Football #17-Wild Card Weekend

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Welcome Inside the Treehouse Football Podcast number
seventeen seventeen. It's wild Card week as

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we lead into wild Card weekend.
Coming off the final week of this of

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the regular season, the Cowboys handled
the Commanders of Washington thirty eight to I

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forgot like ten or something, Dury. That's how at a certain point disinterested

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I became in the game just because
you know, by the fourth quarter it

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had been long over and really,
other than Stefan Gilmour being injured, the

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worst thing that happened in that game
for the Cowboys was Brandon Aubrey finally missing

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a kick. Yeah. I don't
think I have ever been more disappointed to

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see a kick blocked than I was
with that. I was like, oh,

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damn he So I was curious about
that. To me, that shouldn't

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count against him because the one after
that that he doinked off the upright,

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Yes, that's a miss. To
me, it shouldn't count as a miss

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when someone else blocks your kick.
I think they I think they corrected it.

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I think they said it wasn't a
miss because it was blocked good,

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so it wasn't his. That one
was not his fault, so right,

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So technically the only one he's actually
missed the season was the one he doinked

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off the upright. Yeah. On
the flip side of that, though,

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Tara and I had the same reaction
to that doink that was, you know

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what, good, get it out
of your system now. So it's happened,

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and you don't feel any sort of
mounting pressure if it comes down to

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a to a field goal in the
playoffs somewhere, okay, So then this

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doesn't so okay, So that theory
doesn't apply. Like I always look at

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it like golf, like when you
get the shanks, Like the first time

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it happens, you're like, oh
my god, am I gonna am I

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gonna miss am I gonna shake it
left again or shake it right again?

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And you go up to the next
hole and you do, and now you

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have So is this because I don't
think he kicked out. He made one

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after that, that is, yeah, he made one after that, And

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I was like, okay, so
he's back. So I was I was

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worried. I was like, is
this like the the end of of his

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his reign? This is what the
cowboys do? Like Nick Folk couldn't be

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touched, Like he was amazing,
And then he missed one, and Jerry's

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like, uh, you might want
to go see the Jets. Well,

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who was was it last year or
two years ago where we got the kicker

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that got the yips? It's it's
was it kay Forbath that got it?

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Or was it Brett Maher? Yes, I got the yips? Yeah,

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yeah, the yips, whatever you
want to call it. But that was

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back when that wasn't the Cowboys biggest
problem, although it was a huge problem.

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But before we get fully on into
Cowboys commanders and looking into the wild

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card weekend ahead, how does everyone
feel about the college football playoff this year?

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Because me, I'm I'm a little
disappointed to be thirty four to thirteen

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final game. It wasn't nearly as
entertaining as I was hoping. And I

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don't know, it was just kind
of you know, they had their own

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storyline, if you you know,
I think it was at least because we're

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down here in Texas and you're in
Oklahoma, and so I think it's more

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you know, it was hyped up
a little more up north in the north

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in the Northwest, because you had
the Harbass story with him being suspended games,

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and you know, the interim coach
and then he's back, and then

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something happens with the and then twenty
six years they haven't had a national championship,

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and so I think there was more
build up there. So, like

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I have buddy of mind losing Detroit, he was crazy hyped for this game,

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like he's like, you know,
we had something to talk about.

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He's like, I gotta go.
I'm watching the game. So if you

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don't hear from me tonight, that's
why. And I was like, oh,

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yeah, that's on. Yeah.
I don't have a college I don't

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have a college football team. I
don't have a college team that I root

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for. I just I like to
tune in and just see a good game.

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And obviously we didn't get that.
But I mean the Texas Washington game

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before it was really really good.
Yeah yeah, that's how sick I was.

