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  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to Game Debut present about Mercedes Benz, Patrick
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  Speaker 2: laybaumb back here with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland. The
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  Speaker 2: presence have all been opened, the trash has not quite
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  Speaker 2: been thrown away. But we've almost got the playoff picture
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  Speaker 2: completely crystallized. We just need a few more things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Christmas was, you know, somewhat of a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: but our picks race is really what America is talking
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  Speaker 3: about right now.
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  Speaker 4: Clearly, just start bragging.
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  Speaker 5: Just bragging we're tied. That doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is. Why don't we just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and the plow crowns to Cynthia and Greg, who are
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  Speaker 2: exactly we've played all of these football games. They have
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  Speaker 2: the same exact record, one hundred and sixty nine and
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  Speaker 2: seventy one. Cynthia has caught up to Greg, and that
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  Speaker 2: puts me in second place in our big Standing's hoay
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  Speaker 2: as we take a look at the AFC playoff picture
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  Speaker 2: with the Kansas City Chiefs have gone ahead and gotten
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  Speaker 2: a bye. And this Saturday we've got a trip well
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  Speaker 2: header exclusively on NFL Network Chargers Patriots at one o'clock Eastern,
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  Speaker 2: Broncos Bengals at four Eastern, Cardinals Rams at eight Eastern Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: December twenty eighth, only on NFL Network. Streaming on NFL Plus.
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  Speaker 2: Subscription is required for NFL Plus. Let's dive into those
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  Speaker 2: Saturday games, starting with the Chargers. In the Patriots, the
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  Speaker 2: Bolts can clinch a playoff berth with a win. Did
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  Speaker 2: they get that win on Saturday?
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  Speaker 4: They absolutely do.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a fun game between two
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite quarterbacks to watch Chargers win twenty six
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  Speaker 3: to twenty. And when you watch Drake May and Justin
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  Speaker 3: Herber on the field together, you're seeing one as a
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  Speaker 3: younger version of the other. Yes, Drake May as a
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  Speaker 3: rookie reminds me more of Justin Herber than I expected it.
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  Speaker 4: Physically, they're similar.
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  Speaker 3: Drake May a little more aggressive as a runner, but
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  Speaker 3: what surprises me is how much he reminds me of
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  Speaker 3: Justin Herber as a decision maker. The last five or
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  Speaker 3: six weeks, Drake May has been very careful with the ball,
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  Speaker 3: going through his reads, making safe throws. And that really
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the word on Drake May. Coming out of college
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  Speaker 3: at UNC, Justin Herbert. You basically if you come up
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  Speaker 3: with a quarterback in a lab, he's going to look
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  Speaker 3: a lot like Justin Herbert, with that body and the
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  Speaker 3: physicality and the arm strength. And yet he is a
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  Speaker 3: very careful quarterback. And Drake May has learned he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have the best team around him. He's not putting up
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  Speaker 3: the same numbers that Herbert did as a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: Those are Herbert rookie games we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, they're both going to be part of
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  Speaker 3: our lives for the next decade plus. So, yes, the
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  Speaker 3: charters win, but Patriots fans they have a lot to
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  Speaker 3: be thankful for.
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  Speaker 6: I like that comp a lot, and I'm just going
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  Speaker 6: to say my score is pretty similar to yours. I
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  Speaker 6: have twenty three to eighteen. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 6: be a very fascinating game through the air as well.
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  Speaker 6: And I want to point out another rookie, and that's
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  Speaker 6: Lad McConkey. We didn't know a head of the season
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  Speaker 6: who is Justin Herbert going to throw the ball to
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  Speaker 6: reliably And the answer has been number fifteen out of Georgia.
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  Speaker 6: When I'm watching these games, and yes, you're looking at
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  Speaker 6: Justin Herbert's numbers this year and you're saying taking the
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  Speaker 6: fewest passing attempts that we've seen he's had in terms
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  Speaker 6: of like numbers per game, it's down. But if you
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  Speaker 6: look at per throw averages and his passer rating when
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  Speaker 6: completing passes, this is a good thing in large part
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  Speaker 6: because of how they're setting him up for success in
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  Speaker 6: the passing game with lad McConkey. So he's not even
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  Speaker 6: getting any shine for a potential of offensive Rookie of
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  Speaker 6: the Year, but we love him and at least he
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  Speaker 6: should be in the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: He's on my ballot. You can vote for five guys.
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  Speaker 3: He's like third or four.
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  Speaker 5: Right, right, So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm going to vote for Cynthia and ire
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  Speaker 2: to get some balance as just kidding.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to ballot Greg's ballot.
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  Speaker 5: Do I talk to about this ballot?
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  Speaker 4: Really have a ballot.
