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Week 9 Picks with Cynthia Frelund · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we never leave the pocket
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  Speaker 1: because we had no mobility. We're like kurkoa Chains. I'm
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  Speaker 1: here in the Chris Wesley podcast studio for our week
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  Speaker 1: nine picks. It's Cynthia Freeland. Time of the week. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Why would we ever leave the pocket?
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  Speaker 1: No, we're having so much success inside the pocket. That's
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  Speaker 1: a little tease to maybe one of my picks a
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  Speaker 1: little later. But this is the part of the show
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  Speaker 1: where we talk about our picks from last week. We
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  Speaker 1: both went one and two, so we're just gonna move
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  Speaker 1: past that for the season. If you check us out
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube, you can see the fancy graphics. Cynthia is
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  Speaker 1: one game up on me. She's five hundred one back.
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  Speaker 1: You know what things. I actually looked at our record
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  Speaker 1: against the spread of the off season on game debut,
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  Speaker 1: and it's much better. We're both well over five hundred
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  Speaker 1: picking every single game when we're so that just means
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  Speaker 1: that our time is coming and that we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: some great picks. Because the picks for this show I
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  Speaker 1: feel good about. This week. You're going to start us
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  Speaker 1: off three picks against the spread, go back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, you are one heck of a segue artist with
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  Speaker 3: that intro, because I'm going to go with Atlanta. Oh
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  Speaker 3: thank Atlanta wins by at least two and a half,
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  Speaker 3: so three points. At least I have five points. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a conservative modeler, so ultimately that's a pretty big win,
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  Speaker 3: in part because this Dallas defense cannot stop any yak yaka.
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  Speaker 1: Or ya co.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the yards of the catcher yards after contact you go.
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  Speaker 3: Both are a huge problem. So John Robinson, welcome to
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  Speaker 3: my lineup. I'm obviously he was there to begin with,
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  Speaker 3: but massive day for him.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I love that let's just join forces. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't done that a lot on this show. But Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: minus two and a half minus three, whatever you find
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  Speaker 1: for it, I'm feeling it. This is one of those
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  Speaker 1: lines that I looked at and I don't have a model,
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  Speaker 1: but it's almost like, oh, you're just begging us to
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  Speaker 1: take the Falcons here. I get a little worried about that.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been fading Atlanta all year, including last week.
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  Speaker 1: I did a bad job at that, picking the Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: on our show game debut. I don't think I did
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  Speaker 1: it here. No, you didn't do it here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whatever, But here's the thing. They have a good
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  Speaker 1: running game. YEP. At the beginning of the season, it
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  Speaker 1: was like, can you marry up the shotgun the pistol
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  Speaker 1: concepts of Kirk Cousins with the running game? When I
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  Speaker 1: look at it, it doesn't look married up, and yet
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  Speaker 1: it's very effective lately. So going up against Dallas, whether
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  Speaker 1: they have Michael Parsons back or not. Fourth in overall
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  Speaker 1: offensive efficiency and then this is a bad defense for
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons. That's why I haven't been in on them all,
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  Speaker 1: but I think this is a week that they can survive.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked at the DVOA, So that's total efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's different metrics, and I'm like, am I
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  Speaker 1: crazy here? In total efficiency? Falcons are about thirteenth on
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  Speaker 1: the season. The Cowboys are twenty six. Like, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a good team. There's just been like a team
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  Speaker 1: that Vegas hasn't given up on. And then finally they
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  Speaker 1: broke out those Outcast sweats shirts this week. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw that the Falcons Outcast collab. You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lose. You're gonna have a lot of Outcast
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirts this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot lose wearing that sweatshirt like it is like
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  Speaker 3: like undefeated sweatshirt. And we haven't even seen them play
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  Speaker 3: a game in it yet, but we know they're already
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  Speaker 3: undefeated after having that collab.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you look like you wanted to tell me
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  Speaker 1: more about like the bad defense.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I just want to talk about this,
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  Speaker 2: Like those are that.
