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Insiders Injury Report, Reveal for the 2023 Semi Finalists, & Power Rankings · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: this hour with quarterback news news of an injury in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: The question is how fad Tom PILLI sero great to
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  Speaker 1: have you is Justin Fields left shoulder. As the Bears
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the Jets this Sunday, Andrew Justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: admitted he was in a lot of pain and that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty obvious watching him moving around the field, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the second half of last week's game. Bears coach
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  Speaker 1: Matt eber Flews says the Fields is day today, team
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  Speaker 1: not confirming any details on exactly what Fields is dealing
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  Speaker 1: with now. In outports reported yesterday it is a dislocated shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: There has been some pushback on that. My understanding is
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  Speaker 1: similar that the shoulder popped out, it popped right back in.
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  Speaker 1: At any rate, Justin Field is one of the toughest
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  Speaker 1: guys that you're going to be around. That's part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason that the Bears love him. If there is
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  Speaker 1: a way for him to go this week against the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: you should anticipate that he is going to go. However,
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  Speaker 1: these are going to be medical decisions with a dynamic
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  Speaker 1: young players. Certainly has looked in recent weeks like a
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. So if the Bears decide to hold Fields back,
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  Speaker 1: it would be Trevor Simeon getting his first Bears start,
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  Speaker 1: a one time jet and a one time jet now
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  Speaker 1: let's get to those jets. For the Bears, it's a
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  Speaker 1: medical decision, it seems. For Robert Salot, and we just
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  Speaker 1: played the sound bite there with Jeff da Tom it's
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  Speaker 1: it's something bigger than that. And and he has Mike
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  Speaker 1: White to choose from, he has Joe Flacco to choose from.
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  Speaker 1: That is, if he decides to bench Zack Wilson. But
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  Speaker 1: last night he didn't want to say that that's yet
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing. That's right, Andrew, But this is
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  Speaker 1: really the first time that Robert Sala has even broached
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  Speaker 1: the idea of potentially sitting Zack Wilson down. He's somebody
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  Speaker 1: that they drafted number two overall in draft. He has
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  Speaker 1: had some injuries, but other than that, he has been
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  Speaker 1: the guy in New York. But he's coming off of
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  Speaker 1: a dreadful performance and a really bad one for the
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  Speaker 1: Jets in that bizarre loss. I think it's fair to
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  Speaker 1: call it that against the Patriots over the weekend. Has
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  Speaker 1: also come under fire for perhaps not entirely taking responsibility
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  Speaker 1: or accountability for the way that he played on a
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  Speaker 1: day that the defense was really good for New York.
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  Speaker 1: So Robert Sala said that he had some time to
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  Speaker 1: take a deep breath, sit back a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: the plane. He now says they are evaluating everything. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't anticipate, unlike some prior changes in New York that
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  Speaker 1: Robert soul is simply gonna walk to the podium tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and announced who is starting quarterback is there could
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  Speaker 1: potentially be some gamesmanship during the week and we don't
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  Speaker 1: even know. Is it gonna be Mike White, who played
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  Speaker 1: pretty well free stretch of games last season for New
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  Speaker 1: York or could it be Joe Flacco, who was the
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  Speaker 1: starter when Wilson was out at the start of this season,
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  Speaker 1: but in recent weeks has been number three and inactive
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  Speaker 1: beyond Bull, Zack Wilson and Mike Life. Yeah. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, it did raise some eyebrows ninety minutes
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  Speaker 1: before the game when Joe Flacco was announced its inactive
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  Speaker 1: and Mike White was in there as the number two.
