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#7: Unbeaten, no more! · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. My name is Andrew Siciliano. Other side of
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  Speaker 2: Rankings we are now six weeks in. The man who
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  Speaker 2: watches the Cowboys and Chargers on Monday night and says,
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  Speaker 2: why are they doing this to me? I they deadline
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  Speaker 2: to meet Eric at home? How the heck are you?
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  Speaker 3: You know me too well?
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  Speaker 4: Had I had about eight different storylines going in my
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  Speaker 4: notepad there before the game finally ended, and.
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  Speaker 3: I had a little clearer vision at that point.
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  Speaker 2: Were you as excited as that Charger fan, that young
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  Speaker 2: lady making all the faces down there? Were as excited
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  Speaker 2: as her watching that game?
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  Speaker 4: I think being is long in this league, as you
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  Speaker 4: and I have, we don't get quite that animated in
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  Speaker 4: the heat of the action.
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  Speaker 3: But she was having a moment.
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  Speaker 2: to NFL dot com you find the San Francisco forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers no longer unbeaten. There are no longer any unbeatens.
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  Speaker 2: They are still number one. The Chiefs are two, The
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  Speaker 2: Dolphins hmmm are three? The Lions, yeah, everybody at four,
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  Speaker 2: followed by the Eagles, who also take their first loss,
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  Speaker 2: and then the Jaguars, the Bills, and those Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: who made that young lady said on Monday night, let's
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  Speaker 2: get to the forty nine ers. They are banged up.
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  Speaker 2: They have injury concerns for not only Trent Williams seems okay,
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  Speaker 2: but for Christian McCaffrey and for Deebo Samuel as well.
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  Speaker 2: I was at that game. I lost my mind doing
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  Speaker 2: Browns Radio. Jake Moody's kick still went wide right if
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  Speaker 2: it goes down the middle, they are still number one.
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  Speaker 2: But something happened in that game. The number one defense
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  Speaker 2: in football slowed them down. Eric they lost for the
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  Speaker 2: first time at a calendar year, and for the first
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  Speaker 2: time this year they were held under thirty. Eric, they
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  Speaker 2: were held under twenty. In my eyes, they are still
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  Speaker 2: number one. Did you have any doubt in taking them
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  Speaker 2: out of the top spot.
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  Speaker 3: I thought about it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously the number one team in my poll loses,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta consider it. Right, Chiefs didn't have a convincing
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  Speaker 4: victory on Thursday. We know the Eagles lost other teams.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't quite ready to put the Lions up that high,
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  Speaker 4: so there was a discussion in my head. But I
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  Speaker 4: landed with the team that you know, previously looked almost
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  Speaker 4: invincible at times, but has been the most consistent team
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  Speaker 4: in football, and as you pointed out, they were a
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  Speaker 4: mad field goal away from winning this thing. I did
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  Speaker 4: love the fact that the Browns defense outplayed the Niners
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  Speaker 4: defense going against Brock Purty versus PJ.
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  Speaker 2: Walker.
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  Speaker 4: That concerned me a little bit. The first time we've
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  Speaker 4: seen pretty really kind of struggle in an NFL start.
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  Speaker 3: Except for the NFC Championship game where he got hurt.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, there's plenty of debates both ways, but
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  Speaker 4: I still think all said and done, forty nine ers
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  Speaker 4: still have the most complete roster, even if it does
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  Speaker 4: come with a few more questions today than it did
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  Speaker 4: going into Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm with you, I think for pound they are
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  Speaker 2: still the best fighter in this league. And there's actually
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  Speaker 2: a pregame fight as well. The Browns will tell you
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  Speaker 2: that fired them up a little bit, but they didn't
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  Speaker 2: need that much fire to get ready for this game
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  Speaker 2: out And I think it's notable also that, as always,
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  Speaker 2: they came out first possession and marched right down the field.