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  Speaker 3: That's some good swag right there, Like whoever's doing that
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  Speaker 3: partnership A plus good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they'll maybe they'll be at the stadium. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm feeling Atlanta minus three. We've got three four
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  Speaker 1: units in this game, two pretty bad defenses, one pretty
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  Speaker 1: bad offense, and one Falcons offense. I'm believing in the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons offense, like at least all right, so we're we're
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  Speaker 1: on that together. So we got through that quickly. What
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  Speaker 1: is your second pick?
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  Speaker 3: Well, all right, for my second pick, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills and six points, so they have to
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  Speaker 3: cover at least a six point spread, they win by
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  Speaker 3: at least a touchdown. The number six I enjoy because
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  Speaker 3: seven and a half is a crappy number. Six is
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  Speaker 3: a much more palatable number. This means the difference between
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  Speaker 3: one possession or two possessions. So I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to beat Miami at home. They get Von Miller back,
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  Speaker 3: they already have Greg Russo who's been bringing the heat. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we know that they're gonna try to run the football.
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  Speaker 3: Devin chan In three games have had three great games
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  Speaker 3: against the Bills. However, getting that quick passing game going
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  Speaker 3: and the rhythm back, I don't know if Buffalo is
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  Speaker 3: the place that two was going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: make that happen. And also last week we saw some
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  Speaker 3: sort of like confusing data from their defense, which had
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  Speaker 3: been playing pretty well, them being the Dolphins defense clearly
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  Speaker 3: not the Bills defense, because they.
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  Speaker 2: Did really well in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately I don't know what to trust about this defense,
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  Speaker 3: and I trust a lot more about what I've seen
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  Speaker 3: from Josh Allen on the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think their toughness will be tested. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: if Zach Seeler plays in this game. Who's a really
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  Speaker 1: important part of that doin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, defense, but Jalen Ramsey has not been Jalen Ramsey.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't given up something coverage and Buffalo can beat
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  Speaker 1: you two different ways they can. They can just rind
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  Speaker 1: you to dust like they did to the Seahawks. They
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  Speaker 1: can obviously make big plays in the passing game. We
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  Speaker 1: saw Kyler Murray outside the pocket doing that last week
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  Speaker 1: inside the pocket as well. Josh Allen even better at that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm now writing that down in my
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  Speaker 1: little extra picks because Box is the Box is back.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a really honored yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I do feel that in my soul this matchup
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  Speaker 1: has been so bad in the Mike McDaniel Sean McDermott era.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really like going back to past years too much,
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  Speaker 1: but when it's a specific coaching matchup and you've lost
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  Speaker 1: five straight and week two with Tua out there, they
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  Speaker 1: were up thirty one to ten before two have got
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  Speaker 1: that injury. So I'm with you there. That's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be one of my top three picks though. And you
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  Speaker 1: were right. I did not take the bucks on this
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  Speaker 1: show last week. Okay, you have a good memory.
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty sure you didn't right two of those
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  Speaker 3: shows together, so they kind of mixed together.
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  Speaker 1: My top pick. Let's hear it, Washington minus four on
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  Speaker 1: the road, Now, I get it. I could see why
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  Speaker 1: models might agree or disagree. I don't even know it
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  Speaker 1: does years agree with me? Okay strongly that was one
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  Speaker 1: of Okay, that was in feel free to take it.
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  Speaker 1: As you're three, there's no rules. We could just we
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  Speaker 1: could have a different one for my third fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I get it. Why it's only four. It's a
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  Speaker 1: road team, it's a young team that you're still learning about.
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  Speaker 1: It's a division matchup. When they first played Believe that
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  Speaker 1: was week two, very close. The Giants actually felt like
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  Speaker 1: they should have maybe won that game. But sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get too complicated. It's two teams head
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  Speaker 1: in opposite direction. Washington has passed every test throughout this
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  Speaker 1: the course of this season. I know they could have
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  Speaker 1: lost last week, doesn't matter to me. They outplayed the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: They look like a quality team. Two quality teams. It
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  Speaker 1: comes down to the end, Washington won. These are not
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  Speaker 1: two quality teams. Going back to overall deficient efficiency, Washington ninth,
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  Speaker 1: Giants twenty fifth, not close special teams. Giants have been
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  Speaker 1: terrible week after week after week, and special teams giving
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  Speaker 1: up big returns, not making their kicks thirty first, Washington seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some more numbers since week four. This Washington defense,
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  Speaker 1: which was supposed to be the weak side. That's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty long sample now since week four. I'm including week
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  Speaker 1: four that was the Arizona game. Second in EPA per
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  Speaker 1: play allowed, fourth in total points allowed per game. They're
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  Speaker 1: getting it done. Steve Weisch was in this studio and
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  Speaker 1: saying how they've really simplified things. They're playing fast now
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  Speaker 1: when they play better opponents. Do I think their defense
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  Speaker 1: is going to be world beaters? No, like we saw
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  Speaker 1: what happen against Baltimore. But this is not a world beater.
