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#1 Seeds??!! · NFL Game Previews

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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. Patrick Claybon back here with
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  Speaker 2: Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freedom. We've done it. We've done
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  Speaker 2: seventeen weeks and picks. We have categorized all of it.
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  Speaker 2: It is all documented, and folks are still coming and
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  Speaker 2: saying we're picking better since we want the full season
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  Speaker 2: of their picks corrects.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I don't know who's picking better than
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  Speaker 3: this guy all season, but this week we'll test you.
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  Speaker 3: Week eighteens are funky. Our team's even trying. Who knows
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  Speaker 3: this separates the great pickers.
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  Speaker 4: From everyone else?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 4: Does your model know who's even playing?
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  Speaker 5: I mean to the best of the communicated information. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: But then the problem is sometimes they play and then
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  Speaker 5: or they start and they play like two series. Then
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  Speaker 5: they sit and that makes everything crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Great week for a lot of people who sit there
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  Speaker 2: every single week saying who wants it more? This time?
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  Speaker 5: Wants it more?
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  Speaker 2: This time? It Actually we do actually matter. Greg guy
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  Speaker 2: led in the picks last week, going ten and six.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually won the week three times since Thanksgiving. So
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  Speaker 2: Greg Rosenthal is heating up. These are our season long standings.
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  Speaker 2: I've still reluctantly got the crown perch caught into the side.
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  Speaker 2: Hide the bolts about there. We one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: five and ninety ninety seven for Greg and one sixty
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  Speaker 2: one in ninety four for Cynthia. I have come up
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  Speaker 2: short a few times on this show, and by a few,
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  Speaker 2: I mean every single season that I've been able to
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  Speaker 2: be with this incredible duo. Someone who needs some help
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  Speaker 2: might just say, Patrick, you're due for a win. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: now's the time. Maybe they're saying the same for Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Shanahan and the forty nine Ers.
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  Speaker 6: William's looking left, Williams looking right, Williams u turns gets
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  Speaker 6: away from UF still looking still looking gout.
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  Speaker 2: Peddling bus come play.
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  Speaker 6: The punames over and the forty nine Ers have won it.
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  Speaker 6: They come spilling onto the field and as rock as
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  Speaker 6: here at Le Guy Stadium, and the forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 6: are one game away from the one seed in the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, just like you heard it. The playoff picture in
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  Speaker 2: the NFC comes down for that one seed to the
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  Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco forty nine Ers, and
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  Speaker 2: they will square off Saturday night in Santa Clara. The
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  Speaker 2: winner clinches the NFC West plus the one seed. It's
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  Speaker 2: huge who gets that honor grip.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks have been the best defense in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL all season long, even better than the Houston Texans,
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  Speaker 3: and that defense carries the day in a great match
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  Speaker 3: of twenty seven to twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: If you remember, the forty nine Ers won it the first.
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  Speaker 3: Time round all the way back in Week one, and
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  Speaker 3: watching that highlight like, I still think there could be
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  Speaker 3: some magic in San Francisco, but not this Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: Riek Willan and Devin Witherspoon and Julian Love and Nick
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  Speaker 3: Emm and Worrie they haven't been all healthy very often
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  Speaker 3: at the same time this season, and now that they are,
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  Speaker 3: I think you and Love is committed the extra little
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  Speaker 3: something special on top of everything. Who can take advantage
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  Speaker 3: of the opposition's mistakes and brock Perdy's decision making has
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  Speaker 3: been great. But we're not sure about Trent Williams in
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  Speaker 3: this game. I think he could be under pressure, maybe
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  Speaker 3: one too many aggressive throws that the Seahawks pickoff.
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  Speaker 5: I have Seahawks winning as well. I have one fewer
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  Speaker 5: point than you. Twenty six to twenty four is my number.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to talk about somebody that Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 5: showed us against this defense, and it's what happens when pieces,
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  Speaker 5: even more pieces, i should say, of the defense are missing.
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  Speaker 5: They play a ton of nickel, they play a ton
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  Speaker 5: of Cover four. What does cover four mean? Well, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: it's a zone concept where you have different assignments basically,
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  Speaker 5: and the difference between a Robert Salah zone versus other
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  Speaker 5: people is that there's a lot of decisions that must
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  Speaker 5: be made. So when an upton Stout goes out that
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  Speaker 5: you can find areas where Luther Burden can slip in.
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  Speaker 5: Upton Stout might not be playing in this one. That
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  Speaker 5: Cover four and the confusion factor from that, I'm just
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  Speaker 5: looking at that. I just wanted to show an area
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  Speaker 5: where Sam Darnold's gonna have to be very very careful
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  Speaker 5: because I know that they're gonna get Diamador Leonor. He
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  Speaker 5: said he wanted Jackson Smith and Jake and that's what
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  Speaker 5: keeps it close.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just saying that, you know, those Cover four
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  Speaker 5: principles are very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's good to want things and to want a
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  Speaker 2: competitive matchup. We're not competitive here. I have the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: As well, basically the same score on Switch.
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  Speaker 2: I've got the same score as Greg guess.