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  Speaker 1: Granted he never took the field Zack Wilson's job at
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  Speaker 1: least for now. All Right, we get the Titans and
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals coming up playoff rematch on Sunday. The Titans
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  Speaker 1: coming off a big win this past Thursday Tom in
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay. Shortly after they landed Friday morning. The wee
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  Speaker 1: hours Friday morning in Nashville, offensive coordinator Todd Downing was
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  Speaker 1: pulled over for d uy. What Rabels say today about
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  Speaker 1: is o c lander. Titans coach Mike Rabel says that
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  Speaker 1: Todd Downing will remain as the offensive coordinator as they
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  Speaker 1: move forward here, but Rabel also left open the door
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  Speaker 1: that that potentially could change somewhere down the line, depending
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  Speaker 1: how things play out with the legal process as well
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  Speaker 1: as the NFL process. In other words, the Titans at
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  Speaker 1: this point are not taking club action against Todd Downing,
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  Speaker 1: who my understanding it is has been back in the
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  Speaker 1: building and working business as usual over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. Here this then would fall under the blanket
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL's personal conduct policy. By and large, those
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  Speaker 1: cases get resolved on the legal front before the NFL
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  Speaker 1: would take action. So quite possible here that the Titans
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  Speaker 1: will have their offensive coordinator with them for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of this season, and any discipline could be end up
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  Speaker 1: happening if again, if any comes next off season or
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  Speaker 1: even later, Todd Downing staying on as O see, at
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  Speaker 1: least for now. Titans Bengals coming up one o'clock on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tom Palaicero, our insider today. Now to the
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving games. Stretches his hand out, snap place Smit kicked
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  Speaker 1: by Cairo Santos. It is up. It is good for
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  Speaker 1: the end. Get your feast on Bears fans, Thanksgiving Turkey
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  Speaker 1: and the fixings will never taste any better. Here we
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  Speaker 1: go this time for real handed its delivered. The great
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  Speaker 1: Jenkins is waiting with the passage put by Dawson Nuts
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  Speaker 1: who has his second Thanksgiving night touchdown and the Bills
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  Speaker 1: dominating here on the road. All right, that was last Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: This Thanksgiving, oh the job. Turkey is gonna be back
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  Speaker 1: for game day morning. Get tann have Eastern time, Jive.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey is gonna be all over the place. Please leaves
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  Speaker 1: falling on the show. We invite you to wake up
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  Speaker 1: early for the holiday and be there for g D
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  Speaker 1: and Jane Slater in Dallas. Brian Boulding are happy early
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  Speaker 1: Holidays to you both here as we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: game in the afternoon window, the Giants and the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Jane obviously there you see the star are behind her
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas where there's a lot of talk about Odell
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  Speaker 1: Peckham this week, Jane, but there's also a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talk about the running game because we saw Pollard and
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott um fully operational, if you will, this past Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and it was spectacular. Well, folks around here have long
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  Speaker 1: been advocating for this two running back system, arguing that
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  Speaker 1: you need not only Tony Pollard but Ezekiel Elliott, and
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  Speaker 1: you saw that on display on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: You had the two rushing touchdowns from Ezekiel Elliott. You
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  Speaker 1: had nearly two hundred yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: out of the backfield for Tony Pollard, and that is
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  Speaker 1: how you're wearing down opposing defenses. Now, Ezekiel Elliott is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a little bit of a new situation. They've
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  Speaker 1: got to walk through today, so they're sitting them out
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  Speaker 1: of it. But even he joked about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he loves the short turnaround, he doesn't love the practice.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to just play in the game. So he
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  Speaker 1: is excited for Sunday. It's gonna be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a struggle when you consider the Giants are so
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  Speaker 1: banked up in the secondary at slowing this group down,
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  Speaker 1: because we certainly saw the Vikings having a hard time
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  Speaker 1: with it. If the Cowboys can't get this run game going.
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  Speaker 1: And then say to your point, Brian, a guy like oh,
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  Speaker 1: b J it's the things that get Jerry Jones excited.
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  Speaker 1: It's why he talks about the fact that this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that could make a run at the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But they need all of these parts to be working
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  Speaker 1: in tandem, and they work better when you've got Ezeka
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  Speaker 1: Ellett and Tony Paul down in the field together. I
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  Speaker 1: totally agree with you. And you know, when you watch
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys played on Sunday with that two back system
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  Speaker 1: that they used, it really nullified the pass rushers that
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings have was the Darius Smith and DJ
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  Speaker 1: Wantam and Dneil Hunter. I mean, they were invisible. And
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  Speaker 1: so I thought the offensive line played very well. Jane.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Smith just keeps getting better and better. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: so physical. He he has such the ability to move
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  Speaker 1: people in front of him in in widen holes. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think the offensive line, the two backs, the
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  Speaker 1: identity has really come on now that Doc is fully healthy,
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  Speaker 1: integrated the offense right now, it really looks like they're
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  Speaker 1: difficult to defend. What I really liked about the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: last week, Jane, was they were up twenty to three
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  Speaker 1: with thirteen seconds left and they hit that shot to
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  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb down the sidelines, but by design for twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven yards. It led to the big field goal. They
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  Speaker 1: never stopped attacking, and I think that's the mentality that
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys can have, especially when the run game gets cooking.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, Brian, you brought up an interesting point.