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  Speaker 1: There's no home field advantage. Everyone's sick of Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: in New York. They could be booinged by the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the second quarter. There's nothing really to feel good about.
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  Speaker 1: And so I could see it being close in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the third quarter, where it's still at the four,
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  Speaker 1: it's at seven. But I really like Washington. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're a real deal team, and I don't believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Giants at all.
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  Speaker 2: Completely agree.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give just because New York's had a hard
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  Speaker 3: week and like b'rella people, even though maybe not LA fans,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, I'm the Dodger, you know, whatever, so.
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  Speaker 1: I've jumped on board with the Dodge.
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  Speaker 2: I see Dexi's good. They're really good. They have most
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  Speaker 2: sacks in the league.
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  Speaker 3: And Dexter, who when I want to meet him and
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  Speaker 3: become friends with him, just so I could be like
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  Speaker 3: my friend dex you know, like, I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: that would be good.
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  Speaker 2: They've been good with that.
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  Speaker 3: And also on the other side, you know Bobby Wagner
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  Speaker 3: in this defense, Like I understand he's not the youngest
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  Speaker 3: cat on the block, but his ability on that Washington
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  Speaker 3: defense to be that guy.
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  Speaker 2: The voice, the quarterback of the defense or whatever you want.
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  Speaker 3: To call it, but basically not miss tackles, their tackle
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  Speaker 3: efficiency rate, meaning how they've stopped teams from getting Yaka yoko.
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  Speaker 2: To He just loves when he does that.
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  Speaker 3: But anyways, but yeah, like that's been a really big
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  Speaker 3: that's been a really big difference maker for this Washington defense.
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  Speaker 3: I'm totally on the same side as that good That
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  Speaker 3: was one of mine for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. And yeah, Tyrone Tracy, who had been
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  Speaker 1: breaking a lot of tackles playing well for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: They have a good rookie class.
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  Speaker 2: But he might not be playing.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably not playing in this game coming off of
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  Speaker 1: a concussion. So that's my second pick. We're both in
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  Speaker 1: on Atlanta. I take Washington. You had the Bills. What
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  Speaker 1: is your final pick?
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  Speaker 3: And in the Battle of Apolis's the one in Minneapolis
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  Speaker 3: on sun I think there's a number five. If I
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  Speaker 3: like the number six, I certainly like the number five.
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  Speaker 3: So Minneapolis with five points, woo in Minneapolis against Indianapolis
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  Speaker 3: to see who wins the Battle of the Apolis.
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  Speaker 1: Is I okay? I bet? I wonder if Colts fans
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  Speaker 1: will travel. That's it's not too far to Minneapolis relatively.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice not you drive to that. No, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you have to like take a like a do okay,
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  Speaker 1: explain why because I want to know why the model
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  Speaker 1: you think likes the Vikings better. Because I got to
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  Speaker 1: admit Indy plus five is on my little box list,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not my third pick. But we were going
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  Speaker 1: to go against each other on the.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's fine. We gotta go against each other
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  Speaker 3: on one of them. Yeah, a couple of reasons. I
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  Speaker 3: know Joe Flacco's starting, but when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: types of blitz that Brian Flores likes to execute. Last
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  Speaker 3: week against the Rams, things were wonky at the end.