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  Speaker 4: We're doubting the yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it is concern because, as as Cynthia frequently notes,
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan does have a relationship with revealing information that
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  Speaker 2: may ultimately not necessarily be related to the lies. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a factor that's helpful in terms of
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  Speaker 2: play calling. And maybe he and Robert Sella deliver a
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  Speaker 2: spectacular performance. But to talk about the players on the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: The six hundred and thirty seven receiving yards for JSN,
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  Speaker 2: the fourth most by twenty three year old. The three
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  Speaker 2: guys ahead of him twenty twenty two, Justin Jefferson, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety five, Isaac Bruce and who can forget that twenty
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  Speaker 2: thirteen Josh Gordon season. JSN is spectacular. I gotta go
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  Speaker 2: with the Jimmy's and the Joe's in this one. And
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  Speaker 2: for years that's been the forty nine ers. It's the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks now, guys, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: You just wanted to say Josh Gordon on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good, Gil, that was good as charts.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tom for the feel good Story of the League
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  Speaker 2: presented by Geico Brock. Perty has solved quarterbacking. Guys. He's
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  Speaker 2: got ten touchdowns in the last two games. Well, we
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  Speaker 2: have more or less than one and a half passing
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns against Seattleson.
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  Speaker 5: I think he has more than one and a half
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  Speaker 5: passing touchdowns. And we see the Dougie, which is what
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  Speaker 5: that dance was. I have verification on that, which was
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  Speaker 5: very important to me. But I'm looking at not necessarily
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  Speaker 5: a deep throat like this one, but perhaps something smaller
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  Speaker 5: to Christian McCaffrey in short yardage situations. That looks to
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  Speaker 5: me like one of the easier paths for him to
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  Speaker 5: score these two touchdowns. But again, we have scores in
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  Speaker 5: the twenties, which means touchdowns, and I believe they come
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  Speaker 5: through the air.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go to the other battle in the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: The NFC South comes down to one game kind of.
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  Speaker 2: If the Carolina Panthers win, they clinch a spot in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, or they could lose and become Falcons fans
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  Speaker 2: for the game against the Saints. As for Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 2: they need to win and they need the Falcons to lose,
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  Speaker 2: which is something that they've had some difficulty causing personally
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of seasons. So let's talk about this
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  Speaker 2: Panthers Bucks game. These teams played just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. Carolina won by three. Who do you think
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  Speaker 2: wins round two, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel great about it, but I have the
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  Speaker 5: Bucks winning this game. I have a score of twenty
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  Speaker 5: five to twenty one, which means not only do they win,
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  Speaker 5: but they win by more than the number. It's all
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  Speaker 5: about the short passes for me. Because Baker Mayfield not
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  Speaker 5: a doctor. This is something we've established all season long.
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  Speaker 5: But perhaps something ain't right because when you're looking at
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  Speaker 5: what happens when he throws deep, it isn't good. But
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  Speaker 5: when you look at what happens when he threw short,
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  Speaker 5: that was where all his production came against the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps he's not able to step into it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not, again, not a doctor. I did do a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of time in medical school, so hey, there
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  Speaker 5: you go, humble braggest Just as a side quest dropped out,
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  Speaker 5: it was terrible, still have to pay for it. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at the opportunity for Baker Mayfield to use
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  Speaker 5: those shorter passes. He has the receiving court that includes
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  Speaker 5: Mike Evans, a Hall of Famer future Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 5: So it just feels to me. I don't again, I
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  Speaker 5: don't feel good about.
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  Speaker 4: This one, but I think they win.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to think about this game, but
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  Speaker 3: I want mess I want that Saints Falcons game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: He decide the championship and it's Gene Deckerhoff, the great
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  Speaker 3: play by play man for the Bucks. His last season,
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  Speaker 3: so they're gonna send him out in style with a
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  Speaker 3: win in this game. Because of some of those old
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  Speaker 3: heads that Jean's been announcing for years, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 3: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, and how about some of
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  Speaker 3: the new guys too. Jalen McMillan had a career high
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  Speaker 3: in reception last week. We're watching Mike Evans in that
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  Speaker 3: Falcons game. He's all the way back. Chris Godwin had
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  Speaker 3: a couple long catches.
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  Speaker 4: A week ago.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very good receiver group and I know
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  Speaker 3: it's strength and strength against the Panthers secondary, which has
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  Speaker 3: some talented players. I think this is a rare team
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  Speaker 3: the Bucks, who have more than what Carolina has in
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  Speaker 3: the back end, they find a way to finally get
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  Speaker 3: a win.
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  Speaker 5: My friend from Boston College played guard for the Bucks,
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  Speaker 5: and he jumped, he fall started quite a bit. His
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  Speaker 5: name was Jeremy Drubland, and I just remember the calls
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  Speaker 5: because that's such a good last name. In the play
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  Speaker 5: by play, I was so good.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, Aside Jeremy and the inzo for one of those
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  Speaker 2: trouble Bucks, I've got the Carolina Panthers in this one
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  Speaker 2: two twenty one, because yes, everything that Cynthia and Greg
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  Speaker 2: said about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is true. Down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: It has been tough for me to ignore. If it
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  Speaker 2: was the slightest glimpse of early season or even mid
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  Speaker 2: season Bucks, I'd be confident here. But the Panthers have
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  Speaker 2: at least been consistent in the fact that they've been
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  Speaker 2: consistently inconson. They had nothing deep against the Seahawks, but
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  Speaker 2: the last Bucks game, Brice completed most of his deep
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  Speaker 2: passing attempts. He was sixteen of eighteen within ten yards
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  Speaker 2: the blitz, which I thought was gonna be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Then wasn't even much of a problem. I've got the
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, and at least that way, Greg Jeane will
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  Speaker 2: know that this will be his final game for the
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Ble.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: If not, they just got to wait until Sunday. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have more on that game a little later in
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  Speaker 3: the show. I'm excited to talk about it. That's the
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  Speaker 3: game of the day on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Who's in the nfchself. It's Nomber who's eaten good? Wasented
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  Speaker 2: buy Applebee's team. Mac had just five receiving yards last week.
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  Speaker 2: Does he bounce back, hopefully more than five, more than
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  Speaker 2: fifty nine yards in this one.
