00:00Maybe not quite as optimistic as Micah Parsons saying we're just about ready to get the fun
00:19started and it's exciting to have Tampa, Philly, Washington for the playoffs.
00:24Can they do it, Mark?
00:28Well, listen, Tampa's playing pretty good football right now. There's no question about
00:32it. And I tell you, I had them a couple of weeks ago. And, you know, one of the things
00:37that I always think is cool is when you're playing for something bigger than yourself.
00:42And, you know, human nature is not necessarily always that way. You know, you're thinking about
00:47yourself. You're thinking, like, how many times do you celebrate somebody else's promotion like
00:52it's your own promotion, right? As opposed to sitting there behind the back of the guy going
00:56or the gal going, I deserve that promotion. Those people got lucky or they don't really
01:00work like I work. Or like sports is the one place other than raising your kids where you
01:05can celebrate somebody else's success like it's your own. And that's one of the things I absolutely
01:09love about sports, right? I celebrated every touchdown. I've never scored a touchdown at any
01:14level in my entire life, but I celebrated everyone like I did. And for Tampa, when I
01:20talked to him a couple of weeks ago, they had just gotten Mike Evans back. And I was like,
01:24so Baker, you know, Mike Evans, he goes, he needs ninety nine point five yards per game
01:29to go over a thousand for the eleven straight. I didn't even ask the question and he laid it
01:35out for me. And it means nothing to Mike Evans. It means everything to me as a quarterback. It
01:39means everything in the offensive line, everything to the play caller. We're going to get him that
01:43record. You know, Jerry Rice is the only receiver ever to get eleven straight seasons of a thousand
01:49yards. He can tie Jerry Rice this year. And by the way, he'll be the first ever to do it from
01:55his rookie year on. So it's an incredible record, but they are all dialed in. And when you're dialed
02:01in like that, man, I tell you what, it's exciting. But what I watched last week and listen, man,
02:07I don't know what was going on in Carolina, but that's the Dallas Cowboy team that I think we
02:12expected to see. I mean, they absolutely shoved the Carolina defense around. And I did a Carolina
02:18game a few weeks ago. Actually, I did Tampa Carolina a few weeks ago and a Carolina team
02:24that played good, solid defense and they got shoved around. I mean, like I just sent a bunch
02:30of film clips to my guys, you know, my producer, my director and my guys that I work with on these
02:38games. And it was an embarrassing performance. The Dallas Cowboys absolutely shoved. I mean,
02:45shoved around the Carolina Panthers defense that had been playing pretty good to the tune of seven
02:51explosive runs, six explosive pass plays. I mean, they shoved them around and and I thought,
02:58man, that's the Dallas team that we thought the way they were going to run the ball. That'll look
03:02great. I mean, I just thought it was a really good performance by the Dallas Cowboys.
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