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  Speaker 1: We call these the cardiac Cowboys because it does seem
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  Speaker 1: like a bit of a roller coaster every week. One
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  Speaker 1: of the big things that hit them at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year was the loss of Tyron Smith. I
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  Speaker 1: would tell you that he was out at practice today's
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  Speaker 1: kind of working his way back finally. And it was
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones on one oh five three, the fan that
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  Speaker 1: was asked, what do you do with Tyron when he
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  Speaker 1: comes back? I am kind of curious your thought on
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  Speaker 1: this Tyron Smith. He says he's going to go back
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  Speaker 1: to left tackle. He feels confident that Tyler Smith can
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  Speaker 1: go to left guard. D a mess with something that's
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  Speaker 1: not working right now, though, given how well they've been playing, well,
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  Speaker 1: it just depends on what kind of kidem mean you want.
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  Speaker 1: If Tyrone is ready to go, you have to put
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  Speaker 1: him in there, because nobody has meat hooks like Tyrone Smith.
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  Speaker 1: When he grabs you, he never let you go and
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  Speaker 1: it's just impossible to beat him out there. So if
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  Speaker 1: he's at that level, I kick Tyler back in where
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  Speaker 1: he started the off season. He started the preseason like
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  Speaker 1: you started the season that left guard, and I think
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  Speaker 1: you might have one of the more dominant left sides
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  Speaker 1: in all of football. If that would take place, which
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  Speaker 1: might really help some kind of a big playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that. That made me laugh. And and
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  Speaker 1: also I don't know the last time someone like you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, says giving like turkey, like just grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the turkey drums, you know, and and just double fisted
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, it's at that time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get a baldly breakdown of you carving a turkey? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I pay for that. I'll be carving a turkey on Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do let's get a breakdown. We we take ple
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  Speaker 1: it of blood that gives it away. Brian, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean things get things get caught. Andrew like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. I'm laughing that Jane called you, Brian. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I haven't heard. I've known you for twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard anyone call you Brian. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's like we're getting ready for the Thanksgiving table
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  Speaker 1: an awkward conversations. Thank you, Brian. All right and Jane
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  Speaker 1: NFC standings as we get ready for the Thanksgiving Day
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  Speaker 1: table conversation. Have the Cowboys and the Giants at seven
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  Speaker 1: and three, two games behind the Eagles and in front
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  Speaker 1: of the Commanders. Maybe you can debate the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame at the Thanksgiving table. Because we have in our
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  Speaker 1: hands the list for the twenty three class, the semifinalists. Look,
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  Speaker 1: who's on it again? South that. I appreciate the wood
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  Speaker 1: Wane aver calling me, But no, what you do with books, Candy,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do that today. It's gonna be one right here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go touches all three. Yeah, let's go, man, let's go, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go get a smart put a smile on her face.
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  Speaker 1: You can talk about a little bit, a little safe
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  Speaker 1: ding a touchdown. Man. I tossed him on that play.
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  Speaker 1: I threw him on ground. I can't get up like that.
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  Speaker 1: I can only get up on my front. Let's enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this one. It's kind of while I love our guy,
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  Speaker 1: our good friend, our colleague, Joe Thomas says, we have
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  Speaker 1: the breaking news here. The list for Canton. The class
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  Speaker 1: of three has five first time eligibles, and Joe is
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  Speaker 1: on it. Not surprisingly, never missed the game. He's getting
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  Speaker 1: in JR. Evans, Dwight Freeney, James Harrison, Durrell Reevous. The inductees.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be announced tonight before the Super Bowl, actually Thursday
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  Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl. We do it at honors now
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  Speaker 1: for Bor eight ninth before the game in Glendale. Damn
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  Speaker 1: the season, super Bowl fifty seven. Steve watch back with
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  Speaker 1: us and our Whole of Fame voter Jim Trotter as well.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of these first time eligible Jim?