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  Speaker 5: More than five, yes, very good, fifty nine. I have
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  Speaker 5: more than that as well. It's all about the number
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  Speaker 5: and percentage of the team share that he already has,
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  Speaker 5: which is very very high. When you're up, you're that
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  Speaker 5: forty percent mark, like making history for rookies.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna be a guy who's looked to you.
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  Speaker 5: And I think this is one of the situations where
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  Speaker 5: coach can say they if not the same, hey, let's
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  Speaker 5: get this guy. Offensive resie of the year in roots
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  Speaker 5: to winning the game. This is how they have constructed it.
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  Speaker 5: There are ways to target that secondary deep. I think
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  Speaker 5: that that's a I like him to have at least
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  Speaker 5: seventy yards, so more than sixty.
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  Speaker 2: All right, a bounce back game for Team MACKI and
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers aren't a win and in playoff scenario. Similarly,
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  Speaker 2: so are the Baltimore Ravens. And they're running back El Trectorcito.
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  Speaker 7: Derrick Henry is back in the backfield in the power
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  Speaker 7: eye formation. He'll get the carry on the toss, gets
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  Speaker 7: around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty ten five touch down Derrick Henry and with that run,
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  Speaker 7: he breaks the NFL record for the most games with
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  Speaker 7: two hundred yards carrying and becomes the first NFL running
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  Speaker 7: back to crest the two hundred yard mark seven times
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  Speaker 7: in his career.
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  Speaker 2: And that keeps the Baltimore Ravens on the in the
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  Speaker 2: hunt side of the AFC. They win this game. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's equal to being the number one seed in terms
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  Speaker 2: of space on the graphic. Our congratulations to the Ravens
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  Speaker 2: for that. Also the fact that they get a game
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night in Pittsburgh, a winner and take all battle
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  Speaker 2: for the AFC North Crown the number four seed in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs as well. Loser leaves town. Well maybe if
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  Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens lose, they they're gonna lose. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: leave town regardless because the game is the Pittsburgh Lamar
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  Speaker 2: was back at practice for the Ravens this week. How
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  Speaker 2: does this one go? Gread?
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna go like you dream it goes.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna have the Ravens, the team you didn't see
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  Speaker 3: coming making it to the playoffs in the end, our
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  Speaker 3: super Bowl pick from before the year. Because of Derrick
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  Speaker 3: Henry and everything, this running game is getting going. And
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  Speaker 3: if Lamar Jackson's at practice, I like his chances of
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  Speaker 3: playing in the game. But no matter who's that quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking Baltimore in this one because Derrick Henry has
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  Speaker 3: made me believe, you know, in a higher power, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like this game happened right before Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: I was brought up in a non religious household, so
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have that like something greater than the sum
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  Speaker 3: of their part, something to believe in. And then I
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  Speaker 3: watched that performance by Derrick Henry the other night. I
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  Speaker 3: believe in you Dereck Henry. There's just something about him.
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  Speaker 3: You took me l out of Daniel Filelele and you
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  Speaker 3: made this Ravens seem different.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go Ravens. I don't even follow them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you can well.
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  Speaker 5: I Baltimore winning by two points twenty three to twenty one.
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk about the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 5: which would be Kyle Hamilton. There hasn't been a ton
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  Speaker 5: of things on this defense that you can look to
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  Speaker 5: and be like, hey, they are great and elite here
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  Speaker 5: except for Kyle Hamilton, who was wind up everywhere, been
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  Speaker 5: asked to do everything and delivered. So I'm looking at
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  Speaker 5: the different things that could happen. We know that the
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  Speaker 5: Steelers Aaron Rodgers, wants to get the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball out quickly.
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  Speaker 5: We know that their running backs are a very big key.
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  Speaker 5: We know that the tight ends are a super big
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  Speaker 5: key to the way that the Steelers like to operate
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  Speaker 5: their offense. What does Kyle Hamilton do in all those
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  Speaker 5: situations locks it down? And what does Kyle Hamilton provide them? Now?
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  Speaker 5: Without DK Metcalf, they're just a better opportunity to not
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  Speaker 5: let anything go behind any of the defensive backs.
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  Speaker 4: So I think.
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  Speaker 5: God likes Kyle Hamilton toy. He went to Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm pretty sure he likes you know, I think
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  Speaker 5: he likes God.
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  Speaker 4: Being representative for all everything absolutely also.
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  Speaker 5: Not God, whatever you believe. And I'm sure Kyle Hamilton
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  Speaker 5: is involved in.
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  Speaker 2: That representation for all, including the blasphemy community. I've got
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  Speaker 2: the twenty four to twenty win for the Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 2: It's difficult to underscore how big of an absence. Yeah, like,
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  Speaker 2: no Dk Metcalf, easy to see, that's why you're throwing
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  Speaker 2: three balls consecutively to mvs against Denzel Ward. But probably
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  Speaker 2: and literally the biggest absence was Darnell Washington in this game.
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  Speaker 2: He actually played three plays with a broken arm. But
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  Speaker 2: the team rush EPA this season not worth it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but they need him. They go from zero point seven
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  Speaker 2: and rush EPA to six Negai six point six. When
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  Speaker 2: he's not on the field, they lose almost a half
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  Speaker 2: a yard per carry. The success rate goes from forty
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  Speaker 2: seven to forty two percent in the run game, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the passing game. A lot of the Steelers offense looks
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  Speaker 2: like it did against the Cleveland Browns. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore in this one, and advancing to the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: We're just getting him away that the Steelers and Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 3: they got us right where they want us here.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe even a significant significant portion of Steelers
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  Speaker 2: fans prefer to lose the game, So I'm right there
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  Speaker 2: with you, guys. Tom for Sees the Season presented by
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  Speaker 2: Caesars Sports Book. As we look at the first touchdown
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  Speaker 2: score odds between the Lions and the Bears, it is
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  Speaker 2: Jamior Gibbs and DeAndre Swift leading the way to kyleman Nungui,
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  Speaker 2: i'm on Saint Brown and Dj Moore rounding out that group.
