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This conversation we were talking about, you know, I don't know if you know we ran the ball there and they didn't call a timeout.

So we thought they were thinking the same thing. and then we popped the run in there and gave

us a chance to kick the field goal to win it.

So we're certainly talking about it.

That is Raiders head coach Rich Bessaccia, admitting to America that he really was thinking

exactly what America was.

Maybe a tie would be the best way to end this thing after all. But what we got

instead was an all-time finale to this regular season, where the Raiders won, the Chargers got

knocked out of the postseason entirely, and we finally got clarity about the NFL's insane

playoff picture.

So today, our Monday morning quarterback, Alex Smith,

walks us through what he saw that we didn't.

And then our friend Dave Fleming takes us to Indy for the college football championship.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, January 10th. This is ESPN Daily.

Alex Smith, it is now Monday. It's 1243 a.m. Eastern East Coast time. You were at what I was thinking might be the game of the year, this Niners Rams game.

And then that got unseated around, I don't know, like the fourth quarter of, I mean, what the hell are we calling this Raiders Chargers game, man?

What was this?

You know, for me, it was like the perfect culmination to this insanely crazy bizarre year.

That's been, I say that in the most positive way because it has been, it's been fantastic as a viewer and a fan.

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