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NFL GameDay View: Week 15 Picks and Predictions - NFL Saturday Triple Header Previews, Eagles on the Struggle Bus, and Why The Bears are eyeing and UPSET · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: NFL Game to View is a production of the NFL
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to Game DEVIU, presented by Mercedes Mins,
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Claibon here with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland celebrating
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  Speaker 2: being together, not necessarily celebrating what happened last week because
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  Speaker 2: we were in such a good spot and then Greg
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  Speaker 2: just goes on a tear.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just more intrigued to the end of
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  Speaker 4: our season. Like we're not we're not mailing anything in,
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  Speaker 4: We're not like not in it for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: But we're here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, But I've been holding all about holding that lead,
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  Speaker 5: you guys, catch hold back ahead, let's go and two
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  Speaker 5: years ago, I won last year.
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  Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 7: Ye?
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  Speaker 2: But well, yeah, so Greg currently is holding onto that
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  Speaker 2: crown one hundred and thirty two at seventy six. But
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  Speaker 2: we are looming as we were prior to again, Greg
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  Speaker 2: taking I mean three losses going going courtesy of me
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  Speaker 2: and Cynthia.
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  Speaker 3: But okay, I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 7: Wait.
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  Speaker 2: The Saturday Showdown is beck with an exclusive triple header
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  Speaker 2: live on NFL Network. Watch Vikings Bengals at one o'clock Eastern,
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  Speaker 2: followed by the Steelers, Colts, and Broncos lines in prime
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  Speaker 2: time Saturday only on NFL Network, also streaming on NFL Plus.
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  Speaker 2: So why don't why don't we get right into Saturday's
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  Speaker 2: matchups because we're.
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  Speaker 7: Looking forward to these guys. Start with the Vikings and
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  Speaker 7: the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Mallins gets to start at quarterback from Minnesota, Justin
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  Speaker 2: Jefferson is expected to play Greg Do you expect the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings to win?
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  Speaker 5: I do not, because I expect that Jake Browning express
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  Speaker 5: to continue to roll Bengals win this one twenty to sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe how well Jake Browning is playing, how
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  Speaker 5: well Zach Taylor is coaching. And it's partly because they're
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  Speaker 5: changing who they are. You're looking at Chase brown get
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  Speaker 5: one of the fastest miles per hour all year on
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  Speaker 5: next Gen Stats with effective screen passes, and I know
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  Speaker 5: it's helping Jake Browning get the job done throwing these screens.
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  Speaker 5: But what it's also doing is letting this offensive line
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  Speaker 5: get out in space. They've been playing really well. The
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  Speaker 5: running backs and Joe Mixon are making bigger plays in space.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Brownie is getting rid of the ball more quickly.
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  Speaker 5: And it's partly kause Zach Taylor is dialing up effective plays.
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  Speaker 5: It's a totally different offense. It's a dropback offense. It's
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  Speaker 5: play action. I give them a ton of credit. I
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  Speaker 5: think they're playing better all around the quarterback now that
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  Speaker 5: Joe Burrow is out.
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  Speaker 2: I says a little frustration for the Jake Browning fast, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: Greg is about to give us the jake and it's
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  Speaker 2: like a bunch.
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  Speaker 7: Of screen pass.
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  Speaker 6: But it's working.
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  Speaker 7: It's working, It is working. This would be the way
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  Speaker 7: the Vikings defense is legit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what's going on with the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: offense at the moment, though. Kurt Warner did confirm my
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  Speaker 2: priors this week when he was looking at the game
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  Speaker 2: last week and said.
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  Speaker 7: Mate, why is Josh Dobbs going to the bench?
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  Speaker 2: At this point, Nick Mullens comes in, he immediately almost
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  Speaker 2: has a turnover worthy play. I'm not sold on Nick
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  Speaker 2: Mullins in this one. I have the Cincinnati Bengals winning
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  Speaker 2: seventeen to thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: How dare you not be sold on Nick Mullins coming
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  Speaker 4: out of the gate with the prime number?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, give it to me.
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  Speaker 7: Bakings.
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  Speaker 4: I've got twenty one to nineteen in favor of the
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  Speaker 4: Vikings in this matchup. Why because let's remember Nick Mullens
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  Speaker 4: wasn't their backup, backup option. He was actually their first
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  Speaker 4: backup option, but he was just hurt when they needed
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  Speaker 4: a backup. That's a lot of saying the word backup
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  Speaker 4: all in a row, but I'm very good at it.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently I nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Look Mullens to Howkinson that actually was working. Now you
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  Speaker 4: factor in jj being back, you factor in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of interesting looks when it comes to how they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be able to use Jordan Addison, and things.
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  Speaker 3: Are going to be fun to watch. And this defense
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  Speaker 3: is legit all right.
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  Speaker 2: We got another team in the wildcard race. That's the
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. They started the season six and three. They've
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  Speaker 2: lost three of their last four games. Pittsburgh dropped two
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  Speaker 2: straight to the Cardinals and the Patriot, the first team
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  Speaker 2: in NFL history with a winner record to lose consecutive
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  Speaker 2: games against teams that entered eight plus games under five
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  Speaker 2: hundred in a single season. Considering all that, the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: face the Colts Saturday in Indy. Both teams were seven
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  Speaker 2: and six clinging to wildcard spots here, Cynthia, what do
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  Speaker 2: you see taking place?
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  Speaker 3: Who lots of stuff? I hear lots of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: We see lots of stuff, But I think the Colts
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  Speaker 4: win this one twenty one to twenty. Michael Pittman Junior,
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  Speaker 4: let's talk about him.
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  Speaker 3: He has the fourth most receptions with ninety five in
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  Speaker 3: the league.
