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like it feels like he can take something short

7:19

and go deep. Pittsburgh's

7:22

offense back then was about Stalworth and

7:25

Swan and they were deep passes

7:27

that Terry would would throw. It's

7:29

just a different game now with wide

7:32

receivers. You know, if you have somebody

7:34

with that ability, it's like Antonio Brown,

7:36

I can throw seven and he can take at seventy.

7:39

Where it didn't used to be that way. Your

7:41

wide receiver was a guy who would be

7:44

fifteen or twenty yards down the field. You

7:46

know he was trying to make a big play.

7:49

Now it's about get the ball in a playmaker's

7:51

hands. But Davante Smith

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is spectacular. He truly is. He's

7:55

a spectacular player and I think the

7:58

most valuable player on that Ala Emma

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offense. All Right, we'll get some phone

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calls here, best and worst to the weekend Tonight

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the Ravens against the Cleveland

8:07

Browns. And this is

8:09

a big game, big game for

8:11

the Ravens because Cleveland can

8:13

still lose, and Cleveland can still qualify

8:16

for a wild card spot. Baltimore

8:19

can afford to lose. If the Ravens

8:21

win, Baltimore and Miami would be tied. At

8:23

eight and five. Miami would win the playoff tiebreaker

8:26

and be in line for the seventh seed, but Baltimore

8:29

would be heavily favored for

8:32

that playoff spot because Miami has the

8:34

Patriots, at the Raiders and at

8:36

the Bills, so a tougher schedule than

8:38

Baltimore's Jags, Giants,

8:41

and then at the Bengals. But it's a big

8:43

game tonight, the Ravens on the road and

8:45

favored by three poll question

8:48

McLevin rail Carson

8:50

wentz by week one next year, as

8:52

you mentioned, Indianapolis number one, Philly

8:55

number two, and then New England and Denver

8:57

tied for third. I was

8:59

talking about Army and Navy, and I

9:01

watched almost all of that game. That was

9:03

so much fun, and uh, you

9:05

know, in the fog, and it's just I

9:08

love the significance of it. And

9:11

uh, you know, you got the cadets there

9:13

the midship and I mean, if it's just that

9:15

that atmosphere, and I really

9:18

wanted to go to the game. Uh, but

9:21

you know they said if we took COVID test,

9:23

I think we had to take a couple of COVID tests and

9:26

I wasn't able to do that. But Paulie and I

9:28

and I do appreciate West Point reaching

9:30

out and saying that if we passed a couple

9:32

of COVID tests that we could have gone to the game, because

9:35

it does mean an awful lot to me. It's

9:38

it's must see TV in my house every

9:41

every year, every year at this time. Even my

9:43

wife watches the game because

9:45

she knows having been to West Point and

9:48

that feeling you have up there when

9:50

those when those men take the

9:52

field and you see, like,

9:54

you know, when we talk about, hey, what are you doing when you graduate?

9:57

With with those men and women like

10:00

what they do when they graduate, it's a whole

10:03

lot different than Hey, I think I might go work

10:05

for my dad. I don't know. I might take

10:07

a year off and travel the world. I

10:10

don't know. I might be an Afghanistan. Uh,

10:12

you know, I don't know where I might be. Oh.

10:16

I mean that that's where you're watching,

10:19

and you never feel more patriotic,

10:21

never but who

10:24

it is a it's a very very

10:26

emotional moment. If

10:28

you're able to see that in person, any West

10:30

Point game or if you get to go to it, you

10:33

know, at the Naval Academy, I have not been

10:35

at a game there. But I have been at West Point many

10:37

times and I never

10:40

I never lose that feeling of what it's like

10:42

when those men and women are there and

10:44

you see really who we are

10:47

as a society, like those

10:49

are those are the true heroes that we

10:51

have. Those are the frontline workers.

10:54

By the way, I had to go in for some

10:56

testing last week to New York and

10:58

I went in and I got to see some of these frontline

11:01

workers that were there helping me when

11:03

I was going through, you know, my

11:05

situation. You

11:08

know, they need to be patted

11:10

on the back. Don't forget about

11:12

them, because we have and

11:15

to be able to see them. And I could see

11:17

it in their faces. They probably

11:19

don't see it in their faces, but I see it in their

11:22

faces of who they were a year ago

11:24

when they were taking care of me. And

11:26

man, it hit me so hard

11:30

that what the toll is on these people.

11:34

Don't lose sight of

11:36

these people because they take it home.