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  Speaker 2: Let's dive into this matchup. The Bears will win the
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  Speaker 2: number two seed. With they win, the Lions are out
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  Speaker 2: of the playoffs, but we know that Dan Campbell likes
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  Speaker 2: to have these late season wins that they don't necessarily need,
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  Speaker 2: especially against this protege a Ben Johnson. How do things go, Cynthia, I.
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  Speaker 5: Hate this result because it's just a one point win
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  Speaker 5: for Chicago. My heart says it's gonna be like a
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  Speaker 5: twelve point win for Chicago, but the math says twenty
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  Speaker 5: four to twenty three. Let's talk about Colson Lovelin because
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  Speaker 5: I like the Bears better in this matchup. He's kind
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  Speaker 5: of becoming a huge factor in this offense, especially as
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  Speaker 5: we've seen Romo Donze not be available. This is a
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  Speaker 5: really important guy to keep an eye on. Good news.
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  Speaker 5: He's also went to college in a great state of Michigan,
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  Speaker 5: so it's good for him that he, you know, can
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  Speaker 5: help out a Okay, I'm not gonna make Michigan jokes
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  Speaker 5: because the Bears are just better. But ultimately I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: at him going forward and he'll be a huge key
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  Speaker 5: to the playoffs. Where he is on the field, the blocking,
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  Speaker 5: all the different areas that he's helping out in, he
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  Speaker 5: is really living up to the people are like, well,
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  Speaker 5: is he going to be better than Tyler? Who cares?
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: I think eventually he who knows if he'll be better
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: or not than Tyler Warren. I just think he's really
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: good and he'll help them in the playoffs.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: A ton I went back and forth with this one.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: At first, I thought I could imagine a world where
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Detroit has one last moment of glory, but then I
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: thought back to that Week two game and I thought.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: The Bears are going to get their revenge. They're going
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to start their.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Revenge tour of this entire division and all the teams
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: that have been taking them apart for years with their
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: old boss, Dan Campbell, at least Ben Johnson's old boss.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: In that game in Week two, Jared Goff ended up
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: with five touchdowns. They put a fifty burger on him.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: The game was a little closer than the final score
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: would indicate, but Dan Campbell's going for fourth downs as
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Dan Campbell does to get that number over fifty. I
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: think the Lions are too good to allow a blowout.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: But I think the Bears and Ben Johnson they get
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: they're made of the real stuff here and they want
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: to play the Packers next week, and so you got
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: to win this game, clinch that two seed, and set
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: up that matchup against the Packers so they can keep
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: destroying the NFC North.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Well, you make a great point, Greg, and looking back
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: at Jared Goff having those five touchdowns in the video
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: of Jamiir Gibbs running down the field by himself, I've
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: got the Detroit Lions and whoa hi three twenty four
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to twenty one. The Bears are the better team. The
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Lions are hurt and sad and consider Holland feasts for
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, like a lot of people are this
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: time of year. But I'll rive with Jarrett because he's
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: good enough for Detroit and he's good enough for me.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: It was back in lead two when he ripped off,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: he ripped apart this defense. Greg highlighted he completed twelve
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: or fourteen on play action for almost two hundred yards
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and two touchdowns. Sure they were dialing up the scoreboard
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: late because they could, and I think they could do
• 17:25
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• 17:57
  Speaker 8: on the tck, but the Eagles are gonna win. He
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• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Eagles puck the pressure on out there going the win.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It wasn't pretty much. The Eagles held on for the
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: win last week in Buffalo. They've got the Commander's Sunday.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: With a win and a Bear's loss, Philly could move
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: up to that number two seed. How do you see
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: it going, Cynthia.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: I don't think Philadelphia leaves us one to chance. I
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: know they're not necessarily starting everyone or playing everyone. Some
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: rest is going on here, but twenty six to seventeen
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: is where the model landed, even with all that's up
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: in the air. But what I'm looking for in this
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: game is how the running backs are being used. The
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: concepts are the same, even if the players are different.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I do think we see the.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Take bigs becoming it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: When he had two touches last week, that's awesome, But
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: he did have a nice game against the Commanders when
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: they met the first time. I just want to see
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: what this offense from run concepts to the passing concepts
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: that come off of those run concepts. I want to
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: see a very nicely called game against a defense that
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: is super vulnerable. So this is where if you're an
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Eagles fan and you've been questioning your OC. This is
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: where I'm looking to see what the strategy is because
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: you've now known who's playing now since I don't know
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: whenever they made that decision, and now you need to
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: get them ready. This is where if you're gonna not
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: like your OC, don't do it like week three when
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: nothing really mattered. They're still in the position won the division.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Like stop being mad at him. Look at the concepts
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: now because going forwards all that matters.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And I think an opportunity for guys to get rest
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: is going to be good. They can evaluate the backups,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and when the backups have played, especially Tank Bixby, things
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: have gone great for the Philadelphia Eagles. In fact, it
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: happened in a game against the Washington Commanders when he
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: only had four carries, but he got thirty seven yards,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: including the twenty two yarder and a touchdown. That's because
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Saquan was able to have success on the ground, something
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: they've been able to do better late this season. They're
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: not the twenty twenty four Philadelphia Eagles on the ground
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: by any stretch of their imagination, but what the backup said,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: they can get healthy against a bad team. That's what
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: they did last time. I think that's what they did
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: this stum there.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did it in Week eighteen against the Giants
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: a year ago. Their starting quarterback on that day was
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Hannah McKee. You know who wouldn't have missed that wide
