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Speaker 2: Hey everybody want from a game debut delivered by Little
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Speaker 2: Cas There's the official pizza of Super Bowl fifty eight.
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Speaker 2: Patrick claibhn here with dear friends Greg Rosenthal and Megatrol
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Speaker 2: Cynthia Freeland celebrating the Lions in the NFC Championship game.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that game and our picks. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what Cynthia gonna do.
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Speaker 3: I really don't know, because who knows the model? I
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Speaker 3: can predict where the model goes.
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Speaker 2: We'll see we know where Cynthia's heart is. Let's take
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Speaker 2: a look back though at our picks standings, and after
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Speaker 2: flailing about aimlessly the previous three weeks, I finally did
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Speaker 2: something right. I went four and oh last week. But
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Speaker 2: the crowns still belong atop the heads of Greg Rosendal
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Speaker 2: and Cynthia Freeland thanks to the Eagles learning what a
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Speaker 2: blitz was in the division. That's one yeah, that is
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Speaker 2: on me in the wildcard round. We're gonna get to
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Speaker 2: our game picks for both championship games later on in
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Speaker 2: the show, but first we're gonna dissect the matchups themselves,
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Speaker 2: starting with the Chiefs and the Ravens. Greg, who is
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Speaker 2: your player to watch on offense in this one?
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Speaker 4: It's Isaiah Pachecko.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy to think about this Chiefs team right now
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Speaker 3: as a run first team, and they're not yet. But
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Speaker 3: they are a tougher team than we've ever seen in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs. Last week I thought was very telling against
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Speaker 3: the Bills. Six offensive linemen very often, twelve personnel with
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Speaker 3: two tight ends on the field, very often, thirteen personnel
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Speaker 3: with three tight ends on the field. That's what you
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Speaker 3: do when you want to play smash mouth football, and
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Speaker 3: they've got the ultimate smash mouth running back, Isaiah Pacheco,
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Speaker 3: breaks tackles and as good as the Ravens are defensively,
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Speaker 3: as good as they are at everything, almost the only
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Speaker 3: thing you can find on their entire team that isn't
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Speaker 3: absolutely elite is their run defense. I think over time
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Speaker 3: you might find them penetrating pop some big runs and look,
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Speaker 3: their run defense is still good, it's just not top three,
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Speaker 3: top four. Like everything else on their team. Pachecko is
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Speaker 3: running like a house on fire. He's better than Pete
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Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt even was with the Chiefs he's the best
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Speaker 3: running back Patrick Mahomes has ever had. I think they'll
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Speaker 3: lean on him.
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Speaker 5: I like that. I also want to point out that
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Speaker 5: there's a ton of places I could have gone here,
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Speaker 5: so why not go with something a little weird, right
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Speaker 5: mcole Hardman absolutely, just like everyone thought would be the
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Speaker 5: place that I would go here. Two things here that
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Speaker 5: I think about in this matchup. Number One, last week
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Speaker 5: is the first time we've seen Patrick Mahomes connect deep
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Speaker 5: multiple times in a game since like Tyreek Hill was there.
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Speaker 5: Number Two, we saw Hardman do something that we don't
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Speaker 5: really want him to do, which is not take care
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Speaker 5: of the football. And do you know what Andy Reid
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Speaker 5: does whenever somebody has an issue.
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Speaker 2: Like that, there's a materia, the mind check.
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Speaker 5: He does the mind check, which means there is a
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Speaker 5: special McCole hard No one's told me this, but I
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Speaker 5: can tell you this from studying Andy Reid for so long.
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Speaker 5: There is a special Andy Reid McCole Hardman. Perhaps it's
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Speaker 5: a run just to target that run defense that you
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Speaker 5: were talking about, Greg, but McCole Hardman's going to be
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Speaker 5: an interesting way to go here. Because he didn't have
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Speaker 5: the best game last week.
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Speaker 3: See, I know you're right, and yet that seems so
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Speaker 3: crazy to me. Wasn't the heat check or whatever you
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Speaker 3: want to call it the second time he fumble? At
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Speaker 3: that point, I want no more checks.
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Speaker 5: I'm telling you there's Nicole Harbon play here.
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Speaker 2: I believe Travis Kelsey did take the blame for some
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Speaker 2: all on the goal line, saying it was his guy
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Speaker 2: that caused that. Good to pick up your team, and
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Speaker 2: I'm going to take another tight end in this game.
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Speaker 2: It's Mark Andrews. And I know since Mark Andrews has
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Speaker 2: gone out and there's been this ascension of Isaiah Likely,
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Speaker 2: it's like everybody's making this presumption. Oh, Isaiah Likely versus
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Speaker 2: Mark Andrews. They do different things, guys, they don't run
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Speaker 2: the same mounts. Pull up the route chart. There's so
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Speaker 2: much Mark Andrews in the middle of the field and
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Speaker 2: up the seam. And early on when Likely came in
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Speaker 2: for Andrews, it was a lot of trying to make
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Speaker 2: a one for one replacement. But in these recent weeks
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Speaker 2: there's been this revelation it's Isaiah Likely on the outside.
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Speaker 2: Isaiah Likely stiff arming cornerbacks and making extensive runs that
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Speaker 2: they can both work on the field. But I think
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Speaker 2: Mark Andrews up the seam gives us somebody to watch,
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Speaker 2: especially as Bags decides to get very blitz happy. Let's
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Speaker 2: go over to some defensive guys on the defensive side
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Speaker 2: of the ball.
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Speaker 3: Grek I am, and I love that Kyle Hamilton. Look,
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Speaker 3: it's twenty twenty four. I think when you think, like,
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Speaker 3: what's a modern defensive player, who does every defensive coordinator
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Speaker 3: in the league want, Kyle Hamilton is him. I mean
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Speaker 3: he is a safety. You see him blitzing there, He's
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Speaker 3: a linebacker. He's great defending the run. He can play
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Speaker 3: your slot cornerback, he can play deep safety, and like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: there's been other players over the course of the NFL
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Speaker 3: that are like that. I think of Antoine Whittenfield, Junior's
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Speaker 3: father was kind of like that. But now it's an updated,
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Speaker 3: modern version that other teams just don't have. And I
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Speaker 3: think of the way that the Chiefs really win offensively,
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Speaker 3: it's with Rasi Rice, it's with Travis Kelsey. To me,
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Speaker 3: Kyle Hamilton is the perfect player to help defend both
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Speaker 3: of those guys.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes when you pay someone a lot of money, you
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Speaker 5: have big expectations from them. Especially when they're a physically
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Speaker 5: huge human being, which is what Chris Jones is. I
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Speaker 5: think that when you look at the pressure that Jones
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Speaker 5: is able to break, perhaps if the tackles aren't one
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Speaker 5: hundred percent and earlier obviously they've had some rest of
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Speaker 5: the ravens, but earlier in the season, towards the end
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Speaker 5: of the season, we did see some subbing in and
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Speaker 5: out from the tackle position. This could be an area
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Speaker 5: where Chris Jones could have a nice little feast, perhaps
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Speaker 5: if the guard perhaps overpowering the center. I don't care.
