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Speaker 2: Everybody Welcome to game Debut, presented by Caesar Sportsbook. After
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Speaker 2: Claybund glad to be back with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia
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Speaker 2: Freeland and we got a divisional.
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Speaker 3: Round to look forward to, guys, we do. I missed
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Speaker 3: you guys last week. And this is the best week
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Speaker 3: into football of the year.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think both last week and this week
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Speaker 4: two best in a row. So I don't know, We're
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Speaker 4: lucky all around here.
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Speaker 5: He's just in a great mood since you know what happened.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we'll get I know what happened. We'll get
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Speaker 2: Cynthia's crown blue like Blunail a little bit in the show.
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Speaker 2: But we are spinning the next twenty eight minutes and
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Speaker 2: change running through matchups in the AFC. Let's look at
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Speaker 2: these divisional round schedules, starting off with an AFC matchup
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Speaker 2: a ringatch earlier in this season, the Houston Texans against
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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, and then the Commanders and the Lions on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: wrapping up with the Rams and the Eagles and the
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Speaker 2: Ravens Bills on Sunday. But we need to take a
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Speaker 2: look back. That's the last time Houston Texas played the
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Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. Just a few weeks ago. Patrick Mahomes
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Speaker 2: coming off with ankle injury. It was a high ankle
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Speaker 2: spring that came a week previously. So how did he
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Speaker 2: test that ankle by piling into the end zone with
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Speaker 2: Texans on his back? Fifteen yard rushing touchdown Chase led
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Speaker 2: seven anohing That's the second longest rushing touchdown of his career.
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Speaker 3: That was the most rushing yards he's ever had in
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Speaker 3: the first quarter of a game, and that could be
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Speaker 3: big in this game because the Texans have struggled against
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Speaker 3: scrambling quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had thirty three rushing yards and that touchdown
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Speaker 2: to finish the game third quarter. Now Texas trails seventeen
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Speaker 2: to ten. Second and seven from the Chiefs thirty biggest
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Speaker 2: play of the game, maybe one of the biggest plays
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Speaker 2: of the season for the Texans. Stroud thirty yard touchdown
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Speaker 2: to Tank Dell. The problem is Tank Dell holds onto
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Speaker 2: that ball despite tearing his ACL and also having a
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Speaker 2: dislocated kneecap. He was out for the season. Of course. CJ. Stroud,
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Speaker 2: one of Tankdelle's close friends. He'd overcome so much gunshot
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Speaker 2: wound in the off season. Jared Rayn Jared Wayne just
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Speaker 2: got elevated from the practice squad. He had to be
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Speaker 2: consoled as well because it was him that ran into
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Speaker 2: Tankdlle's knee. A rough loss for the Texans. Really a
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Speaker 2: different game after that point. Castroud clearly emotional on the sideline.
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Speaker 2: Later in the third, Chiefs leading seventeen sixteen Mahomes funds
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Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy eight yard touchdown. They led twenty four to sixteen,
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Speaker 2: go on to win twenty seven to nineteen, but the
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Speaker 2: Texans would earn their way back. So it's time for
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Speaker 2: home field advantage presented by Zillo. The Chiefs and Texans
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Speaker 2: meeting up again Saturday. Kansas City hasn't lost at home
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Speaker 2: since Christmas of twenty twenty three. Does that win streak continue, Cynthia.
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Speaker 4: It sure does, but only by six points. I have
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Speaker 4: twenty six to twenty in this matchup. Why because when
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Speaker 4: I look at the opportunity for Patrick Mahomes to be special,
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Speaker 4: there is some rust and I need to figure out
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Speaker 4: if the O line is going to hold up in
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Speaker 4: this one. One of the rest versus rust arguments that
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Speaker 4: I think is most compelling is how was effect pressure
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Speaker 4: for Patrick Mahomes figuring out that rotation? And Andy Reid
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Speaker 4: and his most recent press conference was talking about they're
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Speaker 4: rotating in practice between DJ Humphries Joe Tooney, what's going
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Speaker 4: on at left tackle? My friend, Well, if you're going
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Speaker 4: to force Patrick Mahomes to run like this a lot,
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Speaker 4: it's going to be more difficult. If you're going to
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Speaker 4: force him to throw under duress, it's going to be
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Speaker 4: more difficult. So I think the actual benefit here for
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Speaker 4: them having three weeks plus off will be to figure
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Speaker 4: out how that O line gets just a smidge better.
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Speaker 2: I also have the Texans beating the number, but I've
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Speaker 2: got the Kansas City Chiefs winning this game by four,
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Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty. And I don't think it's because
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Speaker 2: it's a US. I have a case to make in
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Speaker 2: opposition to US, because Patrick Mahomes has played sixty one
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Speaker 2: games since January of twenty twenty two. It's just now
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. We remember that rest is good for you,
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Speaker 2: and I love football. It's provided a whole lot for
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Speaker 2: my life, including a lot of things that I care
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Speaker 2: about deeply. It's not good for you. The Texans were
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Speaker 2: in that least sixteen game, but then the pressure started.
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Speaker 2: Spags blitzed on forty four percent oh CJ. Strouds dropbacks.
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Speaker 2: They had a fifty six percent pressure rate in the
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Speaker 2: second half, and Houston really had no answers. Then I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to count on them, Greg to have these answers. Now,
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Speaker 2: I think the Chiefs survive in advance.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is such a big number, and it makes sense.
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Speaker 3: It's a team going for their third straight title, and
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Speaker 3: you guys both have the Texans cover in the number.
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Speaker 3: I'll reach you on that and I'll raise you a
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Speaker 3: Texans go. Let's go Texans pull off the upset.
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Speaker 5: We're just scregging it up. We're not worried.
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Speaker 3: It's about that Texans defense where Demiko Ryans really got
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Speaker 3: out coached in that first matchup. I actually think it's
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Speaker 3: an advantage that they just played them. They went into Arrowhead,
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Speaker 3: they played them even really for three quarters until that
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Speaker 3: tanked Dell injury. But Andy Reid was one step ahead
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Speaker 3: of Demiko Ryans in that defense, and that defense, to me,
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Speaker 3: was better than the Chiefs offense throughout the course of
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Speaker 3: the season. You're watching Will Anderson and Danielle Hunter get
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Speaker 3: go nuts on what happened last week. Also at cornerback,
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Speaker 3: Derek and Kamari Lassiter top two cornerbacks in the league
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Speaker 3: in terms of opposing completion percentage. I do believe this
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Speaker 3: defense is special. It's gonna take something special to beat
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs, and that's what the texts.
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Speaker 5: They're gonna do what we.
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Speaker 2: Gotta just take it against the Chiefs. I love it.
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Speaker 2: Time to make it buy an area. Let's go this
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Speaker 2: guy or that guy who is more likely to row
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Speaker 2: for two touchdowns? Cynthia CJ. Stroud Er, Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes, I think number one, this defense is now
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Speaker 4: in full force for the Chiefs, so that's gonna make
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Speaker 4: things more difficult. And number two, a short pass that
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Speaker 4: it goes for a yack that actually works out too
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Speaker 4: that counts as.