11:38

They take it home with them. We can turn

11:40

off the news, we can, you know,

11:42

we can stop reading something they

11:45

don't get to like when you

11:47

see something on somebody's face and

11:50

it's there because what they see,

11:53

hopefully we never have to see but truly

11:55

remarkable, remarkable people

11:58

and had a chance to say thank you.

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All right eight seven seven three DP

12:02

show I got sidetrack there, you know, watching

12:05

basketball last night and did

12:07

watch the football. If I'm Pittsburgh,

12:10

I'm concerned. Not that they aren't

12:12

concerned, but I would be very concerned

12:14

because you've lost two of your best defensive

12:17

players in Debon Bush and Bud Dupree. I

12:19

can't rely on that defense to be

12:22

great. Like this was a bad

12:24

month for Pittsburgh.

12:26

Running game. It doesn't magically reappear.

12:29

They haven't had a running game for seven weeks. Baltimore

12:33

or a Buffalo looks good. I like what I see

12:35

with Buffalo. It's a team that finds

12:38

who they are. This time of the year is really

12:40

really important. Like the Rams have found out who

12:42

they are really important. Seattle

12:44

doesn't know who they are. Seattle

12:47

sort of lost track who they are, you

12:50

know, the Raiders lost track of who they are. The

12:54

Patriots, I think know who they are. Like

12:56

there's certain teams that it just feels

12:59

like and they're gonna be. Like Kansas

13:01

City still feels like they're figuring it

13:03

out. And that's scary because

13:06

they didn't play well, and they still beat a good Miami

13:08

team in Miami as

13:10

Cleveland figured it out. As much as we want to

13:12

say, wow, they finally figured it out and

13:15

then watch them lose tonight as

13:17

Baltimore figured it out. The

13:20

Packers feel like they figured it out. I don't

13:22

think Tampa's figured it out yet. New

13:24

Orleans losing that game, but when

13:26

Drew Brees comes back, like is

13:28

it going to be back to normal? And that's

13:31

what I don't know. You know,

13:33

there's just teams at this time of the year

13:35

where you go, ooh boy, they're

13:37

gonna be a tough out, Like the Rams are

13:39

going to be a tough out, and

13:42

they're not leading with their offense, they're leading with their

13:45

defense, but they're going to be a difficult out.

13:47

We're gonna talk to South Palenttonio covers the

13:50

Eagles because now we

13:52

got a quarterback controversy. Although Peter King

13:54

joined us last hour and he goes, what quarterback controversy

13:57

Jalen Hurts as their quarterback? Well,

13:59

the controversy is going to be, now what do

14:01

you do with Carson Wentz the rest of the

14:03

year? And then the question

14:05

that it will be looming in the off season.

14:07

Let me get a couple of phone calls in here, best

14:10

and worst of the weekend. We'll give you hours coming up.

14:12

Also, the Cleveland Indians are changing their

14:14

nickname. I don't know what

14:16

they're going to change it too, but we'll

14:19

check in with the Cleveland Indians as of

14:22

now, still the Cleveland Indians. That'll

14:25

be coming up. Andrea and New

14:27

Jersey is back with us. Andrea, what's on your mind

14:29

today? Good morning? Everyone

14:32

about out to chat Row. Wanted

14:35

to show some love to Todd today.

14:37

Oh, my husband and

14:39

I saw Todd's flycasting

14:41

on Friday. Wanted to call in and give

14:43

them some additional Monday morning encouragement.

14:47

Todd, you continue to do well. You've

14:50

had some natural ability there. We

14:52

do have some suggestions for you. Put

14:55

your right hand above the reel

14:57

on the cork. That's the grip. Don't

15:00

do a death grip on it. Keep it nice, nice

15:02

and relaxed, like you're shaking your hand. Don't

15:05

keep the rod right in front of your face.

15:08

Move the rod to the right, and again, keep

15:10

it relaxed. When

15:12

you start to cast, angle

15:14

it just passed your shoulder, like where your

15:16

ear is. Remember you'll eventually

15:18

have a hook there, so you don't want to hook yourself

15:20

in the head. Remember,

15:22

fly fishing isn't about brute force, it's

15:25

finesse. All right, Well, thank you, Andrea

15:27

Todd to repeat what Andrea just said, it's

15:29

all about finesse and something about

15:31

the real the right side hit

15:35

yourself on the head with the hook that's going to ultimately be there.

15:37

I got some fly rods from Bass Pro Shop

15:39

and then we went out in the parking lot and I was trying

15:41

to help Todd understand fly fishing.