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  Speaker 4: He is tied for thirty to for second with thirteen
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  Speaker 4: contested catches this season. Let's just take a look at
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  Speaker 4: anyone who's looking to get the bag, and that would
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  Speaker 4: be something Michael Pittman Junior is.
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  Speaker 3: In the running for.
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  Speaker 4: Meaning this offseason he could get paid. Yeah good, He's
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  Speaker 4: going to show you what he's got. And this is
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  Speaker 4: actually a very playoff relevant game. So big players, big spots,
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  Speaker 4: big money.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody likes money.
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  Speaker 6: That true words have never been said on this show.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody likes money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, money is good. Shout out to the folks who haven't.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to get like you. I heard something from
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  Speaker 2: a brilliant football mind a couple of weeks ago, and.
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  Speaker 7: That was Gardner Minshew. Can't keep getting away with this.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Rosenbal said that he promptly went out and did
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  Speaker 2: not go get away with it. Mitchell Trubisky hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 2: away with anything since twenty eighteen. Last week, he had
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  Speaker 2: a negative twenty EPA against seven or more defenders. They
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  Speaker 2: were looking at Mitchell Trubisky and saying, yeah, you want
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  Speaker 2: to throw the ball.
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  Speaker 7: That's completely fine.
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  Speaker 2: I am completely fine picking the Pittsburgh Excuse me, the
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis cults here considering just how much of a struggle
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  Speaker 2: the pass the game looked for Pittsburgh last week.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't trust either of these two teams. I
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  Speaker 5: don't trust either of these two quarterbacks, but I do
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  Speaker 5: trust the coaching staff in Pittsburgh running back in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 5: Give me a just Greg for Jalen Warren. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 5: it nailed to just Greg's last week. And Jalen Warren
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  Speaker 5: has turned into one of the best running backs in
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  Speaker 5: the league full stop. He is second overall in the
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  Speaker 5: league this year in rush yards over expected. He has
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  Speaker 5: the most yards after contact per carry of any running
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  Speaker 5: back in the league with over seventy five carries. He
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  Speaker 5: forces a lot of misstackles as a runner and as
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  Speaker 5: a receiver. He's top ten in the league and yards
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  Speaker 5: per out run this dude just gets it done.
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  Speaker 6: And when I saw TJ.
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  Speaker 5: Watt and alex I Smith are back for this game,
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  Speaker 5: it just feels like an organizational win. Pittsburgh Steelers get
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  Speaker 5: it done and Gardner Minshew cannot keep getting away.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's gotta get away with the Somebody gets away with
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  Speaker 2: it game. Looking forward to seeing that one coming up
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. The Saturday Nightcap features a Broncos team that's
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  Speaker 2: won six of the last seven games. The acrobatics of
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  Speaker 2: Courtland Sutton a big reason for Denver's big turnaround. Brush
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  Speaker 2: takes the snap, steps up, now, froze a deep ball
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  Speaker 2: he wants Cortland Sutton in the an zone.
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  Speaker 3: Courtland goes up.
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  Speaker 5: And makes the touch touchdown Denver.
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  Speaker 3: As Cortland, much like an NBA power forward, just blocked
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  Speaker 3: out Davis caked the ball from here, it looked like
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  Speaker 3: with one arm.
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos Lions Saturday Night in Motown, Denver rolling lately,
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  Speaker 2: Detroit losing two of their last three. Cynthia, your belief
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  Speaker 2: in Detroit ebbs and flows mostly flowing away?
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  Speaker 7: Is it flowing back towards the Lions on Saturday?
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  Speaker 4: This is where my stomach and my model do not agree.
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  Speaker 4: My stomach says that the Broncos win my model has
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  Speaker 4: actually a pretty significant win for Detroit with four points
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  Speaker 4: twenty six to twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Why because of the O line.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I studied My master thesis was on O
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  Speaker 4: line play. So it turns out it makes like a
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  Speaker 4: big difference, and I'm still paying for that. So I
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  Speaker 4: feel like, if I shout out Northwestern, do you think
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  Speaker 4: they'll going to be some sort of discount. Probably not sure,
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  Speaker 4: you know whatever, Frank ragnow turns out really important center
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  Speaker 4: when he wasn't there. Look at what that defense did
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  Speaker 4: to the Lions offense. Not good things like That's not
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  Speaker 4: a fun situation for Jared Goff to be And as
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  Speaker 4: much as we like to say that indoor outdoor splits
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  Speaker 4: are a big deal for him, probably more important that
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  Speaker 4: the O line be intact. So Frank Ragnow being there.
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  Speaker 4: They use six O linemen quite a bit. That's the
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  Speaker 4: normal center to quarterback handoff. Even just like a half
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  Speaker 4: a second more is a huge deal when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to like the minuscule amount of time that you have
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL to.
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  Speaker 3: Pass the ball.
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of in the same place as you, My
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  Speaker 5: head says, one thing, my heart says they Oh, the
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  Speaker 5: heart's with the Lions.
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  Speaker 6: I just want to roof.
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  Speaker 4: I want my heart is always with all it has been,
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  Speaker 4: even when they went winless in an entire seat.
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  Speaker 5: And this is gonna be the night cap on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: It's NFL never Look, I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 5: company man here. There's five games this week that have
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  Speaker 5: two winning teams playing each other, Three of them are
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  Speaker 5: on NFL Network in a row. And the Lions aren't
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  Speaker 5: gonna let us down in primetime. They're too good. Twenty
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  Speaker 5: seven to twenty six. I love what Dan Campbell did
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  Speaker 5: this week. He said he thought it was a positive
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  Speaker 5: that his best players weren't showing up in a big
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  Speaker 5: way because he knows those players will respond. You see
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  Speaker 5: Jared Goff, you see aman Ross Saint Brown. They had
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  Speaker 5: a rough game last week, some drops from aman ra
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  Speaker 5: Aiden Hutchinson, some mental errors last week against the Bears.