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Speaker 6: A passing touchdown for the quarterback.
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Speaker 4: While I want to point out that Travis Kelce has
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Speaker 4: thirteen touchdowns in thirteen playoff appearances, I like that a lot.
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Speaker 4: I think that it could also be a game where oh,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Noah Grave potentially sees the end zone,
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Speaker 4: or perhaps a Kareem Hunt like get it going, get
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Speaker 4: it going on, Buddy in this game type of situation.
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Speaker 4: So I think at least one and a half, so
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Speaker 4: two or more passing touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes also counts as that overhand underhand Shouble Bass
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Speaker 2: of the Chiefs run throat all the time also catches account.
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Speaker 2: Travis Kelce typically a beast in the playoffs. Who do
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Speaker 2: you think he's going to have over five and a
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Speaker 2: half more catches? Who's more likely him or Nico Collins.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm a rule follower.
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Speaker 3: You give me a question, I'm going to answer it directly.
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Speaker 3: More likely is Nico Collins. I think they both get
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Speaker 3: over five and a half. But Nico Collins is in
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Speaker 3: the prime of his career. Travis Kelce's on the back
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Speaker 3: end against the defense that is typically very good up
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Speaker 3: the middle. Nico Collins can win anywhere you saw him
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Speaker 3: on those inbreakers a week ago against the Chargers, but
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Speaker 3: he's just as good winning one on one on the outside,
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Speaker 3: where I think he'll have some mismatches against a Chiefs
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Speaker 3: group undersized and Nico Collins, he can rack up a
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Speaker 3: lot of receptions. And this isn't about yards making get
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Speaker 3: yards after the catch too.
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Speaker 4: If you're looking at what happens on crucial downs, so
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Speaker 4: like third and fourth and those inbreakers to Nico Collins,
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Speaker 4: who that is a good matchup. I think inbreakers were
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Speaker 4: what changed the game last week, and that could be
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Speaker 4: another area to look for.
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Speaker 6: And this one, it's.
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Speaker 4: About getting and keeping CJ Sprout in rhythm and it's
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Speaker 4: all about the yak. So get CJ to get it
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Speaker 4: to Nico Collins in space, and I think I like that.
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Speaker 2: I like that a lot space is the final front here,
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Speaker 2: and it's a big part of why I'm taking this
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Speaker 2: last one. Joe Mixon or Xavier Worthy over seventy scrimmage yards,
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Speaker 2: I think Joe Mixon is more likely. I just discussed
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Speaker 2: how much Steve Spagnolo might blitz CJ. Stroup in this game.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a great opportunity to get Joe Mixon
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Speaker 2: involved in the passing game, especially the quick passing game,
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Speaker 2: give the Kansas City defense something else to look at.
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Speaker 2: I know that we saw PFF Bobby have a lot
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Speaker 2: of first dound runs against the Chargers. Much of this
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Speaker 2: grant of users on social media like myself, But I
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Speaker 2: think Joe Mixon is involved in this game, not just
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Speaker 2: in the traditional run. Since two really good football players,
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Speaker 2: it's a shame only one of them can be good.
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Speaker 2: Let's look back to the Week four matchup between the
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Speaker 2: Ravens and the Bills. This is the first carry of
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Speaker 2: the game for Derrick Henry. It was a seventy seven
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Speaker 2: excuse me, eighty seven yard touchdown run. Baltimore led seven
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Speaker 2: to nothing. He finished with one hundred and ninety nine
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Speaker 2: yards on the ground and a receiving touchdown. Skipping ahead
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Speaker 2: to the third quarter, Bill's trailing twenty one to ten.
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Speaker 2: It's a flip Josh Allen, but oh, Kyle van Noy
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Speaker 2: causes a fumble. Kyle Hamilton jumps on top of it,
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Speaker 2: runs it back eight yards. Look at the die from
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Speaker 2: Kyle van Noyd to get that ball out before Josh
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Speaker 2: Allen could cut loose. He'd finished sixteen of twenty nine
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Speaker 2: for one hundred and eighty yards through the air. Next
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Speaker 2: Ravens possession, first and goal at the Bills nine. Lamar
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Speaker 2: is gonna keep that, He's gonna take it for a
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Speaker 2: nine yard touchdown run. The Ravens wore going to win
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Speaker 2: five to ten and Josh Allen on the sideline thinking
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get these guys in the divisional round and well, Josh,
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Speaker 2: it's that time as a time for Seas the Season
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Speaker 2: presented by seas Or Sportsbook. As we look at the
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Speaker 2: first touchdown score odds between the Ravens and the Bills
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Speaker 2: and Derreck Henry who got that touchdown? Seconds in to
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Speaker 2: the Week four matchup, the odds on favorite at plus
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Speaker 2: four hundred with Josh Allen, James Cook and Khalil Shakir
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Speaker 2: following him up Lamar Jackson at plus eleven hundred. Let's
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Speaker 2: dive right in to this huge, incredible matchup. Everyone's gonna
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Speaker 2: have to wait all weekend for it. Two MVP candidates
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Speaker 2: going head to head Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen to
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Speaker 2: see who gets a chance to go to the AFC
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Speaker 2: Championship Game. Who do you think does it? Gric?
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Speaker 3: I think the Bills get it done. I'm sorry to
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Speaker 3: break your heart, trick, but I'm wrong very often. Thirty
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Speaker 3: one to thirty. I believe in points in this game
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Speaker 3: more than I do in my pick of who is
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Speaker 3: going to win the games, because these two quarterbacks are
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Speaker 3: just that good. You feel for both of these guys
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Speaker 3: having to go up against each other. If Josh Allen loses,
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Speaker 3: it'd be fourth straight year they've lost in the division round.
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Speaker 3: That's never happened in a history of the NFL, at
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Speaker 3: least in this round. Losing the same time. And if
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson struggled in this game, he's had some of
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Speaker 3: his worst performances in the playoffs. I think last week
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Speaker 3: is gonna give both of them a lot of confidence.
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Speaker 3: And I ultimately think as good as these defenses are
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Speaker 3: and how much they've improved over the course of the season,
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Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna hold up. It's still an
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Speaker 3: offensive league. I don't care about the weather. I think
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Speaker 3: they're both gonna ball out, which will help an annoying
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Speaker 3: narrative for whoever loses this game. But ultimately, the Bills
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Speaker 3: are at home. If it was in Baltimore, i'd probably
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Speaker 3: go Baltimore. But at home the Bills a balanced offense
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Speaker 3: that can run the ball against this Ravens front and
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Speaker 3: can throw it.
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Speaker 5: I give them a one point win, but either way
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Speaker 5: I like that over all.
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Speaker 4: Right, well, I too have a one point win. I
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Speaker 4: have twenty seven to twenty six in this matchup.
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Speaker 5: Do you guys know.