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  Speaker 2: We're gotta get ballots for the show. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: a Chargers win as well, but just by two points,
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  Speaker 2: because we look back at the start of the season
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  Speaker 2: and things were looking great for this Chargers defense, but
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  Speaker 2: in the past few games they've had issues stopping the
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  Speaker 2: opposition from running the football. In fact, two of the
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  Speaker 2: last five games the Chargers have seen the opponent run
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  Speaker 2: for over two hundred yards, including a game which I
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  Speaker 2: thought really doomed them and had some long term implications
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  Speaker 2: in that loss at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 2: And now these Patriots come in, who had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of success running the ball early against Buffalo, perhaps Drake Mays.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's Greg Rosenthal's one thing that matters, and
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  Speaker 2: I think his team can make a push here to
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  Speaker 2: beat the Chargers, but comes up late. So Patriots fans
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  Speaker 2: meme away as we go. Take a look at that
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  Speaker 2: playoff picture once again in the AFC, because you see
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  Speaker 2: the teams in the hunt. We got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: them coming up. A big matchup between the Broncos and
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals Saturday right here on NFL Network for you
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to that game. That where there's you see
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  Speaker 2: a Broncos team that, oh my gosh, because Payton has
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  Speaker 2: them as world beaters right now and the rookie quarterback
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  Speaker 2: is playing so well. But then they falter a against
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers. And now the Bengals come in where I
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  Speaker 2: thought a few weeks ago there was no hope, but Greg,
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  Speaker 2: you laid out a plan, and that plan, despite slim margins,
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  Speaker 2: they do have a shot at the playoffs. I think
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  Speaker 2: I've got the Bengals winning this game too. Twenty five
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  Speaker 2: to twenty three a bad year for the team, but
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  Speaker 2: Jamar Chase is great. He's been using so many different
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  Speaker 2: spots for so many different things. They're going to score.
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  Speaker 2: Currently on pace for a triple crown season. Patrickstan isn't
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  Speaker 2: just locked into one spot either. Those two were going
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  Speaker 2: head to head quite possibly all over the field, but
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  Speaker 2: Riley Moss hasn't played since Thanksgiving. I think t Higgins
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  Speaker 2: gets good looks as well here, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: gives the Bengals a great shot to give themselves that
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  Speaker 2: slim bit of hope.
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  Speaker 6: Cynthia, Well, I mean you have more hope for the
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  Speaker 6: Bengals than me, because I actually have the Bengals only
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  Speaker 6: winning by one point five to twenty.
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  Speaker 5: Four in this matchup.
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  Speaker 6: I do actually want to talk about bo Nicks here
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  Speaker 6: because something that will matter in this game is his
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  Speaker 6: ability to run smartly, not just run, but run small.
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  Speaker 6: Why do I say that, Well, something he's used on
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  Speaker 6: forty percent of attempts has been a short pass, and
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  Speaker 6: this is not an area that you want to target
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  Speaker 6: the Bengals defense. We've said, and very fairly that this
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  Speaker 6: is a defense you can target in many ways, but
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  Speaker 6: with a short pass. They have the most interceptions on
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  Speaker 6: the sub ten ten air yard pass and now Bonnicks
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  Speaker 6: is going to need to use his legs instead of
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  Speaker 6: use his arm in that situation to prevent any turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bonnicks has not been playing that well lately. I
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  Speaker 3: thought he struggled against the Colts. You didn't finish off
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  Speaker 3: that game against the Chargers, and yet I think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get the win. Talk about a lack of
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  Speaker 3: respect from these two on the Broncos. The Broncos win
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  Speaker 3: this one twenty three to twenty. Let's just scrag it
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  Speaker 3: up Broncos Twitter. You're so angry all the time at everyone,
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  Speaker 3: especially me. This is the respect that you've been looking for.
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  Speaker 3: And it's partly because I don't respect this Bengals defense.
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  Speaker 3: All season long. They've been telling us who they are,
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  Speaker 3: and they are a team that gives up a lot
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  Speaker 3: of big plays on the ground and through the Sean
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  Speaker 3: Payton a month ago decided I'll let you switch that
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  Speaker 3: TNF game so I can get extra rest in this
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  Speaker 3: game against the Bengals.
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  Speaker 4: He's a mad genius.
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  Speaker 3: The TNF thing didn't really work out, but he does
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  Speaker 3: have extra rest in this one. That Bengals defense, which
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  Speaker 3: has been better lately forcing some turnovers, ultimately isn't up
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  Speaker 3: to snuff. I think Sean Payton dials up some big plays,
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  Speaker 3: bo Nicks has some easy passes, the running game gets
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  Speaker 3: it going, and Cincinnati's two banged up.
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  Speaker 4: They've told us who they are all season, and what
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  Speaker 4: they are is not a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: They lose, so Greg takes the disrespect and slides it
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  Speaker 2: over to the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 6: Well, my question is is we're all on the same
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  Speaker 6: side if you're looking at it through the lens of
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  Speaker 6: some perspective, well, and yet we're disrespectful.
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  Speaker 4: Got it? You are?
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  Speaker 3: When they do the standings next week, my win picking
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos, right, that's what's gonna count or not.
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  Speaker 2: The math on respect is within five points, whether or
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  Speaker 2: not your respect. But in the Saturday night game features
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  Speaker 2: one of the hottest teams in the league. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: for the Saturday Night Cap on NFL Network, we have
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals in rams LA winning four straight, but they
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  Speaker 2: can clinch the NFC West in part with a win.
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  Speaker 2: Do they clinch.
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  Speaker 6: Cynthia, Well, they win, so they do their part in
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  Speaker 6: the clinching scenario twenty seven to twenty. In this matchup,
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  Speaker 6: what I'm looking at on the other side is really
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  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray doing a little bit too much. And that
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  Speaker 6: was even before James Connor got injured, and Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 6: just trying to like make something, force things to happen
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  Speaker 6: as opposed to taking things when they're there. You've seen
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  Speaker 6: it manifest after their buy In terms of interceptions, we
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  Speaker 6: just saw a couple of them on the screen right now.