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  Speaker 5: When he said best players, I think he was talking
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  Speaker 5: about his tackles too. Pina Sewell and Taylor Decker, all
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  Speaker 5: these guys. They've been through the process in Detroit, getting
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  Speaker 5: better and better, and Denver's a beatable team.
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  Speaker 6: Four and a half points is too much for me.
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  Speaker 5: But this just feels again like an organizational win where
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  Speaker 5: everything they've been building is enough to get it done
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  Speaker 5: against a flawed Broncos team one point win.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like them by much, but I like them
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  Speaker 6: to win.
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  Speaker 7: You both mentioned the flaws for the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos, of course have. Therefore, I am taking
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  Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos here twenty four to twenty one, because
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the Detroit defense. They're at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the league when they do get pressure, when they
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  Speaker 2: do blitz, they're also at the bottom of the league.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe you might think the Broncos aren't the team
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  Speaker 2: to exploit this. What my pick presupposes is that they are.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson has completed a two point three percent over
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  Speaker 2: expectations since Week seven, the fifth highest in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you just saw in that music video we
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  Speaker 2: played before the game, Courtland Sutton has been on fire.
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  Speaker 2: I think they take the shots deep and expose this
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  Speaker 2: Lion's defense that has been exposable. And if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the Detroit Lions losses this season, they scored the
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  Speaker 2: thirty one and one loss, but since then they haven't
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  Speaker 2: scored more than twenty two points in a single loss.
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  Speaker 2: There's been problems on offense. I think Denver gets to
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  Speaker 2: win here coming up the game.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, boo away, I'll take this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we're not meminga.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Super confident in that press guy and the red Hot
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys versus Josh Allen and the Bills. Picks for this
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  Speaker 2: monster matchup coming up next on game.
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  Speaker 6: Debut, Avon, we got a prime number.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta just screg all in the A block all of.
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  Speaker 3: The new company.
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  Speaker 2: Man, We're back on game debut.
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  Speaker 5: Let's flash back.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty years to Super Bowl twenty seven between the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: and the Bills. Troy Aikman threw four touchdowns on his
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  Speaker 2: way to Super Bowl MVP. Our colleague Michael Irvin had
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  Speaker 2: himself a day one hundred and fourteen receiving yards two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys crushed the Bills fifty two to seventeen. They
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  Speaker 2: would also beat Buffalo the following.
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  Speaker 7: Year in Super Bowl twenty eight. Some time has passed.
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  Speaker 6: They used to be bad, Tom from the.
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  Speaker 2: Drawn to Excellence presented bon Mercedes Been. The stakes not
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  Speaker 2: quite as high as when they met in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: but Sunday's Cowboys Bills matchup huge, especially for Buffalo. Dallas
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  Speaker 2: has his eyes on the top seed in the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo just wants to get into the dance what happens
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  Speaker 2: in the game.
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  Speaker 5: I struggled all the week because I've picked the Cowboys
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  Speaker 5: game correctly for nine straight week.
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  Speaker 6: Humble, But I've also bet their Bills to win.
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  Speaker 5: It's not humble, the Bills to win every time this season,
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  Speaker 5: all thirteen weeks, and I thought something has to give.
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  Speaker 5: And what's gonna give is the Bill's defense trying to
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  Speaker 5: stop my guy, Jake Ferguson. Jake Ferguson is an upgrade
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  Speaker 5: from Dalton Saltz. I didn't expect this coming into the year.
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  Speaker 5: They've done such a good job finding different elements to
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  Speaker 5: this passing attack outside of CD Lamb. And I look
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  Speaker 5: at this Bill's defense right now, and I actually think
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  Speaker 5: Sean McDermott is doing a good job considering all the
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  Speaker 5: pieces that they're missing, but they keep adding those pieces
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  Speaker 5: that are gone. Micah Hyde out this week, aj Epanessa
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  Speaker 5: probably out this week.
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  Speaker 6: It's too much.
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  Speaker 5: He starts off the game well, really game planning, showing
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  Speaker 5: a lot of different things and then eventually talent wins out.
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  Speaker 5: And there is no more talented offense right now than
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  Speaker 5: the Cowboys, especially upfront. I think they give Dak a
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  Speaker 5: ton of time and they went in a score fest.
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  Speaker 5: It should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking over at the Dallas Cowboys defense, So
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  Speaker 2: dan Quinn squad. It's been spectacular this season, but there
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  Speaker 2: was kind of a festival of turnovers during the middle
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  Speaker 2: of part of the season.
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  Speaker 7: That hasn't really been in town the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But what they have been able to do is show
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  Speaker 2: how good and coverage they can be, especially Stefan Gilmore
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  Speaker 2: Deron Bland. We don't really need to talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about what he has done this season, but I look
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  Speaker 2: at Buffalo and the way that they're utilizing Stefan Diggs.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of balls around, a lot of scrimmage, not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of deep shots to Stefan Diggs. They can't
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  Speaker 2: find a way to target Gabe Davis. Everything's running through
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  Speaker 2: Dalton Kate. There's so much wrong with Buffalo. That's also
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  Speaker 2: solved by the fact that Josh Allen is a mechanized
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  Speaker 2: defense destroyer. But I think Josh Allen's going to give
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  Speaker 2: the ball back to Dallas A couple times in this
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  Speaker 2: when I have the Cowboys, Synthia.
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  Speaker 4: Well, give me another number, and I'm glad to take
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  Speaker 4: the Bills in a prime number.
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  Speaker 3: Do I feel great about it?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 4: It's a two point win, twenty seven to twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: What's the difference between this Buffalo team and a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks ago. Well, James Cook catching balls, that's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: And we saw him reach the end zone last week.
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  Speaker 4: It was a big deal, especially early in the game.