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Speaker 4: Who DJ Sauce Von the Dawn happens to be? No, yeah,
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Speaker 4: DJ name, and he, to me is the reason why
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Speaker 4: I have the Bills winning this game. Why well, he
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Speaker 4: lines up primarily on the left side of the defense,
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Speaker 4: which means he gets to match up with Roger Rosengarden,
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Speaker 4: the right tackle for the Ravens. Rosen Garden is near
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Speaker 4: the bottom of the league in terms of pressures allowed
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Speaker 4: at the position.
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Speaker 6: And if you're looking at what DJ.
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Speaker 4: Sauce Von the Dawn has done since returning from there by, oh,
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Speaker 4: it's just a twenty four percent pressure rate. And if
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Speaker 4: you look at just third down specifically, that number goes
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Speaker 4: to thirty two percent. So listen, he's spinning. He spins
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Speaker 4: in the locker room. That's a fun fact. You know,
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Speaker 4: you can tell your friends. And he's actually, you know,
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Speaker 4: he's very good DJ, and he's also very good at
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Speaker 4: rushing pass.
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Speaker 5: He spins on the field too.
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Speaker 6: Oh there we go.
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Speaker 4: You know he ain't just a bull rusher. He's got
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Speaker 4: the spin move both on and off the field.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Roger rosen Garden will have a great moment and
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Speaker 2: he'll and he'll tell him he's somebody like Miles Garrett do.
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Speaker 6: Or like that that record scratch.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I I this is a great game, and I
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Speaker 2: agree with you guys. It's going to be a close game.
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Speaker 2: I have a two point game. I have Baltimore winning
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Speaker 2: and a lot of it's the reason the Buffalo Bills
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Speaker 2: had that dominant win last week with their ability to
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Speaker 2: run the football. But the Baltimore Ravens can do it differently,
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Speaker 2: and we saw them do it. Looking back at that
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Speaker 2: highlight with the way that Derrick Henry had that eighty
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Speaker 2: seven yard touchdown on the first carret, I'm not reproducing that,
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Speaker 2: but just look at how Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry
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Speaker 2: have operated the zone read late in the season. It
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Speaker 2: feels like Lamar has made the right choice almost every
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Speaker 2: single time. And with that run game, if you can
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Speaker 2: limit the opportunity, especially with the Ravens having one of
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Speaker 2: the better run defenses in the NFL. The Bills play
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Speaker 2: more Nickel than anybody ninety five percent of the time.
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Speaker 2: Buffalo is going to have five or six defensive backs
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Speaker 2: on the field. Baltimore one of the best rushing teams
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Speaker 2: against Nickel and don defenses. I just believe the Ravens
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Speaker 2: will be able to run the game, and I think
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Speaker 2: they're going to run their way to the AFC Championship.
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Speaker 4: I swear there's got to be like a five percent
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Speaker 4: air thing, because I basically don't see them not playing nickels.
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Speaker 4: So I'm just curious, what are those five What is
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Speaker 4: that five percent?
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Speaker 6: Because I gotta go find it.
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Speaker 2: It's like an accident, Like I guess, some teams were
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Speaker 2: lucky enough to get to the goal line and they
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Speaker 2: had some opportunities there. That was season. The season brought
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Speaker 2: get some notable player props. According to the folks that
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Speaker 2: Caesar Sports Book, we can get Josh Allen at one
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Speaker 2: and a half passing touchdown, Lamar Jackson going around two
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Speaker 2: hundred twenty one and a half and a half pass yards,
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Speaker 2: James Cook about sixty rush yards, Derek Henry ninety seven
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Speaker 2: and a half, and Khalil Shakir four and a half receptions.
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Speaker 2: So let's talk more or less some player props for
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Speaker 2: this matchup, Greg Well Josh Allen have more or less
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Speaker 2: than two hundred and eighty seven total yards.
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Speaker 3: Total being the total number, and word there, we're going
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Speaker 3: way over. This is easy love that Cynthia and I
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Speaker 3: are both on the same side of points in this
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Speaker 3: game because she was over that number as well. Josh
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Speaker 3: Allen is going to be very important in the running
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Speaker 3: game now. When he was younger, he almost would wait
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Speaker 3: to the end of the season to scramble more often,
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Speaker 3: especially in the playoffs. Now he's just a big part
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Speaker 3: of the running game all the time. And I do
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Speaker 3: think in this matchup when he drops back, he's gonna
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Speaker 3: be running quite a bit.
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Speaker 5: Why are you laughing?
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Speaker 6: Because five seasons is not like I'm just saying. If
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Speaker 6: you remember though, early in.
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Speaker 3: His career, like once he got to this point in
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Speaker 3: the season, he just started running all the time.
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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Allen, Destroyer of Worlds, the other world destroyer
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Speaker 2: the quarterback for the Raven Cynthia Well Lamar Jackson have
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Speaker 2: more or less than one and a half passing touch.
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Speaker 4: I'm Lamar Jackson also destroyer of the World. Yes, I
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Speaker 4: think he will have more than one and a half
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Speaker 4: passing touchdowns.
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Speaker 6: High scoring game.
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Speaker 4: But also let's look at where this Bill's defense is
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Speaker 4: most vulnerable.
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Speaker 6: In their first matchup, they actually did not stack the
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Speaker 6: box very often. Big mistake. Huge Why because Derek Henry
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Speaker 6: ran all over them.
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Speaker 4: This time, I think the stack the box a little
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Speaker 4: bit more, which leaves to more vulnerability in the pass
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Speaker 4: catching game. So I think that will benefit ra Shan Bateman.
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Speaker 4: Should Zay Flowers play potentially Zay Flowers and of course
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Speaker 4: the tight end Mark Andrews.
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Speaker 2: I'll take this last one. Will Derrick Henry have over
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Speaker 2: one hundred and five scrimmage yards? We've seen more, especially
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Speaker 2: since the Justice Hill injury. Justice Hill back Dereck Henry
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Speaker 2: still catching more passes. I think he gets north of
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Speaker 2: that number, which just saw the one hundred and ninety
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Speaker 2: nine yards, and they do run very well against stack boxes.
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Speaker 2: And the problem is if you stack the box and
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Speaker 2: Derrick Henry and he gets to the second level you're
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Speaker 2: chasing he got and you're trying to grab hair. He's
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Speaker 2: cut his hair off since then so that the hair
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Speaker 2: is not there to grab. So I think there's more
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Speaker 2: three mores and more or less as we look at
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Speaker 2: this great end to divisional weekend here in the NFL,
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Speaker 2: coming up the Division Round, usually the best weekend of
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Speaker 2: the NFL year. We're expecting points on points when we return.
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Speaker 2: We're giving you some of our favorite props for the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Stick around, write this down. Coming up next that four
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Speaker 2: divisional playoff weekends Saturday at noon at Sunday at eleven
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Speaker 2: am Eastern with NFL Game Day morning on Saturday, all
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Speaker 2: six four and seven eighths two hundred and fifty five
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Speaker 2: pounds of Max Crosby, which are smaller than Cynthia Freeland
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Speaker 2: joined the crew in studio to see how the Texans
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Speaker 2: can slow down Patrick Mahomes plus gimme checks, sitting down
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Speaker 2: with Kansas City Chiefs pro bowler Chris Jones, all that
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Speaker 2: and more. Saturday at noon.