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  Speaker 6: But then you're seeing it in like forcing like quick
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  Speaker 6: cadence issues. That's when you see those snaps and handoffs
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  Speaker 6: don't go right. When they don't go right, it's usually
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  Speaker 6: something to do with communications. So in my opinion in
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  Speaker 6: this matchup, I mean, especially with Jared Verse coming for
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  Speaker 6: your Life and all these other guys up front for
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  Speaker 6: the rams it's going to be very different. If he
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  Speaker 6: tries to do it all on himself and without James Connor,
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  Speaker 6: it just would to me indicate maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of doing too much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he also is without some offensive linemen. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: why I like just barely the Rams covering the number
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  Speaker 3: twenty four to seventeen. They lost big time to the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals before, but that was a different Rams team. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's Kien Williams's team. You think about the Rams and
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  Speaker 3: you think Pooka and Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's really a run first team and Kyron Williams has
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  Speaker 3: turned into the centerpiece of their offense. He sees a
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  Speaker 3: hole and he gets a little extra. If they block
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  Speaker 3: him for four yards, he gets six or seven. They
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  Speaker 3: block him for two or three yards, he gets five.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's not there with all the explosive runs,
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  Speaker 3: but if you look at success rate, he is right there.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last two months with the very best runners
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  Speaker 3: in the league. They are a great running attack. Sean
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  Speaker 3: mcvagh dials it up and they get some revenge for
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  Speaker 3: that blowout that the Cardinals gave him early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like that blowout was an entirely different
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  Speaker 2: in a f the Rams were playing in that game
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  Speaker 2: without Pooka and Akua. I've got them winning this game,
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  Speaker 2: but just about one point nineteen to eighteen. I do
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  Speaker 2: want to look at this Cardinals passing game over the
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  Speaker 2: past few weeks. It's fallen off of the planet late
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  Speaker 2: the season. The last seven losses, they've averaged just over
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  Speaker 2: sixteen points, and since Week nine, Marvin Harrison Junior has
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  Speaker 2: only gone over fifty nine yards in a game once
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  Speaker 2: and in that game he had sixty yards. He's still
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  Speaker 2: getting the targets, but the passing game is having real problems.
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  Speaker 2: For a team with glaring problems to beat the Rams
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  Speaker 2: right now, it's very difficult. The Rams could beat anybody,
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  Speaker 2: but I think in this divisional game it's close. But
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  Speaker 2: as you heard, the Beautiful Children, it is a name.
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  Speaker 2: We are all aboard the Los Angeles Rams winning. To
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  Speaker 2: wrap up at Saturday tripleheader on NFL Network, It's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Benz, a
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  Speaker 2: monster matchup between the Packers and the Vikings, both teams
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  Speaker 2: already heading into the playoffs. Minnesota's still in the running
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  Speaker 2: for the one season. Winning this game could set up
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  Speaker 2: a huge matchup next week. Who wins this time?
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  Speaker 3: Greg I like the Packers to finally get a signature
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  Speaker 3: win in this season. They've lost to only great teams
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  Speaker 3: like the Vikings, but this time it's Jordan Love who
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  Speaker 3: gets to win thirty to twenty seven on the road.
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  Speaker 3: When you dive deep into the numbers, this is one
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  Speaker 3: of the best offenses in the league by any metric
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  Speaker 3: you can come up with. And Jordan Love has turned
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  Speaker 3: into one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the league,
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  Speaker 3: in part because the running game sets him up to
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  Speaker 3: not have to do too much.
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  Speaker 4: But when he does, he is going deep.
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  Speaker 3: The throws are pretty and I think to beat the
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings, you need to have a quarterback who can
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  Speaker 3: stand back there and make tough throws. That's what Jordan
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  Speaker 3: Love has now been doing over the last two months.
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  Speaker 3: He's really become one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
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  Speaker 3: He's aided by a great play caller. There's very little
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  Speaker 3: separating these two teams, but sometimes you look at it
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  Speaker 3: and you just think, oh, they're gonna win one of these.
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  Speaker 3: They can't just keep losing these close games to good teams.
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  Speaker 4: I think they pull this one off.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I have a closer game than you, but I
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  Speaker 6: have Green Bay winning this one twenty three to twenty two.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to show you some very unsexy footage. If
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  Speaker 6: you are a fantasy football player, this is Josh Jacobs blocking.
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  Speaker 5: Are you ready for it?