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  Speaker 4: The scripted portion of the game, meaning the first fifteen
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  Speaker 4: to twenty plays of the game, looked really good, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: look at that. I don't think they told him to
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  Speaker 4: do that. Probably not in the script. However, look at
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  Speaker 4: how the different alignments he's line of it, and those
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  Speaker 4: shorter passes to a very wide open receiver actually running
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  Speaker 4: back turned receiver. That will help Josh Allen from turning
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  Speaker 4: the football over. You can also target the linebacker level
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  Speaker 4: of this defense. They were thinking about it too. They
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  Speaker 4: wanted to go get Jack Leonard. The Eagles beat him
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  Speaker 4: to the punch. They know they got some missing pieces
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  Speaker 4: there too. They're missing their digs. The Bills have their digs.
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  Speaker 4: So I think this is a situation where the team that's.
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  Speaker 3: Like a little hungry or in the cold.
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  Speaker 4: This is a sneaky game. The Cowboys don't really need it.
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  Speaker 4: The Bills are clawing at it. I don't love it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm kind of with I don't know. I don't feel
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  Speaker 6: good about.
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  Speaker 3: This, but there it is.
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  Speaker 6: Is gonna put aso the mountains when you're right, so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy with that anytime any of us are
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  Speaker 2: right my feelings. Last week's Rams Ravens match up one
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  Speaker 2: of the best games of the year. Thailand Wallace had
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  Speaker 2: a walk off score in overtime.
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  Speaker 7: Just a spectacular finish for the fans that stayed in
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  Speaker 7: the rain.
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  Speaker 6: Finding the Thailand, Wallace thinks hang to wobblin.
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  Speaker 7: Wallace settles under it to twenty five, gets a block, comes.
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  Speaker 1: Out at the air side, thirty spins out of one tackle
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  Speaker 1: thirty five along with air sideline Cony.
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  Speaker 7: He's in the field, Wallas in a thirty telling us
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  Speaker 7: Hey thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty ten celebration time, no foight wan.
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  Speaker 6: Us of the ends old Hay's in the board.
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  Speaker 7: When the Ravens wint it in over.
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  Speaker 2: Time what Tiland Wallas says is a moment he'll never forget.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Has the Ravens in the top seed in the AFC.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: They faced the Jags Sunday night in Jacksonville, losing two straight.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Are the folks in Douvall? What do you see happening
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: in this game?
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: I see a beat down with the Ravens winning this
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: game thirty one.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: Funny.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Maybe it'll be worse, but I don't want Jaguars fans
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: coming at me. Lamar Jackson is so comfortable right now
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: in the pocket, and he's also scrambling sometimes. His offensive
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: coordinator is also dialing up wide open plays, which is
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: nice our you know, green Room, Patrick, we were watching
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Jaguars Ravens from a year ago. I've never seen Patrick
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: so upset watching the game that ended a year ago.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: But it was because their offensive coordinator is just running
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson into a brick wall and running like a
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: nineteen twenties offense. Now we've updated it with Todd Munkin.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: We're throwing open receivers and we're doing it against a
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: very flawed Jacksonville defense which is missing Andre Cisco, which
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: is missing Tyson Campbell, two of their best players in
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: the secondary. Their linebackers have struggled, and Lamar, along with
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Monkin and all the weapons around him, really pick on
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: those mismatches.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: The Ravens role.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm with you in the Ravens.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking it's a little bit closer for game. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: just have a three point win twenty five to twenty
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: two in this one. But I do want to point
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: out that it could get out of hand. The reason
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: I think it won't I'll tell you at the end.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: But the linebackers for the Jags are liability. It hasn't
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: been good. This is a situation where it's kind of
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: a I'm meeting up like this is my strength and
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: that's your weakness, and they're kind of exploiting each other here.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: I do think if you look at like, look at
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: what happens with play action passing not great, right, You're
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: just gonna kind of eat their lunch every single time.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: So I'm looking at the Jags defense and saying, you
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: gotta figure it out. However, I will say on the
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: other side, just so to tell you why it's gonna
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: be a little bit closer, I think they're gonna watch
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: that film of the Rams because the Jags they like
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: to steal other people's plays, and they're gonna watch the
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Rams film and they're gonna get the run game going
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: a little bit better with travisytn.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: That's the reason why it's closer.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, there's some issues up front throughout the season
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: for Jacksonville.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: I have surprised, surprise, will take the Baltimore Ravens.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Have you ever not picked them?