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Speaker 6: He's the same height as Ian.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's right there.
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Speaker 3: Just between this, I'm taller the NFL media Cynthia and Ian.
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Speaker 6: I love it.
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Speaker 2: That puts rich in like the Wimby zone right there
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Speaker 2: at the front of this graphic. It's time for expert
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Speaker 2: playmakers presented by into it turbo attacks. Patrick Mahomes always
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Speaker 2: seems to shine in the playoffs. Will he have over
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Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy six and a half total yards
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Speaker 2: on saturate against the Texans India?
17:05
Speaker 4: He will shine, But I don't think his yardage total
17:08
Speaker 4: gets that high. Why because I think this is where
17:11
Speaker 4: Andy Reid coming off of bye, becomes a nice run
17:15
Speaker 4: play caller. Meaning let's not have Patrick Mahomes have to
17:18
Speaker 4: do too many crazy things against this defense that brings
17:21
Speaker 4: the second highest pressure rate, that has those great corners.
17:24
Speaker 6: Let's run the football more so.
17:26
Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to be quite as many
17:27
Speaker 4: yards as that. But remember, don't fret, Mary Anne Freeland,
17:30
Speaker 4: I'm not picking against Patrick Mahomes, who you love so much.
17:33
Speaker 6: I am picking him to win. Just doesn't need to
17:35
Speaker 6: be throwing late in the game.
17:36
Speaker 5: Well, Maryanne Friedland, listen up.
17:37
Speaker 3: I am picking against Patrick Mahomes and I'm going under
17:40
Speaker 3: on this one too. I am curious if he's going
17:43
Speaker 3: to get rid of the ball as quickly as he
17:44
Speaker 3: did against the Texas. It was a great game plan.
17:46
Speaker 3: You would assume they'd be a little more prepared for it.
17:49
Speaker 3: Maybe he's feeling healthier and he actually hold on to
17:51
Speaker 3: the ball morn and weirdly that doesn't help him.
17:54
Speaker 2: So yeah, they both say no, so confirmed. Greg and
17:58
Speaker 2: Cynthia say Patrick Mahomes is bad and we'll have a bag.
18:01
Speaker 4: And Cynthia's mom is going to call her and be
18:03
Speaker 4: mean to god.
18:04
Speaker 2: How do you hate Patrick mahone? Why do you hate heavy?
18:06
Speaker 6: He's my favorite player in the league. That's what I'm
18:08
Speaker 6: in here.
18:09
Speaker 2: Mom. Don't worry, because it's time to give your daughter
18:11
Speaker 2: her flowers. Congratulations to Cynthia Freeland, the regular season Picks champion.
18:18
Speaker 2: Just the competition, one hundred and ninety four and seventy eight.
18:23
Speaker 2: We have not seen numbers like that, Cynthia, congratulations.
18:26
Speaker 6: Thanks.
18:27
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I just I guess, like you know,
18:30
Speaker 4: I didn't realize it was that I stop tracking.
18:33
Speaker 6: Oh stop, no, it's true.
18:34
Speaker 3: First of all, I take exception to demolishing the competition.
18:37
Speaker 3: I had you all season and then she passed me
18:41
Speaker 3: in week seventeen and eighteen because she's a closer. He's
18:44
Speaker 3: a finisher. Winners close.
18:46
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, ABC, Baby.
18:48
Speaker 2: It's cumulative. It's the whole season. Stop write this down, Cynthia.
18:52
Speaker 2: You're the champion. You've got that glorious crown. Also started
18:55
Speaker 2: off with this, what should people take me?
18:57
Speaker 4: It is a beautiful crown, isn't it? Okay, I'm looking
18:59
Speaker 4: at Kareem Hunt. I told you I think Andy Reid
19:01
Speaker 4: will run the football more and I think Kareem Hunt's.
19:03
Speaker 6: Going to be the guy to do.
19:04
Speaker 4: But you heard him talk about in the past when
19:06
Speaker 4: he was in Miami and he was going shopping instead
19:09
Speaker 4: of being in the playoff, like all these things that
19:10
Speaker 4: made him so sad. So you know he's going to
19:14
Speaker 4: have a nice big game here, help es quarterback out
19:16
Speaker 4: from getting pressured. I think this is going to be
19:18
Speaker 4: a nice, solid game for Kareem Hunt so that he
19:21
Speaker 4: can show everyone I deserve to be here.
19:23
Speaker 2: No big game for Kareem Hunt. What is your prediction?
19:25
Speaker 3: So we were showing all the over enders in terms
19:28
Speaker 3: of rushing yards before, and James Cook was about half
19:31
Speaker 3: of Derrick Henry.
19:32
Speaker 5: Give this man some respect. James Cook to the moon way.
19:35
Speaker 3: Over fifty five and a half rushing yards.
19:38
Speaker 5: Why is Derrick Henry double?
19:39
Speaker 3: He wasn't double during the regular season because James Cook
19:42
Speaker 3: was one of the very best running backs in the league.
19:45
Speaker 5: I think there's going to be a lot of points.
19:46
Speaker 3: Ultimately, I do think Buffalo is one of the best
19:48
Speaker 3: rushing teams.
19:49
Speaker 4: Goes Over, you know, scored more rushing touchdowns than Derrick
19:52
Speaker 4: Henry James.
19:52
Speaker 2: Coup that's right, he did an all time record for
19:55
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. Ti in Oorenthal, James Simpson. My prediction
19:58
Speaker 2: involves that game between the Ravens and the Bills. Isaiah.
20:02
Speaker 2: Likely we'll have over thirty seven and a half receiving
20:05
Speaker 2: yards against the Buffalo Bills. We don't know the health
20:08
Speaker 2: status of Jay Flowers. Isaiah likely out there on the field,
20:12
Speaker 2: especially when the Bill's playing all the nickel that they do.
20:16
Speaker 2: If they try to snack the box, they'll have a
20:18
Speaker 2: leverage advantage. Isaiah. Likely over thirty seven and a half.
20:21
Speaker 3: I feel, and you better actually write this down because Cynthia,
20:24
Speaker 3: you deserve you're the picks queen.
20:26
Speaker 5: That's the ultimate test.
20:28
Speaker 3: But can I just take this for a second here,
20:30
Speaker 3: come on, I want to give it to our friend Patrick.
20:32
Speaker 6: Okay, what are you doing to my crowd? The most
20:37
Speaker 6: right where you're going.
20:39
Speaker 2: This is this is teamwork. We wear this crown as
20:42
Speaker 2: a unit. We had a big merger back in nineteen
20:45
Speaker 2: sixty six. You may have heard about it. We're dividing
20:47
Speaker 2: our shows in the AFC and NFC. This is an
20:51
Speaker 2: NFC chat two Monster di visual matchups. I can't wait. Greg.