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  Speaker 2: Browns kind of caught their breath and then dominated the
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  Speaker 2: next three and a half quarters defensively. But it is
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  Speaker 2: notable that pretty despite the fact Eric that he was
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  Speaker 2: under pressure at the entire game, even with only three
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  Speaker 2: sacks when they needed him, put together that final drive
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  Speaker 2: and got them in position to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, that was a big moment, and that's what I
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  Speaker 4: think championship teams are made of, if they can win
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  Speaker 4: with out their best stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Number two, the Kansas City Chiefs did not
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  Speaker 2: blow out the Broncos at all, but they are your
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  Speaker 2: future champs here presented to you by Fan Duel, and
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  Speaker 2: they are the favorite to win the AFC at plus
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  Speaker 2: to twenty. Did you expect more of a convincing victory
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  Speaker 2: to open up Week six?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just given the fact even though Denver
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  Speaker 4: had played the Chiefs twice pretty hard last year, pretty
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  Speaker 4: close games, I still figured, Okay, short week Broncos coming
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  Speaker 4: off the disappointing loss, the Jets kind of fell apart
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  Speaker 4: at the end.
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  Speaker 3: There, They've got to go on the road.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a well known opponent for them, they've seen
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  Speaker 4: them plenty of times, but it is a new staff,
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  Speaker 4: Sean Payton coming in there, you know, first time as
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  Speaker 4: Broncos head coach, and you know, everything we'd seen out
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  Speaker 4: of the Denver defense at that point suggested, boy, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't.
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  Speaker 4: They made plays, they kept the score close, They gave
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  Speaker 4: their team a chance. It was really the failures there
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  Speaker 4: at the end. They couldn't push the ball forward. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you give the Chiefs defense a lot of credit. They've
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  Speaker 4: kind of held this team together as Mahomes and Kelsey
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  Speaker 4: and Pacheco and the rest of those receivers are all
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  Speaker 4: kind of figuring things out on the fly. I'm not concerned.
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  Speaker 4: Remember they started three and four A couple of years
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  Speaker 4: ago and still made it to the AFC Championship, a
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  Speaker 4: game they should have won too against the Bengals.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of football left. I still see good
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  Speaker 3: things out of this Chiefs team.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to see a little bit more, at least
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  Speaker 4: what we've gotten used to seeing over the past couple
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  Speaker 4: of years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they are getting the Chargers in town this
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  Speaker 2: week at Arrowhead with the Chargers coming off the Monday
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  Speaker 2: night loss and a chance to drop the Chargers to
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  Speaker 2: two and four, which would be huge for the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: there in the AFC West. Let's unpack the Dolphins because
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  Speaker 2: they fell behind fourteen to nothing to the Carolina Panthers,
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  Speaker 2: almost like a little kid playing with their food, sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the high chair, and eventually they woke up and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, destroyed that meal that mom put out
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  Speaker 2: in front of them. But as you point out, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be tested this week while unpacked a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more later. As you point out, the five
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  Speaker 2: wins for the Dolphins have come against teams with a
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  Speaker 2: combined five wins, but one really good team they faced
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  Speaker 2: the Bills, they got pasted.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no ignoring it at this point, right, I
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  Speaker 4: mean the teams that they've beaten up on, including Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: whom they fell behind fourteen to nothing two on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: haven't been very good elsewhere. You look at other matchups,
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  Speaker 4: you look at every other number. The analytics people are
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  Speaker 4: looking at this and saying, until we see them against
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  Speaker 4: the caliber of the Chiefs and the Eagles over the
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  Speaker 4: next three weeks, that's probably when we're a clearer vision
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  Speaker 4: of what this team is. They haven't played well traditionally
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  Speaker 4: against the Bills, so there might be a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of a flawed metric there.
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  Speaker 3: But still these next three opponents.