15:43

And it looks easy and it's not so Andrea

15:46

offering suggestions, but it's said when you don't even

15:48

have the grip right before you're even actually doing

15:50

the steps of fly fishing, when you're just not even holding

15:53

it right, it's just kind of a lost cause. Justin

15:55

in Missouri joins us. Hey, justin the

15:57

best and Worst of the weekend, Danny,

16:01

you guys are the best. Nobody does it better.

16:03

Got the best and worst of the weekend. It's

16:06

been a long time, dolphinsan my whole

16:08

life. My best is us

16:10

looking pretty respectable against the

16:12

champs and the best QB in football

16:15

right now. Mahomes Worst

16:17

of the weekend Keyante

16:19

Johnson of Florida collapse

16:22

and during the game. Haven't really

16:24

heard what's wrong with

16:26

him, but prayers for him and

16:28

one more thing for you, Dan. Back

16:31

in two eleven, when the

16:33

signs were huge and people would go

16:35

to college college game

16:38

day and sneak in signs about your show. Me

16:40

and two buddies went to the

16:43

World Series in two eleven

16:45

when the Cardinals beat the Rangers, and we

16:47

stood behind Baseball tonight for over three

16:49

hours with the beware of the Mothership

16:51

sign and thank you justin

16:54

thank you. We have a

16:56

lot of the signs that people used

16:58

that when they were on college day, when college

17:00

game Day came to their campus and people

17:03

sent in the signs that appeared on TV.

17:05

I remember Chris Fowler would get upset at me, like

17:09

I was being childish because I was asking

17:11

my audience to hold up a sign that might have

17:13

something to do with one of the dan Ads

17:15

or the show. And I said, yeah, that's

17:17

me. I'm childish here, yeah, Paulie.

17:21

I remember it got so big that I went to a

17:23

game at Wisconsin and Camp Randall

17:25

and game Day was there and I was in

17:27

the crowd like anyone else at a game Day, and

17:29

I went up to one of the ESPN producers and she

17:32

had a list of what was barred at the

17:34

game, and it said, like a Shay and Irving

17:36

if you names like Fritzie or mclovin,

17:39

like those are the things they're supposed to spot and takedown.

17:41

It was on a list. It was great, and I

17:44

thought, you know, you're Chris Fowler and he was hosting

17:46

College Game Day and like Chris host a

17:48

show, who cares what's behind you?

17:51

But uh yeah, I remember he didn't

17:53

think that that that was professional

17:56

and it wasn't. But I wasn't pretending

17:58

to be professional. It's the best I

18:00

was mad at. I was mad at the mothership at

18:02

the time. And it's like, all right, I'm

18:04

gonna get back at you. We're gonna hold up

18:06

signs that I'll teach you. Yeah,

18:09

Paul, the absolute best one. I

18:11

can't remember what game it was, but someone had a

18:13

big Chris in Syracuse with an

18:15

outline of a person but there's no face,

18:18

like a chalk outline because

18:20

we never I've never seen what

18:22

Chris and Syracuse looks like. I met Shay

18:24

and Irving, but I had never seen

18:27

and we've never seen Chris in Syracuse.

18:30

But you know, when we first started, he

18:32

was as good a call he was a professional

18:35

caller, and he was succinct

18:38

to the point, always asked something interesting.

18:40

And we hope that Chris

18:42

and Syracuse's is doing well.

18:45

We'll take a break. South Palantonio will join

18:47

us. Coming up. Ravens minus

18:50

three at the Browns Coming up tonight. Auburn

18:53

needs a new head coach. Florida

18:55

loses in dramatic fashion. Usc

18:58

are they sort of in a mix?

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Here? Bill's handled

19:02

the Steelers. Jalen Hurts Wins's debut.

19:05

Washington continues to win on

19:07

an odd odd football season.

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20:42

Which you saw that you liked you didn't like? Poll

20:44

question McLevin, What do you have for us? Where

20:46

will Carson Wentz be week one? And next year?

20:49

The cults are running away with it? The Eagles

20:51

a distant second. I

20:56

don't know if most people know. Sal Palantonio

20:58

served five years in the Units States Navy from

21:01

nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty three,

21:03

and I was talking about Army Navy here,

21:06

Sam, I am so

21:08

patriotic when I like that atmosphere

21:11

is just wonderful. Did you ever attend

21:13

Army Navy game many

21:16

times in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial

21:19

Field. I was there. I was there

21:21

with the Secretary of Defense and my wife.

21:23

We hung out with his wife and family

21:25

at the fifty yard line. It's

21:28

a it's a it's a it's a great, great event.