20:55
Speaker 3: Yes, and the merger was a big change for the
20:59
Speaker 3: NFC in the NFL, and I'm wondering if this weekend
21:02
Speaker 3: is going to be a changing of the guard in
21:04
Speaker 3: the NFC. Maybe we get some crazy upsets because we
21:06
Speaker 3: have a big numbers.
21:08
Speaker 6: You better not be talking about an upset. That would
21:11
Speaker 6: be very upsetting to me. Why didn't you say this.
21:13
Speaker 4: In the AFC show, mister h I just same.
21:17
Speaker 5: We got some young, exciting players.
21:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have some emotional personal attachments to the NFC. Son, Hey,
21:22
Speaker 2: we all did decent in the picks last week. Let's
21:25
Speaker 2: take a look everybody going four and two. It wasn't
21:27
Speaker 2: all the same games. We all arrived at the same location,
21:31
Speaker 2: so no crowns to be distributed unless we were to
21:34
Speaker 2: have a thirty three and a third percent repeating of
21:37
Speaker 2: a crown sitting and that would fall off our head.
21:39
Speaker 6: Thank you perfect each We're third, that's a third? I
21:43
Speaker 6: think it would be.
21:45
Speaker 2: We love it. This is the visual schedule for the weekend,
21:47
Speaker 2: starting off on Saturday, Texans against the Chiefs, the reigning
21:51
Speaker 2: defending two time champs. The Commanders playing against the team
21:55
Speaker 2: Cynthia likes, the Detroit Lions or are that one seed?
21:58
Speaker 2: The Rams going up against the Eagles and then finishing
22:01
Speaker 2: off with the Ravens at the Bills. Cynthia's Lions have
22:05
Speaker 2: never won the game that she's not saying. Could this
22:09
Speaker 2: be the year? Oh gotta love pel official he said
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Speaker 2: The first touchdown score odds it is all Lions. The
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22:25
Speaker 2: Plus four seventy five to get in the end zone.
22:27
Speaker 2: I'm on round Saint Brown, Jmo and then Sam Laporta
22:31
Speaker 2: and yeah, the other team has a pretty good football player,
22:34
Speaker 2: Jadon Daniels and the Commanders taking on the top seeded
22:37
Speaker 2: Lions in Detroit. The Lions fresh off the buy. David
22:40
Speaker 2: Montgomery is back. How does it go?
22:42
Speaker 3: Grik see now, Cynthia, I said, it could be the
22:45
Speaker 3: changing of the guard, and we have this young quarterback
22:47
Speaker 3: doing things as a rookie we've never seen before.
22:50
Speaker 5: And now, who am I kidding?
22:51
Speaker 3: The Lions are gonna roll over this Commander's defense forty
22:54
Speaker 3: one to twenty seven.
22:56
Speaker 5: It's not the changing of the guard.
22:57
Speaker 3: It's the same team that made the NFC Championship Game
23:00
Speaker 3: a year ago. Because they got the better quarterback in
23:02
Speaker 3: this game, as great as Jadon Daniels, Jared Goff is
23:05
Speaker 3: playing the best football of his career. A lot of
23:08
Speaker 3: these throws that you see are from a very comfortable pocket,
23:11
Speaker 3: and that's what I expect to happen on Sunday. Commanders
23:14
Speaker 3: couldn't get after Baker Mayfield last week. The Buccaneers did
23:17
Speaker 3: not make them pay enough. I think it's a very
23:19
Speaker 3: similar matchup against really a great offensive line and a
23:23
Speaker 3: player in Jared Goff that, yes, he was great last
23:26
Speaker 3: year at this time, and he was good the year before,
23:28
Speaker 3: but he has improved. I've seen it like quarterbacks can
23:32
Speaker 3: keep improving. He's only thirty years old. I saw Tom
23:35
Speaker 3: Brady play his best quarterbacking at thirty eight forty years old,
23:38
Speaker 3: and I really do believe his command of this offense
23:41
Speaker 3: with the weapons around him against this commander's defense, which
23:44
Speaker 3: is below average, is the biggest mismatch of the weekend.
23:48
Speaker 5: I don't think it's close. I think they cover the.
23:49
Speaker 4: Number your lips to whoever's in charges, ears, whatever the
23:53
Speaker 4: whoever's making the script writer. Anyways, I have a win
23:57
Speaker 4: for the Lions to a more modest win thirty one
23:59
Speaker 4: to twenty four. In this matchup. I want to point
24:02
Speaker 4: out the tight ends because both of these teams have
24:04
Speaker 4: been exceptional on going for it on fourth down.
24:07
Speaker 6: In fact, they're the two best in the league.
24:09
Speaker 4: The best is actually the Commanders in big part why
24:12
Speaker 4: because the tight end is a great opportunity to help
24:15
Speaker 4: out the quarterback. Sam Laporta in recent weeks has been
24:18
Speaker 4: a great reason why Jared goffin company are so good
24:21
Speaker 4: at going forward on fourth down this season.
24:24
Speaker 6: Overall, on fourth down, do you know what's going on?
24:26
Speaker 4: League wide? It's actually not going as well. It's down
24:29
Speaker 4: about eight or nine percentage points. But not for these
24:32
Speaker 4: two teams, oh contreire. Why because Laporta gives them another
24:36
Speaker 4: option the pass catching game, and they've got this great
24:39
Speaker 4: run situation and the offensive line.
24:41
Speaker 6: But then on the.
24:41
Speaker 4: Other side, zach Ertz, He's able to kind of beat
24:44
Speaker 4: whatever's going on, especially with the blitz. If you look
24:48
Speaker 4: at what goes on with Jayden Daniels passer rating when
24:50
Speaker 4: targeting zach Ertz when teams blitz him.
24:52
Speaker 6: It's one twenty three. That's super high.
24:55
Speaker 4: So when I'm looking at both of these teams and
24:57
Speaker 4: their kind of high risk nature, the tight ends do
25:00
Speaker 4: make the difference.
25:01
Speaker 2: And the problem is for zach Ertz and the Commanders
25:03
Speaker 2: they're playing, it's the Lions who have been very, very
25:05
Speaker 2: good at stopping tight ends all season long. It's unanimous.
25:09
Speaker 2: I have the Lions winning by more modest score than
25:11
Speaker 2: Cynthia thirty two to twenty seven. We all have points here,
25:14
Speaker 2: but I think you need to be able to run
25:16
Speaker 2: the ball to keep this Lions offense off the field.
25:19
Speaker 2: And yeah, the Commanders were able to get a whole
25:21
Speaker 2: lot of opportunity convert all those fourth downs utilizing Jayden Daniels.
25:25
Speaker 2: You know the last time a non quarterback led the
25:28
Speaker 2: Commanders in rushing it was before Thereby, if you take
25:31
Speaker 2: Jaydon Daniels away, they go from the best EPA per
25:35
Speaker 2: carry offense in the entire league all the way down
25:38
Speaker 2: to seventh. He's so much of the offense, He's so
25:41
Speaker 2: much of the run game. I think you just need
25:44
Speaker 2: more pieces. Yeah, this could be a seed change in
25:47
Speaker 2: years when the Commanders get more pieces around. The Detroit
25:50
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25:53
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26:26
Speaker 2: as socks of player props for this game between the
26:28
Speaker 2: Commanders and the Lions. In the fable, Jade Daniels have
26:31
Speaker 2: more or less than two hundred and ninety one total yards.
