Fireworks, Failures, and Finishing: Preseason Recap

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- Welcome to Blaze and Guts. I'm Teresa Blaze,
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- and today, I'm riding solo. Michelle will be
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- back with us next week.
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- We are wrapping up the
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- 2026
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- preseason.
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- So without further ado, let's get started.
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- We are gonna start with Arizona who
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- had plenty of fireworks,
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- all kettle and no hat,
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- basically.
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- They had
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- 492
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- offensive yards.
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- However,
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- with five minutes
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- left in the game,
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- they let Green Bay back in, and they
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- let them basically
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- get 15 unanswered points.
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- So then they lost 38
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- to 42.
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- Very good offensive showing.
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- I'm not questioning that.
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- I am questioning, can they close out games?
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- Can they win?
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- I don't know.
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- We're gonna find out.
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- Moving on to Green Bay, who basically had
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- the best showing of all the games,
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- of all the teams,
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- killed Minnesota
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- 34 to six,
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- holding Minnesota to 269
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- yards while putting 412
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- offensive yards on the on the field themselves.
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- And they kept Minnesota completely
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- out of the end zone.
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- That's pretty good. That's
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- you know what? If they can continue putting
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- up that kind of numbers, they're gonna say
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- something in the season.
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- I'm really excited about that.
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- Keep going.
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- Keep going. Clean up what you can clean
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- up,
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- but do your job.
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- Let's go to Kansas City.
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- They scored
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- nine points
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- tying Seattle.
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- They did not get any touchdowns, but neither
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- did Seattle.
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- Harrison Buckner
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- scored
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- all nine points.
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- Seattle actually had a chance to win the
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- game,
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- but
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- Jason Myers
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- missed a field goal.
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- Here's my concern.
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- They Kansas City can move the ball,
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- but they cannot finish in the red zone
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- so far.
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- That would be a glaring problem.
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- We need to actually see production on the
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- board. We need to see them actually move
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- the ball and finish.
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- You know,
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- Mitch Holt is the the the play by
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- play guy for the radio. He calls it
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- the sweet nectar of the end zone.
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- They actually need to see it a little
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- bit more.
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- So if I was to kinda summarize
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- these three teams,
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- Arizona,
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- lots of fireworks
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- but weren't able to finish.
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- Denver,
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- you had the best performance.
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- And Kansas City,
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- you were able to move the ball, but,
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- again,
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- you could not finish in the red zone.
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- So I guess what it comes down to,
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- one of the biggest thing that
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- I would put
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- on this preseason,
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- finish.
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- In your work, whatever you're doing,
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- be a finisher.
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- Learn from your mistakes,
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- and then finish.
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- You are called to work as though you're
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- working for the Lord,
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- so finish well.
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- I'm Teresa Blaise.
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- This is the Blazy Guts Podcast.
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- We're out.