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Speaker 5: This is what you're asking him to do, and sometimes
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Speaker 5: in the biggest moments, you need your biggest players to
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Speaker 5: step up. So I think Chris Jones, if you want
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Speaker 5: to affect Lamar Jackson, this is an area Chris Jans
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Speaker 5: is going to have to get to him and not
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Speaker 5: let him play bouncy bounce back there in the pocket
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Speaker 5: and give a bunch of time. It's a technical term,
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Speaker 5: actually is a bouncy bounce, So none of that. Chris
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Speaker 5: Jones needs to get to him.
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Speaker 3: Chris Jones Snekley kind of won that game for them
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Speaker 3: last week, like two times on the eighth d's He's.
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Speaker 2: Very very good down the stretch in the playoffs. I
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Speaker 2: will borrow Chris Jones to make a point about my player,
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Speaker 2: because there's three players in the past few years and
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Speaker 2: have had thirteen or more sacks from the defensive tackle positions.
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald, Chris Jones, and now Justin Matdebeka and the
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Speaker 2: other guys. Those two really good players probably going to Canton.
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Speaker 2: Both won the Super Bowls in the year that they
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Speaker 2: did that, and so now Justin Mattabuque has a chance
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Speaker 2: to do just that, especially when you consider the fact
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Speaker 2: that Joe Toney now ruled out with this chest to injury.
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Speaker 2: It could be a huge game for Justin. Just get
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Speaker 2: to Patrick Mahomes cause some trouble, make him roll, force
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Speaker 2: him to take chances against Kyle Hamilton. That's the recipe
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Speaker 2: for success for Baltimore. Let's leave the particular defensive players
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Speaker 2: and just talk over arching the numbers at the bottom
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Speaker 2: of the screen. At the end of the game, as
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Speaker 2: we get to over under the total for Chiefs Ravens
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Speaker 2: forty four and a half, I am going to take
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Speaker 2: the over because these offenses have been really good down
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Speaker 2: the stretch. I don't know if you guys have heard.
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Speaker 2: Both of these quarterbacks are very, very good, very excited
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Speaker 2: to watch the game. I think we get more I got.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, they're like fifty plus points.
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Speaker 3: I am an over kind of guy. People say that
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Speaker 3: about me. It's gonna be at my tombstone one day.
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Speaker 3: But I'm going under right now, not to get dark.
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Speaker 3: I just I'm feeling it. The weather's going to be
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Speaker 3: fine here. And yet I look at these two defenses,
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Speaker 3: I think they match up well. I think it could
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Speaker 3: be a little like Bill's Chiefs, where the running games
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Speaker 3: are strong and that limits possessions, and this time the
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Speaker 3: defenses are better in the red zone. Both of these
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Speaker 3: defense can present a lot of difficulties. So you can
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Speaker 3: have great quarterback play and still.
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Speaker 4: Have a low score. How about that?
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Speaker 5: Wow, I have over as well in this one, and
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Speaker 5: I agree with you. You ken have great quarterback play and
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Speaker 5: still have a low score. But in this case, you're
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Speaker 5: gonna have a high score because I think this is
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Speaker 5: the kind of chess game that both of these coaches,
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Speaker 5: all of these coaches, all of these coordinators are made for.
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Speaker 5: So when I'm looking at the stretch here, you're going
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Speaker 5: to have to take bigger risks if you're going to
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Speaker 5: want to overcome either one of these defenses. Bigger risks
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Speaker 5: means bigger plays, means bigger score.
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Speaker 2: I happen to think that going dark is thinking about
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Speaker 2: Gregg's tombstone.
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Speaker 4: I know I don't want to. I know that one
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Speaker 4: score you felt like a lead.
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Speaker 3: He's an over kind of guy, and that's just it's
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Speaker 3: an optimism, you know.
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Speaker 2: Happy. That's what we are coming up up into the NFC,
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Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers and the Lions squaring off with
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Speaker 2: a trip to the super Bowl on the line. Which
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Speaker 2: players are gonna shine in prom Tom Sunday Night breaking
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Speaker 2: it down next on game debut, the Lions of the
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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers reaching two of the highest scoring teams
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Speaker 2: in the league according to Kyle Shanahan and the Niners
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Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel not on the injury report at all. These
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Speaker 2: back ready to go. Uh who's the player that we're
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Speaker 2: gonna watch on offense in this one? Well?
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Speaker 3: I hate to be mister obvious here, but like this
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Speaker 3: forty nine Ers team has been building to this moment
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Speaker 3: for seven years. They're the monstars. They're incredible. There's this
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Speaker 3: one question which brock party shows up on Sunday, and
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Speaker 3: to me, it can just be the one that normally
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Speaker 3: shows up.
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Speaker 4: There's good, there's bad.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna show you brock Purty on the move, this
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Speaker 3: throw gets forgotten a little bit, and last weekend's performance
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Speaker 3: to Kittle and then we're gonna throw show some bad
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Speaker 3: throws like to start the game. Like the rain may
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Speaker 3: or may not be a factor this week. Not everything
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Speaker 3: is gonna be perfect from Purdy, but it's okay. That's
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Speaker 3: the whole experience, Like, oh, which.
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Speaker 4: Party is it?
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Speaker 3: Is it the guy making the great plays? Is it
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Speaker 3: the guy taking sacks here? Like it's both and it
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Speaker 3: doesn't matter because everything around him is good enough to
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Speaker 3: build him up. It is not an even matchup when
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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers offense, one of the best that
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Speaker 3: we've seen in years, takes on this Lion's defense. Perdy's
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Speaker 3: just got to kind of run the show be how
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Speaker 3: he normally is.
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Speaker 4: That will be enough.
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Speaker 5: Well, there's so many great people to talk about on
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Speaker 5: the Niners. I'm picking a lion. I'm going with Jamir Gibbs.
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Speaker 5: Why because I don't know if I was maybe all
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Speaker 5: in on him as a first round pick. However, he
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Speaker 5: showed me a little something. One we saw him pick
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Speaker 5: up a blitz that was really epic, which I didn't
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Speaker 5: know if he could do, and now we can see
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Speaker 5: he absolutely can. Why does this matter because not necessarily
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Speaker 5: because the forty nine ers are gonna blitz because that's
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Speaker 5: not really what they do. But they do bring the heat.
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Speaker 5: They bring a ton of pressure and this O line
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Speaker 5: is banged up. I know Frank Ragnow is going to play,
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Speaker 5: but still I don't think he's one hundred percent Jonah
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Speaker 5: Jackson not play. You're going to need everyone to contribute,
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Speaker 5: and you're going to need that run game to stay
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Speaker 5: super efficient, or short passes that Mimica runs. So Jamiir Gibbs,
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, please do well?