26:34
Speaker 6: Well, the running yards count for that one.
26:36
Speaker 4: As the rushing yards bolster this projection for me, I
26:38
Speaker 4: think he has more than this total. Why well, if
26:41
Speaker 4: you look at this O line, it lines up the
26:42
Speaker 4: fifth widest in the National Football League.
26:44
Speaker 6: And what happens then.
26:45
Speaker 4: It creates more lanes for Jayden Daniels to use those legs,
26:48
Speaker 4: and we knows he wants to do it. He's going
26:50
Speaker 4: to do it, especially because the Lions plays so much. Man,
26:53
Speaker 4: perhaps the space that's created from that will give him
26:56
Speaker 4: an opportunity to help go over that number.
26:59
Speaker 2: All right, so we got one more. Let's go to
27:00
Speaker 2: the Lions. Greg Well, I'm on Ross Saint Brown have
27:02
Speaker 2: more or less than seven six receiving those.
27:05
Speaker 3: Oh, I got a lot of respect from Mike Sandristell,
27:07
Speaker 3: who might be the matchup here, but Mike Sandristell isn't
27:10
Speaker 3: in the garage with Equanimius and mister Universe working out.
27:15
Speaker 3: Let's go him on Ron way over seventy six.
27:18
Speaker 5: Love this matchup. I don't think they match up.
27:20
Speaker 3: Well at all in the secondary against this Lions team.
27:23
Speaker 3: And just for the record, only one of us picked
27:26
Speaker 3: the Lions to cover the number.
27:28
Speaker 5: And that's me.
27:29
Speaker 3: So you guys are Lions haters and I'm a true yes, yes,
27:32
Speaker 3: that's me.
27:32
Speaker 6: I'm a Lions hater.
27:34
Speaker 5: We all know.
27:34
Speaker 2: That it's hard enough to carry the offense in the
27:37
Speaker 2: receiving game, but to carry your big brother on a
27:39
Speaker 2: podcast is even more. Jamir Gibbs more or less than
27:42
Speaker 2: one hundred non scrimmage yards. I think it's more because
27:45
Speaker 2: Jamir Gibbs has set six point four yards per touch
27:50
Speaker 2: this season. I know David Montgomery might be back for
27:53
Speaker 2: this game. I think they get Jamiir Gibbs around the
27:55
Speaker 2: seventeen eighteen touches that he needs to hit that number.
27:58
Speaker 2: So I'm confident that Gibbs is going to get more.
28:01
Speaker 3: The most explosive runs in the NFL are by the
28:04
Speaker 3: Lions when they're under center, by.
28:06
Speaker 5: More than twenty explosive runs.
28:07
Speaker 3: You know what, defense was dead last in success rate
28:11
Speaker 3: against in.
28:12
Speaker 5: Terms of under center runs. The commander commanders, what a mismatch?
28:16
Speaker 5: Forty One's not enough?
28:17
Speaker 2: Forty one? I love it. Let's go. Let's get Rory
28:22
Speaker 2: in here.
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Speaker 6: Rory, be careful. I might leave you know, Kyle for Rory.
28:26
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean I love Rory.
28:28
Speaker 4: Rory is amazing, not just the Hall Pass, the entire universe.
28:32
Speaker 6: Who cares? Everyone would be happy about it.
28:34
Speaker 2: We're just getting started. Here on game debut coming up,
28:37
Speaker 2: should Matthew Stafford and the Rams have the Eagles on
28:40
Speaker 2: upset Alerte, It's gonna be an epic NFC battle between powerhouses.
28:44
Speaker 2: Who's gonna win and who's gonna line up? The scoreboard
28:47
Speaker 2: will inform you next on game.
28:49
Speaker 6: Day will inform you.
29:01
Speaker 2: Let's look way back to this week twelve matchup the
29:04
Speaker 2: Rams and the Eagles at so far and yeah, it's
29:08
Speaker 2: a little bit of foreshadowing because the highlight starts with
29:10
Speaker 2: Saquon then he puts Christian rose Boom in the air
29:13
Speaker 2: backwards for four yards.
29:15
Speaker 4: We I mean, look, stif farm's a good thing to
29:19
Speaker 4: add to his repertoire, obviously he.
29:21
Speaker 2: Just needs more tools in the toolbox. They nominate defenders
29:25
Speaker 2: later on, why not have a seventy yard touchdown. The
29:29
Speaker 2: Eagles would lead twenty to seven. That was this ninth
29:32
Speaker 2: rushing touchdown of the season. He had seven games with
29:35
Speaker 2: one hundred rush yards in the season, second longest run
29:39
Speaker 2: of his career. Right there, next Eagles possession lead twenty
29:41
Speaker 2: to fourteen. Hurts hit Saquon, he goes for thirty one yards.
29:45
Speaker 2: He would finish with four catches for forty seven yards.
29:49
Speaker 2: And the very next play he would not finish the drive.
29:51
Speaker 2: Saquon's like, hey, get Kenny G in here so Kenny
29:53
Speaker 2: G can score thirteen yard touchdown. What do you know
29:56
Speaker 2: he does just that.
29:58
Speaker 5: Kenny G's underrated.
29:59
Speaker 3: I mean they lose a lot when they take Saquon out,
30:02
Speaker 3: but he's a good bagup.
30:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very good. Been good for a wild next
30:06
Speaker 2: Rams possession, Matthew Stafford gets sacked. It's Milton Williams Stavord.
30:12
Speaker 2: Not a decent game, though he finished twenty four to
30:13
Speaker 2: thirty six two hundred and forty three yards. He was
30:16
Speaker 2: sacked five times in the fourth quarter, Eagles late thirty
30:18
Speaker 2: to fourteen. Sakwan on third and six. Good night, everybody.
30:23
Speaker 4: It's amazing how effortless he makes running that fast look.
30:26
Speaker 4: The other guys are also fast, but he makes them
30:29
Speaker 4: look so slow.
30:30
Speaker 2: And he was still able to do the between the
30:32
Speaker 2: legs on the touchdown celebrations. Most rushing yards in a
30:34
Speaker 2: game in franchise history, he had two hundred and fifty five,
30:39
Speaker 2: and that brings us to home field advantage presented by Zillo.
30:42
Speaker 2: The Rams and Eagles squared off again Sunday afternoon, Philly
30:45
Speaker 2: six point favorites at home. LA got beat up the
30:49
Speaker 2: Vikings last week. They beat up the Vikings last week,
30:52
Speaker 2: and Glendale should the Eagles after that be on Upsettler.
30:55
Speaker 3: You should always be an upset alert against Matthew Stafford.