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  Speaker 6: Because this running back is very dynamic in terms of
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  Speaker 6: stopping guys from getting pressure on his quarterback. Why is
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  Speaker 6: it such a big deal to have him block, Well,
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  Speaker 6: we know that this team likes to blitz and the
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  Speaker 6: last time out, which was a billion years ago, back
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  Speaker 6: in Week four, he did throw three picks against this
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  Speaker 6: team and two of them were when they were blitzing. Now,
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  Speaker 6: what's the difference over the past five games? Jordan Love
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  Speaker 6: zero interceptions. What is one of the differences, Well, it's
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  Speaker 6: the production, it's the versatility, and it's how Josh Jacobs
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  Speaker 6: has been utilized all of those things, especially unsexy blocking,
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  Speaker 6: which I think is very sexy. No, Now, that to
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  Speaker 6: me is the big difference in this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: I have a very close score as well. The differences
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  Speaker 2: I've got the Minnesota Vikings. I believe in the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: They were my pick to go in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs powering his way to a Packers win is
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  Speaker 2: something I can easily see, but I keep doubting Sam
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  Speaker 2: Donald and he continues to be successful, especially on third downs.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just watch Sam make plays well third down against
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  Speaker 2: really good teams. This year, He's in like a burrow
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  Speaker 2: in lamarka category on third and long since Week seven,
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  Speaker 2: and if they even get there. Here's the thing with
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  Speaker 2: Sam Donald this season. He's throwing past the sticks on
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  Speaker 2: forty five percent of his attempts. He's not getting hidden.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's not doing some quarterback magic. This is just
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  Speaker 2: saying the Sam Donald. And So I've picked the Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: and I've picked against the Vikings and loss. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: stop doing that. It's a really good football team with
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  Speaker 2: a good quarterback, and so I'm all alone, which is
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  Speaker 2: a place I'm very comfortable being. So the Lions get
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  Speaker 2: a shot at redemption Monday Night against the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: Ers Detroit, currently the one seed in the NFC. Does
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  Speaker 2: Dan Campbell get his revenge against the Niner Cynthia?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I mean I don't know if it's revenge because it
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  Speaker 6: feels like it's like such a different situation. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: both teams are really struggling with injuries, the Niners all
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  Speaker 6: season long, the Lions more recently. But I have Lions
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  Speaker 6: winning by three points twenty six to twenty three when
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking at this collapse last year, and this was
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  Speaker 6: actually the tape that I chose. When you talk about
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  Speaker 6: what Dan Campbell does really well, his entire personality becomes
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  Speaker 6: this team. And if you don't think he's using this
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  Speaker 6: as motivation, if they've not rewatched this three hundred times
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  Speaker 6: over the past week to try to make sure that
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  Speaker 6: they have every t crossed and I dotted, you don't
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  Speaker 6: know Dan Campbell. And I think the amount of caffeine
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  Speaker 6: the man is going to consume between last year and
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  Speaker 6: this year, the total is going to be something that
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  Speaker 6: pays off in dividends here. Now, do I love what's
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  Speaker 6: going out of the defense, No, But I think this
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  Speaker 6: is a situation where, given the injury report for the Niners,
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  Speaker 6: this is an opportunity for some of the guys who
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  Speaker 6: we may not know, not the household names as a
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  Speaker 6: Detroit Lions defense, to really step up. And we know
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  Speaker 6: they're going to blitz on every single freaking down and
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  Speaker 6: that's going to be really hard with this old Lion.
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  Speaker 3: So banged up it is in I think the Lions
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  Speaker 3: offense is in such good shape to put a big
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  Speaker 3: point totals and just you know, on defense, don't let
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  Speaker 3: the ball bounce off your face. The Lions win this
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  Speaker 3: game thirty one to seventies go. If we're going all revenge,
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  Speaker 3: it's not even gonna be close.
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  Speaker 4: I had this.
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  Speaker 3: Whole package, you know, with smart football points. And then
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  Speaker 3: I heard Teddy Bridgewater was signing with the Lions, and
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  Speaker 3: I said, let's get Teddy into the show because I've
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  Speaker 3: run some next Greg's stats here and the Lions were
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  Speaker 3: close to having the best vibes in the league before
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  Speaker 3: adding Teddy Bridgewater. They have rocketed to the top of
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  Speaker 3: the charts. You add Teddy Bridgewater's leadership, his vibes, his
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  Speaker 3: high school state championship that he just won in Florida.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: He's gonna just give that little extra juice. This is
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: a super Bowl caliber team. This forty nine Ers team
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: is all banged up. They are not ready to compete
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: in this one.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah's too, Danamous, I've got the Lions winning it. My
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: score twenty seven to twenty a touchdown difference for this
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: one where it's a shit Late in this season, because
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: especially in the fantasy world, we were wondering where Sam
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Laporta at the start of the season. Well, he's on
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: the receiving end of a lot of Jared Goff passes.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: His target share decline from his rookie season, but the
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: last three weeks he's gotten twenty four targets. That's more
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: targets than he did in the first eight weeks combined.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: A big part of things. I think he probably gets
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: in the end zone as well as the Lions. They
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: don't get revenge, but they're gonna get revenge on the planet,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: perhaps with a trophy in a game. Let's go Cynthia
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't talk about coming up, folks. Michael Pennix Junior has
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the Dirty Birds back in first place in the NFC South,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: but now he's going to DC to take on Jayden
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: and the Carniac Commanders. The playoffs are on the line.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Which rookie phenom gets it done Sunday night, we'll tell you.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Coming up next are Jayden Daniels and the Commanders coming
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: off that crazy ending against the Eagles. They're playing host
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: to Michael penn Junior and the Falcons Sunday night. Which
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: rookie quarterback gets a win.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Jaden Daniels.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Michael Pennis had a really nice outing last week, but
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: the guy who's been doing it all season long, he gets.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: The win here twenty eight to twenty two.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: I'm probably this offseason going to have to go back
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: and make a new metric because we now have reached
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: a tipping point in the NFL of quarterbacks who not
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: just run or pass but also throw on the run,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: and now throw on the run and then go backwards
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: about all these crazy things, and that just changes the
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: way defenses have to play.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: You.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, we've seen in an uptick.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: In efficiency from the Falcons defense in terms of generating
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: more pressure.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: They had two turnovers last week. Pick six is nonetheless.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: However, when you have to be mindful of both the
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: run and the pass, and the pass on the run,
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: then it's not going to bode well for a defense
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: that hasn't really been bringing a ton of heat all