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Speaker 4: Yeah nice though I think he'll do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you have to ask nicely.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to ask nicely. I'm polite.
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Speaker 2: That's just how polite Cynthia feeling is. I'm gonna get
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Speaker 2: stern and mean because seventy six percent of the people
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Speaker 2: listening to my voice right now might have a feeling
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Speaker 2: about Brandon Ayuk, But I'm going to tell you he's
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Speaker 2: better than what you think about him. Over one thousand
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Speaker 2: downfield receiving yards this season. It's second in the league,
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Speaker 2: second to a guy who had arguably one of the
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Speaker 2: better wide receiver seasons in the history of the NFL
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Speaker 2: and Tyreek Hill this year. I know he got heard construens.
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Speaker 2: What if we're not talking about Tyrek, we're talking about
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Speaker 2: a guy who's still playing in Brandon ayukin the Lions.
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Speaker 2: Might have to pick a particular poison, and this poison
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Speaker 2: on the forty nine Ers stings the absolute most. I
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Speaker 2: think Brandon Ayuk is the player that you have to
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Speaker 2: watch in this matchup in the NFC. Let's move to
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Speaker 2: the defensive side though, Greg, Yeah, let's let's bring out
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Speaker 2: those those ball know one glasses. Who are we watching?
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Speaker 3: Okay, so my player to watch is actually three times
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Speaker 3: better than any of your players.
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Speaker 4: To watch it. It's three players.
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Speaker 3: I'm taking all the Lions' safeties, Brian Branch, Melafanu, Chauncey
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Speaker 3: Gardner Johnson. To me, they're like one or one being
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Speaker 3: that combines to help defend this forty nine ers offense.
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Speaker 4: What does Kyle Shanahan like to do?
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Speaker 3: He likes to pick on the players over the middle
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Speaker 3: of the field, especially your linebackers.
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Speaker 4: You know how to avoid that.
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Speaker 3: Just have less linebackers on the field, because your safeties
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Speaker 3: can do all that. I love the way that Aaron
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Speaker 3: Glenn is using these three players. Chauncey Gardner Johnson especially
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Speaker 3: helps unlock the other two to just be flexible, move around.
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Speaker 3: You never know who's gonna become it. And I mentioned
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Speaker 3: it with Purdy. You can confuse him and you can
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Speaker 3: confuse him with these three safeties. Melafanu especially hasn't gotten
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Speaker 3: a lot of pub but lately he is playing as
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Speaker 3: well as any safety in the league.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm going with Fred Warner because sometimes the simplest
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Speaker 5: answer is the easiest answer. And the fact that you
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Speaker 5: have not been able to kind of use the part
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Speaker 5: of the field we're in breaking routes, which we know
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Speaker 5: that Jared Goff loves to do, is that's gonna be
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Speaker 5: a big problem. Why Because Fred Warner's there and he
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Speaker 5: doesn't allow those inbreakers to really have a chance to
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Speaker 5: be caught. I know that off ball linebackers sometimes, you know,
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Speaker 5: especially it's about to be draft season, right off all linebackers,
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Speaker 5: whole bunch of analytics people like, we don't know what
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Speaker 5: they do.
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Speaker 4: Draft.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's wrong. That way, Fred Warner has out
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Speaker 5: kicked that coverage by a mile. So when you're looking
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Speaker 5: at the opportunity here for Jared Goff to get comfortable,
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Speaker 5: Fred Warner is going to make him so uncomfortable. So
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Speaker 5: it's a great defense. But Fred Warner's really goes.
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Speaker 2: He's a great play, especially in light of all there
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Speaker 2: was some online discourse this week about the mentality of
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Speaker 2: a linebacker and this guy has to eat nails out
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Speaker 2: of a bowl. Fred Warner said, like, oh heavens when
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Speaker 2: he was talking about Drake Greenlaw running around and not
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Speaker 2: protecting the ball. You can be any type of person
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Speaker 2: you want. I'm going to take Travarious war as a
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Speaker 2: player to watch because you're wondering how many eyes he's
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Speaker 2: gonna have on aman Ross State Brown, how much of
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Speaker 2: the coverage is Steve Wilk's going to allow the Lions
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Speaker 2: to dictate by where he places. Tarvarius word who is
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Speaker 2: one of the better, if not the best, if you
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Speaker 2: want to go by next Gen stats ball Hawk percentage,
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Speaker 2: he was number four in the league. He had more
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Speaker 2: pass breakups over a certain stretch than anybody in the league.
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Speaker 2: It was tough to go at him. How is he deployed.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a big part of how this game
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Speaker 2: is going to turn out. But let's talk about how
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Speaker 2: the game turns out finally, the ultimate But we're not
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Speaker 2: going to tell you the picks, but we will talk
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Speaker 2: about the total number of points. Some folks think it's
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Speaker 2: fifty one and a half. I am going under, just barely.
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Speaker 2: In fact, previously I was over, but then the thing
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Speaker 2: that says how many points they are going to be moved,
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Speaker 2: so now I do have to be under. But I
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Speaker 2: think fifty one and a half points is a whole
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Speaker 2: lot of points. I'm just shy of that. Right around fifty.
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Speaker 3: See, I'm thinking of the final score in my head,
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Speaker 3: but I can't tell you it. But when I added together,
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Speaker 3: it's up to fifty seven.
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Speaker 4: Way over. Oh, I'm loving this.
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Speaker 3: It's an offensive game because both of these offenses are
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Speaker 3: really the core of their team. Their offensive teams with
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Speaker 3: good enough defenses to support them. And since I don't
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Speaker 3: have another spot to talk about Jared Goff, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: do it right now. He is a different quarterback than
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Speaker 3: when he was last in this position. He gets through
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Speaker 3: his reads faster, he makes some better second reaction play,
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Speaker 3: he goes to the outside even faster, so I think he.
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Speaker 4: Will step up like the forty nine Ers offense will too.
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Speaker 5: I have fifty three total points forecast for this one,
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Speaker 5: which is more than fifty one and a half. Much
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Speaker 5: like Hawaiian pizza actually being from Canada. Honolulu Blue is
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Speaker 5: a really good marketing scheme, but it looks good on everyone.
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Speaker 5: I just think that there's gonna be a lot of
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Speaker 5: Honolulu Blue and a lot of red, which is a
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Speaker 5: color we always see in the Super Bowl. This is
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Speaker 5: my only non you know, non Mathy spot where like
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Speaker 5: and you can get in Jared Goff there, I can
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Speaker 5: say I like Honolulu as a good branding yes mechanism.
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Speaker 2: And also put pineapple on your pizza if you would like,
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Speaker 2: it's your pizza. Do what you want. Which top seed
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Speaker 2: needs to be on upset? I learnt This weekend coming up,
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Speaker 2: we're making the case for why any of the four
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Speaker 2: teams playing could make it the Super Bowl fifty eight plus.
