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Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

It's Thursday, December 16th.

With us, we have the host of MSNBC's Politics Nation and President of the National Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpton. Good to have you, Rev. We've got some plans. Yes, we do. I'm excited. I'm so on it. I'm always the last. Okay. Wow. You're not going to forget, are you? We're not in this party. No, we're not in this party. Oh, you will be coming. Okay. MSNBC contributor and bestselling author of the great confidence code series. Patty Kay is with us. And in Washington, the host of way too early in White House Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lamar. So I watched way too early from the beginning. Oh, it's so good. I'm loving it. Jonathan, like you're open a lot. Well, thank you. We obviously here, we deliver as much news as we can. The news you need to start your day at 5 in the morning. But we try to have a little bit of fun with it too. You know what they're calling him out of variety the mac jones of way too early you're

brady there's no doubt really your brady you're brady you set the mark but little mac jones

he's scrappy he's crappy he's he's he's really good he's having a good first season the rookie

leading to the playoffs to the promised land in the tall shadow of Tom Brady, but still with Belichick at his side. Oh, there's just no doubt. And certainly, in the NFL right now, there is at least some scenario of a Patriots Buccaneer Super Bowl, a Brady versus Mac Jones. So Willie, you and I will have to have a head-to-head at some point, too.

Yeah, okay.

You know, we just said we like to.

Okay.

Get the paper bag.

You're having a good first season, but I will tell you who's not having a good first season, Willie.

Urban Meyer.

Oh, nice swing.

Wow.

Urban Meyer.

Come on a runaway yesterday.

The definition of runaway beer truck, as we say in Northwest Florida.

There has there ever been a worst 13 game stretch for a coach?

He got fired yesterday by the Jaguars, huge, splashy hire this year. Of course, he had a lot of success in college at Ohio State in particular. Well, when Alabama beat him, though, for the first time, saving, remember he said he had a heart attack? Yeah. Yeah, he didn't have a heart attack. Oh, I don't know about that. I don't want to question

his help. His, you know, we won't do that. Why don't we just question him kicking players and

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