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: We have to go back to Tyler Huntley games.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Okay here, yeah, okay, I did not pick the.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Baalimore Ravens, but I asked the folks at home, what's
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the game this year where I should have not picked
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens. Coming off to Cynthia's point, I do
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: want to honor two off ball linebackers for the Baltimore Ravens.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: In fact, let's honor all of them because there was
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: a conversation in the previous years about ah off ball linebacker.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: You know you're a Domond, doesn't.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Patrick Queen and Rokwan Smith have been so good, especially
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: in the run game and the screen game, just shutting
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: so many things down so fast to the ball.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: They have been spectacular.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And again, teams that don't have those guys who can
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: make those plays have had a lot.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Of issues on defense like Daguars. Yeah, Mike Jacksonville, I
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: just want to highlight that and me eve Away, we
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: are all on the Baltimore.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I feel good about this one too.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: I'm worried still to come. The Eagles are on the
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: struggle bus.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: They've been outscored seventy five to thirty two of the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: last two games.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Will they write the shift Monday Night in Seattle? Are
• 17:58
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• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Night football the Eagles and the Seahawks in Seattle. After
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: starting the season ten to one, Philly has been crushed
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: in their last two games by the Niners and the Cowboys.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: Do the Eagles stop the bleeding on Monday Night Greek?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: I don't think they do it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: I think the Seahawks get it done in an upset
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: thirty three to thirty. Remember the last time we saw
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Geno Smith. By the way, this pick goes away if
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Gina Smith doesn't play. But I think he's gonna play.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Is a practice. The last time he played Monday night football,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Thursday night football, whatever night it was, it was beautiful.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: He was throwing dives. He was out of his mind
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: really against this Dallas team. There were five or six
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: throws in this game that were just outrageous. And I
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: look at this Eagles defense since Week eight, thirty first
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: in the league in EPA per play allowed.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: There's only thirty two teams.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Jackson, Smith and Jigba. I think
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: they're the perfect matchup right now. They also struggle the
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Eagles do against tight ends. No a fan can get
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: it done. Darius Slay missed two days of practice. We
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: don't even know if he's going to play. I think
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Seattle at home, who needs this game just as badly
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: as Philadelphia gets it done. They played the forty nine
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: ers better than the Cowboys. They I mean, then the Eagles.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: They play the Cowboys better than the Eagles did.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well depending on the final injury report. Because I only
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: have a one point win for the Philadelphia Eagles twenty
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: three to twenty two depending on some missing pieces. With
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Darius Slay and of course Gino Smith's status, this could flip,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: so I we'll have to be monitoring that. But I
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: want to point out Jackson Smith and Jigba Why because,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: just like Greg mentioned, there are some interesting areas where
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: like tight ends have looked weird, but then you go
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: back and you map out what routes are tight ends
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: running that this team runs. So not just No a
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: fan who is a tight end, but also Jackson Smith
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: and jag but on those tight end routes. So other
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: teams use tight ends, they can use a wide receiver
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: just because they have three. That's where he could be
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: really impactful. Remember we had a game where Jake Bobo
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: scored a touchdown. This team's not afraid to come out.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Shane Waldron. He sees some of these job openings. He's like, Hey,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: my offense is good. Don't just talk about Ben Johnson.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Keep Cynthia having her lions Ocie come take me instead.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: That's what we need from you, Shane Waldron. We need
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: to keep Ben Johnson in Detroit.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Gets your grubby buzz up of him.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm looking back, I'm thinking back to the Thursday Night
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: game where the Seattle offense was so good. I mean,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: GINO and DK up and down the field against the COUMP.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: But it's not the offense. That's not the reason I'm
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: picking the Philadelphia Eagles. It's the defense and the Eagles
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: ground game. If you've been waiting for that big DeAndre
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Swift game late this season, I think this is it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: The number thirty one defense in the entire league in
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: defending outside tackle runs, number twenty nine defense and overall
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: rush efficiency. And it's just it's been a rough stretch
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: for the Seattle defense and a rough stretch for the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia offense on the ground. I think they get back
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: on track on Monday Night football, another big prime time
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: game for DeAndre Swift, Greg.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: And another just Greg, let's go.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: I mean you think with the lead that I'm gonna
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: get scared, No, just scrag nation. We're hitting off two
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: wins last week. Give me that graphic. I'm being so obnoxious.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: My parents one said, if you're ever winning something, enjoy
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: it while you can.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: It might not last. So I'm enjoying it right now.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Also that I've gone by myself more than anybody else.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Patrick is the bold Shooters Shooter shoot as well.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Get to quick Picks presented by Zillo Jets and Dolphins. Dolphins,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: coming off of shocking Monday Night, lost one of the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: first in NFL history, at least that we've seen losing
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: with that lead at that point in the game. Zach
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Wilson coming off the best game of his career, Tyreek
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: is questionable.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Does that mean you're thinking Jets, Greg.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I am. I am taking the Dolphins up. I'm not
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: that bold.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Let's not get crazy. It's eight and a half points,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: but I only have a one point victory. And if
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill doesn't play, I'm telling you Zach Wilson coming
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: off in the rain, his career in the rain. The
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: offensive line right now, the Dolphins are down to one
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: starting offensive lineman.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I'm just asking.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: It's iron arms setting mind everyone that it's going.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: To be raining.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, that to me maybe even helps the Jets. Okay,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: defensive game, it's ugly.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: The Dolphins don't need to blitz anyone to get pressure.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Dolphins are really good defensively, and ultimately I don't trust
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: the Jets enough.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: But that was a great Zach Wilson game. Player of
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: the Week.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: We will see.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see if the Agil Hackett twenty twenty
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: four forty nine Ers Cardinals San Francisco has won five
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: straight since coming off their bye week, how do you
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: see this playing out, Cynthia.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I think they win six straight.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: So I'm looking at this game twenty nine to seventeen,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking about my fantasy friends because it's your playoffs,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: and you need to know what do I do with
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Kyler Murray? And the answer is you probably still start him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: There are a lot of backup quarterbacks playing. You're not
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: going to find the better kind of output here. He
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: does throw the deep ball really well. And if there
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: is one area of the San Francisco defense that you
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: can exploit, it is deep passes in the secondary from
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: a mobile quarterback. So I think that this could be
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: a situation where for fantasy only because of the game
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: scripting and what should be a big come from behind
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: situation or attempt to come from behind situation.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: If I'm a fantasy.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Player or I like DFS or whatever whatever I do
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: with my Sunday, I'm going to be looking at Kyler
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Murray as a potential upside candidate.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: All right, upside game for Kyler.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I will take one of Kyler's division opponents, the Rams
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: in their game against the Washington Commanders, and I think
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Sean mcvay's team, currently sitting at six and seven, they
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: need to win, and I think they get the win
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: here against a kind of struggling well, let's erase the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: kind of struggling Commander's defense and looking at Pooka Nakua,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: who has seven or more targets in every single game
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: that he's ever played. Paua is on the field, he
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: is getting seven or more targets. He got nine last
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: week eighty four yards in a great catch against the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Baltimore r I think the way Matthew Stafford is playing
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: right now, this one not close. Twenty eight twenty three
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for me with the Rams winning pizza pizza pregame predictions
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: delivered by Little Caesars, Bucks and Panthers, excuse me. Packers
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in Lambeau Tampa, currently atop the NFC Southwall Green Bay
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: clinging to the final wild card spot in the NFC?