21:30

It's great fun. But I'll just say this,

21:32

and I love Navy, obviously,

21:34

root for Navy. Navy needs to

21:36

take a time out, a double reverse

21:39

that results in a safety. Dan,

21:44

let's go chase some submarines for a

21:46

while or do something. Come on, you

21:48

were awarded the Service

21:52

Medal, I believe is that right? In

21:54

nineteen eighty one, so supervising the

21:56

rescue of Vietnamese refugees

21:59

in the South China Sea.

22:01

Explained the award and what happened.

22:05

It's the United Nations Meritorious

22:07

Service Award given to me and my

22:10

shipmates on the Ussolette

22:13

and we were in the South China Sea. In our

22:15

mission was to find

22:18

Vietnamese refugees that

22:21

were being preyed upon by pirates

22:23

at sea. Pirates would have

22:27

board their boats and take

22:29

them and forced them into

22:32

servitude on the high sea. So

22:34

we rescued them, many

22:36

of them, many hundreds of them, and brought

22:39

them to the United Nations Refugee

22:43

Center in Singapore. We ferried

22:45

them from the South China Sea back and forth.

22:47

It was a huge mission. I was a part

22:49

of it, helped supervise it on my

22:51

ship, and every one of

22:53

us on the ship was awarded that medal.

22:56

Many of us were ever getting

22:58

nervous. No,

23:02

I mean, you know you're trained at

23:04

sea to be

23:06

underway, and no, never

23:09

did you know. And as an officer, so I was a surface

23:11

warfare officer. So I was an officer of the deck

23:13

underway Indian Ocean,

23:15

Pacific, South Pacific. It's

23:18

a it was a It was a fabulous

23:21

experience to be among great

23:23

great men and women in the American Armed Forces

23:25

for five years to serve

23:27

alongside them be part

23:29

of a peacekeeping

23:32

missions. I was lucky, Dan and I

23:34

never served during wartime. That's that's

23:36

the goal of anybody who serves in the military

23:39

is to serve during peacetime.

23:42

And I was one of the lucky ones

23:44

for sure. And then

23:46

you come back and then all of a sudden, how

23:49

do you get into the media after being in the military.

23:52

I had already had a master's degree

23:54

in journalism from NYU

23:57

when I joined the military. I joined the military

24:00

because it was a family tradition. My

24:03

uncle Tony, who was

24:05

my godfather, was

24:07

in submarine service in the North Sea

24:10

during World War Two. My uncle sal who

24:12

I'm named after, was a marine

24:15

in the Korean War. So

24:18

all of my dad's brothers and

24:20

my mom's brother served in either the Navy

24:23

Army or the Marine Corps. My dad, however,

24:25

did not serve because God

24:28

rest his soul. He was fourt

24:31

because he had cataracts at birth, and

24:34

so it was a sad

24:36

situation for him. He really wanted to serve,

24:39

and so it really was

24:41

up to me as his oldest son. And

24:44

you know, I joined at the height of the anti

24:46

Vietnam War effort. So it

24:49

was not in vogue to come

24:51

out of college and go join the service. But

24:53

that's what I did. I had an uncle who

24:55

lied and he joined the army

24:57

at sixteen. And

25:00

which war he was in? The Korean War.

25:03

Yeah, the Korean War was no joke and

25:05

he was in battle. I mean it

25:08

affected him the rest of his life. He

25:10

got frost bit and he would always have white socks

25:13

on every time I would see him. And

25:16

like, I can't imagine the horrors

25:18

of war at any age. And he was sixteen.

25:20

He lied to get into the army

25:23

and he saw

25:25

a lot of battle at a lot of stuff, and we

25:27

were never allowed to bring it up too,

25:30

right, So he survived and had

25:32

a whole life after that day. Not a

25:34

long life, but he had a life after

25:36

that. But yeah, he was in one of the bloody,

25:39

bloodier battles. What was his

25:41

name, what was his name? Last name was Miller,

25:44

Tom Miller. Yeah, but my father

25:47

in law served in the Marine

25:49

Corps in Korea and was in the last

25:51

great amphibious assault of

25:53

the US military at Incheon and

25:57

survived that assault and

26:00

we were never allowed to talk to him about it. Yeah,

26:04

all right, I got sidetracked there, But the

26:06

ESPN national correspondent primarily covering

26:09

the NFL NFL matchup post and

26:12

I don't know what to make of what Doug Peterson

26:14

said after yesterday's win here. So can

26:17

you interpret what Doug Peterson

26:19

is saying about who is going to be a starting quarterback

26:21

next week against Arizona. I

26:23

think it's difficult to interpret. But one

26:25

of the things that I learned very early on

26:28

as a reporter, and I learned it from

26:30

some of my mentors, is don't pay attention

26:33

to what coaches say. Coaches

26:35

lie all the time, pay

26:38

attention to what they do, and

26:40

so I don't put a lot of stock in press conferences.