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  Speaker 4: Including the Patriots, who have been bad but at least
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  Speaker 4: made a game of it in Foxborough, I would say
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  Speaker 4: the bookend game's carry a little more weight determining how
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  Speaker 4: good is too how good is Tyreek Hill, and how
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  Speaker 4: good is this defense? Andrew I worry a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about the fact that they can give up long drives
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  Speaker 4: and sustained yards over the coast of fourth quarters against
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  Speaker 4: not the greatest offense sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, and they get an Eagles team now on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday Night football, coming off their first loss. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is the Bills ray massive tests. They failed that test,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't win in Buffalo. We know that Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen lights up that defense, regardless of whether it's Brian
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  Speaker 2: Flores or Vic Fangio as the coordinator. But the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: are truly now the test for the Dolphins, big stage,
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  Speaker 2: national stage. Obviously that's not going to affect them, but
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  Speaker 2: they get an Eagles team coming off their first loss.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get out of the Lions at four. And I
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  Speaker 2: said this before. When you take the Niners and the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles and you say these are the two best teams
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  Speaker 2: of the NFC, for my money, it's clear to me
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  Speaker 2: the Lions now are the third best team. And we
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  Speaker 2: have said this, they're the team you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: face in January. Now you have them ahead of the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: But the Lions are legit as a top five team
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  Speaker 2: in football.
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  Speaker 3: It's a new day, man.
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  Speaker 4: It's really exciting to see a team that has been
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  Speaker 4: down for so long have sustained success. And this isn't
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  Speaker 4: some fluke thing, right, We've seen the progress built over
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years. They came into this season with
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  Speaker 4: high expectations based on what happened the second half of
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  Speaker 4: last year, and that was without a good defense. Guess
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  Speaker 4: what they've really improved that side of the ball. Kudos
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  Speaker 4: to Aaron Glenn. You know, they've really found ways to
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  Speaker 4: replace guys like CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Gardner, Johnson. Brian Branch has been out a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, every few weeks, whether it's on defense
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  Speaker 4: or offense, they seem to suffer one of those injuries
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  Speaker 4: in mid game where you think, all right, what are
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  Speaker 4: they gonna do now? And that happens Sunday with Montgomery,
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  Speaker 4: he goes out, they have to forge a run game together. No,
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  Speaker 4: Jamiir Gibbs, Jared Goff is playing really good football and
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  Speaker 4: that defense completely closed the door on the Bucks. So man,
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  Speaker 4: every time out. The Seattle game was a little frustrating defensively,
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  Speaker 4: but every time out you feel like they're making strides
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  Speaker 4: defensively and Jared Coff's, you know, confidence and their confidence
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  Speaker 4: in him continues to grow.
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  Speaker 2: And they lose Dave of Montgomery in this game. Consider
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  Speaker 2: also what it was worth there for the Buccaneers. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this was a chance for them to prove their worth
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  Speaker 2: as well home, a chance to come up and wait class.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, the Lions are now a test for those
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  Speaker 2: other teams in the NFC a measuring stick, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: how good are we? I think it's also interesting this
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  Speaker 2: week when the Lions go into Baltimore. That game is
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  Speaker 2: in the early window on Sunday. The Ravens are a
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  Speaker 2: good team. I mean, they needed Justin Tucker in a
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  Speaker 2: seventy yard Devin Duverne punt return there to do the
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  Speaker 2: job against the Titans in London. But they're coming home
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  Speaker 2: without the bye, maybe some dead legs and maybe some
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  Speaker 2: jet lag. Lions Ravens Week seven, that one is going
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  Speaker 2: to be fun. Now we get to the Eagles. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they had to lose eventually. I find it interesting how
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  Speaker 2: we kind of justify or explain how they lost, maybe
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  Speaker 2: not justify because we've been nitpicking, or at least people
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  Speaker 2: in nit had been nitpicking Eric in Philly all year
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  Speaker 2: that this team doesn't look right. So they finally get
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  Speaker 2: their come uppins, and now they have to deal with
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  Speaker 2: Elane Johnson injury here as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was tough watching Jack Driscoll his replacement, get
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  Speaker 4: you know, beat repeatedly into second half, and I made
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  Speaker 4: it reminds you just how valuable Aane Johnson is. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we sometimes forget about these core pieces up front, and
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  Speaker 4: when one of them gets hurt, one of them's missing.
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  Speaker 3: Remember they lose Simolo in the off season two.