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: Did they maintain that cling?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: I don't think they do.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna have the Packers win this game twenty four
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: to twenty one, but I think it's close because I
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: want to take you to the future.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: The year is twenty thirty seven.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Ai is actually running a few different teams as football coaches,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: but Joe Berry is still the defensive coordinator for the
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Packers and they're still giving up huge rushing yards every week.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: This week it's Rashad White. The Bucks have a running
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: game that's kind of.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Fun that wasn't happening early in the season. Every week
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: I watch or Shod White, and I gotta say I
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: was wrong about you.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Rashad White.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: You're running the ball well, you're nice as a receiver,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: and this matchup is great. So maybe we'll hear decker
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: off touchdown Tampa Bay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I've got Green Bay winning this one twenty three to twenty.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Because let's go back to Monday Night. Love was good
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in certain situations on Monday Night Football. He continued his
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: hot stretch, but things were a little gusty in MetLife,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and he does like to throw these.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: In fact, he may be fading.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Away in all these completions that we're seeing. He loves
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the dart Novitsky one leg fade away when the wind
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: is gusting and up to twenty miles an hour.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: That's not necessarily the thing that you like to do.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: But three of ten for seventy six yards and a
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: pick on passes over ten air yards.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Monday, I don't think he duplicates that. I think the
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Packers win it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Green Bay all across for us go ahead and mem away,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I have twenty three to nineteen, Meme alert twenty three
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to nineteen in this matchup. I want to dial into
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: what Jordan leve is starting to show us. Like we
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: talk about quarterbacks going from the one hundred to two
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: hundred level, two hundred three hundred, what's going on with
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: the blitz. Well, Jordan Love has actually been really good
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: against blitz eight touchdowns, just one interception, ninety four point
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: five passer rating. But I did see last week against
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: the Giants that's when that interception happened.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: And some of the blitzes, especially.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: When you have an even more interesting type of Blitz
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: that's gonna be in the future where we see some
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: things with him that we're gonna have to overcome, meaning
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: teams that are really good. But that's not necessarily the
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: case against the Bucks. It's just something to watch out for.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Buck's secondary is not their strongest point in this team.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: But I do want to say, like some of those
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: those tricky blitz is, the things that are disguised blitzes,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: the things that ahead of the snap look different. He's
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: starting to get there, but he's like three hundred level,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: not like five hundred level.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Not Master's thess No, he's defensive one.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Not Masters Northwestern. You can send that, yeah way, some
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: of that some of that money bag go fund.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You know, an offense which we're all picking where the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: average age is under twenty six for the Browns, who
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: are currently the five seed in the AFC, and thirty
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: eight year old Joe.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Flacco has the dog pound believing third and.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: One takes it, turns, bootlegs it out to the right.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: He's got a man wide open head, junkers got it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Hit the food going up.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Touchdown, checking and five fleco back looks middle and juke a.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Wide open Toney fifteen corner, ten five touchdown.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: He's got two two they do. He rolls right, he
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: throws a bit on a.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Fine open down at the twenty five hit the twenty
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: fifteen ten five touchdown hitch.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: David do.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Look at a screen from Joe Black on the Browns
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: play host of Justin Fields and the Bears Chicago, winners
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of three of their last four.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Greg do they make it four of their last five?
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: I think they do. I like the upset.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I like the Bears nineteen to seventeen. It's a defensive game,
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: and yet the Browns defense is great. But the Bears
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: defense is great too. I regret to inform all the
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Bears fans who never want to believe that their team
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: is good. I think your team is good right now.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: You're the berserker. You're the berserker that beats some good
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: teams down the stretch. Jakwan Brisker, Jalen Johnson, these young
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: players in the secondary, Yeah, that's my friend Mark Sessler's
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: word for like, who's gonna go crazy at the end
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: of the year. They're out of the mix, really, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: they're gonna mess up your playoff game. And at this
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: secondary's really communicating well. They pass off the receiver as well.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: It was kind of the vision for Matt Eberflus And look,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: it took like a year and a half to get here,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: but it's here.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: I think they have a really good defense.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Ryan Pace who made the call go
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: back to week nine. The Bears have the lowest passer
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: rating allowed in the entire NFL since week nine. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: am taking the Chicago Bears as well, because you bring
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: in Montes sweat, and all of a sudden, the pass.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Rush looks a little bit better.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: People start to believe, the field position gets a little
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: bit better, the offense comes out there, Justin Field starts
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: making plays. He's looking down the field. To DJ Moore,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: everything is coming up Chicago right now. Greg mentioned like
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: fatalistic Bears fans. We got one in our ear right
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: now who doesn't necessarily want to believe.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: But I believe in Chicago.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I like the fact that the defense is getting better,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: But like, can we stop forgetting that Cleveland's defense is
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: certifiably awesome? Like the number one scoring evens. It's not
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: like we're talking about any old defense here.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Twenty four to nineteen.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: The Brownies take this one. I'm sorry hythem. It's not personal.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Clearly it's a prime number. Why well, I want to
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: talk about something that Justin Fields does. He takes a
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: long time before he throws, In fact, the longest per
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: next gen stats three point one to three seconds. He
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: also has a top four sacks taken rate three point
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: six per game. Miles Garrett hasn't registered a sack in
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: three games. Never in his career has he gone four
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: games without registering a sack. This is a situation where,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: especially if Denzel Ward comes back, both Denzel Ward and Emerson,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: there guys who are ranking the top five in terms
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: of corners in limiting passer rating of their opponents.