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  Speaker 1: They're impressive, without question, Andrew. The thing that's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: me is that, look, there's been a lot of talk
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  Speaker 1: in recent years about first year eligible guys jumping to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the line. And we know this year
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  Speaker 1: we have ten returning finalists who are still part of
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  Speaker 1: this group in terms of the semifinalists this year, so
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be very competitive at the end. But look,
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  Speaker 1: in that group we're talking about all decade players, and
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  Speaker 1: all decade players receive a lot of attention and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect from voters. So for me, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be really interesting. Joe Thomas one of the best left
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  Speaker 1: tackles ever. Durrell Reva's one of the best cover corners ever,
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  Speaker 1: even had his own nickname with Rivas Island, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then you talk about some of those other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Jarry Evans was a tremendous guard, et cetera. So it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a fun time. It's gonna be a tough
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  Speaker 1: time making those selections, but a fun time. Yeah, salute
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  Speaker 1: to the vote the other guys in that room, Jim,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could take the five first time eligibles
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  Speaker 1: right there, but to kind of talk about them skipping
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  Speaker 1: the line, I have no idea how in the world
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  Speaker 1: you can look like James Harrison and Dwight Freeney and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well are they more? Are they better? Can they go
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Jared Allen and DeMarcus went White, friendy went
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  Speaker 1: to Syracuse. You should get out there. You go to
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  Speaker 1: see the hold the Orangemen link up right there. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is a tough decision right here,
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  Speaker 1: because you talk look at the wide receivers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about an Kwon Bolden and Steve Smith, you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys like that, Reggie Wayne Tory Holt. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's amazing, Gym. I don't know how you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, but I'm just looking at these pass rushers,
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  Speaker 1: and again I look at James Harrison Defensive Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year and guys like that, and then DeMarcus where
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  Speaker 1: the impact he had on two teams winning Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be three eligible spots because you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Revus and Joe Thomas. Um that's gonna be Jim,
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  Speaker 1: have fun. What's fascinating is that, for instance, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about these receivers Steve Smith and A. Kwon Bolden didn't
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  Speaker 1: even make the finalist last year. So that tells how
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  Speaker 1: deep that receiver group is as we go forward with
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  Speaker 1: this and what else stands out to you, Jim, And
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  Speaker 1: again the it's twenty eight, not just those five. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the first time guys with twenty eight modern era players.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Smith, senior, Reggie Wayne is now the receiver coach
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  Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis called Zach Thomas heinsword. It's a long list.
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  Speaker 1: They're all in NFL dot Com. What do you see there, Jim, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are a few interesting names on there to me.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, Henry Ellert, the former Rams grade AT receiver
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  Speaker 1: making it to the semifinalist. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people have forgotten about him. Henry eller was one of
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  Speaker 1: the great receivers during this series. His first five years,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of lost in a run centric offense
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  Speaker 1: playing with Eric Dickerson and John Robinson out there with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. But once Eric was traded, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: his final nine seasons um and not all of them
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  Speaker 1: were with the Rams, obviously, but Henry Ellard had seven
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  Speaker 1: one thousand yards seasons average sixty catches. At the time
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  Speaker 1: of his retirement, he was fourth in the league and
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  Speaker 1: received eaving yard or fourth and receptions and third in
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  Speaker 1: receiving yards. And we tend to forget that now with
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  Speaker 1: the way the game is opened up and or the
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  Speaker 1: passing game has opened up. Then you talk about a
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  Speaker 1: guy like London Flawod Fletcher, who was an iron man,
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  Speaker 1: played started two hundred and fifty six games. He started
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  Speaker 1: his last two hundred and fifteen games eight times in
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  Speaker 1: his career. He ranked in the top ten and tackles.