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  Speaker 4: It looks a whole lot different all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: the Star Wars offense has kind of had the jet
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  Speaker 4: field taken out of it.
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  Speaker 3: So, look, Jalen Hurts hats some good moments.
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  Speaker 4: I thought one of the picks should have been on Goddard,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I thought one of them was not.
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  Speaker 3: Necessarily his fault.
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  Speaker 4: The third one absolutely was, and it came in a
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  Speaker 4: critical time. You can't excuse that that was a poor throw,
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  Speaker 4: poor decision. Never should have happen in the situation they
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  Speaker 4: were in trying to protect the lead at that point.
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  Speaker 4: So there's still some stuff that falls back on Hurts
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  Speaker 4: and falls back on a new play caller as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it doesn't quite feel and look like what
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  Speaker 4: Shane Stichen was able to dial off last year, if
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  Speaker 4: you're not putting it all on Brian Johnson's head. But
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  Speaker 4: still at the same time, a lot to figure out
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  Speaker 4: their offensively.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to push back a little bit against Robert Sala,
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  Speaker 2: who did walk his postgame comments back on GMFB Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts was not embarrassed in that game. Jets defense
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  Speaker 2: played very well, especially with their banged up secondary. They
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  Speaker 2: deserve all the credit in the world. Tony Adams, another
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  Speaker 2: dB from that Oryan Walters dB factory in Illinois, made
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  Speaker 2: a huge play and a big run back there in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. So yeah, give the Jets their credit.
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  Speaker 2: But Jalen Hurts was not in any way embarrassed. And
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  Speaker 2: now we get this one coming up on Sunday, Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Hurts with a chance to bounce back against Vic Fangio.
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  Speaker 2: That defense tested against Tua and Mike McDaniel. How do
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  Speaker 2: you see that one?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Fangio's defense I think tests your patience.
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  Speaker 4: You may have watched the Dolphins defense on Sunday and
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  Speaker 4: he said, Hey, Bryce Young was taking you know, six
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  Speaker 4: seven eight yard checkdowns all day. You know what's so
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  Speaker 4: impressive about that. But it's a different story against an
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  Speaker 4: offense that is used to putting up big numbers. We
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  Speaker 4: saw what the Eagles were able to do last year,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's gonna be something that kind of
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  Speaker 4: tests Jalen's patience and also tests.
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  Speaker 3: The Eagles patients.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to wait for that big play to present itself.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get the favorable down and distance, Let's get a
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  Speaker 4: good field position, Let's get the right score and the
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  Speaker 4: right time on the clock when we take our shots.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I think that's going to be part of it.
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  Speaker 4: And then defensively, like you said, they've probably kind of
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  Speaker 4: patched things together in the secondary and hope that pass
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  Speaker 4: rush kind of kind of closes the door up front.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I also want to see what happens if Tyreek
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  Speaker 2: Hill busts out a seventy yard touchdown does take a
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  Speaker 2: cell phone from a Philly fan. Would a Philly fan
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  Speaker 2: help Tyreek Hill celebrate? He wants your fine at FL.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to find a way to celebrate. Bring on
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  Speaker 2: the fine. It'll be fun with Philly fan. That is
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  Speaker 2: why I am watching. You're watching the Power Ranking Show
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  Speaker 2: to find out where the Browns are, of course, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe not, I am We'll tell you coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: All right, everybody, the Power Rankings Show Here. We are
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  Speaker 2: presented to you by Energizer. Go to NFL dot com
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  Speaker 2: see the rest of the rankings. The Ravens hart fought
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  Speaker 2: win in London. They come home up one. They're the
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  Speaker 2: number nine team. Remember two weeks ago they beat the Browns,
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  Speaker 2: who stunned the Niners. They go up to Eric already
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  Speaker 2: liked them. Eric had them at twelve. Now the Browns
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  Speaker 2: are at number ten, the Seahawks, the Bucks, the Bengals
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  Speaker 2: they look good again, the Chargers, the Jets, and the
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  Speaker 2: Houston Texans. The Team of the Week is presented by
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  Speaker 2: truest Eric at home. That team of the week the
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns, who they believed all along. They believed that
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  Speaker 2: they had the best defense in football. I think now
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  Speaker 2: everybody else believes after through five games will include that
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  Speaker 2: Niners victory. They have allowed one thousand and two yards.