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Speaker 2: We're talking our favorite player props for Championship Sunday. Stick around,
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Speaker 2: you're watching game Davy. It's not for us to make
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Speaker 2: the case, not for dancing, but for some certain things
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Speaker 2: that might take place in the event that another thing
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Speaker 2: takes It's like an A plus B equals C thing.
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Speaker 2: As we dive into these things, we're gonna fill in
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Speaker 2: the blank dost. We're gonna create a scenario where the
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Speaker 2: Chiefs knock off the top seeded Ravens and get back
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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl grid.
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Speaker 3: If what happens, Patrick Mahomes keeps being Patrick Mahomes, which
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Speaker 3: is the greatest quarterback ever that I've ever seen. Like
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Speaker 3: I love Lamar, if you have to just choose one,
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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes is better, I love Tom Brady.
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Speaker 4: Like if I have to chose what.
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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes is the greatest player I've ever seen play football.
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Speaker 3: It's not like a counting thing where you add up
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Speaker 3: all the numbers and he has a championships. Yet my
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Speaker 3: point is like he hasn't played long enough to pass
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Speaker 3: Brek But like you see it, we all see it
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Speaker 3: with his eyes, and he's a different player than he
16:18
Speaker 3: was when he first got that MVP.
16:20
Speaker 4: And he's a better player because.
16:22
Speaker 3: All the special stuff can happen, and I think he's
16:24
Speaker 3: gonna need it against Baltimore. But last week we saw
16:27
Speaker 3: him make throws in rhythm, and that's important that he
16:30
Speaker 3: can do that as well.
16:31
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make you add up some numbers. Is ready
16:33
Speaker 5: for this, yes, because what's the question.
16:35
Speaker 2: Well, let's make the opposite question. Kansas City will lose,
16:40
Speaker 2: Baltimore will.
16:40
Speaker 5: Win if okay, what's eighteen plus two twenty? Okay? So
16:45
Speaker 5: that's how many times in the past two seasons that
16:48
Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson has had at least three point one zero
16:51
Speaker 5: seconds in the pocket time to throw. Do you know
16:54
Speaker 5: why I put it? Ass eighteen and two. That's wins
16:56
Speaker 5: versus losses, baby, eighteen wins to just two losses. So
17:01
Speaker 5: if he has enough time and the offense has just
17:04
Speaker 5: enough for those wide receivers to get open, eighteen and two, baby,
17:08
Speaker 5: let's handle some pressure. And by the way, you can
17:10
Speaker 5: steal that and tell it to your friends later.
17:12
Speaker 4: Hey, you know that when.
17:14
Speaker 5: He has three point one seconds in the pocket, Lamar
17:16
Speaker 5: Jackson is eighteen and two over the past two seasons.
17:18
Speaker 3: M I thought it was just because he didn't think
17:20
Speaker 3: I could do any more complicated math than that, which
17:23
Speaker 3: is no.
17:23
Speaker 5: I mean, you took a shot at me, so I
17:24
Speaker 5: had to take a shot at you.
17:26
Speaker 2: All right, So let's go. We will have celebrations in Detroit.
17:30
Speaker 2: Cynthy Old probably cry the Lions will go to the
17:33
Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
17:34
Speaker 3: If the Lions out coach the forty nine ers, and
17:38
Speaker 3: I think they can. I think they can do it
17:39
Speaker 3: in a couple of different ways. We know Ben Johnson
17:42
Speaker 3: and Aaron Glenn can cook up some schemes. Aaron gunn
17:44
Speaker 3: to get pressure. Ben Johnson always come ining up with
17:47
Speaker 3: the right play call at the right time, like that
17:48
Speaker 3: brock right play from a week ago. And then Dan
17:51
Speaker 3: Campbell what a large, handsome man he is. Look, he's
17:55
Speaker 3: better in situational football than Kyle Shannon.
17:58
Speaker 4: We know that.
17:59
Speaker 3: Like he's more aggressive with his fourth down decisions. He
18:01
Speaker 3: wouldn't be playing for a field goal at the end
18:04
Speaker 3: of the first half like Kyle Sannan does.
18:05
Speaker 4: He doesn't get tight in big spot.
18:07
Speaker 3: So I trust Dan Campbell and this coaching staff a
18:09
Speaker 3: little more than the forty nine ers.
18:11
Speaker 2: Oh all right, so, Cynthia, it's a hypothetical. I hate
18:13
Speaker 2: to do this to you. Yeah, but the forty nine
18:15
Speaker 2: ers will go to the super Bowl.
18:16
Speaker 5: If Rock pretty can complete deep passes. This is where
18:19
Speaker 5: the Lions have had a problem all season long. They
18:22
Speaker 5: allowed the most sixteen plus yard receptions on the season.
18:25
Speaker 5: They're the only team that did that over one hundred
18:27
Speaker 5: times in the regular season. We know that there's some
18:30
Speaker 5: cornerback play that can be very suss and we know
18:33
Speaker 5: that Brandon Ayuk is set at least seventy six percent
18:35
Speaker 5: better than anyone else thinks he is.
18:37
Speaker 4: Yes, he was right.
18:39
Speaker 5: Those are seventy percent of the time after all the time. Baby,
18:42
Speaker 5: But look, those deep passes are going to be a problem,
18:44
Speaker 5: those game changing plays that happen in just a matter
18:47
Speaker 5: of seconds and just really odd to a lot of points.
18:50
Speaker 2: All right, So those are the hypotheticals. Let's get into
18:53
Speaker 2: some of this guy or that guy. Let's start in
18:56
Speaker 2: the AFC, Greg who throws from more touchdowns? Lamar Jackson
18:59
Speaker 2: or the greatest quarterback that you've ever seen.
19:01
Speaker 4: I'm still just gonna go Lamar Jackson. I don't know why.
19:05
Speaker 3: I just want to talk about him, and I do
19:06
Speaker 3: think he is playing at a level that he never
19:10
Speaker 3: has before because he's just so relaxed, like he's getting
19:14
Speaker 3: more time to throw and finding receivers down the field.
19:16
Speaker 3: He's also throwing in rhythm, and there is just something
19:19
Speaker 3: about watching him in the pocket right now. It's almost
19:22
Speaker 3: like a football game isn't happening around him.
19:25
Speaker 4: He's just scanning the field. It's all just so.
19:27
Speaker 3: Quiet, and then he just presses a button and if
19:29
Speaker 3: he needs to, he makes a big run. But his
19:32
Speaker 3: passing game, I think is going to be strong in
19:33
Speaker 3: this one. They will maybe force him to throw deep
19:35
Speaker 3: and I think he'll be able to do it all right.
19:37
Speaker 2: Jared Goff going back to the Bay Area Cynthia, who
19:39
Speaker 2: tosses more touchdowns golf or brock Party.