26:43

Press conferences are good

26:45

for copy and

26:48

you know, talk shows and all

26:50

that stuff. That's all good, and of course we want

26:52

to pay attention to what they say, and they sometimes

26:54

create controversy, but at the end

26:57

of the day, pay attention to what happened

26:59

in the game and the decision that was

27:01

made and for whatever reason, whether

27:04

and I saw what Peter King said

27:06

to you about the

27:08

fact that everybody's walking on eggshells

27:10

because of Carson Wentz, I think

27:13

this part that's partly true.

27:16

I think and I love Carson

27:18

Wentz, and everybody in that building does. And

27:21

Carson Wentz is a tough guy and a hard

27:23

worker and a good teammate. You'll

27:25

never hear me say a bad word about him. But I

27:27

said three weeks ago it was time

27:29

for him to get benched, like Donovan McNabb

27:32

did in two thousand and eight. A little

27:34

time out. Now,

27:36

Kevin Cobb came in and of course did

27:38

not display any kind of talent worthy

27:41

of keeping him in. The obvious

27:43

big gamble here is Jalen Hurts

27:46

would do what Jalen Hurts did yesterday.

27:48

And let's be clear about something. Let's

27:51

be very clear about something. Jalen

27:53

Hurts won the game. The

27:56

reason why the Eagles won the game was because

27:59

Jalen Hurts. I want you to look. You

28:01

look at the roster and the starting lineup of

28:03

the Saints. Kamara Sanders,

28:05

Cook, Michael Thomas, this

28:07

young man Trey Kwan Smith. You go on

28:09

the defensive side of the ball, Cameron

28:12

Jordan, Kick Kwan, Alexander de Marius

28:14

Davis, Genor's Jenkins, Malcolm Jenkins,

28:17

Marshaw Lattimore, just to name a

28:19

half a dozen on each side of the ball, Dan,

28:22

name one Philadelphia Eagle

28:24

that starts on that New Orleans Saints

28:27

team. Give me one. I don't. I can't

28:29

come up with one. Maybe

28:32

Jalen Hurts over Taysom

28:34

Hill. Well maybe

28:38

maybe might be about it. So,

28:40

I mean, if you're looking for a reason why

28:42

the Eagles won the game, it's because of the performance

28:45

of Jalen Hurts. And you know the biggest thing

28:47

that's out there now is that the offensive

28:50

line performed better for Jalen

28:52

Hurtston. Well, come on, you

28:54

know the Eagles were number one in sacks

28:57

and Jalen Hurts was not sacked yesterday

28:59

in the game. And our stats

29:02

department just put this out moments

29:04

ago. Jalen Hurts was pressured fourteen

29:06

times on Sunday.

29:08

Of those, Dan, the Eagles gained

29:11

eighty two yards on those plays

29:14

and he took no negative plays on

29:16

the fourteen pressures. How

29:19

much does management have to

29:21

see of Jalen Hurts before they

29:23

realize what they have one way or another.

29:27

No one has said for management what they

29:30

think at this point. We're going to find

29:32

out basically when they

29:34

take action on Hurts and or

29:37

Carson Wentz. But this idea

29:39

that you're going to just trade Carson

29:41

Wentz. I realize it's a good

29:44

poll to have, But I

29:46

mean, you know, Frank

29:48

Rank is not a stupid man. Chris

29:51

Ballard is not a stupid man. The Indianapolis

29:53

culture a well run organization. They've

29:55

turned He's turned that organization around. He loses

29:58

Andrew Luck goes through one quarterback,

30:00

they get Philip Rivers and whailah. They

30:03

don't have a They don't have a weakness

30:05

on that Colts team right now that I can see.

