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We'll be back on Monday. We will have a New Year's Day show where we'll get you all set for the college football playoff and preview your wildcard weekend and FL matchups.

My name is Jason Martin. I'm the executive producer of this fine program.

I'm gonna have to ask you exactly how that celebration goes. I can hear him laughing in the background now. He's at Jeff Schwartz on Twitter, GE OFF. Jeff. How are you?

I'm doing fantastic. I have excellent, I have an excellent Christmas story for you. We'll get to that time.

Fantastic. So we've got Danny G at an LA. He's working hard this week. We got Mike Mayer. We got Ralph Irving out there.

Danny, we got to talk about your Raiders. We've got to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles. There's gonna be a whole lot of NFL on this show.

We're gonna bring in our good friend Alex Marvez of the sporting news and serious. He'll join us in the next hour.

We'll talk a whole lot of Pigskin with him. A lot of football on this show and some basketball. Yes, LeBron was fouled.

Not just once, not just twice, three times. I could have gone five or six and gone back to the Miami Heat time, but it wasn't quite that many times.

And it was all by Kevin Durant. And it changed the way that that game ended. The thing about it is, though, I don't know that that game meant very much because we're gonna see these two teams again when it does count in the summertime.

But let's talk about Monday afternoon football and Monday night football Jeff Monday afternoon football. You texted me and you said, you know, we were talking about what we're gonna talk about on the show.

And I had a feeling that Pittsburgh was gonna just destroy Houston. And you kind of win a different way. At least you thought that it could potentially be close because the way Pittsburgh plays their competition, which I grant you has been the case was not the case yesterday.

There were a few things that stood about a stood out about this game. One, DeAndre Hopkins with the catch of the year and the hold of the year.

Like everybody was talking about how great the catch was, but he had quite a grasp on Joe Hayden in the end zone that no one was really speculating about because they were so blown away by the talent of Hopkins to make the play that he made.

That's the first thing, but the thing that stood out to me most.

How many times are we gonna have to watch high paid football coaches make decisions like third down and fourth down on the one foot line.

When that game is still at least within reach when you've got TJ Yates as your quarterback. And instead of just handing the ball off to your running back when you're running attack is getting you 11 yards of carry at that point in the game.

You instead put him in shotgun twice and have him try to win it with his arm when he had not completed a pass to that point in the game explain to me how bill O'Brien could have thought that was the way he should have gone to try and get points in that situation.

Well, the logic is or the theory I should say is that if you throw the ball on third down, you're doing so because you're gonna go for a fourth down and then a fourth down you want to throw the ball because it gives you more options of things break down right with you run the ball.

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