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I didn't I didn't even watch it. Oh yeah, the flu the

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bottom, that's right, I you
know I I I still think that that

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and it's it's funny. Michigan won. My problem with Michigan and the whole

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thing is I suspect two years from
now NCAA is going to completely vacate their

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wins this season. And this was
then then they're gonna go back. Well,

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you should put Georgia in there and
see what happened. Why why would

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they vacate the when does that she
thing? Oh? Gotcha? Okay,

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from the beginning of the see that
that supposed cheating, a leged cheating at

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the beginning of the season. I
don't even think we. I mean,

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the reason why he agreed to the
suspension with the Big ten is the proof

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is just too much. The coach, I mean, the guy he sent

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to other people's practices admitted it.
Yeah, I mean, and there's paper

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receipts of travel and other stuff.
Yeah. And also like pretty bad he

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that that coach folded like a freshman. Yeah. And also like just to

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get the security clearance. There's somebody
involved in that too that they're trying to

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They can't find that person, right, it's not what the whole thing is,

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Like the lynchpin on. That is
how he got onto the field for

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all those different in their gear,
like he was worrying, like if it

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was Michigan State. He had a
state had on and he had the lanyard

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and everything, and he's just in
the corner. So there's some there's some

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security breach that they were trying to
figure out. So yeah, you know,

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I wouldn't doubt that. Okay,
on from a moral standpoint, an

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ethical standpoint, that's terrible, But
from a stupid standpoint, which we deal

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with deeply here in the treehouse,
that's hysterical. Is anybody gonna noticed that

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this guy who's wearing the same you
know, clothes as I am. Is

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it gonna be like, hey,
who is that guy? They'd be like

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high five because yeah, he's also
wearing the same colors. Yeah, I

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mean, but still, like I've
like when my family had the staffing nurses

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and hospitals, when we have the
staffing company, like I would have to

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go like deliver stuff to the director
of nursing or whatever, and so I

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would just wear a polo and buttoned
out. And I can't tell you how

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many times I got in the elevator
and people are like doctor, and I

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was like, okay, I just
gonna stood there like I hope to God

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this elevator doesn't open and there's an
emergency. Because so I kind of understand

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that when people are looking around,
because if you look like you're supposed to

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be there, that's what If you
look like, there's nothing wrong, there's

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nothing sneaky, there's nothing suspicious going
on. I deserve to be here.

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People go, did we hire a
new guy? And so we go probably

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and anyway, watch the game or
watch practice, like that's what. Yeah,

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And then what's you're bizarre about the
story. And I think this will

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all come out is their dad,
Jack Harbaugh was accused of this basically the

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same thing. Yeah, that's exactly
right. Yeah, yeah, so it's

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it's I think it'll be a figure
and that's it will surprise me if Harbor,

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you know, in the next couple
of days, is all of a

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sudden announced as an NFL head coach
and yeah, that's right. He still

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pulls and he pulls a Pete Carroll. Hey, Pete Carroll. Yeah,

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that's well. And the NFL,
you know, there was one coach,

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Oh, it was a there was
one coach. Basically they kind of penalized

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and said, no, you're not
going to do the Pete Carroll. Uh

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So no one's quite sure if what
the NFL will do with that. But

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I know, I think Michigan said
they say, he's got an offer on

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the table for one hundred and twenty
five million, but he has to agree

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that he can't even talk to an
NFL team for like the next two years.

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Oh wow, Okay, it's a
good tactic. Yeah, it's not

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just money to coach the team,
but it's money so you don't leave.

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Yeah. And if you want to
know how cheating works out and how karma's

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a bit, ask Belichick how he
feels this season. Well, I mean

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super bowls. I mean, I
think he still came out ahead on that

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situation. Yeah, I mean,
but but still like he he had that.

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I mean, he just every season
like, well, they know they're

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going to the playoffs and they might
go to the super Bowl. And this

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year was like, well they got
to fire him. I was like,

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well that was quick. That was
really fast to move on. Six six

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rings. He sucks. I'm like
wow. And it's funny because at the

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beginning of this NFL season on this
football podcast, we were saying, you

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know what with as mini trophies as
he lined uh Bobcraft's pants with despite the

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despite the crowded area, you would
think that he could be he could have

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the job for as long as he
wanted it. But I guess eventually it

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just they didn't end in the happy, ending that he wanted. I couldn't

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help it. I had to.
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online at treehouseonair dot com. Welcome
back inside the Treehouse Football Podcast number seventeen,

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as we roll into wildcard weekend to
recap, the Cowboys handled the Commanders,

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uh, the Eagles faltered mightily against
the Giants, and therefore we end

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up the Cowboys as the number two
seed in the playoffs a home game.