30:58
Speaker 3: But I do have the Eagles winning this game and
31:00
Speaker 3: covering the number in the end because I think they
31:02
Speaker 3: wear down that Rams defense. It's a mismatch physically in
31:06
Speaker 3: the running game because of the size. This is just
31:08
Speaker 3: one of the biggest offensive lines that you'll ever see.
31:12
Speaker 3: Their guards are massive, and then you think about who
31:14
Speaker 3: they're going up against. You think Braydon Fisk, great season
31:17
Speaker 3: for him, not a great run defender, can get pushed
31:19
Speaker 3: around a little bit in the running game. Neville Gallimore
31:21
Speaker 3: has been on the field a lot for them. Not
31:23
Speaker 3: a great run defender. They're linebackers Omar Spate's Kristin rosemu
31:27
Speaker 3: who you saw get face planned by Saquon Barkley. I
31:30
Speaker 3: just think physically, even at the secondary level at the
31:32
Speaker 3: cornerback position, not great tackler. So I think matchup wise
31:36
Speaker 3: it could be close for a while, but the run
31:38
Speaker 3: game for the Eagles ultimately too much.
31:40
Speaker 4: I have a seven point win for the Eagles twenty
31:42
Speaker 4: seven to twenty And I want to talk about the
31:45
Speaker 4: fact you named all of those awesome rams defensive front players,
31:49
Speaker 4: and I want to note that last week they got
31:51
Speaker 4: after Sam Darnold quite a bit. But the problem is
31:54
Speaker 4: for them this week it's this old line. The Philadelphia
31:57
Speaker 4: Eagles offensive line is not going to let that happen either.
32:01
Speaker 4: Is the scheme or game plan between being able to
32:03
Speaker 4: hand the ball off sake one Barkley, being able to
32:05
Speaker 4: leverage short, deep outside the numbers, passes a lot of
32:08
Speaker 4: different things from Jalen Hurts, You're gonna have to respect
32:12
Speaker 4: the run, the pass, the scramble, all of those things
32:14
Speaker 4: on every single down, which means as good as that
32:17
Speaker 4: front is, it puts a lot more pressure on the
32:20
Speaker 4: back of the defense where they aren't as strong. So
32:22
Speaker 4: I'm looking at this O line and I'm saying huge advantage,
32:25
Speaker 4: and especially in playoff games, if you're just like a
32:28
Speaker 4: passer by who happens to know little something about OH
32:31
Speaker 4: lines and you want to pick who's going to win
32:32
Speaker 4: a game, and even if you think it's close, just
32:34
Speaker 4: always pick the team with the better O line.
32:36
Speaker 6: In the playoffs, it works out more often than not.
32:39
Speaker 2: I agree with that advantage, and one thing that kind
32:41
Speaker 2: of got Philly fans annoyed was how conservative the game
32:44
Speaker 2: plan was last week. I think it'll be a conservative
32:46
Speaker 2: plan this week as well, because they have that advantage.
32:48
Speaker 2: I've got the Eagles twenty five to twenty, and they
32:51
Speaker 2: can afford to be conservative on offense. But there is
32:53
Speaker 2: a point. I have a point of contention that I'm
32:55
Speaker 2: putting this Eagle on watch because they allowed the fewest
32:59
Speaker 2: yards per attempt when playing zone this season. But when
33:02
Speaker 2: you look at man, it's the third fuse. They're good everywhere. Guys.
33:07
Speaker 2: It's so tough to find a spot to challenge this defense,
33:10
Speaker 2: and you just need to isolate the weakness. But where
33:14
Speaker 2: is it great on the edge? Darius Slayton made have
33:17
Speaker 2: one of the best interceptions that we've seen all season
33:20
Speaker 2: down the sideline on don Tavian Wicks. Carter got doubled
33:24
Speaker 2: more in that game against the Rams that he has
33:26
Speaker 2: in any other game this season. They still had that
33:28
Speaker 2: success late. It's just tough to find the spot. Meme Away,
33:32
Speaker 2: Rams fans, we have all taken the Philadelphia Eagles. Check
33:36
Speaker 2: out some player props for this matchup. Those we see
33:39
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford around two hundred and twenty six and a
33:42
Speaker 2: half passing yards, Jalen Hurts a significantly lower number, Eagles
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Speaker 2: not passing that much two hundred and two and a half,
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Speaker 2: Sakuon at one hundred and ten and a half on
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Speaker 2: the ground, Kiroen at just seventy four and a half,
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Speaker 2: and Pukainakua at seven and a half receptions, bringing us
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Speaker 2: too more or less, Cynthia, Who's gonna throw for two
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Speaker 2: or more touchdowns? Matthew Stafford or Jalen Hurts?
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Speaker 4: Well, I actually have Matthew Stafford throwing for more. Why well,
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Speaker 4: game script is part of it, and Sequon Barkley is
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Speaker 4: the other reason.
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Speaker 6: For that when I'm well, and also with the toush push.
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Speaker 4: Let's be honest, when I'm looking at Matthew Stafford in
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Speaker 4: playoff opportunities, he's going to have to be throwing per
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Speaker 4: how we've all projected this.
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Speaker 6: Game, and that is actually where he's best.
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Speaker 4: Right, So, when you're looking at the opportunity here for
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Speaker 4: Puku Nakua to find some space, is it going to
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Speaker 4: be easy?
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Speaker 6: Huhuh?
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Speaker 4: Is it going to be possible? Absolutely? And that's why
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Speaker 4: I think passing touchdowns. If you're asking me who's going
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Speaker 4: to count for two or more touchdowns in general, the
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Speaker 4: answer would Jalen Hurts. But passing touchdowns, the answer is
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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford.
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Speaker 2: An important caveat there, Let's go to receiving greg who's
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Speaker 2: more likely to have eighty receiving yards? Aj Brown or puk.
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Speaker 5: I went back and forth.
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Speaker 3: I think there are two of the best four wide
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Speaker 3: receivers in the entire NFL. Last week they actually didn't
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Speaker 3: combine for eighty yards in the playoff game. But I'm
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Speaker 3: going Puka Nakua because he has such a high target
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Speaker 3: share and yards per route run. This season one of
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Speaker 3: the most efficient seasons in wide receiver history. And ultimately
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Speaker 3: my game script is that they're going to be trailing,
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Speaker 3: and I actually think it's a problem for them that
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Speaker 3: they're so Puka dependent. Really, he's the source of all
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Speaker 3: their big plays and almost all their receptions. In a
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Speaker 3: lot of weeks, Cooper Cups production has really gone down.
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Speaker 3: But for a choice like this, I think it could
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Speaker 3: be a goddter Gamer, it could be a DeVante Smith,
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Speaker 3: you'd never know, and yet it's always a Puka Nakua game.
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Speaker 5: So I am going Puka Nakua.
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Speaker 4: Fun fact about AJ Brown other than the fact that
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Speaker 4: he obviously reads on the sidelines and watched inter Excellence
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Speaker 4: is going to be a great book that will all
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Speaker 4: be reading this offseason.