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: season long.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I just think Jaden Daniels his.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Ability to be so multiple, like triple, not just double,
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: but multiple in so many ways is a little bit
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: more overwhelming for that defense.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a difficult spot for Michael Pennock Junior to
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: come in and play this game, having just started one game,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: going up against Jade Daniels after a whole season for
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: that rookie, and also this Commander's defense makes it very tough.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I've got the Commanders winning by two twenty four to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: twenty two, because we can discuss the Falcons improvement on defense,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but since Week seven, the Washington Commanders have the lowest
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: completion percentage allowed in the entire NFL. They've forced all
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: these turnovers. You can see the way that dan Quinn
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: has got this unit playing cohesively, getting pressure on thirty
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: seven percent of their dropbacks. A real tough one for
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Michael pennockx junor to come in here and get a
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: win and get a team into the playoffs.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Greg, all season long, I was fading this Falcons team.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I didn't believe in him. I didn't trust the defense,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't trust the quarterback. And yet when it comes
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: down to it, let's just Greg it up as a
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: four point underdog take out Cynthia get into first place
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: because we got the best rookie quarterback in that game.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Okay, maybe not, but Michael Pennox.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Look at last week and I think he has more
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: talent around him. Watch some of these throws. He doesn't
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: look like a normal rookie. The ball is out on
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: time in rhythm outside the numbers to really good players
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like Drake London and Darnell Mooney. He also is supported
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: by a terrific running game. I think Bajn Robinson is
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the best player in this entire game. And there's just
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: something different about this defense. So we're watching a lot
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: of good Michael Pennix, he had some scrambles, that's not
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: what he does best, but he ultimately is going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: do enough at quarterback. And I think the team in Atlanta,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: at least by these eyes are different than they were
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the rest of the year.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I think they're a better team than the Commanders right now.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: All right, the Falcons were able to leap frog the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Bucks in the NFC South last week. Things did not
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: go exactly as plan for Tampa. Monday night in Dallas,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Panthers and Bucks Carolina is like Sir Perr frisky. They
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: knocked the Cardinals out of the playoff contention last week.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Do the Panthers shock the Bucks here? Great?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: They do not.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I like the Bucks to bounce back. They need the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: game more twenty seven to twenty. I just trust that
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the Bucks have better defensive players like Vita Veya. I'm
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: gonna use my time afforded to me just to watch
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: display over and over.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's Vita Van Coverage, watch out. I mean the way
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: he closed ground here.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Backing up Jake Ferguson, can go win the game here?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: No, it's Vita Via. I mean, they just they just
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: better players.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: And that's the sound that he makes every time he
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: makes a tackle.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: He just goes Vido vea.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine how frightening that would be.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I want him and Coverage more.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Oh well, I like all that, and I even like
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay more than you. I have twenty eight to
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: nineteen in this matchup. But I want to say something
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: nice about Chewba Hubbard because he's had a great season.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: He's been forcing it a ton of mistackles, just like
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Bucky Irving.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: In fact, both.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Running backs in this game are really nice surprises that
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: we didn't have on our Bingo card ahead of the season.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: So you're still gonna want to play Tuba in fantasy.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: And here's some nice things that he's done. And I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: being mean to the Panthers in terms of the score,
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: but I'm being nice to them in terms of talking
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: about how Chuba Hubbard's done well. This season, So there
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: we go. But both quarter are both running backs, excuse
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: me in this matchup, big games from both of them.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I have a Tampa Bay Buccaneers win twenty five to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: twenty as well, So I guess I'm being mean to
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the Panthers. But twenty five is coincidentally the number of
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: carries that Bucky Irving had against the Carolina Panthers the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: first time those two met. What did he do with them?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: He ran for one hundred and fifty two yards. He
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: also had thirty three yards receiving in that game. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: know Bryce and Carolina are playing very well that they'll
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: have to accomplish a lot to play very well against
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: this Bucks defense. The Bucks it feels like they just
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: have to hand the ball off to number seven in
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: this one. So yes, it is a meme. Panthers fans,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: come get us, but we like you. We had you
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: to win against the Dallas Cowboys. That didn't necessarily work out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: The Cowboys and the Eagle ceed lamb out for the season.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts left last week's lost to the Commanders Philly
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: hoping to have him back, not practicing up until Thursday.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: At the very least, do the Birds get back on
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: track here, Cynthia.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Okay, so we have some if then scenarios. My answer
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: is yes, the Birds get back on track. If you're
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: looking at wins now, for the number in the win,
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: I have twenty eight to seventeen. If Jalen Hurts plays,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: the number becomes only a four point difference if it's
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Kenny Pickett. So I'm interested to see who is going
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: to be starting. I'm still I'm still holding out hope
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: for Jalen Hurts here because of this man, Saquon Barkley,
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: and what he's been able to do. The opportunity to
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: run against the Cowboys has been excellent all season long,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: start to finish, and this is now a situation where
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: you're going to need Saquon Barkley to take over in
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: it and maybe more goal line carries here. If it's
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: not Jalen Hurts. I mean sometimes he gets down to
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: the one and they just give it to Jalen Hurts
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: on the brotherly shove. But ultimately, the ability for Saquon
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Barkley to break tackles, for him to run to the outside,
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: for him to run to the inside, really just target
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: wherever the Cowboys defense is more than willing to not
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: load the box, He's gonna run there.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: If that's what he's been doing all season long.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: That is a huge stabilizing force in this matchup along
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: with the defense.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of uns certainty with the Eagles offense,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: but when the Eagles defense is on the field, that's
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the mismatch that I like. Zach Bond is a defensive
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Player of the Year candidate.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I've been trying to figure out whose defensive player there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I really don't know. It's not TJ. Watt. Just don't
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: vote for TJ.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Watt.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Is it Miles Garrett?