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I just forgot who they're playing,
Jesus Christ, Pat Green Bay Packers,

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Thank you. See I'm still I'm
sick, so my brain's not all there.

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Hey, before we get into the
playoff, I have one question I

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want to ask going back to the
Brandon Aubrey field goal. Okay, did

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y'all not watch that and go?
Man, his line must hate him because

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they basically let that guy just in
untouched to block that kick. That's why

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we were talking about should that count
as a block you know, a miss?

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No? If it was low and
like the guy in the second rogue

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touched it, Yeah, that's the
kicker's fault. That was the line just

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going yeah, record f you olay, I mean it does. It really

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does make you wonder when when a
player is missed to that degree, it

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is kind of stunning. And I'll
give you another. I'll give you a

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really good example, as I think
I mentioned this to you guys the week

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before. UH. In the week
UH in the game the week before,

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you had to play in the end
zone where Dak is going back. It's

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it was on the ninety something yard
touchdown to CD. Dak falls back into

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UH as a fallback, but he
drops back and the blitzing linebacker from the

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Lions barely nudges him with his with
his elbow like he gives him like a

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quick chicken dance bump and goes right
by Dak and Dak just chunks it too.

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Seeing boom with's a touchdown that play. I was wondering, Okay,

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there's got to be something weird going
on, because I don't understand how an

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NFL linebacker could miss somebody that badly. Same thing with O laying the defensive

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lineman on that kick, right,
Yeah, I mean I he blocked it

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with his torso, I mean had
had aurey just waited a mill second he

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would have flown past it and he
probably would have made it. Yeah if

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he just halted, yeah dead kicked
yeah yeah, he might have gone between

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his legs and still through the uprights. Yeah. That's when you have a

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linement like who's whose car is this
in my parking spot? That's that's Brandon's.

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It's like, oh okay, I
got you, buddy. And that

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is one of those things I do
wonder for for Brandon Aubrey and even for

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you know, the holder. I
believe it's brand ager. Is is when

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you see someone come through the line
that untouched. That's whereas you the holder,

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like, well, he ain't making
this is you just pick it up

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in sky or fire fire and you
roll out and do something with it because

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he's obviously not gonna make this kick
because this guy's going to eat it.

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Yeah. I also look at it
like if it were me, like and

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I see like a guy twice my
size running at me, I would just

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yell I'm the kicker, Like that's
all I would do, Like you just

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shrieked like a woman and fall down, I'm the kicker and faint. That

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would that would be it. That
would actually be a very cowboys thing to

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do is to actually sign a fainting
kicker. He it's nervous and yeah,

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but he screams first, like the
goats, the Tennessee scarecoat. So ultimately,

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Trey, I don't know. I
don't know if anyone has asked that

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question the over the this week about
that, but real quick, this has

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bothered me, you know, for
probably twenty plus years. The piss poor

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blocking ability of some NFL players is
astounding. One of the first things you

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were taught when you're playing football,
when you're a blocker, especially, is

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get your hands inside. Every single
edge blocker in the NFL the first thing

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they do is hands go to the
outside of the immediately grab their shoulder pads.

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That that's why they can call holding
on every steak and play in the

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NFL, because these guys, My
theory is that because they were so good

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when they were young, they didn't
have to learn the actual basic one oh

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one techniques. Even though they get
taught NFL techniques. Once they get the

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NFL, hands inside doesn't seem like
something that gets pounded into their brains once

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they make it to an NFL facility. The offensive lineman, that's kind of

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a different thing. But even they
do it. Sometimes it's just undisciplined,

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you know, dip shittery am,
I am, I wrong tray, it's

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hands inside and what do they do? I think dip shitty is uh an

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absolute you know. Yeah, excellent
analysis of that. And I also na

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an ice cream store. Ever,
it's the same take that, Pat McAfee.

