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Well, I had said that pretty much no matter what I think that there's going to be negative fans being negative either way.

The reason being very obviously, well, they don't have Bosa and they don't have their starting quarterback, right? I put in a caveat, though, if it's a blowout, maybe that won't happen.

38 to 10 is about as convincing of a win as you can get. Now, listen, I'm be completely honest with you.

I genuinely believe there's going to be

some, maybe not full-blown negative, but kind of, you know, hesitant optimism. And the reason I say that

is because I feel it in my heart and I'm repressing the living crap out of it right now.

But look, it took me way too long to do this. I didn't take my own

advice until pushing the fourth quarter. What was my advice? Think of this game as a playoff game.

In fact, toward the end, I started thinking about it as a Super Bowl game. Because if the game,

if you think about every game as a Super Bowl, guess what?

You don't give a living crap how ugly the game is.

Nobody cares.

The excitement of winning is so overwhelming.

The only thing that matters is please find a way to win.

And that needs to be more the mentality of, you know, the game that, the game that you're watching as a

fan. A couple other little caveats to kind of spell some of the negativity. Because again,

there's absolutely, let me just be very direct about what I'm, what I'm saying and what it is,

I'm quote unquote repressing, even though I'm about to say it out loud right now. I said the most important things, number one, stay healthy. I think for the most part

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