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Soaring Josh Allen, Falling Kirk Cousins, and the NFC Playoff Picture: Good Morning Football Selects · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
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  Speaker 2: We got quite a quandary, don't we. This is a
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  Speaker 2: pickle if you're the chiefs, how do you handle the
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  Speaker 2: next few games? So you want the one seed? It's
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  Speaker 2: very important. That means you get an extra week and
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  Speaker 2: they get a buy when none of the other teams
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  Speaker 2: do and they got to beat up on each other.
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  Speaker 2: You want that one seed. But I think more important
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  Speaker 2: than the one seed is Patrick Mahomes's health for that
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  Speaker 2: playoff run. So do you sacrifice Mahomes for a couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks here if you have to, and then maybe sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: giving up that one seed. That's the question they're having.
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes is waking up right now. It's eight am on
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  Speaker 2: the Central Time. His ankle could be a giant balloon, swelled.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know, could be swollen. It could be fine.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get deep tales in the next couple hours. I
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  Speaker 2: look at the schedule and they play Saturday, so short
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  Speaker 2: week against the Houston Texans. Can Carson Wentz go and
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  Speaker 2: beat the Houston Texans that home? Can they get that
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  Speaker 2: job done? Then? In four days? Four days from Saturday
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  Speaker 2: to Wednesday, they have to go play the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: If I were to tell you that Patrick Mahomes could
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  Speaker 2: have the next two full weeks off, let this thing heal,
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  Speaker 2: and then finish up in week eighteen and then go
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  Speaker 2: have a bye week, have another week and then play
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Think you would sign up for that.
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  Speaker 2: But do you sacrifice that if you give up the
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  Speaker 2: one seat to the Bills. Remember they lost to the Bills.
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  Speaker 2: They are only losses to the Bills, So though they
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  Speaker 2: have a two game advantage over the Bills in the standings,
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  Speaker 2: it's really just a one game advantage. You have to
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  Speaker 2: win two of the next three to secure that buy
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  Speaker 2: Can you do it without Mahomes? That's the question. And
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  Speaker 2: what a gut gut wrenching deal that would be for
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  Speaker 2: Netflix in the NFL if it's Carson Wentz and the Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that right now, the NFL and
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  Speaker 2: Netflix are not looking to see Carson Wentz on there.
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  Speaker 2: So do you rest them this week, maybe lose, and
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  Speaker 2: then start them against Pittsburgh and you get your Christmas
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  Speaker 2: game and you get your Mahomes and you get all that,
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  Speaker 2: Or do you play it really safe and potentially have
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  Speaker 2: this situation on Christmas where it's Carson Wentz to not Mahomes,
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  Speaker 2: not the Chiefs problem, folks, not the Chiefs problem at all.
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  Speaker 2: They're worried about Lombardi's not about satisfying everyone else. And
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  Speaker 2: it's almost like you need to take out a calculator
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  Speaker 2: and an advocates and kind of do the math here
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  Speaker 2: and see, because if they had one more win or
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  Speaker 2: the Bills had one less win, then you could just
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  Speaker 2: rest them and like we're good, We're fine. They need
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  Speaker 2: to win two the next three to confirm that they
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  Speaker 2: are going to still be the number one seed to
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  Speaker 2: the next three. However, their next three games involve the Texans,
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers, and the Broncos, three teams that are all
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  Speaker 2: going to be playing their hearts out to try to
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  Speaker 2: get into the playoffs or try to solidify where they
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  Speaker 2: are in the playoff field. So what do you do
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  Speaker 2: with Mahomes? What was a full participant yesterday, but he
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  Speaker 2: even said it, He's like, you don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: yourself in harm's way. You don't want to do anything
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  Speaker 2: to get in the way of the team. And if
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there in the pocket and I'm not moving.