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It's like the principle of if you
have the football, you should have

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it on your outside arm yep,
closest to the sideline. Yes, yeah,

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they don't like you so seldom see. I mean one of them at

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Smith's great qualities is he was so
good with the football and you could watch

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him, I mean old school,
you know, tucking the ball, like

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moving his hands and moving sides you
don't like now it's like that's why he

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And sometimes it amazes me you don't
see more fumbles because they don't protect the

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ball, but their hands are so
damn big. I guess they can.

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Yeah. Also even in fundamentals,
when it's like when you're tackling somebody who

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wrap them up like this whole,
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with my body and hope you fall. I see that all the time on

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every NFL team. You know,
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I see that poor tackleau which by
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why that the Cowboys had their skid
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large part their tackle was atrocious.
It reminded me of the guy who is

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being sentenced to prison and he leaps
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kind of got to her, but
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just leaps into her general vicinity and
hopes that something happens. That's kind of

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what a lot of NFL tackling looks
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Like, coaches, don't go can
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film real quick? What what?
What was the logic behind this? Like?

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What were you? What were you? I was just hoping he would

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fall. Okay, well that's not
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you got to wrap him up and
take him down. It's just I can't

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imagine what the film room must have
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the game ended, even though it
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all that. That's a huge mess. But at the end of the at

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the end of it. The Lions
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penalies. I could have been called
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properly. Was that linebacker that doesn't
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imagine what Dan Cambill must have said
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I would think that guy may not
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Well, it is Detroit. They
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water and called it at night.
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and put a blindfold on him.
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I unimpressed with the Commander's game.
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victory, but it was like at
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I was you said the fourth it
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like end of the second quarter,
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like, oh, this is a
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It was fun to hear the difference
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Dak's here we go and uh,
because Dak is very guttural. Yeah,

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you know, he's like, here
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then I'm sorry I have brain farted
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name I'm sick and I can't think
of it. Oh for Cooper, Cooper

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Rush. Thank you, Cooper Rush. Yeah, Trey fixes in posts so

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I don't sound so stupid. Okay, but leave that part. Yeah of

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a no explanation. Uh So Cooper
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to hear him do the here we
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here we go, and it's mainly
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Cooper Rush comes in and sounds like
the whitest you know, uh a preacher

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like here we go. It's like, you know what, come up with

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your own phrase, Cooper, like
here we go? And then Cooper rushes

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like, get in the car,
as your seat belts, kids, put

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your shoes on, listen to the
whitest dad move, finish your food like

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all I'm surprised Cooper Rush's uniform doesn't
doesn't include a sleeveless vest. Hop Anyway,

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the Cowboys handle the Commanders, and
on one hand, you could look

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at it as good momentum going into
the playoffs, which you can. Cowboys

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naysayers can be like, well,
yeah, of course it's another bad team

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that they beat up on, and
that's been the slam on the Cowboys for

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a number of years now. There's
even the graphic that I've seen for years.

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It's a little cycle type thing.
It's the beginning of the season.

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We all have all this hope we're
going to make the Super Bowl. Cowboys

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beat up on bad teams. It's
like, oh, this is our year,

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and then they falter in December or
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and then we start to cycle back
over again. But looking back on this

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season, some of the wins the
Cowboys had were actually against quote unquote good

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teams slash playoff teams. Beat the
Lions. I don't care about the controversy.

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That beat the Lions. They beat
the Eagles. That's still a playoff

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team. I don't care you know
how they look going into it. That's

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still a playoff team. They beat
the Rams earlier this year, another playoff

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team. Yeah, they were neck
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blown up, but the Bills.
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like they had some wins against quote
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kicking a crap out of really bad
bad ones. Yeah, but it's also

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the beginning of the season. And
they're like, you know, these are

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really good team, Like like you
train, I will talk about this every

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week. We're like, you know, if they're you know, we're watching

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Philadelphia, man if they can't step
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to Philly and then Phillies collapsed the
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six six games in a row,
and they just collapsed and you're like,

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now they're I mean, they were
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a wild card. So now you're
like, you know, going in like

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you can't tell, you know,
midway through the season you can still kind

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of get an angle on it,
but like it's the last it's the last

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six games that you go, okay, well, then this is carrying them

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into the the the off you know, the playoffs and into the wildcard like

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you have to. You can see
who's the good team and who's who was

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good at the beginning, who like
had steam at the beginning and didn't have

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enough steam to finish it off at
the end. And now you're wondering as

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Cowboys fans okay and everyone else is
doing this when they're going in seeing their

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team and who they're going to play
and thinking who do I want to play?