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Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
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Speaker 4: But when you're looking at the opportunity to throw outside
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Speaker 4: the numbers, AJ Brown is the guy who does it
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Speaker 4: the most often. That was part of the game plan
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Speaker 4: last time around. So it's possible AJ Brown could earn
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Speaker 4: eighty yards just before the game script gets out of
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Speaker 4: control on those outside throws. But again, I'm with you
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Speaker 4: that it's more likely to be Puka based on gamescript.
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Speaker 2: So much to figure out in this game. I figured
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Speaker 2: out I'm going to write a book as well. Shout
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Speaker 2: out to inter Excellence.
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Speaker 6: What about Outer Excellence?
36:03
Speaker 3: Were other people which Terranian Winning?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Subterranean Winning is going to be in bookstores this fall.
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Speaker 2: You heard it here first over four and a half receptions,
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Speaker 2: Cooper cup or Devonte Smith. I'm actually gonna take Davonte
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Speaker 2: Smith in this one. There was that big play for
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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford to Cooper cup at last week in the
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Speaker 2: win against the Vikings, which was kind of a dagger,
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Speaker 2: but the Philadelphia Eagles in their wild card game had
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Speaker 2: twenty eight passing yards before Jalen Hurts hooked up with
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Speaker 2: Davonte Smith twice on the drive that Dallas Goddard finally
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Speaker 2: finished things up with a touchdown here. I think getting
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Speaker 2: five catches easy money for the slim Reaper in this one,
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Speaker 2: but in.
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Speaker 4: Fact he actually has the second most yards off of
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Speaker 4: hitch routes since twenty twenty one, second two only Stefon Diggs.
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Speaker 3: And I give a ton of credit to a Calla
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Speaker 3: Witherspoon and Darius Williams who have stepped in as these
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Speaker 3: veterans for the Rams. And yet I kind of think
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Speaker 3: the Eagles had a little bit of a warm up
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Speaker 3: game last week they got into the playoffs. Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 3: hadn't played for a while. I think the passing game
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Speaker 3: will be better this week than.
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Speaker 4: A William's got a J Brown kind of ya had
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Speaker 4: had a lot of yards against Well.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if the Rams can force the Eagles put
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Speaker 2: their foot on the gasket that passive game going more.
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Speaker 2: They's just to use their advantages and run all over
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Speaker 2: them like they did across the street earlier this season.
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Speaker 6: Funny, I just realized what time the show was on.
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Speaker 6: I didn't even know.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you need to stand tough, though, like Max Crosby,
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Speaker 3: you in the end look a little soft when he's
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Speaker 3: posing like that.
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Speaker 2: Well it's intimidating than him.
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Speaker 6: Do you really have to? So?
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Speaker 2: There six six in that photo Tom for Expert Playmakers
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Speaker 2: presented by Into a TurboTax. Terry mcclarin is Jayden Daniel's
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Speaker 2: favorite targets and you only have more than sixty seven
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Speaker 2: receiving yards against your lion Saturday.
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Speaker 4: He will why because this is a DeFi that is
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Speaker 4: still injured.
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Speaker 6: They're not fixed yet.
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Speaker 4: And you know who knows that, Cliff Kingsbury, You know
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Speaker 4: who else knows that? Jaden Daniels and Terry mccorrn himself
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Speaker 4: also knows it. They will find ways to match him
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Speaker 4: up against the missing Carlton Davis, against the missing pieces
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Speaker 4: of any part of the defense. So I think this
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Speaker 4: is a bad matchup if you're a Lions fan, a
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Speaker 4: good match up if you're a Terry Mclaorran fan, which
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Speaker 4: I'm actually both.
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Speaker 3: He did have good news with Terry and Arnolds returning.
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Speaker 3: He will play and he could be the only reason
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Speaker 3: why Terry wouldn't hit this number just because he has
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Speaker 3: pass interferences and traps are.
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Speaker 4: Say, does that mean he'll score a touchdown then? And
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Speaker 4: the yardage might not be anything.
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Speaker 5: I'm with you, though I like Terry.
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Speaker 3: Despite me saying that the lines are gonna win easy,
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Speaker 3: actually think the Commander's offense could have a really good day.
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Speaker 5: I just think twenty eight points might not be good
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Speaker 5: to be even that close.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a really good there. Because Commander's Lines is the
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Speaker 2: highest over under of the week at fifty five and
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Speaker 2: a half years. A look at all the divisional round
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Speaker 2: projected point totals, it leading the way of the Ravens, Bills, Rams, Eagles,
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Speaker 2: and then Texans Chiefs pulling up the rear there at
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Speaker 2: forty one and a half points. Top for write this down.
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Speaker 2: Let's get us some predictions in the NFC kick us off.
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Speaker 3: Greg, I will start with my guy, Jared Goff. He's
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Speaker 3: my guy, now, why not? He's a Merrick, you guy,
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Speaker 3: he is America guy. It was a typo when I
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Speaker 3: saw the passing numbers for this game are two hundred and.
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Speaker 5: Seventy one and a half.
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Speaker 3: Easy money, because I think the Lions are going to
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Speaker 3: pass to set up the run. They have a lot
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Speaker 3: of advantages in the running game. Washington knows that. I
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Speaker 3: think early on they're going to be very aggressive. They
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Speaker 3: use all four downs. Marshall and Lattimore has not panned
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Speaker 3: out so far for the Commanders, so I think he
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Speaker 3: could get about two hundred in the first half and
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Speaker 3: then cruise to this.
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Speaker 6: Okay, well again, I hope.
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Speaker 4: So I'm having David Montgomery score a touchdown in his
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Speaker 4: return against the Commanders. You talked about those under center
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Speaker 4: runs when the quarterbacks under center, Well, both running backs,
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Speaker 4: him and Jamier Gibbs both have eight and they're the
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Speaker 4: duo with the most since last season when they combined
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Speaker 4: for twenty two, which they probably would have had had
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Speaker 4: David Montgomery been held the whole season. But whatever, he's
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Speaker 4: going to score a touchdown in this one. Again, dear
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Speaker 4: script makers, please listen to me. Thank you very much, xoxo, Cynthia.
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Speaker 2: Some my sakeingd note, So not only are their script makers,
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Speaker 2: but their deities that you can pray to. I've got,
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Speaker 2: obviously going over fifty four and a half receiving yards
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Speaker 2: against the Rams. He's only played in five games this
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Speaker 2: year where he didn't hit that number. Already told you.
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to have more than five catches.
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Speaker 2: I think a couple of them are going to be
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Speaker 2: longer than the ten plus yards and he's gonna get
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Speaker 2: fifty four and a half receiving yards in a great
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Speaker 2: divisional weekend. I can't wait, guys.
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Speaker 3: I love these matchups and they're big numbers, and that
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Speaker 3: just means we're going to have one massive upset.
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Speaker 5: It's just hard to predict which one it's going to be.
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Speaker 2: I say Texans, so they does not want it to
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Speaker 2: be the Lions. But we do want to see you
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Speaker 2: guys next week. Enjoy the visional weekend. Thanks for watching.
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