30:07

So they're not dumb. They realize

30:09

that the better Hurts plays,

30:13

the less value Wentz has. We

30:15

can establish that, right, that's obvious. Yeah,

30:18

yeah, so that may be

30:20

part of the reason why their

30:23

play acting by not pumping

30:26

up Jalen Hurts's performance. That

30:28

means, but come on, who's zoom

30:31

and who here? Let's keep it real. Everybody can

30:33

see what's going on. You plug in the tape. You know that Jalen

30:35

Hurts look like everybody

30:37

else was standing still at times yesterday. Yeah,

30:40

he lifted like you could tell. Even

30:42

at the latter part of the Green Bay

30:44

game. I saw

30:47

something like it was tangible there

30:49

of a team that was like whoa wait a minute

30:51

here, and then it carried over against

30:54

you could say the best defense certainly in the NFC

30:57

with the Saints. That

31:00

that's what was impressive, that got my attention

31:02

that this wasn't against the Bengals, this

31:04

was against the New Orleans Saints, and

31:07

at times I was thinking, do

31:10

they have a game plan? Did they have a game plan

31:12

for Jalen Hurts, because it didn't feel

31:14

like they had one

31:16

defense today. Prior to that game,

31:19

Sean Payton owned the Eagles.

31:21

He was six and two against the Eagles.

31:24

Doug Peterson was oh and two against

31:26

Sean Payton before that game, I've

31:28

covered a lot of these games where I saw the Eagles

31:31

get waxed by

31:33

the Saints, absolutely

31:35

demoralized, and

31:37

here Jalen Hurts comes in and,

31:40

like you said, he energized the whole team.

31:42

That was actually a note I was looking for in my notebook

31:45

last night. I found it that

31:47

Hurts has lifted the energy of

31:50

everybody on the team. Everybody

31:52

is just playing at a different

31:54

level. They are not looking at their

31:56

shoes anymore. On the field,

32:02

what is the game? What's the game plan going forward?

32:04

I mean, everybody wants to hit the fast forward

32:06

button, Dan and I don't have an answer

32:09

for it. I mean, but just hold

32:12

off the idea of it's going to be real easy

32:14

to trade cars and Wentz and those

32:16

people who want to keep Wentz and

32:19

trade Jalen hurts, those

32:21

people need to go live in Maryland because

32:25

it's it's not gonna that would be a very difficult

32:27

cell to this fan base. Handicap

32:30

the NFC East the rest of the year. Who wins this

32:32

division? Well,

32:35

Washington has really you

32:37

know, they they were a good team that

32:40

first week. I saw them beat

32:42

the Eagles up in the second half. Chase

32:45

Young and that front four, superactive,

32:49

great front four. But if

32:51

they don't have a healthy Alex Smith, they're

32:54

gonna they're gonna limp to the finish.

32:57

Beginning against Seattle this week, I'm

32:59

covering that game at FedEx. I

33:01

want to see, after they've been on

33:03

the road at Pittsburgh and

33:06

at San Francisco, how

33:08

they respond in this game against Seattle.

33:11

The Giants have a quarterback problem. The

33:14

Giants have a quarterback problem because Cult McCoy

33:17

was playing very well and he put

33:19

Daniel Jones in there as well. He should

33:22

coming back from injury, but McCoy

33:24

played a lot better than people think when you plug

33:26

in the tape and you look at it. I thought he played smart,

33:29

He was accurate with the football, and he took care

33:31

of it for the most part. The

33:34

Eagles have to get super lucky and they need

33:36

help. Good

33:38

to talk to you against sal We appreciate

33:41

your time as always and hope to

33:43

talk to you again. Happy Holidays,

33:45

Dan, thanks for thank you buddy at South Palantonio,

33:48

ESPN national correspondent primarily covering

33:50

the NFL NFL matchup Hoost. We'll

33:53

take a break all your phone calls coming up best

33:55

and worst to the weekend. We'll check in with the Cleveland

33:57

Indians because they are changing

33:59

their nickname. I don't know what they're

34:01

changing it too. And is this a trickle down?

34:04

When you start to think about this at

34:06

you know, the Redskins and the Indians are going to drop

34:08

their names Braves, Chiefs, Blackhawks.

34:12

What about college? What about

34:14

high school? We'll have that topic

34:16

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On? What his name is it? John Michael Higgins?

34:51

The guy looks just like you, the guy

34:54

from beston Show? Yeah, I think

34:56

he's on the new Save by the Bell. I

34:58

don't see it. I don't. I don't

35:00

see that he looks like me. But do Perry

35:02

similar hair? Do people normally see

35:05

the person that they're told they look like, because

35:08

I had somebody thought that

35:10

I was David Letterman, oh

35:13

now, years ago, years ago. No.