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Does it make sense?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Well, we don't have votes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Me and Patrick john I votes.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: You get file either.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying the five you vote for five different guys.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Zach Bond has made more game changing plays. A lot
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: of the nation is going to be watching this game
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: in the early window and they were the side of
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the ball and Zach Bond was part of it. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: admit last week that really let them down against the Commanders.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: But each and every week he has made plays. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: think he does it on Sunday and the defense gets
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the win.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Well, based on the befores and afters of having Michael
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Parsons and not maybe Micah gets a vote. I know
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I do have a three point Eagles win more if
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Jalen's able to somehow play. Hopefully he does. But we
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: can discuss tendencies and abilities and all the things that
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: actually matter to the game. But narratives are fun. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: what we have in this situation offensive coordinator who was
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: under a head coach who wanted to do things a
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: little bit different. He was a holdover from a previous
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: staff and and so Mike McCarthy comes in and eventually
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: it doesn't work out. The Cowboys have early seeds, late season,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: early playoff exits, and he goes to the Chargers, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: now he finds his way back in the division. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: now Kellen Moore could potentially be calling the plays with
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: a backup quarterback against Mike McCarthy's backup quarterback. Revenge for
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the discarded off coordinator of the.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Eagles that look to the camera.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: That it's what motivates Kellen Moore is going to try
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: extra hard to call this game. It's the Seas the
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• 24:48
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  Speaker 2: Jets and the Bills. Josh Allen, James Cook leading the way,
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  Speaker 2: Brees hal Khalil Shakir and DeVante Adams finishing things up
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in this matchup in the first touchdown score odds. Let's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: discuss the Jets and the Bills in Orchard Park Patriots
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: giving Buffalo a scare last week. Which Bills team shows
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: up Sunday?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I think the team that cruises and they win thirty
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: to twenty. I don't think it's close. They cover the number.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: The Jets have been playing better lately, but they're not
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: tough upfront on defense. So when the Bills go heavy,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: and they like go in heavy formation more than any
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: team in the league, they're just gonna run the ball
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: down the Jets throw.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I know the weather might be an issue, it's not
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: a problem.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: This is a team full of mutters and James Cook,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: who runs so much like Dalvin Cook.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: It's like their brothers.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, I can't believe James Cook is right now
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: about its good almost as good as Dalvin Cook was
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: at prime. Like what a pair of brothers this team is.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I love what the Bills do. They go
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: six offensive linemen, They have a lot of creative formations,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: but really they just kind of run the same plays
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: over and.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Over and it really works well.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: They're one of the toughest teams in the NFL to stop.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Jets haven't been good stopping the run all year.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: They lose big Well, I haven't even bigger win for
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the Bills than you twenty nine to seventeen. I have
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: a twelve point when this is my most confident pick
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: of the week in terms of who will win the game.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: But I want to talk about Christian Benford because over
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: the past few games, we have seen areas where the
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: secondary can get got as in we saw it against
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: the Ramps, as in we saw it against the Lions,
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: and we even saw it against the Patriots.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Although that was a little bit different.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: But I will say, if you're trying to throw into
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Christian Benford's coverage, good luck, it isn't going to happen.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: The man has been excellent. Don't let where he was
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: drafted fool you. He was the better pick in this draft.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: If you remember, they drafted a different corner in the
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: first round. They doubled down with him in the late round,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: and now Christian Benford's the guy that you're going to
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: want to keep your eye on. So sure you can
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: pass against this team, and I'm sure Aaron Rodgers will try,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: but not into Christian Bedford's coverage.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of it depends on who
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: he decides to how Sean mcdummott decides to deploy Christian
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Benford Because when things aren't going well, and let's say
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you're at a job and your friends come in, maybe
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: just slide in some more things your friend's way. Maybe
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: some product leaves the door once your friends come in.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what's happened when has made his way to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the Jets. I think they cover the number. The Bills win,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: but the Jets load up DeVante Adams with targets because
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: that's what's happened in the last four weeks. He's had
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: forty eight of them in the last four weeks. The
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Bills do get Taylor wrapped back, not saying that they win,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: but I think Devonte gets the targets and the opportunity.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: But the Jets at the end are the Jets, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I think they lose to the Buffalo Bills. Here season
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  Speaker 2: Saturday games, and it's time for more or less. We have,
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  Speaker 2: as his custom our foam fingers indicating more or less green,
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  Speaker 2: being more, red being less Greg.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Greg doesn't know which ones which because he's color.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Apologies to the community, but we'll try to differentiate there. Greg.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Justin Herbert in the Charges more or less than one
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: and a half passing touchdowns against your pier.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know how to see powder blue. Let's go,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert. I love watching you play, and I love