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  Speaker 1: And then you can go to a guy like Albert Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: the cornerback from Kansas City, who there are people out
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  Speaker 1: there who are making a strong push for him as
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  Speaker 1: being one of the best cover corners of his era,
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  Speaker 1: if not ever, and they are pushing hard for him
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  Speaker 1: to get consideration in terms of being a flintalist. So
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  Speaker 1: there's some mis interesting names on the on this list.
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  Speaker 1: But again, as I say, it's gonna be very competitive,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that there are ten returning finalists right now from
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, and then you have this outstanding year
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  Speaker 1: of first eligible guys. And I'll throw in my two
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  Speaker 1: cents for front of the program at another former Ram
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver and Tory Hold this is his ninth time
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  Speaker 1: as a semifinalist. How about Randy Barber, Steve this is
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  Speaker 1: his sixth time making it this fall. This is amazing
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  Speaker 1: to me. And this is where again I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: selector Jim is, but where the changes in the game
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  Speaker 1: today might apply to a player from this era. Because
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  Speaker 1: Royande Barber is considered the gold standard at the slot corner,
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  Speaker 1: right the nickelback with sacks, with tackles, with interceptions, with
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  Speaker 1: fumble recoveries and forced fumbles. The guy is a stat
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  Speaker 1: line stuffer. In today's game, he'd be considered one of
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  Speaker 1: the best defensive backs in the game because the importance
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  Speaker 1: of the slot corner. But when he played on that
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  Speaker 1: Great Bucks defense, a lot of people would say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a slot corner. He's not necessarily the overall man corner.
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  Speaker 1: But again this is where Jim you would the selectors
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  Speaker 1: have a hard time because his value overall to that
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  Speaker 1: great defense, to me, cannot be measured enough. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you, Steven. I can make one quick point here.
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  Speaker 1: Two guys I'm really happy to see still on this
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: list or Rodney Harrison and Darren Woodson, two safeties in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, have deserved for some time to go into
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. So to see them get to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: this point, hopefully they will take that next step and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be finalists and be discussed in that room where they
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: deserve an opportunity to go in. Coming up, we have
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: a new number one in the Power Rankings. No it's
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: not the Lions, but they're moving up as well. Who
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: is this guy going up high, real high? Look at us.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: It's your favorite thing on Tuesday, isn't it. Of course
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: it is. It's the brand new Power Rankings. There's a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: new number one. Get ready for the angry calls from Philadelphia.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: The Eagles dropped down too, I'm sorry, dropped down to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: two from one, not to two at well, who had
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: a sixty two yard touchdown, but they dropped down to two,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and the man responsible for that. Send all your email
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and all your tweets to at Dan hand Zeus, who
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: now has the Chiefs at number one. Dan, explain yourself.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I won't respond to many of them, Not even Colleen Wolf,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: your co host on the course, has known Eagles apologist. No,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: she'll be cool with it. You know why, because we
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: did the show already and she understands that the Eagles
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: have come down a little bit and the Chiefs. Just
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: that performance on Sunday night a little cheat code for
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the power rankings guy. Those Island games, the primetime games,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: they kind of jumped out to me a little bit more,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: especially when you performed waited performance there just a tiny bet.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but that's the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. Andrew and I loved the way Mahomes and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Kelsey just said, nah, we're not losing this game in
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: those last two minutes, and it just reminded me that
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, when you try to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: figure out who's the best of the best, only one
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: team has Mahomes alright. So like Nick Serrianti who was
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: cursing a Colts fans after that game, saying this was
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: for Frank Reichy. He has not reached out to you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: yet angry at this. I haven't heard um from Nick
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Siriani yet, but if I do, he knows it's not
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: personal and there's still plenty of time for the Eagles
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to get back where they are. I think the Eagles
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: are gonna be fine. I think it's only natural that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: there's a little dip uh the way things were going.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is for the best. Maybe it's better this
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: is happening now in the end of November as opposed
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to a one and done stunner in January. But it
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is interesting that they kind of slept walk through that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: game against the Colts team that, let's face it, is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: not very good, but they found a way, and that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: is also the mark of a good team. Eagles are fine.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about them. I feel really good about
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the top five in general and exactly where the Eagles.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I am kidding. I can't imagine that Nixt sir Annie
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: would reach out to you. I I kid here because
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I don't care. The Cowboys, um are up five to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: number three. That's how much you thought of their stand