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  Speaker 2: That could be harmful. The Texans have the second most
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  Speaker 2: sacks in the league. They have this great defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a short week. I would think you give
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  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz the start this week. Let's just say you
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  Speaker 2: go with Wentz, all right, and you put Wents in,
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  Speaker 2: and Wentz says, well enough, whether you win or lose,
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  Speaker 2: they are home. It's not like they can they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: fall apart and lose thirty one to three. Here. They
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  Speaker 2: still have one of the best defense in the league,
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  Speaker 2: and Wentz has played in this league. Then you have
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  Speaker 2: a four day rest to prepare for another game. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you win, you bench Mahomes the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the way. If you can beat the Texans with
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes out, you bench them and you let Wentz
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  Speaker 2: go Christmas, and you let Wentz go Denver and we
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  Speaker 2: figure it out from there. If you lose and Buffalo,
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  Speaker 2: of course wins against the Patriots, well then you're one
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  Speaker 2: more loss away from losing that home seat. I think
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  Speaker 2: the focus right now should be on Christmas, and do
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  Speaker 2: you play Mahomes on Christmas? And I think you have
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  Speaker 2: to play him if you lose this weekend. So that's
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  Speaker 2: how I would manage it. I would go with Wentz.
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  Speaker 2: I would give it my all. I would try to
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  Speaker 2: win with Wentz and if you win, Pat enjoy your Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry Netflix, Sorry NFL. It's a really weird conversation, but
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  Speaker 2: like that's what I would do. And then if you lose,
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  Speaker 2: it's like mahomes ice it up, shoot it up, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do. Roll it out there. We're playing. We
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  Speaker 2: got to win this game against it. Josh Allen is
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  Speaker 2: Superman right now, and I want us to appreciate what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing, how he's getting better as the weeks are
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  Speaker 2: going on. He is your MVP. We made a faint
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  Speaker 2: attempt and a good effort back when the Eagles beat
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  Speaker 2: the Rams on a Sunday night and say one out
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  Speaker 2: three under scrimmage yards to say this could be Saquon's ord.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. It's Josh Allen. It's over. It's done. Put
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  Speaker 2: it in bed. We'll see an NFL honors on. We
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  Speaker 2: won't because you'll be preparing for the super Bowl in
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  Speaker 2: two days. Alan. In addition to all the fourteen total
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns in the last three games, guys, he's only thrown five
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  Speaker 2: interceptions the whole season. He's been great with the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Last night was a master piece. The two handed touch
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  Speaker 2: pass that was taken back. All the stuff was great.
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  Speaker 2: I looked at the athletic this morning. I give a
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  Speaker 2: read to that every Monday morning. Let's go around Ty
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  Speaker 2: Johnson in the locker room. He's mythical Dawson Knox. I'm
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  Speaker 2: simply a fan. And yet I go back to July.
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  Speaker 2: I go back to July on this show, and I
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  Speaker 2: was throwing a hysterical fit that Patrick Mahomes wasn't voted
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  Speaker 2: the number one player on the NFL Top I remember
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  Speaker 2: on Hysterical Mahomes was voted fourth or third and Tyreek
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  Speaker 2: Hill was one, and I thought that was the most
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  Speaker 2: ludicrous thing in the world. Do you know where Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen finished this year in the top one hundred from
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  Speaker 2: the NFL network's top one hundred players. We didn't even
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  Speaker 2: include him in the top ten. I say, we the
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  Speaker 2: NFL players vote on it, but we had a network
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  Speaker 2: to put it on. And there wasn't hysteria, there wasn't
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  Speaker 2: mass outrage. I threw a fit through a fit when
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes was given the indignity of number four. Josh Allen
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  Speaker 2: was voted number twelve this year going in so don't
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  Speaker 2: act like this, says, oh, well, this was the prince
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  Speaker 2: to be promised. And Josh, what we're seeing right now
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  Speaker 2: is not only a historic season from Josh Allen as
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. No Bills quarterback has
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  Speaker 2: ever done this, but it's also one that is slightly unexpected.
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  Speaker 2: And he has taken the league by storm. And this
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  Speaker 2: happens to be the same year where he lost Stefon
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  Speaker 2: Diggs and lost Gabe Davis, and I believe it is
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  Speaker 2: a audition by subtraction. The way he's playing so free
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  Speaker 2: and the way that so many people are eating on
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  Speaker 2: that field. Philly as we're watching Detroit and Buffalo and
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  Speaker 2: we're doing the Hao, Philly will just beat the crap
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  Speaker 2: at you and they're gonna get you in a in
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  Speaker 2: a phone booth and they're gonna punch you in the face.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, now, try to leave the phone booth.