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: you when you have a great matchup against this Patriots defense.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: They have not improved throughout the course of the season.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I know Jonathan Jones is healthier Christian Gonzales good in
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the secondary, and yet you look at the numbers and
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: they are one of the easiest teams to pass against
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: each and every week. I just haven't seen any improvement.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So justin Herbert over a touchdown and a half.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the big playoff implication game.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: In the middle, Cynthia, Joe Burrow more or less than
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy nine passing yards.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with less in this matchup. Not because
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: I don't think he's gonna play well, as you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Patrick and I both have the Bengals winning, but I
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: think that they're going to use the run a little
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: bit more to try to get some of this pressure
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: and some of the blitz away from Joe Burrow. He
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: has been in a hit one hundred and five times
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: this season. That is the most in the league. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: he may not be taking his sacks, but that's a
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: lot of pressure. So I'm not taking a bad game.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying fewer than that many yards, all right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at that game as well. In Jamar Chase
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: more or less than ninety three and a half receiving yards.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I think it's more I think it's more and there
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: was an opportunity late for not just for Jamar Chase
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: to not be in the game against the Tennessee Titans,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: but to just be off the field rest up, trying
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: to get this contract coming up. No, they're still throwing
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: late passes to Jamar Chase. He scores a touchdown inside
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: of two minutes to go in that game. I think
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: the volume gives us the opportunity for the guy that
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: could be a triple Crown winner, like joining Cooper Cup,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Jerry Rice, Steve Smith Sr. It's been we haven't had
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of them. I think Jamar Chase joins that
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: group at the end of the season. Greg Courtland Sutton
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: more or less than five and a half reception.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: That's a big number.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: This passing game has been struggling a little bit lately.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I'm going less on Courtland Sutton. I think he could
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: hit a big play, maybe he.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Scores a touchdown.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: But when you watch the Broncos and you look at
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: their box scores, they're throwing it to Michael Burton and
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Vley and a bunch of other guys. They go Marvin Mims,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: it'll be seven to eight deep. So five and a
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: half receptions is a lot for a low volume passing game.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Courtland Sutton does not get it done against the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to that night game on Saturday. Looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to it. The Arizona Cardinals in the Los Angeles Rams
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia Kyler Murray more or less than one and a
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  Speaker 2: half passing touchdowns?
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  Speaker 6: Well, aren't I just a little piece of sunshine?
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  Speaker 5: I have fewer than one and a.
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  Speaker 6: Half passing touchdowns forecast for Kyler Murray in this matchup.
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  Speaker 6: While the Rams secondary can get gotten specific ways that front,
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  Speaker 6: especially with missing pieces along the O line. Yeah, I
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: just don't think that. I don't think that that happens
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  Speaker 6: for Kyler Murray.
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  Speaker 2: All right, last one for me, Pooka Nakua ninety and
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  Speaker 2: a half receiving yards more or less, I'll take more.
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  Speaker 2: Pooka missed out with an opportunity to play against the
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals. As Greg discussed earlier, that was not a
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  Speaker 2: great game for the Los Angeles Rams.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams offense was frankly bad the passing game
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  Speaker 2: at the very least in MetLife. But Pooka Nakua is
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: having a great stretch towards the end of the season,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: and I think Stafford gets some enough targets to get
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: over ninety and a half receiving yards.
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  Speaker 4: So that's been a while, but that was pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: As Greg tries to hit the camera almost does there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take one. Watch out, everybody. Brian's back there ducking
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: and dodging. Foam fingers are coming up. Tua and the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Fins still have a chance at the postseason. They just
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: need a few chips to fall the right way, starting
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: with their matchups Sunday against the Browns. Who's gonna win
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Dolphins or Browns? Will let you know.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: After the I was like two of those three.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: We're back on game day if you want. It's time
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: for us to get into thick picks. Starting with the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Colts and the Giants. Still a path to the post
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  Speaker 2: for Indy. Do they help that pass by getting a
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: win or something.
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  Speaker 6: They do what they can, they win twenty three to sixteen.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: I just want to talk about Jonathan Taylor for a second.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: He had a great opportunity last week, absolutely made the.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Most of it.
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  Speaker 6: This week gets another great opportunity against a Giant's defense
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  Speaker 6: that has been pretty generous to opposing rushers, especially in
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: specific spots where Jonathan Taylor wakes to run but don't
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: beat not all a lost Tyron Tracy could have a
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: good game too, so fantasy players don't forget to play
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: him too.
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  Speaker 4: Lock this one up.
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  Speaker 3: I picked thirteen straight Colts games, correct, so we're gonna
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: make it fourteen here.
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  Speaker 4: This is a gimma.
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  Speaker 2: WoT it is unanimously.
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  Speaker 5: Locking it up? I already just it's locked.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hear the South in my head, the Dolphins
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: and Brown's in Cleveland, the Finns still kind of the live.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Do they take care of business over?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: They do?