19:42
Speaker 5: I have Jared Goff in this one for a couple
19:44
Speaker 5: of reasons, but Jordan Love showed us a little bit
19:46
Speaker 5: of the formula that's outside the numbers passes. Not to
19:50
Speaker 5: say that that's the strength of this Lion's team, but
19:52
Speaker 5: I think Ben Johnson can figure that one out a
19:54
Speaker 5: little bit to find some mismatches. And we know that
19:57
Speaker 5: from the You even saw it in the last half
19:59
Speaker 5: of last game. Once they start throwing the football, things
20:01
Speaker 5: get better. And even if there are short passes to
20:03
Speaker 5: running backs, care still counts as a pass.
20:06
Speaker 2: I'll take the last one more touchdowns Travis Kelce or
20:09
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews, And it's a very binary question. I think
20:12
Speaker 2: they both might get in the handswer, but I will
20:14
Speaker 2: take Mark Andrews in this one because the Travis Kelsey
20:17
Speaker 2: is gonna be the focal point of the best defense
20:20
Speaker 2: in the entire NFL. Mark Andrews back on the field.
20:22
Speaker 2: What's his percentage, I don't know, but he's just one
20:25
Speaker 2: of those options that Lamar Jackson is going to have.
20:28
Speaker 2: I truly think Mark Andrews and Dravis Kelsey scoring this kip,
20:31
Speaker 2: but I think Mark Andrews might be more likely as
20:34
Speaker 2: odd as that is likely to get into the null.
20:39
Speaker 2: Let's go back to you, Greg, Jamir Gibbs or CMC.
20:42
Speaker 2: Who scores more on Sunday?
20:44
Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's Jamiir Gibbs.
20:45
Speaker 3: You know, throughout the second half of this season, I've
20:48
Speaker 3: been watching Cynthia Freelan make the case he's going to
20:52
Speaker 3: have a run longer than fifteen and a half yard
20:55
Speaker 3: seventeen and a half yard.
20:56
Speaker 4: It always happens.
20:57
Speaker 3: I legitimately think these are the two best running backs
20:59
Speaker 3: in the entire NFL right now in terms of explosive
21:03
Speaker 3: ability breaking ten. I like Jamir Gibbs because in terms
21:07
Speaker 3: of the defenses, the Lions defense pretty good stopping the run.
21:10
Speaker 3: The forty nine ers defense. That is definitely their achilles heel.
21:12
Speaker 3: I think Jamir Gibbs takes advantage of it.
21:15
Speaker 2: Our dear friend Kimmy Checks will of course be focused
21:18
Speaker 2: on the Chiefs this weekend, but there are two former
21:20
Speaker 2: Iowah Hawk guys facing off in the late game. Who
21:22
Speaker 2: has more touchdowns? Sam Laporta or George kibble More?
21:26
Speaker 5: How about the same. But I do actually think Laporta
21:29
Speaker 5: has a better opportunity in this matchup, not because I
21:32
Speaker 5: think he's a better he's the best rookie, but he
21:35
Speaker 5: was a.
21:36
Speaker 4: Second team off pro. Kitto is first. It's pretty amazing.
21:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they're both really epic tight ends. I just
21:42
Speaker 5: think it kind of follows the same narrative. They're going
21:44
Speaker 5: to be throwing the ball more. And Sam Laporta is
21:46
Speaker 5: Jared Go's favorite target when he's under pressure. We've seen
21:49
Speaker 5: him every time he is blitzed. Where does he look recently?
21:51
Speaker 5: It's Laporta. So to me, that just means more targets
21:54
Speaker 5: for volumes, a better opportunity to end up in the
21:56
Speaker 5: end zone, and the.
21:56
Speaker 2: Fun Sam Laporta. In fact, they had more receiving touchdowns
21:59
Speaker 2: lean the entire receiving core of the Iowahawk gys this season.
22:02
Speaker 2: More touchdowns Zayflyw or Gus Edwards. I gotta go Gus here.
22:07
Speaker 2: That's what Gus Edwards does. He gets the hard yards,
22:10
Speaker 2: especially in and around the end zone. Maybe Zay makes
22:13
Speaker 2: a play. It's just going to be so much harder
22:15
Speaker 2: for the things that Zay Flowers needs to do the
22:18
Speaker 2: score touchdown that it is for Gus Edwards. So I'm
22:20
Speaker 2: gonna have to leave the well. I need as many
22:23
Speaker 2: layups as I can get. Greg, I'm not a high
22:25
Speaker 2: percentagehooter from outside. It's time for pizza and pizza. Pregame
22:29
Speaker 2: predictions delivered by Little Caesars, Chiefs and Ravens Sunday afternoon
22:33
Speaker 2: in Baltimore, the first ever playoff matchup between Mahomes and Lamar.
22:37
Speaker 2: The Ravens will have Mark Andrews back. How do you
22:40
Speaker 2: see it going, Cynthia, I.
22:42
Speaker 5: Can't believe we're probably making picks, but I have the
22:44
Speaker 5: Ravens between this one twenty seven to twenty three. I
22:48
Speaker 5: just want to talk about Lamar Jackson for a second,
22:50
Speaker 5: because Greg said it before. You talked about how he
22:52
Speaker 5: looked comfortable in the pocket. Well, did you know that
22:55
Speaker 5: this is the first year since his MVP season that
22:58
Speaker 5: he actually has a higher completion percentage than expected since
23:01
Speaker 5: that last MVP season, which, well, it's well for you know,
23:03
Speaker 5: the MVP thing that we're talking about here. I actually
23:06
Speaker 5: forgot about all that preseason stuff because winning cures almost everything.
23:10
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when the Atlanta Falcons didn't want to get
23:13
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson.
23:14
Speaker 5: So anyways, I'm not talking about that. But what I
23:15
Speaker 5: am talking about here when it comes to Lamar Jackson,
23:18
Speaker 5: they can make exceptional adjustments in game. You saw it
23:22
Speaker 5: last week. You saw the Texans come out blitzing the
23:25
Speaker 5: highest rate they'd blitzed all season long, and then you
23:27
Speaker 5: know what, it actually was kind of working, and then
23:29
Speaker 5: in the second half the team totally absolutely adjusted and
23:32
Speaker 5: it was like, sorry, I'm just gonna dice you up,
23:35
Speaker 5: no big deal.
23:36
Speaker 4: I love it.
23:37
Speaker 3: I also just love watching this Ravens team week after week,
23:40
Speaker 3: and that's why I'm picking him to win this game.
23:42
Speaker 4: I got it as twenty three to seventeen.
23:45
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a low scoring game,
23:47
Speaker 3: but I think the Ravens offense and their wide receivers
23:50
Speaker 3: make the big plays when they need to. I talked
23:52
Speaker 3: about Mahomes versus Lamar. That's not how football works. It's
23:55
Speaker 3: a team sport. Lamar Jackson is at this point with
23:59
Speaker 3: the MVB in part because his team is now as
24:03
Speaker 3: good as he is. This is one of the best
24:05
Speaker 3: teams I've ever seen. I really believe that in terms
24:07
Speaker 3: of offense, defense, coaching, everything about this team they have answers,
24:12
Speaker 3: and that includes wide receivers. I noticed last week how
24:14
Speaker 3: Rashad Bateman kind of took over that number two receiver
24:17
Speaker 3: role had more than double the snaps of Odell Beckham.