35:15

But there's certain people that you actually look like. You know

35:17

that guy Chris Hansen, the newscaster,

35:20

Wait, the dateline guy. Yeah, the dateline

35:22

guy, the guy who you don't want showing up at

35:24

your house. Right, that's not it's

35:27

not a slam on you. It's it's like, wait,

35:29

I look like Chris Hansen. You guys

35:31

look like you could be related Seeton. Remember we saw him

35:33

on the h I think we saw him on the train backroom,

35:35

New York. Chris Hanson. Yea, and he

35:37

looks a lot like you. Also, he's about six two

35:39

and thin, so he looks like your size. Did

35:42

you think something was up when you see Whenever

35:45

you see certain people, don't you go, oh,

35:47

who's in trouble here? This was a bar

35:50

car. It was the bar car or the Metro North

35:52

train going outside of New York City, and Chris

35:54

Hanson was there and there were some nervous

35:56

faces. Yeah. Yeah, there's

35:58

there's certain people when they like Jim Cantor, when

36:01

Jim Cantore is in your neighborhood, in

36:03

your city, in your town, there's trouble

36:06

because he usually doesn't show up when there's nice

36:08

weather, like a look at Cantor. It's

36:10

like, oh, Cantris here, all

36:13

right? Uh, let me get to these phone calls.

36:15

Jordan in South Dakota. Jordan,

36:17

thanks for holding best and worst of the weekend. Absolutely,

36:21

good morning everyone, Good morning, best of the weekend.

36:23

Stanley A mood of my University

36:26

of South Dakota Coyots dropping forty one on

36:28

in state rival South Dakota

36:30

State and then the worst. Wish

36:33

him all the best as I'm assuming he'll get

36:35

fired today. Dan Bailey, all

36:37

right, well, thank you, Jordan. Is bad

36:40

weather heading towards Cleveland for tonight's game?

36:42

Mcleven. Will it be there in time

36:44

for the game. Yeah, A lot of wind,

36:46

which they say affects quarterbacks. So the over

36:49

under is going down as we speak. Could be ugly.

36:53

Wow. That's that's great revelation that

36:55

wind might affect quarterbacks there, McLevin.

36:58

Thank you. Long

37:00

wins. Moving the Monday night football

37:02

betting odds right now,

37:04

it's the Ravens minus three

37:07

over under is forty

37:10

five and a half. Now

37:12

they're changing it to Ravens

37:15

three and a half over

37:18

under almost forty seven. Is

37:20

that what they're projecting here? Yeah,

37:22

PAULI or yeah,

37:24

I mean club, Is that what you have? Yeah? That

37:27

sounds right because I guess the Ravens are less

37:29

depended on the path. Oh

37:31

okay. Daniel in Tennessee,

37:33

Hey Daniel, Hey,

37:37

Dan, how's he going good? What do you have for me? Five

37:40

nine, one seventy five. That's

37:43

the worst of the weekend. Worst is for

37:46

to losing the LSU Um,

37:48

I think that's finally steeling. You know how states

37:50

stage unless a miracle? Have Wait, is it called

37:52

LS shoe? Oh?

37:55

How about that one? Yeah?

37:58

Yeah, LS shoe. Don't like

38:00

that. You're upset by

38:03

the way. Here's Dan Mullin, the Florida head coach.

38:06

Hold on, here, Daniel, here's Dan Mullin, the Florida

38:08

head coach, on the shoe

38:10

controversy. What did you say

38:13

with Marco Wilson's decision? Oh,

38:15

I didn't see that. I don't know,

38:17

you know, I mean, I guess, I guess that's

38:19

a penalty. I have no idea what happened.

38:21

I didn't see it, So, I mean, you guys probably

38:24

doubt Do you guys see it? I don't. I don't know.

38:28

Okay, they called penalty on it,

38:31

so LS

38:34

shoe. Yes. It's

38:36

always interesting how coaches see everything

38:38

that's going on, except that things like they don't want to

38:40

talk about or elaborate on. It's just the easiest

38:43

to say I didn't see it, but whatever. Yeah.

38:45

And then after the game he takes a shot at Ohio

38:48

State, They're like, do you think you should still be

38:50

uh in there for the final four? And he

38:52

had something about well, if you have five wins, I

38:54

guess you can't win the game. Dan,

38:57

good God, you got lshoe. Win the game.

39:00

It's at home, win the game. Although

39:02

I've been ripping lshoe the last couple of weeks.

39:05

They played pretty inspired football. There

39:08

thrill a victory, the agony of declete.