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  Speaker 3: And I think they cover the number. It's twenty three
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to fourteen. I look for a revenge not a revenge game,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: but a squeaky wheel game for Tyreek Hill. He was
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: coming off one of his worst games of his career.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Some strange comments after the game, some speculation in Miami
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: about Tyreek Hill's future drops the focus.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on here.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: He's not getting as open or the contested catches, and
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: when he's the main story all week, and he's got
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: a favorable matchup and it's not always easy against Cleveland.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: I just think they're gonna feed him and make sure
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill has a bounce back game against the Browns.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, bounce on the floor.
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  Speaker 4: No, you just don't see this too often out of
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Tyreek Hill. But last week was rough for him.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the Browns still starting DTR it's not gonna
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: happen for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a rough go for the Browns offense
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: in this stretch, the Raiders and the Saints, somebody's got
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: to win. It is gonna be I think the Raiders
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: actually get the win here sixteen to thirteen. No, I
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: don't expect a lot of points, but it feels like
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Raiders are trying. The Saints are, of
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: course trying to but a whole lot of injuries for them.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Let's just watch Aid and O'Connell operate. I would have
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: loved to requested the scrambles in there, but there's only
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: been before in his career, but they have come.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: At least it is not zero.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's off of zero. He's making plays like this,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Like once he got that scramble yard, he just had
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a taste for blood and could not be That was incredible.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: I saw on Twitter an amazing comment about the ref
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: having to scramble for more yards to get out of
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: the way for him than anyways.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I thought, because you guys missed it last week, I
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: just s gregged it up by creators because I knew
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: that they were gonna fight hard, and I thought I'd
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: get it done again. This is as disrespectful a memler
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: as there has been Saints fans.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: If you're out there, we did.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: None of us picked you against eight O'Connell's Raiders at home.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys just watched that. Now O'Connell well
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: AOC dealing right now. The last game in quick picks
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the Titans and Jags. Both teams are three and twelve
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: this season. Who gets the very elusive fourth win?
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: I literally hated this one. In my model, I have
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: the Jags twenty two to twenty. I believe I'm all alone.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: This might be a prime number for me, But Brian
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Thomas Junior is the difference maker in this.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Matchup for me.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: I'm watching this rookie, another guy who should get some
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: what what are you guys laughing at?
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: The scores?
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, sixteen to fifteen, seventeen to fourteen, y'all are crazy.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: Although the first matchup of this was the lowest scoring
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: game in the entire season so far, with sixteen combined points.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: I've got a bar. I've got like a barn burning.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm laughing at the number. I've never seen
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: minus point five.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: You've never seen a half of Titans.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: Jags could managed fire.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: A minus point five. Like, No, I don't think I've
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: ever seen that. That's amazing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Good Thomas Junior, you're on my shore. If I had
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: a list of five people for offensive Orgeer, you'd be honest.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: He's my number three. I made a list just in
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: case you're I do.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I've read a vote. He's talking to vote.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: We're not allowed. We work for the NFL.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: It's against the policy journalism for right down.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: They never talk about that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: I'm I don't know how you know it has been talking.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: It's never ever come up ever.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: During the history of that illustrious show. Predictions for Week seventeen, gregs.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on the comeback trail.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I hit my double pick last week, and so I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: going back with the same one again.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: That always works.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Detroit Lions are going over their team total on Monday
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Night against the forty nine Ers. That's over twenty seven
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and a half points. I feel so good about that one.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I did it last week, and they hit it in
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: the first half. You didn't even have to sweat this week.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'm going back to Jamir Gibbs in terms of his
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: scrimmage yards. He does it all over one hundred and
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: twenty two and a half scrimmage yards.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: This forty nine Ers.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Defense laying down just a little bit, giving up a
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: lot of rushing yards to the Dolphins last week, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: so I'm on the comeback trail. You combine these two
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: picks and you have a great new year, feeling.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Good about it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: I would love it if that happens. One twenty two
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: point five is a.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Lot of screen. We hit it last week.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: We hit it last hilarious.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going a little bit more modest because you
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: know what, a win's a wind doesn't matter. I'm saying
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: that justin Herbert rushes for at least fourteen and a
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: half yards more than that. Why because when I'm looking
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: at this opportunity for him against the Patriots and to
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: keep everything nice and predictable the way that his coach
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: likes it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: His coach who's going.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: To be wearing cleets out there on the field because
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: that is what his coach does. I think he runs
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: for at least fifteen yards.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels it feels easy. It feels easy for
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Justin Herbert to do that. He's got so much talent,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: and at the start of the season it felt hard
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: for Sam Laporta to get receptions. But we discussed this
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: earlier in the show. He's got twenty four targets in
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: the last three weeks, and the idea is that he
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: might have less than forty six and a half receiving
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: out on Monday Night Football in a revenge game where
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Greg says the Lions was gonna score six trillion points.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: No way, I've got Sam Laporta getting past that number
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: of forty eight and a half and me trying to
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: fend off Greg taking two picks. I got to take
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: two picks last week just to keep pace and staying there.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Now I'm well behind. We need to get a standings.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: You guys are both doing great on your right the sounds,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: but I'm on the comeback trail.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Is that why you keep doing two?
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yes? Try to like there's term for that. That's when
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: people may call it tilting. Greg is taking an advantage
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to come back. We want you to come
• 37:55
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