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  Speaker 3: I like the improvement that the Bears.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Defense has had Ryan Poles we went to college together,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: love him, but this is still a defense that the
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Browns is like a really like historically good, like very
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: very good defense.
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  Speaker 3: So just am I crazy?
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: Make me feel like, No, you're not crazy. I just
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: feel like Browns fans they're expecting some misery too. Now
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: is the time of year it usually comes.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody's gonna be said, most teams to be said.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: But if the playoffs started today, one, that would be
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: very scary and we'll be concerned. But two, Cleveland will
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: be in the tournament. Let's check out the rest of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the playoff picture in the AFC. Baltimore holding onto that
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: one seed, but looking down in the hunt is everybody
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  Speaker 2: except for a few teams. Sorry, but literally everybody speaking
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  Speaker 2: of the playoffs you want in the Hunt graphic, it's
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  Speaker 2: featured on Saturday here on NFL Network or Triple Head.
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  Speaker 2: Are six teams all in the postseason Hunt Vikings Bengals
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  Speaker 2: at one o'clock Eastern, followed by the Steelers, Colts, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the Broncos Lions in prime time Saturday only on NFL Network,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: also streaming on NFL Plus. In fact, let's dive into
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: some player props for the Saturday games, including starting off
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: with some rushing yards seventy six and a half. Justin
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Jefferson will cash ball, We'll we have seventy six and
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: a half receiving yards.
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  Speaker 3: You have more than that.
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  Speaker 4: I really need Greg to just keep throwing his little
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: thing and not catching it. I like the opportunity here.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I like the Bengals defense, but they're not at full.
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  Speaker 6: Either.
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  Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson get right situation for him to kind of
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: get his sea legs back under him.
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  Speaker 5: And we know Nick Mallin's like, okay, I was trying
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: to spin it like you do like a tennis racket.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Look at that.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go hop on, Mr Chase.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm doing.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna lead right into it. Jeff Chase has
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: more catches this year, by the way, than he's ever
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: had in his career.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: It's like, even though Joe burrows Er, Jake Brown and
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Jamar Chase against this defense. Look, they're a great defense,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: the Vikings this year, but I still think they can
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: give up some big plays.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah they can.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: And also Naji Harris has had more than fifty one
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: and a half rushing yards in a few games this season.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I think this will be another one of these games
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: for Naji Harris. I don't know how much Pittsburgh is
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: gonna put the ball in the air with Mitchell Trubisky.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I think they keep it on the ground. Good games
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: for both Jalen Warren and Naji Harris. Let's go back
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  Speaker 2: to you, Cynthia Gardner. Minshew more or less than one
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: and a half paste touchdowns?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Whoa two?
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: But he could turn the ball over because I think
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: that it's going to come down to kind of the
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: final possession here two passing touchdowns. I don't think it'll
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: be him rushing in the football like he did.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: In some pass games all right.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Jared Golfgreg more or less than two hundred and fifty
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: one and a half passing yards.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: I actually think they get in trouble when he throws
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: too much.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: I'm going less. I have the Lions winning. We relax.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: I have the Lions winning this feisty When I look
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: at the matchup, I look at.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: The running game.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: That's to me where Detroit needs to get back to
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: dominating their beer. Gibbs good David Montgomery against this Broncos
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: defense not great against the run.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: So I'm going less in that game.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson more or less than one and a half
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: passing touchdowns Saturday night, and I think it's more, and
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I think the people see you to my left also
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: agreed with me, despite the fact that they picked the
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. The Lions defense occasionally prone to some problems.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Cynthia's got ear muffs, but they're they don't work.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Not listening anymore, I'm done, But see, you.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: Wouldn't be able to acknowledge that if you anyway.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Tommy Cutlets and the Giants have won three straight games,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the g Men taking on the Saints in New Orleans.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Saints can still win their division. Everybody can't except you Panthers. Sorry,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: what do you see taking place at the I think.
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  Speaker 4: No Orlan was this one, but just by two twenty
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: to eighteen, I really like, I want to pick the.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Giants is so much fun. I love like all of
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: this going on.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: You know, not a lot of US Italian folk get
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: like you know, we're not typically very tall, so it's
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: not a big football situation.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: But I love this one.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: But Alvin Kamara unfortunately plays for the Saints, and when
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at what he does to the outside, the
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: run away from the best part of where that Giants
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: front has been operating. Caveon Thibodeau took a huge step
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: forward this season. There's a lot of good things going on,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: but Alvin Kamara, especially when he runs to the outside,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: he's just going someplace that they don't have a great
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: answer for.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And now we get Taysom Hill back, which means there's.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Going to be tricks, and we know what happens with
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: tricks tricks, and then Alvin Kamara tends to lend to
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: a Saints win.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: I do like it when Taysom Hill is back on
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: the field and Taysom tricks, I like, I haven't known
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: what to do all week in this game. I don't
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: feel good about either. I have the Saints winning this
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: game by one point. And sometimes when you count on
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: like one thing is your pillar as a team, I'm
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: not doing it right now. You know, when you count
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: on one pillar as a team, it's your run defense
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: in New Orleans. That's the thing you build on, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: then the one thing that you've been great year after you. Hey,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: we got to keep Dennis Allen. Can't mess with this
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: great defense, especially this run defense. When that starts to
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: fall apart, and they've been a bad run defense for
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: a while, that does worry me that the foundation of
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: the whole thing is falling apart. So I don't feel good.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Like this is a vibes off. The Saints have the
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: worst vibes in the league. The Giants have the best.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm doing here. Flip Okay, I
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: want to do something we've never done in the history
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: of this show. I will flip my pick, but only
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: if one of you comes with me. And I know
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: you haven't even made your pick, but I know where
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: you're leending. But if you come with me to the
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Giants side, I will I will flip it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Why don't we all go to Giants? So then we
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: go down as a unit.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: We can all really think it's the States, but I
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: will go if we all pick the same and we
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: all kind of think it's more fun, and I'm Itallian.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: Let's do it. I'm flip flip.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: Well, now I've been peeriod. We'll have to into this.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: I will say, uh.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Before we'll get the final picks out, they total social
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: media to figure out what we're picking.