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: open throw like Josh Allen did at the end of that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Oh Tanner, Wow, one of.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: The best backup quarterbacks in the NFL when he's come in.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at that statuesque quarterback back there. He
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: can see over the line of scrimmage. You don't have
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: any of those sorts of problems. He's really good in
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: terms of his decision making an okay athlete, But it's
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: more about the timing and the accuracy, and whether it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: been preseason or regular season or some fill in play
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: like you're seeing here against the Raider. He can run
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: that offense, and I think it's a good enough team
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: that even their backups are better than the Commander's starters.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: This is the height of disrespect that.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: You can mem us away when the Eagles aren't even
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: really trying to win this game.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Are the Commanders trying to win it?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Though?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I mean they're trying to win as much as they've
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: won all year, But you're right, Josh Johnson probably starting
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: a quarterback, but.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: They're so banged up too. I don't think there's going
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: to be like play your hardest, get hurt.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Top to bottom.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Everybody's trying hard. Yeah, here on game Dave, you let's
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: look at the af seed number one seed clinching scenarios.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: The Broncos win, they've got it. If the Patriots win,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: they need Denver to lose. And if the Jags win,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they need losses by both other teams, the Broncos and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. So let's talk about that first game,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Chargers Broncos. Denver could lock in the AFC playoffs home
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: opportunity all the way through, all the way and told
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. The Bolts planning to rest Justin Herbert,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: But Denver's kind of been struggling lately, Greg, how do
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you see things going.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Kind of struggling is maybe overstadian a little bit, and
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: they're not going to be struggling after this Sunday. It's
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: going to be Denver winning big. Thirty one to seventeen
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: in terms of the number. This is one of my
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: favorite picks of the week because I don't think Trey
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Lance and this Chargers offensive line have enough firepower to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: hold up over sixty minutes. Now, Trey Lance maybe is
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: the backup version of Justin Herbert in that I think
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: he can make a very faulty offensive line look better,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: put out some good film, and ultimately help his NFL
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: career because he looked good in the preseason and when
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: he stepped in there, it looks like a different Tray Lance.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Jim Harba is a great guy to have in your
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: corner if you're a quarterback. The problem is, we've seen
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: these Chargers starters on the offensive line.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine what the backups are going to look like?
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And you're gonna be playing a Broncos team that needs
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: this win to get the one seed. Last year in
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: a similar spot, the Broncos beat the Chiefs backups thirty
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: eight to nothing. So I think they know how to
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: beat another team's backups in the division.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: We have exactly the same margin. I oh wow, twenty
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: seven to thirteen. So you're fourteen points right? Yeah, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: thought that's what you had. Anyways, I do want to
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: talk about that Denver defense for a second, because you
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: talked about what happens against backups. I think that the
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: number could be lower in terms of the number of
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: points scored for the Chargers. I don't think the Broncos
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: will take their foot off of the gas. You were
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: absolutely right, But I don't think that this defensive front
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: is sitting here being like they need to get it
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: back and feeling good like that lost of the Jags
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: probably made him feel a little wonky. But I think
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: when you're looking at going forward, it's like, all right,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: let's get vance. Joseph wants a job, and how do
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: you get a job. You go out there and you
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: show everybody how you take care of business, and they
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: can take.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Care of that business and show everybody. But then I
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: think the game continues and maybe the Chargers get some
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: garbage time opportunities. I think the trade lands disrespect has
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: gone too far. I've got a three point Broncos win,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: some late scores, and I think a lot of the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: game goes to RJ. Harvey and it's a drawn out
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: slug fest where the Broncos get a lead and they
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: try to sit on it. Maybe there's some hilarity late
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: where the Chargers score, but it's a lot of points
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in the division. But I do think that the Broncos
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: win and lock up that number one seed. But how
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: about a guy who's caught thirty nine passes out of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the backfield. He's number four in that season long hasn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: even started the whole season, So congratulations is a great
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: rookie year for RJ. Harvey. The game expected to be
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: one of the lowest scored scoring games of the week
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: according to our friends at Caesars. Look at the rest
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: as the Packers and the Vikings leading the way. Thirty
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: five total is especially some Clayton toone going up against
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Brian Flores's defense in that one. Bringing us to the
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• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Let's make some quick picks here on game debut. The
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Dolphins and the Patriots New England could get the number
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: one seed with a win in a Broncos loss to
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Trey Lanthony Chargers. Does Mike Brabels take care of their
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: side of that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna win.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I think that number ten and a half is way
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: too big, but I think Drake may ultimately keeps that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: MVP campaign going with a good final performance. He is
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: first or second in all the following category success right
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: EPA for play QBR if you want to go over
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to ESPN anything you want complete like it's all happening.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Cynthia's making a face. I don't need the numbers to
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: tell me what my eyes tell me, which is a
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: second year quarterback is elevating all the players around him. Yes,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: he's got a great coaching staff and a bunch of
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: teammates are underrated, but that protection has not been good,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: and he's making veterans play better.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: He's making better in some money.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Your eye is also looking at the numbers, though, so
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: we shout out to Greg's eido better. They tell them
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: some things. The Jags and the Titans. Jacksonville quinches the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: AFC South with a win. They need some other people
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to lose for the other thing to happen. But should
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: they be on upset alert here?