24:19
Speaker 3: If Odell Beckham is your number four receiver and Nelson
24:23
Speaker 3: Aguilar is making plays in the playoffs like he did
24:25
Speaker 3: back in the Super Bowl, and Rashad Bateman is looking
24:28
Speaker 3: really Chris lately, and I think Odell could have some
24:30
Speaker 3: big plays. This is the best group around Lamar Jackson,
24:34
Speaker 3: including the Titans, that he's ever had by far. In
24:37
Speaker 3: like the rest of the team, they're just balanced, they're complete,
24:41
Speaker 3: they're deep, they're the better team. They get the win,
24:43
Speaker 3: and they get it by more than three and a
24:45
Speaker 3: half points.
24:46
Speaker 2: I'm fired up. Greg's got me passionate. Now I'm also
24:50
Speaker 2: picking the Baltimore Rends again. Surprise, surprise. I know it's
24:53
Speaker 2: a lot of points in this game, twenty eight to
24:56
Speaker 2: twenty three, but ultimately a defensive player is going to
25:00
Speaker 2: have to make a play to win this game. In
25:02
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and Greg mentioned him earlier, Kyle Hamilton has
25:05
Speaker 2: been so good. But if you would like the statistic
25:07
Speaker 2: to quantify how good he has been, when he's the
25:10
Speaker 2: nearest defender and the quarterback is targeting in a tight end,
25:14
Speaker 2: they get a negative nineteen EPA. Their passer rating was
25:18
Speaker 2: twenty five. Only one quarterback has had a worse passer
25:21
Speaker 2: rating this season in a game that was Sam Howel
25:23
Speaker 2: against the Jets. It was really bad. He was six
25:26
Speaker 2: and twenty two. Anyway, he's just very very good. I
25:29
Speaker 2: think that's valuable against the Chiefs.
25:30
Speaker 5: Did you know that if you if a quarterback just
25:32
Speaker 5: throws a ball into the ground, is like thirty nine
25:33
Speaker 5: point six. So what you're saying is you're better off
25:36
Speaker 5: throwing the ball into the ground than you are passing
25:39
Speaker 5: into his coverage. And by the way, Ginostone needs a
25:42
Speaker 5: little like we need to love him too, a little
25:44
Speaker 5: love on Ginostone too.
25:46
Speaker 2: Yes, salutations to you, Jude.
25:48
Speaker 3: You played very very good oh me mess away away
25:51
Speaker 3: Amian against Patrick Mahomes in a huge game.
25:54
Speaker 4: What could go wrong?
25:55
Speaker 2: Yeah?
25:55
Speaker 5: What could go wrong?
25:57
Speaker 2: Well, Chiefs fans can be like nobody believed in us.
25:59
Speaker 2: We don't. We don't.
26:00
Speaker 5: You've been your six times.
26:02
Speaker 2: We like this team in this game for what it's worth.
26:04
Speaker 2: I'm not just picking the Ravens because I want to
26:06
Speaker 2: see Lamar play in the Super Bowl. We heard from
26:07
Speaker 2: Andy Reid earlier saying I'm not dancing after a win. Well,
26:11
Speaker 2: there's another coach that did. It's John Harmond. Check it
26:16
Speaker 2: out in the locker room after last week's when over
26:18
Speaker 2: the Texans. Who wouldn't want to see more? I guess
26:21
Speaker 2: the Chiefs don't want to see more of it. Andy
26:23
Speaker 2: Reid is not anti dancing, but I don't know. Maybe
26:25
Speaker 2: that's bullets and boored material he's getting.
26:28
Speaker 5: After Do you guys dance like that at my wedding?
26:30
Speaker 4: I mean this is giving wedding dance.
26:33
Speaker 5: Wedding dancing vibes for sure.
26:35
Speaker 2: When there's a lot of phones out, I don't know.
26:37
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm feel comfortable no phones, and.
26:40
Speaker 5: I'll think kind of like Olay, Olay, Olay, like he's
26:43
Speaker 5: sword he's got like a sword fight in there.
26:46
Speaker 2: There's an imaginary bull. Let's do more or less for
26:50
Speaker 2: this game, Cynthia, more or less than sixty six and
26:52
Speaker 2: a half rushing yards for the presumptive MVP, I.
26:55
Speaker 5: Have fewer yards in that less yards not a ton
26:58
Speaker 5: I would like in the mid fifties for and why
27:00
Speaker 5: we talked about it. He could pass out of the pocket. Also,
27:03
Speaker 5: I believe that there's there's so many different options here,
27:05
Speaker 5: especially with Mark Andrews back. They're going to try to
27:07
Speaker 5: get some flow and rhythm back to with the tight
27:10
Speaker 5: ends now that they're back to their original configuration. So
27:13
Speaker 5: for me, the game script just says less rushes, more
27:16
Speaker 5: opportunities for passes.
27:17
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy is that number sixty six and
27:19
Speaker 3: a half is a little higher than his career average,
27:22
Speaker 3: which is also the highest for any quarterback in the
27:25
Speaker 3: history of the NFL. There is part of me that thinks,
27:27
Speaker 3: though more not to go against you, just because it's
27:31
Speaker 3: like he's going to do what he does in the
27:32
Speaker 3: biggest moment, I can just imagine a big time run.
27:35
Speaker 2: It ultimately feels like it depends on how many possessions
27:38
Speaker 2: are in the game to see how the game flow
27:40
Speaker 2: goes for Lamar hits that number one. No, Travis Kelcey
27:43
Speaker 2: five catches for seventy two yards two scores last week
27:46
Speaker 2: more or less than sixty two and a half yards
27:48
Speaker 2: this week.
27:49
Speaker 4: I am going slightly less.
27:51
Speaker 3: I know Travis Kelcey looked healthier last week or just
27:55
Speaker 3: moved better. It was almost like he needed the playoffs
27:57
Speaker 3: to feel alive again. That and you know, dating the
28:00
Speaker 3: biggest pop star in the world, it.
28:02
Speaker 4: Will just make you feel life is like, this is funny.
28:05
Speaker 4: He doesn't need this game.
28:06
Speaker 3: And I just think this is the defense more than
28:08
Speaker 3: any defense in the league that will understand how he
28:11
Speaker 3: is the engine that makes this offense go, and they
28:13
Speaker 3: have the defenders to slow him down. So I could
28:15
Speaker 3: see a high volume game seven catches for fifty yards,
28:19
Speaker 3: but not making those big plays.