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: alone four PM window win. That's interesting. Do they get
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a four PM, is there the week bump game of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the week bump. I'm gonna say no, not not as much.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: But it was very impressive. How could it? How could
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you not be super impressed? And I've been in on
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys for the most of the most of the season,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: if you're following the power rankings, they've been a top
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: ten team. This was the game where they really step
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: up and it's like, Wow, this is them at their
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: top four. I think Tony Pollard and there's no more
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: handwringing about Zeke Elliott. He's the most important guy in
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that backfield. And seeing Dak play well in the defense
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: get after it, and Michael Parson set the tone the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: way he did at the beginning of this game. They're
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: gonna be a tough out this year. I know we
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: always say that the time of year and then something
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: bad happens in January, but this just feels a little
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bit different. There's there's real balance, and maybe O'Dell's on
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the team in a couple weeks. Who know, No, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: think he will be actually, and I think this game
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: could be for Odell. Not that I think he's just
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: gonna go sign with the Giants. If somehow the Giants
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: pulled a stunner, but hey, you never know the Vikings
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the other side of that game. Obviously, Sunday in Minnesota
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: are down six to number nine. But let's play a hypothetical.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: What if they rebound with the resounded win over the Patriots.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Are you buying again? I'm not out. I mean, I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: didn't sell on the Vikings. There's still top ten team.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: This is kind of where it had them all year,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So I'm a little bit annoyed. After they beat the Bills.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You gotta hand out some flowers for you're annoyed you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: had him in the top five. I am just because
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I knew kind of in my heart watching every one
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of their games that they do feel more like an
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: eight to twelve type team, despite what the record says.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And then they go and they lay that egg. They
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: could absolutely bounce back. There's a lot of talent on
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this team. But I think it was a wake up,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: wake up call that there is the chance of the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: regression monster showing up here and taking this team down
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to earth a little bit. Um. Would it surprised me
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: if they win on Thursday? No, would it stunned me
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: if they use three of the next four. No, it wouldn't.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: They're not dominant. We're still trying to figure them out.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: We're still trying to forget a lot of these teams here,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: which is why I find it interesting, and I'm double
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: checking the standings here that we have the Buccaneers at
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: five and five at eleven, ahead of teams that have
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: winning records like the Seahawks who until last night we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: leading the West at six and four, or the Patriots
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: or your Jets, who I think, deep out inside you
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: want to see Mike White start on Sunday. How are
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers ahead of all those? Are we? How are
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: we still having this conversation and Andrew? It is the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: power rankings, not the power to understand that. But you
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: have them as a better team than those other team.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: If you put yes the Bucks where I see them,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's all very close. Let's that whole grouping from eleven
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to fifteen. Like you, I can't quibble if you want
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to mix any of those teams up. But I just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thought what we saw from the Bucks before the bye
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in Berlin was important. They moved the ball, that they
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: were able to convert on ten of thirteen third down
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: conversions and non kneel down situations that the defense came
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to life, and finally we're getting the ball, taking the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: ball away from the opponent. I just think the Bucks
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: are a team that's going to continue to get better.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: So that's a little show of faith in them. And
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it's understandable why they're ahead of the Seahawks because they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: beat the Seahawks obviously in Germany. Both those teams were
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: division leaders. It's not so crazy kicked off. I understand that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I guess it speaks to the overall middle of the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: pack malaise if you will. The Lions, however, no malaise.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: They have a chance to make it four on Thursday.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: You have them at eighteen. I love it. Isn't it perfect?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Isn't it perfect? How this has worked out? Andrew that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the Bills kind of came down to earth a little
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: bit in the last three weeks, the Lions come up
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and now we all get to enjoy a great Thanksgiving game.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's the defense. The offense has been pretty
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: consistent all season. It's the defense that has stepped up
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and during this wind streak, and it's gonna be fun
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to see them with that crowd going nuts. Really turned
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: this season on its ear and shocked the Bills, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Bills and the Lions. Interesting, he just went there. He
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: just went there. Okay, Dan Hanson's Power Rankings NFL dot
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