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: No, Oh, I have a thirty to eighteen win for Jacksonville.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about Travis dten because it's so
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: interesting to show how the O line really works with
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the run game. In the case of the Jags, started
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: off strong with the run game, then the O line
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: took a little dip, then they figured some things out,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: made some adjustments, then Trevor Lawrence started passing bet. But
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the point is is all of the things working together
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: are a really good reason why. It would be hard
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: pressed for me to imagine. Maybe it's preable, but I
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: think Liam Gohen wins Coach of the Year move the
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: way he's made the adjustments and now taking a team
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: who nobody thought would win the division and here we go,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: we all have them winning the division.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I think it's Caps fanning And if the forty nine
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: ers went on maybe.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, if it's not one of them, there's like
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: five who it could be in everyone else it's just
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: a big ridiculous thing.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Whatever. Yeah, we got a full AFC South week here
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: in Week eighteen, the Colts taking on the Texans. Houston
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: still has a shot at winning the AFC South. Riley
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Leonard is gonna start and I would like to talk
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: about this game, but Greg's score is bananas.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: So what is it?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: It's twenty to four. And when you look at twenty to.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Four and you're watching two safeties the videos, well, I'm
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: glad you asked that question.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: It is not two safeties.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Actually, for the first time in the history of the NFL,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: we're gonna have a one point two point conversion.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: So how the Colts get to three to four points?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: They get the field goal.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, but the Texans, who only have twenty, they go
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: for two at one point and someone runs it back.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: No, what happens is like there's there's a bat snap.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: No, you intercept the ball, you're coming out of the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: end zone. Then it gets knocked back into the end
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: zone and you fall on the ball.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, you get one point.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: That is like next level exception of the rules.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Two safeties as possible. It's one or the other two safeties.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: That was Darren Henry, by the way, and Kamari Lassiter
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: and Jalen pe Free.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: They could all be all pros on the same team.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna go with the ninety nine
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: yard bad snap. Somebody gets tackled in their own in zone. Folks,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: it's so confused. You get all kinds of things here.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: On game debut, Party takes the snap, he turns play
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: action bootleg left. He's looking, he's looking.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: He pumps.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Now, he's backpedaling. Now he touched the ball away.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: He's gonna run.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: Now he's gonna throw payos check for the touchdown. Touchdown
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: forty nine Ers and Dog Beauty and the forty nine
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: ers are back in front and Brock is doing the
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: donkey again.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: What an absolute playground party play time for more or
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: less here on game debut. We've got some monster matchups
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: with huge playoff implications this weekend, so let's talk to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: player props. In the biggest one, the Seahawks and the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Niners on Saturday Night, Cynthia, we'll see MC have more
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: or less than one hundred and twelve total yards from
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: script total total, not just rushing, just total.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: However, yards from scrimmage more.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't actually care who this is against. The
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: defense is really good for the Seahawks. But there's something
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: about Christian McCaffrey who should be the league's MVP. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to stop saying that because no one
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: will ever want and I don't have a frickin vote,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: But if I did have a vote, that's who I
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: would vote for, because no other team has created more
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: of a wind share for their team this year than
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey. But for him, the Niners wouldn't be in
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: this position.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: So Christian McCaffrey's gonna have more than that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Let's go look at who might get more maybe votes
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: than see. I'm seeing Jackson Smith and jig but one
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: hundred receiving yards does he get there?
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Well, let me check my note out there we got Sorry,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to use these hands.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Let's go more for Asn. Why not?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: It's the final week of the season and his transformation
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: into a guy that does not just work the deeper
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: parts of the field, but you can absolutely use him
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: over the middle like this. Tough catches tougher than people think.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: This is where the weakness for the forty nine ers
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: offense is. I think they're not going to get greedy
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: timing routes. It's a lot of tens and twelves and
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: fourteens and JSM goes more.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would use the green one because the green
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: one has a thumb and none imposable thumbs is what
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: makes us intrinsically human. Brock Party has been on fire.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Will he go for over two hundred and forty four
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: passing yards in this game? I believe that he will
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: because I think the forty nine ers might need to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: throw a little bit. Maybe thisvolves into one of those
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: score fests like the one that they've had. Oh, I
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: don't know what feels like every single game they've played
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: this season, especially after Fred Warner and though the defense
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: gets hurt. So yeah, I've got more. We got more
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: on everything here in this game, it's expected to be
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: one of the highest scoring games of the week. Why
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: don't we take a look at the highest totals for
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Week eighteen and it is the end of an era
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: with a number sitting at forty four. The Cincinnati Bengals
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: are not on this graphic, but the Dallas Cowboys are
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: there at the top fifty one and a half. As
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: we get to some quick picks here on game debut,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the Jets and the Bills Buffalo currently the seventh seed
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: in the AFC. They could rest some starters, do they
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: rest some starters? Are gonna win as well? Greg?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Absolutely? Oh no, that Bills win this game. Easy. I
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: misunderstood the question.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: The Bills backups and Mitch Trubisky probably enter the game
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: at some point. Josh Allen's gonna want to start. But
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: the big story here, it's the last game at the Rose.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: He's not suiting up.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: But just think of all the incredible NFL moments that
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: have happened at this stadium. Some great like this Frank
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  Speaker 3: Reich comeback, the greatest in postseason history. Just I can't
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  Speaker 3: imagine a situation that crowd is gonna be insane.
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  Speaker 4: You could put anyone in this game for.
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  Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills, and let's be real, their backups I
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: think are more talented and more cohesive and more well
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  Speaker 3: coached than the Jets. Anyways, they're gonna win this game.
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  Speaker 3: The emotion is gonna be electric there. And yeah, some
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  Speaker 3: great moments in history of Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: All right, the Raiders in this, like Jim Kelly's playing right,
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's coming back there, Chiefs and Raiders. I do expect
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  Speaker 2: a big part of Bill's history to be there. But
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  Speaker 2: the Vegas loss would lock them into the number one
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  Speaker 2: overall pick. Do they get the loss that they so
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  Speaker 2: desperately deserve.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think anyone wants to win this game. It's
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: not good for Kansas City either, because they could go
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: from like eight to twelve based on some things happening.