28:21
Speaker 5: I agree with you the linebacker play. If you look
28:23
Speaker 5: at like Roquan and coverage, and if you look at
28:25
Speaker 5: obviously Kyle Hamilton and Junostone and coverage against tight ends,
28:28
Speaker 5: those numbers aren't so great. But I do want to
28:30
Speaker 5: point out that's pretty amazing that he had that monstrous game,
28:34
Speaker 5: but yet his brother took all the glory. In love
28:36
Speaker 5: just for like being topless and having fun with the crowd.
28:39
Speaker 5: So hey, you know what, Like I actually actually respect it.
28:41
Speaker 5: I love it.
28:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great for the podcast.
28:44
Speaker 5: It's so fun.
28:45
Speaker 2: He gets all all of us, He gets all of
28:46
Speaker 2: his love in the commercials during the game. I'll take
28:49
Speaker 2: one more, will RACEI Rice go over six and a
28:52
Speaker 2: half receptions. And there's a couple of Rashi Rice playoff games.
28:55
Speaker 2: There's the one where the Dolphins seemingly didn't know he
28:58
Speaker 2: was on the field. He got twelve targets, but then
29:00
Speaker 2: just four catches against the Buffalo Bills. I'm taking lessier.
29:04
Speaker 2: If the number was sitting at six, I would feel
29:06
Speaker 2: a little bit better. It's that seventh one. That seventh
29:09
Speaker 2: one kind of gets me, especially when we saw Marcus
29:12
Speaker 2: Valdez Scantling play better. I agree with Cynthia that Andy
29:15
Speaker 2: Reid's gonna have something for Nicole Hardman after the issues
29:18
Speaker 2: with the football. I don't know how much we can
29:21
Speaker 2: get in terms of opportunities for recive Rice, even though
29:24
Speaker 2: they do need it to play well us. It's time
29:27
Speaker 2: for winning Moves presented by into It Turbo tax Niners
29:30
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers Sunday night, Cynthia's Lions looking for their
29:33
Speaker 2: first ever trip to the Super Bowl. Deebo Samuel is
29:36
Speaker 2: going to play Greg. What takes place in Santa Claus.
29:40
Speaker 4: I am so hyped for this game.
29:41
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for my friend Cynthia, and I've never
29:45
Speaker 3: felt worse making a pick on this show before. I
29:48
Speaker 3: have the forty nine ers winning and by more than
29:50
Speaker 3: seven and a half thirty three to twenty four. I'm sorry, Cynthia,
29:53
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna defend it by giving the most Cynthia
29:56
Speaker 3: reasoning possible. Interior line struggles for the Lions and interior
30:02
Speaker 3: pressure for the forty nine Ers. That's what the the
30:04
Speaker 3: model spits out all the time has been so important.
30:07
Speaker 3: I think it's really important when you're facing Jared Goff.
30:09
Speaker 3: Look at the players for San Francisco. What do they
30:12
Speaker 3: do this offseason? They brought on Javon Hargrave for a
30:15
Speaker 3: game like this. Ark Armstein, who's been hurt all year,
30:18
Speaker 3: comes back in the playoffs, looked very good last week.
30:20
Speaker 3: You know who played great, Javon kin Law. Then I
30:22
Speaker 3: look at the weakness of this Lion's offense, and it's
30:25
Speaker 3: on the interior. They're without Jonah Jackson, Frank Ragnow is
30:29
Speaker 3: banged up, We'll see about the other guard spot. To me,
30:32
Speaker 3: that's just not their strength. And I look at this
30:34
Speaker 3: forty nine Ers defensive line and all the stars.
30:37
Speaker 4: I think we forget.
30:38
Speaker 3: Because they got lucky last week. They should not have
30:40
Speaker 3: won that game against the Packers, but when they survived it,
30:42
Speaker 3: I thought the next week, they're gonna come out and
30:44
Speaker 3: their stars, especially on their defensive line, are gonna play
30:48
Speaker 3: like we know they can. I just think they're a
30:50
Speaker 3: more talented team that has spent years building to this moment.
30:54
Speaker 3: The Lions are gonna have their day. Sunday will not
30:57
Speaker 3: be that day.
30:59
Speaker 2: I also am going to pick the San Francisco forty
31:03
Speaker 2: nine Ers. Sorry, essentially, you're watching the forty nine Ers
31:07
Speaker 2: game last week. There's no Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel is
31:10
Speaker 2: one of the more impactful offensive players in the league.
31:13
Speaker 2: If Deebo is still out, if he's looking weird and practice,
31:16
Speaker 2: I'm not going to pick the forty nine Ers. Maybe
31:18
Speaker 2: to be any of the remaining teams in the playoffs.
31:20
Speaker 2: I think the Lions are very good. Twenty seven to
31:22
Speaker 2: twenty four three points. The separation here and if you're
31:25
Speaker 2: gonna beat the Detroit Lions, you're gonna have to have
31:28
Speaker 2: guys in the middle of the field who can make plays.
31:30
Speaker 2: And Cynthia already talked about Fred Warner and all that
31:32
Speaker 2: he can do. Drake Greenlaw, despite the fact that he
31:34
Speaker 2: was swimming with the football on the game seileingue interception like,
31:38
Speaker 2: don't do that. But Drake Greenlaw one of the better
31:42
Speaker 2: off ball linebackers. And again both of these teams. In fact,
31:46
Speaker 2: you could make a case that the teams remaining in
31:48
Speaker 2: the playoffs that have pretty good guys at that level
31:51
Speaker 2: of the defense. And I think Dray Greenlaw is one
31:54
Speaker 2: of the better playmakers in the league. I got the
31:56
Speaker 2: Lions falling, Cynthia, what do you have?
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Speaker 5: Well, I know who my friends are and it's neither
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Speaker 5: of you too. But the model actually did pick the
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Speaker 5: forty nine by five points. But sometimes you have to
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Speaker 5: use your heart, the heart of a lill Sometimes you
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Speaker 5: have to say, hey, Patrick, he got the twenty seven right,
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Speaker 5: But that's the number that the Lions get and they're
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Speaker 5: gonna outscore the forty nine ers by one point twenty seven. Oh,
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Speaker 5: because sometimes I love it. Magic works. Sometimes your heart
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Speaker 5: works and CJGJ. You saw him last week. You saw
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Speaker 5: the kind of fury and fire that this team is
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Speaker 5: playing with. You saw Dan Campbell, he's getting emotional. I
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Speaker 5: saw him in the presser after I was in Detroit,
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Speaker 5: all of those people, they were so much fun. And
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Speaker 5: by the way, you can get a beer in Detroit
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Speaker 5: for like three dollars. It's really affordable, way more affordable
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Speaker 5: than the Bay Area. Just saying, when I'm looking at
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Speaker 5: this game and I see the feistiness that they're playing with,
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Speaker 5: it's not necessarily a math pick. It is actually not
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Speaker 5: a math pick. And you're right, the interior line does flag.