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  Speaker 2: You can't. That's how they win. And it's like, what's
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  Speaker 2: a phone? After reading the Yellow Pages, this is like
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  Speaker 2: the toughest team inside the Steelers. You're talking Cam Hayward
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  Speaker 2: and TJ. Watt and all those big boys and Hi
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  Speaker 2: and they just beat him up yesterday and and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to get twisted. This was a very close
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  Speaker 2: game at one point, and Cooper Dejan had a bad fumble,
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  Speaker 2: Hurts made a mistake early and like the Eagles were
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  Speaker 2: able to dig out of it. But this whole against
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  Speaker 2: I can't really get around this hole. It's us against
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  Speaker 2: the world thing like AJ Brown, you're the one who
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  Speaker 2: said what you said last week. And then Brandon Graham
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  Speaker 2: is a teammate of viewers, He's the one who made
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  Speaker 2: it a national story. We the media didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: And then just as we want to do the whole
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  Speaker 2: it's us against the world, we're gonna galvanize. What's the
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  Speaker 2: clip we have this morning. This is Clin Hurt, the
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  Speaker 2: defensive line coach and Nick Sirianni. Sirianni wanted to talk
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  Speaker 2: to Jalen Carter and Dom's involved and like keep your distance, coach,
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  Speaker 2: like we're good. Those are two coaches having words like
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  Speaker 2: we're not the ones doing this Philly, Like this isn't us,
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  Speaker 2: We're not the ones who are who are making this happen,
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  Speaker 2: Like the cameras caught it, but there's gonna be more
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  Speaker 2: questions on that, and that's gonna be a story this week,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that feeds and fieldsy But like, I like
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  Speaker 2: this Eagles team a lot because they play a different
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  Speaker 2: style than the rest of these you know, Star Wars
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  Speaker 2: teams that just throw the ball up in the air,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that really works in January. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure I can do the whole it's Us against the
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  Speaker 2: World thing because I'm watching it in real time that
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  Speaker 2: there definitely seems to be some sort of interfire and
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  Speaker 2: conflict during these games and after these games, and then
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  Speaker 2: maybe they use that to motivate. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens with that story with Sirianni and
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  Speaker 2: a great defensive line coach, because I didn't make that happen,
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  Speaker 2: and I know my colleagues on the show didn't. Necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do it. Yeah, I know that promintly, Mike
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  Speaker 2: Evans is going to cat and he had my game
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  Speaker 2: ball for it. Yes, Today Mike Evans was unbelievable one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty nine yards, nine catches, two touchdowns as
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  Speaker 2: the Buccaneers absolutely blow out the Chargers. Evans absolute baller.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what he's done here most seasons with one
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  Speaker 2: thousand receiving yards fourteen for Jerry Rights Evan the second
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  Speaker 2: Tyraebouth and guess what he just needs two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty one receiving yards well the last three games averaging
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  Speaker 2: eighty four yards per game to get it for the
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  Speaker 2: eleventh time, and that would be every season of his
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  Speaker 2: NFL career. Mike Evans, you balled out when they needed
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  Speaker 2: your most. You always do. This has been with Jamis,
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  Speaker 2: this has been with McCown, this has been with Brady,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's with Baker. We see you, Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 2: I have the utmost respect, especially coming off the injury
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  Speaker 2: the way he has. Yeah, I look at the Packers
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  Speaker 2: and they just dominated Seattle in Seattle, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: good win for the Packers. It's a horrible loss for
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks and they started off so slow, even when
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  Speaker 2: Gino Smith was healthy. They were down fourteen to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And then I look at that NFC West, this is
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  Speaker 2: the Rams division to lose. Now, Rams remaining schedule at
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  Speaker 2: the Jets has to be a win. Can't drop the
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  Speaker 2: ball there. I know that Rogers looked good yesterday, and
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  Speaker 2: then home against the Cardinals, who have not looked wonderful
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  Speaker 2: this month, and then home against the Seahawks. The Rams
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  Speaker 2: a team that we all rode off. We thought after
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  Speaker 2: that Miami Monday night loss and after the Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: loss to Philly, and of course we know they lost
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  Speaker 2: to the Bears in Chicago this year. Didn't look like
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: they had it in the carts. But they are now
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  Speaker 2: seven and two. When Cooper Cup and Poka Nakua are
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  Speaker 2: in the lineup and healthy, the Rams to me stand
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  Speaker 2: out as one of those teams in the wildcard. If
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  Speaker 2: they get there as a division winner, well, they have
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  Speaker 2: a home playoff game. I don't know, if I'm Philly
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  Speaker 2: in Detroit if I would love seeing the Rams in
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  Speaker 2: the second round or Minnesota. I hit to insult Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see the Rams coming to town
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  Speaker 2: the second week of the playoffs. That's not a team
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  Speaker 2: I want to see the divisional round where the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl winning quarterback in Super Bowl winning coach. All right,
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: it's Schrager's Fab five. We give the top five rookie
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  Speaker 2: performances of the week some love. It was a really
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  Speaker 2: interesting week with a lot of great performances, but how
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  Speaker 2: do we stack them up. We're gonna start off with
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  Speaker 2: number five. Down in Jacksonville for the second straight week,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior makes the list. They were up against
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: the Jets. They lost the game in dramatic fashion, but
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  Speaker 2: Thomas was awesome again. Ten catches, one five five receiving yards,
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  Speaker 2: two receiving touchdowns. Brian Thomas is becoming the Fantasy football
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  Speaker 2: like must start, maybe the most consistent receiver in the league.