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  Speaker 2: That gets Eric.
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  Speaker 3: That's called shutting it down right there.
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  Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people came into that
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  Speaker 4: game thinking, all right, this is gonna be where the
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  Speaker 4: Niners show they had the best defense.
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  Speaker 3: But it didn't turn out that way.
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  Speaker 4: As you said, after that first touchdown Dry where the
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  Speaker 4: Niners moved down the field, you know, maybe a little
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  Speaker 4: help the fact that two of their big playmakers were
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  Speaker 4: out for part of the game. Still, I thought the
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  Speaker 4: way they pursued and flowed and tackled so well covered well,
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  Speaker 4: it was really impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah wusukor Moro.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they had some great coverage plays, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Dalvin Tomlinson in the middle, up and down that defense.
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  Speaker 4: Thought they'd had a real terrific performance. And look, you
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  Speaker 4: win with a quarterback you didn't even have on your
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  Speaker 4: roster in July. I think that's a victory on top
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  Speaker 4: of the one you already got in the standing.
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  Speaker 3: So that was huge.
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  Speaker 4: It was what they couldn't do against the Ravens a
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  Speaker 4: few weeks back. So big step for the Browns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed a little shot in freuder with.
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  Speaker 4: People poking holes in my last week's rankings, right, I
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  Speaker 4: saw something Andrew you did too.
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  Speaker 3: You were up close, sir. You know how good this
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  Speaker 3: team can be if that defense is dominating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was dominant. The question now is is
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  Speaker 2: that a springboard? If you will? They go to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to face Anthony Richardson this week, they
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  Speaker 2: get Gardner Minshew. It's a bit of a trap my
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  Speaker 2: opinion here. But remember the Ravens get the Lions, they
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  Speaker 2: could lose that. The Steelers are in La to the Rams,
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  Speaker 2: they could potentially lose that. This is now a chance
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  Speaker 2: to get to four and two and kind of pick
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  Speaker 2: yourself up off the mat and get to the top
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  Speaker 2: potentially of the AFC North. Just here saying, all right,
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  Speaker 2: moving on from the Browns, let's get out of the
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  Speaker 2: rest of these rankings here as we go from nine
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  Speaker 2: down to sixteen and see the Bengals, and we saw
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  Speaker 2: it last week here Eric as well that it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: that they beat Arizona. It's that Joe Burrow was moving
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  Speaker 2: and he looked normal again. He looked like himself again.
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  Speaker 2: We saw that again against Seattle and we saw red
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  Speaker 2: zone defense to hang on and win that game.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, if lou Anroumo's defense is known for one thing,
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  Speaker 4: I think by this point it is making huge plays
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  Speaker 4: when backed up against your own goal line. I mean
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  Speaker 4: Jermaine Pratt against the Raiders years ago, Bond Bell against
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots late in the season, obviously the playoff game,
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  Speaker 4: Sam Hubbard and everything. I mean, you know, they have
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  Speaker 4: a knack for doing this. And five red zone trips
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  Speaker 4: they all add what ten points I want to say
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  Speaker 4: for those totals. So it really did come into play
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  Speaker 4: because as great as Burrow and the offense looked the
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  Speaker 4: first two drives, Cincinnati didn't do.
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  Speaker 3: A whole lot after that. It was a tough slog.
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  Speaker 4: The run game's been inconsistent, the old line blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: We know all the issues and somebody else other than
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Jamar Chase has to step up. But we're seeing a
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  Speaker 4: little edge with this team now. The defense has responded.
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  Speaker 4: The offense has made, you know, a signal that they're
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  Speaker 4: getting better.