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  Speaker 5: I do have them winning nineteen to eighteen, a real
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  Speaker 5: barn burner for us all. I'm curious to see how
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  Speaker 5: Ashton gent will fare in this one. I believe that
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: building around him is going to be a focal point
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: for this regime or whatever regime is their next going forward,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: So evaluating the old line, evaluating who should still be there,
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: kind of building around Ashton genty, a guy they spent
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: so much more in terms of draft capital, that's going
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: to be a big focal point. No, Max Crosby, this
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  Speaker 5: one too. Will also let them evaluate just every single position.
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  Speaker 5: So I think this is a good learning experience. But
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  Speaker 5: I think Kansasity, I'll look at us one point for
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: me and Greg and Lee for Patrick. You've got them crushing.
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  Speaker 4: We do not like a lot of points, No, we don't.
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  Speaker 5: We don't like points.
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  Speaker 2: And barn burner an appropriate analogy because the phrase originated
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  Speaker 2: with the folks desired to burn an institution in order
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: to fit small problems like somebody lighting a barn on
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: fire to get rid of rats. The Bengals and the Browns.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Cleveland upset the Steelers last week, while since he has
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: won two games in a row the Battle for Ohio,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I've got the Bengals winning twenty three to twenty. But
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Miles Geartt. He's been limited
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  Speaker 2: to a half a sack in his last two games
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  Speaker 2: on sixty one pass rushes. He's been chipped or double
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: teamed on twenty six of those pass rushes, famously one
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: away from the all time single season just kidding sacks
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: in the season where his compensation was a huge discussion.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: In terms of.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Guarantees, he's number seventeen in the NFL. Fourteen players of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: those ahead of him play quarterback. Every single one of
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: them that Miles Garrett has played this season, he's sacked.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: All due respect to prime Time, the Minister of the Defense,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald, and yes, Greg jj Watt, Miles Garrett the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: best I've seen play defense.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine how many sacks he would have if you run
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: a team that was playing.
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  Speaker 4: With the lead.
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  Speaker 2: It would be a lot more.
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  Speaker 4: He's done it in a lot fewer snaps.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why I don't want to hear anything about
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the SAT teams week, and he's gotta get it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: So about the number of games, unless, of course, you
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: play football, which you probably should be complaining about the
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: number of Dames is. Don't look now, but Saints Falcons
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: is one of the best games of the week. Both
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: teams are on heaters. Tyler Shuck might be legit and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: if Atlanta wins, the Panthers are going to the playoffs
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: no matter what happens on Saturday. How bananas is that? All?
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  Speaker 1: That?
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  Speaker 2: More? Coming up on game Debut. Next back on game
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  Speaker 2: and Every Day. We asked co Pilot to pick the
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  Speaker 2: one player that could flip the momentum of the Saints
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  Speaker 2: Falcons game, and co Pilot went with quarterback Tyler Shuck.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Mentions that the Saints offense has served with the rookie
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: under center, jumping to twenty seven point one point per
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: game over the last three weeks. Shuck has also been
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: successful in its downfield passing Saints and Falcons suddenly becomes interesting.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Atlanta shocked the Rams Monday night. While the Saints have
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: won four straight. If Atlanta wins, it would clinch the
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: NFC South for Carolina. So who gets the win here
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: or something?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Atlanta gets the win twenty three to twenty one,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: which therefore means that the Panthers go to the playoffs.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: So that's interesting. I just want to take a moment
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: talk about Bjon Robinson because what he did on a
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: really amazing game against the Rams in primetime. It just
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: goes to show that sometimes everything you know about football
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: can be wrong. Because we all thought that, not that
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: he wouldn't have a good game, but we thought that
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: the Rams would easily win this game, and they proved
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: us wrong. And part of that was because Jon Robinson
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: just totally took control of this game in many ways
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: the same he has in other games that maybe weren't
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: on in primetime or potentially the defense. I don't care,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: but we maybe we need to give him a little
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: bit more love than we have been.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, significantly in terms of the MVP conversation and all that.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Winning goes into a whole lot, but there's only so
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: much you can do in a game where there's twenty
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: two guys on the field. I got the Falcons as
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: well twenty four to nineteen, just off of the surge
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: that has been the Falcons franchise once they've essentially been eliminated.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: But look at what the defense was able to do
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: against Matthew Stafford, where Jesse Bates got back to his
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: turnover producing ways. Xavier Watts looked good in that game
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: where I know Tyler Shuck has been gifted. But the
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: opportunity for Kirk Cousins to turn around and handleball and
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: John Robbinson potentially get a touchdown and any give him
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: play not the same opportunity for Tyler Shuck from the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Saints offense games in Atlanta. I've got Atlanta here, great.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I've got Atlanta too, But it's more about the spectacle.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: This is the greatest rivalry in the NFL. The fans
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: truly hate each other. The NFC South is so stupid
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: as a division, and they're going to reach peaks stupidity
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: on Sunday when these two teams are playing by proxy
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: to decide a division championship that neither one of them
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: can win.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: It's the most Falcon Saints thing ever. And in the
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: middle of it there's all these great stories.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Can Tyler Schuck get into the offseason on a big
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: winning streak and win Offensive Rookie of the Year.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: I don't care how well he plays in this game.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think you should win Offensive Rookie of the Year.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I've only played half the season. It's stupid. That's just
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: give you a.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Word to t mac or Harrold Fannon or someone else.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I think it's a stupid idea. Rahie Morris is trying
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: to save his job.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Night.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: We'll see if they lost a bad game for the Saints,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: that could leave a bad impression. And man, I just
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: want the Bucks to win on Saturday to just set
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: up the situation where like Jason Light and the Bucks
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: are rooting for this Saints team that he was trash
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: talking on.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Twitter earlier in the season.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: It's just a strange, messy division and if you love
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: mess ahead of the sea something.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, perhaps these these NFL postseason awards are logically inconsistent.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Get some more quick picks here. On game debut, the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Cardinals and rams La was shocked Monday night in Atlanta.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: The Sean mcvay's teams bounce back.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: For they do.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Sean McVay says, they will play their starters in this game.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Now do they play all four quarters?