39:12

That's plus two for me. I was gonna say Florida

39:14

wasn't exactly a shoe an even if they would have won. Okay,

39:16

all right, but that's sort of taken my ls

39:19

shoe. Yes, Paul that

39:21

that was a weird play because when he kind

39:23

of grabbed the running back and he stripped

39:25

his shoe off, so he wasn't like trying to do it,

39:27

and then he kind of jumped up and he celebrating, and the shoe

39:30

happened to be his hand. Is almost like he just threw

39:32

it to get rid of it. It wasn't a taunt.

39:34

But I mean, even if they didn't call unsports my

39:36

conduct, they could have called delay a game and

39:39

that would have been five yards and first on either way. That was

39:41

just the weirdest play. It happened so fast, and I thought that

39:43

they were going to call delay of game. I thought

39:45

that would have been fair to the situation, but looked

39:47

they decided to call unsportsmanlike

39:50

conduct there and and it cost Lshoe

39:52

or Florida dearly Back to you, Daniel.

39:55

Sorry, Oh okay,

39:57

I was going in with my best of the weekend

39:59

is mine's winning. Derrick Henry

40:01

sent a record for most two hundred yard

40:04

games and two touchdown games in the season. Yeah,

40:07

thank you, thank you, Daniel, thanks

40:09

for holding Yeah, this is this is

40:11

when Derrick Henry is at his best

40:14

and they're going to need that down the stretch. There.

40:17

Let me see Sean and Washington. Hey, Sean, best

40:20

and worst of the weekend? Hey,

40:23

worst the weekend. I'm gonna go with Dan Bailey in

40:25

the vikings because he's

40:27

been terrible the last two games. And

40:31

best of the weekend, I am going to say

40:33

Buffalo beating Pittsburgh.

40:36

And also I want to get your advice

40:39

or really

40:41

just kind of a question, what

40:43

you think of the best division in

40:46

the last ten years has been because in my opinion,

40:48

it's been NFC West because every

40:51

single team has made this has been to

40:53

the super Bowl in the last ten years. All

40:55

Right, I'd have to give that some more thought there, Sean

40:57

but but thank you. It feels like a

41:00

question Todd Wood asked in the morning meeting where

41:02

we didn't get any time to do any research. Yeah,

41:05

I did that. I've done that a few times. Done that. That's where you like

41:08

the heads up as to what the topic was, Todd. I'm

41:10

gonna start with you. Best and worst of the weekend. I

41:12

appreciate that best of the weekend. The Utes won in

41:14

both builder thirty eight twenty one, but freshman

41:17

Colorado wide receiver Brendan Rice, son of Jerry

41:19

Rice, there you go, became the first Buffaloes play

41:21

with both the receiving touchdown and a punt return

41:24

for a TV in a game in the past quarter century

41:26

for the Buffaloes on Saturday against Utah. Worst

41:29

you mentioned it earlier, other than the shoe throwing incident

41:31

than the swamp number ten rec Miami's run defense,

41:33

North Carolina's Michael Carter three hundred and eight

41:35

yards two TVs. Davante Williams two hundred

41:38

and thirty six yards three tds, total tar

41:40

heel rushing yardage five hundred and fifty

41:42

four yards six touchdown to Nick

41:44

Love and best and worst, I'm only two

41:46

worse, Mike Zimmer throwing Dan Bailey out

41:49

there to the way you clearly Bailey.

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Yeah. My other worst is the Steelers

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defense. Stefan Diggs was

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opened by fifteen yards at every play that

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could be targeted to Digs half like

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fifteen fourteen?

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Wow? Did he catch them all? I'm

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not sure. I just knew he was targeted quite a bit. What

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elpse we club it? Yeah? But how did

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the Steelers don't know they were throwing to him? It was like when

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Wilts scored one hundred points. However,

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Wilt, I don't know if

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it was quite that seton

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best and worst? Well

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Todd just mentioned it, but I'm going to hit

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it again because it was just that terrible Miami

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Hurricane football. What are you doing? Play

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with some pride? Good lord?

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That there. I was watching the game

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and it was I don't know, thirty four to

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ten or something like that. Both running backs for

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North Carolina or were already over two hundred

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yards and it was the first half, and

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even the announcers were like, you gotta

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do something to get to get yourselves together.

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My lord? That was that

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was just brutal. Did

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you have another one? Now?

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That's it? Was that your best and worst

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that was just my worst. Okay, we'll

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have to wait until next hour for Paulie's

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best and worst of the week Tony, I'll keep him in the car.

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Yeah, I'm sure. Sorry,

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I'm late, Boss, hide to wait for Paulie's

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best and worse of the weekend. Don't blame you. We'll

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chant check in with the Cleveland Indians. They're changing

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their nickname. Who

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else will follow