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  Speaker 3: So everything's at least training in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: Even if they had I'd argue they haven't played a
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  Speaker 4: complete football game quite yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, they haven't. Andreya Shiba, the rookie from Princeton, scored
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown. And again that red zone defense here when
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  Speaker 2: Gino and the Hawks got down and looked like they're
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  Speaker 2: about to go in and potentially win the game. There
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game, you had six different
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  Speaker 2: guys have at least four pressures, which is just absurd
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  Speaker 2: for lou Anarumo's defense, and they helped win that game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's move on here to the Chargers, who are number fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't really figure them out because they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: run the ball. Monday night, Austin Eckler came back. They
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  Speaker 2: had fifty three yards rushing as a team, and with
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  Speaker 2: al Corey Linsley Eric these last two seasons, their offensive
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  Speaker 2: line falls apart. That was the most pressure Herbert had
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  Speaker 2: felt in any game all year.
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  Speaker 4: After the finger injury last week, the thumb injury, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean, it was one more thing kind
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  Speaker 4: of stacked against him. I thought he looked pretty good early,
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  Speaker 4: you know, ball handling, moving around things like that, made
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  Speaker 4: some big throws, but he overthrew Keenan Allen for a
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  Speaker 4: long game in the first half, did so again in
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  Speaker 4: the second half, had the late interception, almost got picked
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  Speaker 4: off with about nine, you know, eight or nine minutes
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  Speaker 4: left to go on that second last possession, So there
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  Speaker 4: was a lot left on the bone there, and I
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  Speaker 4: thought the offensive line was part of it. Penalties were
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  Speaker 4: a big deal. And then defensively, Michael Davis can't tackle
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  Speaker 4: Tony Pollard and he goes sixty one yards or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's just.
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  Speaker 4: Plays like that and the fourth down, fourth and one
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  Speaker 4: play that they didn't convert in the red zone. Week
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  Speaker 4: after week, whether they win or lose Andrew, these plays
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  Speaker 4: seem to keep popping up, so it's self inflicted wounds.
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  Speaker 4: In my opinion, they're talented they just can't execute at
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  Speaker 4: that high level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what happens when they lose? If they lose in
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Kansas City and fall to two and four, this team
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: is far better than two and fourth. They had one
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  Speaker 2: last night. Then it's three in a row. After they
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: own two start they get to three and two. Everyone
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: is happy here right going into Arrowhead, everyone is happy
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  Speaker 2: with the Jets. Now Aaron Rodgers is throwing without anything
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  Speaker 2: around his achilles. He's going to be back in two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kidding. The Jets are fifteen because of that defense
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  Speaker 2: and because Zach made a couple of throws. That's all
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  Speaker 2: they need. Eric make a couple of throws, get picks
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  Speaker 2: like this from Tony Adams or anyone of the secondary,
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  Speaker 2: and they will survive.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, no turnovers, that's great, That's exactly what you want
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  Speaker 4: get You take just enough risk to sort of cater
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  Speaker 4: to what Zach does well. Breist Hall has just enough plays.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the banner game we saw from him last week,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: but still for that defense to create four turnovers and
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  Speaker 4: do so without their top two corners I thought was
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  Speaker 4: really impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Stunning win in.
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  Speaker 4: So many ways, not just against who it came, but
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  Speaker 4: also the way it came, you know, late in the game,
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  Speaker 4: forcing a bad Jalen Hurts throw.
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  Speaker 3: Very impressive stuff from a Jets.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Team that look five plays into their money and I
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: game a lot of people wanted to bury because of
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: the Aaron Rodgers injury. Maybe he's back, maybe he's not.
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  Speaker 4: But either way, this team has shown some grit and
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  Speaker 4: some fight, even if it's not the prettiest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Every week you want grit and fight. How about the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Houston Texans. They are making power moves everybody. Those power
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  Speaker 2: moves are presented by Energizer. They are sixteen eric. They
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  Speaker 2: are heading to the buy and they do so at
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  Speaker 2: three and three, only a game back in the lost column,
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  Speaker 2: out of a playoff spot.