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: We'll find out.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Their running game will get it done no matter who
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: is back there. They're really well coached, so you can
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: only bench so many guys on the offensive line. You
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: only have so many guys who are even available to
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: play for you. So Kyrin Williams, Blake corm maybe they
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: get some carries in this game. I could see a
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: big Ronnie Rivers game. This Cardinals defense. Their season actually
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: ended a month ago. They just didn't tell anyone. They're
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: just giving up forty points a week.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Team last one the Packers and the Surgeon Vikings. Green
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Bay locked into the seventh seed. They could be resting
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: some of you guys. How's it go?
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: I have green Bay keeping it very close, Minnesota only
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: winning by one nineteen. I just didn't think we could
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: get through this entire show and not talk about how
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: much whch money. Malik Willis made himself in for a
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: good reason last week. When I'm looking at the opportunity
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: in the offseason for teams to find quarterbacks, the fact
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: that Philip Rivers was playing this year tells you that
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: there aren't thirty two qualified people to do that in
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: the world. So I'm looking forward to what happens next
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: year for Malik Willis, a guy who kind of rehabbed
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: a situation, got into a better really put some good
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: film on tape here, and I just want to give
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: him some credit because it's not easy in that situation,
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: and he made it look easy.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: So there we go.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Milik Willis. To go to the Cowboys and Giants,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Dak versus Dart. I've got the Cowboys winning twenty four
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: to twenty two and something. If you would like to
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: talk about somebody who has changed scenery, improved his circumstances,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: and may see a significant financial boost, why don't we
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: introduce one. George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys having a
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: spectacular season, has more yards getting slants than anybody in
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: the NFL. But it's not just slams. It's the full
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: route tree. We've seen them everywhere on the field, and
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: despite one unfortunate Thursday night, George Pickens has played very
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: well all He's looking forward to what his coming.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: That last highlights onone's cell phone camera real shicky.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes there's a lot going on the field.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Georgth Pickett's doing a lot of stuff. Maybe he actually
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: filmed that somehow because he doesn't run on the football field.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: When we come back as time for write this down,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: it's our favorite player prop for week sixteen. Don't forget
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys trying to get some bonus incentives
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: this weekend. So it's gonna be spicy, won't We have
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: a lineman.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Getting in that's it. No no, no is Cody Ford
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: over half a yard.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, write this down when we come back on game debut.
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: Here's the snap out of the gun play action fake
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: pastapro got Kowski. He's gonna score a touchdown, touchdown Tampa Bay,
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: Holy Groca Boli.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: He breaks the record.
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: He's got his twenty third touchdown of the postseason from
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: Tom Brady.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Here's the snap, Mahomes running to his right. Lookout. He
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: may run Mahomes directory.
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: Battle ticked off the end zone box.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Are gonna beat the Chief.
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: Bucks Win, Bucks, Win, Bucks, win the Super Bowl fifty five,
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: and then a cannon cannon fire them, keep on firing them,
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: keep on firing them. Celebrate Buccaneer farsist that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Lombardi get a chance to call two Buccaneers super Bowls
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: over the thirty seven years he's been calling games with
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the team. For gratulations to a great career for Gene Deckerhoff,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: leading us in to write this down as we get
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to our favorite player prop predictions for week eighteen.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Want to start force until week eighteen is an opportunity.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: You might see confusion, I see clarity, and I see
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Ray Davis, a guy we've never mentioned on this show
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills third string running back going over twenty
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: nine and a half rushing yards. Do you think they
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: want to use James Cook in this game against the Jets.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: But do you think they're gonna lose? No, They're gonna
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: run the ball all over the Jets. Forget twenty nine
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: and a half. I could jack that up to about
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: eighty nine and a half. It's gonna be the Ray
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Davis game. He covers this thing easy.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, So you got to the our producer before us.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: So mine is a Derreck Henry touchdown against the Steelers.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Seems very likely to happy. I also wanted to add
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: an Aj Barner over thirty seven receiving yards because you
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: know the barnyard Dog is our favorite player on this show,
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: So add the little bonus.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I am on a struggle BLUs right now. We'll write
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: this down. We're six total yards, keeping me for my
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: last two weeks and being successful, and write this down.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: But I believe in Zach Sharbonek going over forty two
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: rushing yards against the forty nine Ers Sunday out the
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: out game, Kenneth Walker last week. He's done it a
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: few times this season. Greg shaking his head.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Well, that's because I had Kenneth Walker last week and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: he came off a few yards short.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I took it. That's right. Church rong pew. We're
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: back back around.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: We're back to faith.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: The universe loves you all.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: All I'm saying is you watch Derrick Henry running down
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: the field in a big time game, and you will
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: believe greater than yourself.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Derrick Henry is greater than me.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: And Pat more power. I can't wait for this game.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: It's great to be spending time with all of you guys.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Hopefully your New Years great. Thanks for watching game debut
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: for Cynthia and Greg on Patrick, We'll see you next time.
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