Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Doovo!

How we live this morning?

Hey Duval, how's five and two feel?

And I gotta say that's not just an ordinary five and two either.

That is a different kind of five and two. So let me ask you once again. How does five and two feel? How does first place feel? Pretty damn good, right? Pretty damn great. I bet. Well you all should send a big warm thank you over to my guy

Foster Morrow because he's a pretty big reason why you're all five and two right now and feeling yourselves and listen

I want to be so clear about this this is not a dude. I want to pile on. This dude has been to hell and back this year and I'm not even talking about last night.

I'm not even talking about football. I couldn't be talking about anything further from football.

This dude showed up, for those of you who do not know,

he showed up for a routine physical on his free agent visit to New Orleans back in March.

He winds up being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

I'm talking about this past March. I'm talking about only seven months ago the man was diagnosed with cancer.

Three months ago in July he announced that it was in full remission.

And now this guy's out there playing pro football pretty much

like nothing ever happened. It's amazing. It's inspiring. It's actually remarkable.

But damn, man, that drop was brutal.

That had to be one of the most painful game deciding drops ever. I mean say whatever you want about emotional Derek Carr and

Emotional Derek really was up in his feelings out there last night and he also looked utterly lost at times but with that game on the

line I will say this emotional Derek put that ball right on the money and my guy

morrow could not have been any more wide open than he was. Total breakdown

defensively, my man was wide ass open, right there. And he just butterfingers it. You know I always say it's never about

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