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  Speaker 3: When we were doing anything we were doing for our shows,
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  Speaker 3: we did not know that Cooper Cup was for sure playing,
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  Speaker 3: and we certainly didn't know that Puku and Aaku was
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  Speaker 3: playing until the ninety minutes prior. We didn't know, So
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot lot of things that were different
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  Speaker 3: and there they could have won that game. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like it was such a huge butt kicking that it
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  Speaker 3: was super convincing either way. So the types of blitz
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  Speaker 3: is that Brian Flores likes to throw out there, they're
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  Speaker 3: not as easy to execute as Michael Pittman's maybe not
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  Speaker 3: playing that's not great. Is Josh Jowns fully healthy. I
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  Speaker 3: know Jonathan Taylor is supposed to play in this game,
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  Speaker 3: and their O line is good. However, the way that
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  Speaker 3: that defense executes, it's just going to be very hard.
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  Speaker 3: Even though Joe Flacker's Flacker, Joe Flacker.
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  Speaker 2: Is a much better thrower. Joe Flacco is a great thrower.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you're maybe convincing me almost to cross out,
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  Speaker 1: So I kind of get why. Like you look at
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  Speaker 1: the numbers because they're over the course of the season
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  Speaker 1: are maybe more meaningful than just the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But there is an eye test thing that Okay, quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: who can understand a little bit what Minnesota is doing,
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  Speaker 1: attack the middle of the field, copy a little bit
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  Speaker 1: what the last two offenses have done. Could Joe Flacco
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  Speaker 1: do that? Throw into his tight ends? Throwing with this
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  Speaker 1: play duchdowns he should. I know he's on the injury report,
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  Speaker 1: but he finished last week's games. We'll see about when.
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  Speaker 3: You have two three guys that are potential pass catchers,
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  Speaker 3: way different than when you have like one guy like hey.
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  Speaker 1: It's me, Yeah, that's fair. And Bernard Ryman is ryme
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  Speaker 1: injury report with a concussion. The NFL has done a
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  Speaker 1: bad job with these spotters like Bernard Ryman gave up
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  Speaker 1: huge sacks at the end of last week's game. Then
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  Speaker 1: he showed up the next day and he turns out
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  Speaker 1: he was concussed playing through a concussion. That would be
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  Speaker 1: a big loss for them against a good pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: Five just felt a little rich for a game that
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just kind of expect these Vikings
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  Speaker 1: games to come down to the final possession, these Colts
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  Speaker 1: games to come down to the final possession. You're maybe
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  Speaker 1: pushing me off putting that in the box. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know my third pick.
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  Speaker 3: Wait one thing with Christian Dara saw being gone, I
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  Speaker 3: was worried. But they got Cam Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: That helps a lot. That helps a big time. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: a big time. I feel like we need to be
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  Speaker 1: on the same page here. Although I wanted the Colts
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  Speaker 1: as my backup to my Baltimore minus nine pick, now
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  Speaker 1: I don't like picking anything that could have an injury, repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe by the time you guys hear this, the
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson thing will be taken care of. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna assume Lamar Jackson's playing when you finish on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You're starting quarterback in the NFL. Almost certainly, this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's played through a lot of things. You're
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  Speaker 1: playing the next week. That said, he's misspracticed Wednesday and Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: That's never a good sign. It's never a good sign
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  Speaker 1: when John Harbaugh says it's a rest day, but then
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  Speaker 1: he shows up on the injury port as a kneeback.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. He looked good last week. I actually
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  Speaker 1: thought he played well against Cleveland. His offensive line didn't,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a concern this week. And yet this is
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  Speaker 1: one of those lines where I look at, Wow, nine points,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy against the Broncos, and they're almost begging you
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  Speaker 1: to take the Broncos, and I'm not gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: This is maybe a spiteful pick. I'm not believing in
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos. I believe they're fine. I believe they're like
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  Speaker 1: eight and nine, but I don't think bo Knicks can
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  Speaker 1: get it done against a good defense. Is this a
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  Speaker 1: good defense statistically? No, but I do think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great team overall, and great teams respond. That was a
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  Speaker 1: division game last week, a matchup they've had some struggles
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  Speaker 1: with against Cleveland. You're coming off a loss. You're one
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  Speaker 1: of the very best teams in the entire NFL in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, the Baltimore Ravens returning home, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think this offense can make the Broncos blitz look very average,
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  Speaker 1: run straight through them, be able to handle the Blitzz.