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  Speaker 3: They're right there. They're knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we moved them back a little now they're
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  Speaker 4: back in that contention spot.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, CJ.
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  Speaker 4: Stroud's interception streak end, it was a throw we'd like
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  Speaker 4: to have back. But boy, from that point on, I thought,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: not only did the team rally around him, but he
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: kind of rallied everybody else and you just saw poise
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  Speaker 4: from him. He never looked rattled, you know, he escaped
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: pressure very well and kept himself composed the entire time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Didn't make as many throws in the second half, but
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you could see a young signal caller out there with
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: leadership skills and good performance overall. I think and look,
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line did great in the first half. The
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: defensive line dominated for most of sixty minutes, and they
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: took a Saints team coming off a big win and
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  Speaker 4: just kind of kept him.
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  Speaker 2: In arms shroud through a pick. But they survived and
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  Speaker 2: they made the right pick in getting him, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: at number two. Coming up on the Power Ranking Show
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  Speaker 2: here presented by Energizer, Where are the La Rams M?
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  Speaker 2: The Rams are up five after dominating on the ground
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  Speaker 2: of the second half and beating the Arizona Cardinals. Interesting,
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  Speaker 2: Saints dropped four than the Steelers, the Packers, the Colts,
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  Speaker 2: the Falcons, the Raiders, and the Commanders. Eric at home
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  Speaker 2: putting these all together, let's talk Rams here. If they
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: beat the Steelers this week, they will How high do
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  Speaker 2: they go? Eric?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good question, right? I mean, we've seen Cooper Cup
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: come back and play great. The wrong game was terrific,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: although now all of a sudden the health of Rivers
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and Williams are in question. So you know, every week
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  Speaker 4: it feels like, wow, pretty good win there, but and
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: there's something kind of holding you back. Hupsy injury was
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  Speaker 4: big early. Obviously they've had to shuffle offensive line and
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: different things like that. But this no name defense has
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: done a really good job. They fell behind nine to
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: three and it wasn't an issue on Sunday, really took
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: over Taylor two halves, right, you throw the ball in
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the first, you run it in the second.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of an old school formula there. And I just
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: can't wait to see two of the two of the
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: best coaches.
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  Speaker 4: One young, one old old experience instant Mike Tomin I
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: don't want him getting mad at me, but.
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  Speaker 3: A good matchup this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I like what's at stake in this game.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that game is at so far right here, like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: right there through that wall you out there. So they
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: go up five, the Falcons go down six to twenty two.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna pound the table right now for Taylor. Heineke,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I know he gives one to the other team every
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: time you put him out there. But he's also going
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: to throw a couple of touchdowns. You're not gonna see
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: bad body language from the wide receivers. I'm sorry, Desmond Ritter,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: you throwing Taylor Heinekey. I think this is the fourth
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  Speaker 2: best team in the NFC, right after the Lions.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I picked the Lions, or excuse me, the Falcons to
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: be the division winner in the preseason because I thought, look,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: if Ritter is solid middle of the road, they could
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  Speaker 4: be okay. That defense is much better. The run game
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: could be special with Beijon. It really has, but for
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: them to fail to cross sixteen points and half their
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: games so far this season is inexcusable.
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  Speaker 3: I think the defense for the.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Most part has done the job, but it's been Ritter
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: coming off his best game, taking a big step back
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: this week on Sunday and you know, just forcing passes
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: there and worn in the red zone. It was the
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: kund of performance he most definitely did not need. And
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  Speaker 4: the Falcons have a tough call lying ahead if he
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  Speaker 4: keeps playing this way.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Desmond Ridder, real quick. The bottom of the rankings
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  Speaker 2: here for fans of these teams. The Vikings at twenty five,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: followed by the Titans, the Cardinals, the Broncos, the Patriots,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the Bears, the Giants, and the Carolina Panthers, who head
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: into a bye with Frank Wright going sure, Thomas Brown
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: can call plays and it was all my decision. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: don't think we have enough time to unpack that one.
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  Speaker 2: We could probably do an Eric thank you as always,
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• 24:10
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