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Who do I don't want to play? So the Cowboys end up with

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the two seed and a home game. The way all the positioning works out,

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with wins and losses and records and
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The Jordan love Packers that without Aaron
Rodgers they get into the playoffs.

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Obviously, there's lots of Cowboys Packers
history, Cowboys Packers playoff history, lots

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of Cowboys getting torched by Aaron Rodgers. It's a young team, it's one

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of the teams. I was like, I'd rather play them than I would

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Seattle again. Oh, you rather
play them than the Rams again? Yeah,

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it's incredule what we wish for.
You know, Green Bay fans are

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so big right now on Facebook and
Instagram of how they're undefeated at at and

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T Stadium. No, Aaron Rodgers
was undefeated at stadium. Yeah, Like

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Jordan has come on, played some
good games. But I am with you,

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Dan, of all the possible opponents, I I'll take them over anyone

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else. Yeah. And I think
it was Terry Bradshaw that was like,

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you know, he he's picking the
Packers or he was last week, and

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he's like you know because of that
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they're undefeated at at and T Stadium
and then Michael Strand same thing corrects them,

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goes no, no, no,
Aaron Rodgers. That's a big difference.

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Yeah, it's a huge difference.
This is Jordan Love coming into the

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home field advantage with the hometown boys
and that energy that that that comes into

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that and so that's enough to terrify
most teams. So I think it'll be

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a good game. I think it'll
be a I'd like to see how he

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performs under that kind of pressure.
And it's one of the one of the

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really interesting wild Card weekend storylines.
There's like four of them, and one

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of them is h McCarthy going up
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The Packers coming to Dallas, sorry
to Arlington, and and can you know,

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can the Cowboys beat Green Bay?
That'd be nice. And then on

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top of that the other storylines,
you've got Tyreek Hills Dolphins going to the

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Chiefs after they just let him go. Oh yeah. You've also got and

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this is probably the best storyline of
them all this weekend, you've got Jared

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Goff's Lions going up against Matthew Stafford's
Rams and one of the one of the

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best switcheroos in recent NFL history.
So that's a match up outside of the

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Cowboys game. I'm really excited to
watch. That's kind of a who won

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the trade? Matt Well so far, so far the Rams did because they

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won a Super Bowl, But Jared
Goff may I don't think he still could

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end up, you know, getting
a piece of that pie himself. We'll

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see, yeah, and then you
know, and then Tyreek Hills the whole

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thing. You know, his house
burning down, that's a two point three

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million dollars out of his pocket.
So you know, that's gotta be a

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little bit of a distraction. I
don't know, but that's gonna be an

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interesting, uh to to see how
he's how he's welcomed back to his old

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old town. That's one of those
things. If you're a Chiefs fan,

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do you try to hit him where
it hurts? Like, do you have

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posters of houses on fire to distract
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If you've got photos of that,
absolutely, if you can find a

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drone to uh show an image onto
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flames pouring out of Tyreek Hills House. I think that'd be your next level

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fandom. Everybody should just dress up
as firefighters that's at the game and not

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actually fighting a fire. If ever, if ever there was someone who could

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say I feel personally attacked, that
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It's like like like for the calib
Boys game, the Cowboys are doing

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a white out against the Packers.
It's all white. They're gonna wear white.

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That's gonna be all white in the
stands, the towels are gonna be

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out. Kansas City Chiefs need to
have firefighter Night and then just play the

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roof is on Fire on repeat and
burning down the house. It's just it's

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the Tucson Shuffle wild card week and
I'm excited. Hopefully the Cowboys do what

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they're supposed to do and then's get
to the next round and then we can

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all really start chewing on her fingernails
about whether or not they can finally get

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past the divisional round for the first
time in like twenty eight years. So

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we'll see what happens, and we'll
be here in the treehouse to discuss it.

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Either way,