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  Speaker 1: You got Deontay Johnson. That's another outside receiver. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how big of a factor he is. But ultimately I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at as like an eight or nine win team
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  Speaker 1: on the road against one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL who's absolutely ready to bounce back from last week,
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  Speaker 1: So I say nine points is not enough. Bo Nicks
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  Speaker 1: make some mistakes, has a couple turnovers in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and they end up walking away with it. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: not like a twenty point win, but it's thirty to sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: They cover the nine. Let's go Ravens.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's wild is the rookie quarterback who scored
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  Speaker 3: the most offensive touchdowns this year is Bonux not Jane
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  Speaker 3: de I mean, I just thought that stat was wild.
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  Speaker 3: And I just want to know how you feel about
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  Speaker 3: my two preseason win total picks, because I feel like
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  Speaker 3: this is I'm pretty happy about these. Yes, my NFC
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  Speaker 3: pick for who was going to exceed their expectations was
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  Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks, who was at who were at six
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  Speaker 3: and a half.
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  Speaker 2: How are we feeling about that?
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  Speaker 1: That's fit? That's looking And how about.
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  Speaker 3: Them Broncos five and a half baby five and a
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  Speaker 3: half wins?
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: Are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Am I happy about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You're right? Am I tooting my own heart?
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  Speaker 1: Be shp? You should? That's if you can cash like
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  Speaker 1: an over under win total.
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  Speaker 4: Before Thanksgiving, well before Thanksgiving, maybe maybe he can catch
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  Speaker 4: it on Sunday if I'm just gonna eat good if
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  Speaker 4: I'm very very wrong, Okay, so I'm going Baltimore minus
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  Speaker 4: nine as my third pick on the off chance that
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  Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson doesn't play. Just that, but backup for housekeeping purposes,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: I'll just go with your Bills pick as my third, Okay,
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: And that is it. And yes, every week I have
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: a little box of extra picks. They've done pretty well
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: over the course of the season, all though.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: The box was the box came out of the gates
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: on fire.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: On fire, and they get on some water lately. But
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with my Flacco plus five. I like
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the Bills, as I mentioned, as kind of my backup there,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: I get totally out of the Ravens business. If Lamar
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: is not playing, forget that game for just stay away.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: And then the other one I kind of like this
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: week was Cincinnati minus nine as long as t Higgins.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: You know te Higgins actually, I think makes a big
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: difference to me, and we're not sure about his status.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: But I think they are a good team that absolutely
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: needs to win. I'm not giving up on them. The
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Raiders have a defense that I won't be able to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: stop them. Through the air or on the ground. I
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: actually think Chase Brown could get it going this week.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: So I think it's I think this is a wild
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: one where the Raiders have two different identities. There's the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: good Raiders that can somehow upset the Ravens, and then
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: there's the not good Raiders and those are the ones
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: that are like, what am I even watching here?
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: So I'm just curious which one is going to show
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: up because my only kind of hmm, what are my
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: little clues here? Well, Roberts Bulaine has played this Bengals.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Team quite a bit.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: He was a Steeler front okay, and Max Crosby. His
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: pressure rate is low for his season total. Usually he
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: didn't really wouldn't really make a lot of noise last week.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: So my I mean, I'm just saying for the number.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying for the win, just out of cure,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Like I don't know, So I don't know that it's
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: just which identity is coming, Yeah, the one that Antonio
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Pierce like feels like is the one that takes on
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: the identity of their coach.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Coming or is like it's like when they can get
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: up for games and Gardner Minshew plays well that's two
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: different things. They got up for that Chiefs game. They
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: played well, you know they covered, they didn't. They didn't
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: end up winning that game. Gardner Minshew played well. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: don't know if you can expect that two straight weeks.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: So I like Cincinnati minus seven, but I like him
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: a lot better if t Higgins is that's right, playing
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: two review. We are both in on the Falcons. I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: have Gobert Anders and the Ravens. You have the Bill
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and your final pick was I forgot Minnesota. Minnesota. That's
• 17:04
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