As long as those keep, I mean I'm not going to change the narrative now, as long as the key players are healthy, they're going to kick out of everybody they face.

The quest is for second place. That's it, as long as those people stay healthy. They're currently healthy. The 49ers kick the

shit out of the raven here on Monday night. I'm sorry. No that's disrespectful to the ravens My fours, my fours. My four...

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

what the name are you? Do you deliver flowers for a living who the hell are you

Was it Flores or was it Florist I don't know. I wasn't sure.

I'll take it off.

He got it right eventually. Then he got to the florial part.

Yeah, he got a florial part. But man, sounds like somebody's video clip was shown to the ravens in their team meeting and then it was like hey this

jerk right here thinks you're gonna get blown out and you're playing for second

best and they rallied and said shove it floreo.

Now see isn't that? Yes the yes.

alternate reality that we'd like to be able to compare this to because that's the

gist of many of the colorful emails I've received since the game ended last night or at least the moment

when it appeared that the ravens would not have the crap kicked out of them by the 49ers. The idea is embedded within the hostility and it's

fine I can take it good I don't have an issue with that. But embedded within the hostility is this idea of if you

hadn't said what you said, what you said was going to happen would have happened. And it's like,

so are you saying thank you? Like I don't there's an element of that and I

I I hear you look at the end of the day at the maybe you said what they needed to hear to get them over the hump for a little extra motivation.

Maybe that's all it was exactly right.

Maybe without that, maybe without that,

flying across the country to play a game on Christmas night against the best

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