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Speaker 5: But I don't care because I will run through a
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Speaker 5: wall for Dan Campbell. I sat in that presser. I
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Speaker 5: saw that man with tears in his eyes, the emotions,
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Speaker 5: and there is no way on God's green Earth I'm
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Speaker 5: not taking my lions in a way to go to
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Speaker 5: the super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been doing this show for five years together,
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Speaker 3: and I wish I could do the math of how
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Speaker 3: many games we've actually picked together.
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Speaker 4: It's probably close to.
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Speaker 3: A thousand, and this is the first time that you've
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Speaker 3: gone against the model.
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Speaker 4: And that.
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33:51
Speaker 2: some quick picks, guys, as we're gonna look at all
33:53
Speaker 2: the games this weekend. When it comes to who we
33:55
Speaker 2: think will pass for more of the most yards, we
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Speaker 2: all like Jared Golf, and I think for a bunch
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Speaker 2: of different reasons, But for me, Jared Golf can completely out.
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Speaker 2: It's complained to over seventy percent of his passes this
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Speaker 2: postseason for two hundred and eighty yards a game. They
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Speaker 2: might be in a circumstance where they need to throw it,
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Speaker 2: and I think that will be just fine. Not just
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Speaker 2: good enough for Detroit. You're good enough for me, Jared Goff,
34:18
Speaker 2: me too. Let's let's move on to who will have
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Speaker 2: the most receiving yards this weekend. You like a particular
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Speaker 2: sun God.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going with aman Ross Aint Brown. It really
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Speaker 5: comes down to kind of what happens on recent third downs,
34:29
Speaker 5: what happens when you're recently against pressure. It kind of
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Speaker 5: fluctuated between he and Laporta this season. But I think
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Speaker 5: if you're looking at those outside the numbers passes like
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Speaker 5: the Packers did last week, I think they can come
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Speaker 5: up with some scheme here so that am On Ross
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Speaker 5: Aint Brown can get open and maybe lead the entire
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Speaker 5: weekend in receiving yards.
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Speaker 2: Let's finish with the running backs. Greg, you think Christian
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Speaker 2: McCaffrey will lead the remaining teams in right?
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Speaker 5: Right? You liked to Checko.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I like Gibbs, I like all these running backs.
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Speaker 3: It's a great weekend for running backs. Maybe they do matter.
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Speaker 3: No one matters more than this guy. Look Christian McCaffrey
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Speaker 3: last week, in a moment where their season was on
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Speaker 3: the had a drive where he just took over. They're
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Speaker 3: just like, let's give the ball to this guy. And
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Speaker 3: I know the Lions defense has been good stopping the run.
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Speaker 4: McCaffrey is defense proof.
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Speaker 3: He is having as good a season as we've seen
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Speaker 3: from a running back in years. So I'm just trusting
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Speaker 3: in talent, and so is Patrick.
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Speaker 4: By the way, I'm not.
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Speaker 5: It's just rushing yards though. That's the difference.
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Speaker 4: I hear you.
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Speaker 5: It's not like short receptions. Those are receiving yards.
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Speaker 4: You know that, right.
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Speaker 5: If it was scrimmage yards, I'd be with you.
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Speaker 3: I just didn't want to give the same answer all
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Speaker 3: the time to Gibbs.
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Speaker 4: Here, McCaffrey there, spread.
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Speaker 2: Out the lovell, who do you really like? Just McCaffrey there,
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Speaker 2: it is CMC lead everybody in rushing this weekend, it's
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Speaker 2: time for write this down as we talk predictions for
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Speaker 2: championships Sunday, Greg lead the way.
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Speaker 3: Well, I decided to join Cynthia's corner and do the
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Speaker 3: longest run.
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Speaker 4: Not for Jamir Gibbs. This time. It's going to be
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Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 3: Is more than seventeen and a half yards or just
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Speaker 3: seventeen Either way, it's over, way over. You're telling me
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Speaker 3: the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL at
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Speaker 3: running the football isn't gonna pop one like old Michael
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Speaker 3: Vic did against the Packers back in the day or
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Speaker 3: against the Rams. I mean, yes, we know Lamar Jackson's
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Speaker 3: great throwing it, but he's still great at running. I
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Speaker 3: think it's gonna happen, and just as a little extra.
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Speaker 3: I'm also giving you Rashad Bateman over twenty point five
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Speaker 3: receiving yards.
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Speaker 4: I love that one. I think he might be their
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Speaker 4: number one receiver on Sunday. There's another one.
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Speaker 2: Multiple write this down, so get another sheet of paper
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Speaker 2: so the.
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Speaker 5: Well, fine, I will see your two and add you
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Speaker 5: to as well. First, Jamiir Gibbs going back to that, well,
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have more than three receptions against the forty
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Speaker 5: nine ers. That means he has to get four and
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Speaker 5: that would be great and easy peasy. And also if
36:42
Speaker 5: you want that second one a little extra something, of course,
36:45
Speaker 5: I'm going with his rushing yards at least fifteen and
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Speaker 5: a half. Yes, I'm the only one with a bum
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Speaker 5: ankle around here, and I still manage to wear heels today,
36:52
Speaker 5: so he can do that for sure.
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Speaker 2: Well, the two for one thing, I'm gonna have to
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Speaker 2: take it far and run with it. First off, Justice
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Speaker 2: Hill will have more than thirteen receiving yards against the
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Speaker 2: Kansas City chief Just looking at the past few games,
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Speaker 2: Justice Hill not only was he the blitz answer in
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Speaker 2: the second half a part of it against the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 2: but go back to the end of the regular season,
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Speaker 2: thirty three forty five fifty one yard receiving games over
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Speaker 2: and over again. Justice Hill is a value, and also
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Speaker 2: Odell Beckham over twenty and a half receiving yards. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna take Odell on the over as well.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, I thought you were gonna take a Mark
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Speaker 5: Andrews touchdown there. That feels like an easy ps lemon
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Speaker 5: squeeze one too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's pile him up all right?
37:32
Speaker 5: How about one more touchdown? Why already told you like
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Speaker 5: the am On Rod touchdown. So I'm gonna go on
37:37
Speaker 5: the other side of this matchup and say, how about
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Speaker 5: we do Brandon Ayuk and an am On Rod touchdown.
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Speaker 4: We are just giving you so many free ideas.
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Speaker 2: What about sixty five and a half pounds for the
37:49
Speaker 2: weight of the dog that Cynthia Freeland is going to
37:51
Speaker 2: have to name Dan at the over? Going over?
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Speaker 5: Probably over. I thought Gordy was going to be less
37:57
Speaker 5: and hands up being more, but now you know, I
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Speaker 5: definitely always go more on this, always go more. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 5: we're positive it's on men. Greg's tombstone thumbsone's over.
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Speaker 2: I'll enjoy Championship Sunday for Greg and Cynthia I'm Patrick, Playbond.
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