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: Cars of this game.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Derek Carr is actually throwing the deep ball to the
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: third highest percentage in the entire NFL right now, and
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: against the blitz that the intermediate ball has not been happening.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: It has not happened in New Orleans pretty much all season.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: But with Rashid Shahied back, Derek Carr is going to
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: take some shots down the field. We know Wink is
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: gonna blitz whether it's working or not. And I think,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: as of right now, the Saints win this game. But
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I could be peer pressure taking.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: If we all take it, then it's like I didn't
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: even think Cynthia was a possibility because this would be
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: the first pick.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Also in the history they showed that she didn't go
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: with the model.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: If I've got both of you, I think we all
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: got to switch it.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: Come on, Okay, yeah, why not?
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: That's good. We're all taking a lot like that.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: It's like they knew it was, but we legitimately, I
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: have no idea what is happening on the show though
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I'm currently supposed to be hosting, but I do. We're
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: trying to get you some quick picks are here coming
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: up there. We're going to the Chiefs and the Patriots
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: in Jellett, Kansas City, losing two in a row.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Patrick Mahomes could put on a show in New England,
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: or does he? Grek.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: I don't think he puts on a show, but I
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: think he wins twenty three to seventeen. Look, Bailey Zappi
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: and Patrick Mahomes very different, but they're alike in one way.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: How they've each thrown one touchdown that went for over
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: twenty eight yards.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: I'll see that's it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: They've each thrown one, so two quarterbacks and you just
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: saw Mahomes this. I mean Zappi's actually went a little
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: bit further. Look at that nice little throw. Basically the
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: same player, they're similar in some ways.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: And the Patriots defense and keep it close? Why not?
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: All right, we're all on the Chiefs there Texas and
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: Titans in Nashville. CJ. Shroud unfortunately doubtful for this one.
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: Nico Collins also, what do you see.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Taking place twenty one to eighteen in favor of the
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Titans due to all the injuries to the Texans.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm looking at DeAndre.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Hopkins and I think Miami on some they just let
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: him go, like get away. You're really going to give
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: DeAndre Hopkins like more than three yards of cushion? Okay,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: that'll turn out well for you. But also even on
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: those contested catches, he's been a menace.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Like his entire career. So I'm looking at this op rate.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look at least that one was in coverage,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: there was a touchdown.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Look at that chure.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: He's on the edge, he's run at the perimeter, but
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: like nobody's there, they just let him go.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Well, he's in my fantasy lineup this week, so.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Already got duke and open. Why are you giving him
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: three yards of cushion? Why are you giving him three
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: feet of cushion?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: An interesting, interesting decision considering the threats, like who's the
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: receiving threat for the Titans. It's gonna be New Hopkins
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: let's keep things southerly the Falcons and the Panthers. Atlanta
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: looking to bounce back after last week's lost that came
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: in the final minutes to the Bucks.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: I think there's a chance for that big Bejon game.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Before last week, he had over twenty touches a game
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: in the previous three weeks, and then it was.
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: Down to fifteen.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Why not load him up against that Panthers defense and
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: get Bijon out in space, like football space, not like
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: we don't want Bejeon on any rockets or anything like that.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Twenty four to seventeen is my pick.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: As we've all got the Atlanta Falcons winning all right,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: keeping paced with the Faints. Well, apparently we all have
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: losing looking forward to our Saturday triple header. But we
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: need you to look forward to right now because we
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: got some things you should write down. It is our
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: week fifteen predictions that Greg Rosenthal leads us off.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had so many things. I wrote down three things,
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Oh some freeways. Falcon's gonna win easy, Jets keep it close.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: But the one I like the best is the Bears
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: winning this game outright over the Browns and justin fields
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: going over fifty. Nick Bards rushing. I'm just going bonuses
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: all around. I'm gonna make it harder on myself. This
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: team is come into their own right now. Defensively, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: talked about it. Offensively, fields is doing a nice job
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: of taking the rushing yards when they're there. Some design runs,
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: some shots downfield that'll be tough against the Browns. I
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: think it's a defensive game, but I think he runs.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: That's the weakness of this Browns defense is defending the run.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: We have a sexy showdown of quarterbacks on Sunday's game
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: day morning.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a kiss right now. Keep it simple.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: On Saturday, Jamior Gibbs, his longest rush will be at
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: least thirteen yards.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: That's it. We're gonna keep it really.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Simple that a thing that can you can do, that
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: you can write it down, will be.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: At least it's going to be more than thirteen yards.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: I feel like he's done that many streaks.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Correct, Why beer Gibbs fan, which is why we're gonna
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: kiss it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Keep it simple. Stupid or silly or well, yeah, it
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: depends depends on the target. The prime number. People know
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: exactly about this, Yes, you know.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: Our types of folks.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Folks, Russell Wilson will pass for more than two hundred
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: and seventeen yards on Saturday night against the Detroit Lions
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: at something. It's a number he's hit many times this season,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: especially when the opponent's past defense has shown some flaws.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Russ is able to step up and hit some deep
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: shots to Courtland Sutton.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: I believe that he will do that.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Where can I watch that game?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: You can watch that game, Cynthia, as well as two
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: other games in a Saturday triple header right here on
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: NFL Number no available on the NFL plus.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: And while you're imagine seeing Russell Wilson do that, just
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: imagine Cynthia's reaction as it's happening.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: And no Lions a win, though Lions.
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: A win, It'll be just like that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Thanks a Watching Game debut presented by Mercedes Bins.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: We'll see coming up next week. Enjoy the games, everybody.
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