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  Speaker 2: He's the sixth rookie in the first since Jamar Chase
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  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl era with ten catches, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: receiving yards, and two touchdown catches in a single game.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas is that dude. He's got sixty four catches,
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  Speaker 2: nearly one thousand receiving yards, and eight receiving touchdowns in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. That makes him third in receptions, second
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  Speaker 2: in receiving yards, and first in touchdowns among all rookies.
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  Speaker 2: Very rarely to put a guy from a losing team
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  Speaker 2: on here, and I'm telling you this guy is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a star. Number four. Welcome back to the list.
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  Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels, you got the win and that's why you're
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  Speaker 2: on here. You also had an outstanding first half of
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  Speaker 2: this game. Jayden Daniels came out and the New Orleans
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: Saints defense could not stop that Washington Commander's offense. He
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  Speaker 2: also had one of the cooler touchdown passes of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the broadcast where Kenny Albert and Jonathan
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  Speaker 2: Vilma were on the call.
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  Speaker 3: Actor backfield watch again, dad Us rookie Vin Tullis left
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  Speaker 3: all the crusher staveshnisteet turn down Joannis Corn for a
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  Speaker 3: touchdown by mcclura. Terry mccluord coming up big for Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, where is he throwing this football? I
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: thought this was one of those rookie mistakes and outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: Terry mclauurin with the touchdown twenty five of thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty six passing yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: also ran for sixty six yards. Jaden Daniels, He's like,
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  Speaker 2: don't give that offensive rookie of the year ward to
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  Speaker 2: Bowers or to Knicks just yet. I still can do it.
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  Speaker 2: The Commanders are firmly in that playoff picture. Let's take
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  Speaker 2: a midst here. If you want to see something cool
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: about comparison, say rookies with three thousand passing yards and
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  Speaker 2: five hundred rushing yards in a season. It's a short
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  Speaker 2: list guy. The other three guys all one offensive rookie
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  Speaker 2: of the year. Jaden's already done it. He's got three
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: more games to go. How far Handy go, We'll see
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  Speaker 2: he's having an outstanding rookie season. Number three, we go
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  Speaker 2: to the defensive side of the ball and we go
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  Speaker 2: to Sunday night. Who was the difference maker on the
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  Speaker 2: field and it was Packers linebacker Edderyn Cooper. Let's take
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  Speaker 2: a look at what Eddard Cooper did in this game.
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  Speaker 2: All over the field, seven tackles, a sack, and this
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  Speaker 2: key interception in this game of Geno Smith. He was
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  Speaker 2: all over the place. He's only the third rookie since
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  Speaker 2: twenty ten in a game to have a sack and
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  Speaker 2: an interception under the lights, prime time games.
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  Speaker 4: Unbelievable performance from Eddering Cooper number fifty six. He's been
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  Speaker 4: all over the field and he is on a rookie
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  Speaker 4: defense that also includes Evan Williams the safety, and they
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  Speaker 4: have so many other young guys on this roster.
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  Speaker 2: The youngest team in the NFL, the Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 2: They have just another guy, edgern Cooper doing the job.
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  Speaker 2: And yet he is in our highest rated defensive rookie
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: because there was a player in that Texans the Dolphins
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  Speaker 2: game who made maybe the play of the game. We're
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: talking about Houston Texan safety Kaylan Bullock. Kaylen Bullock's been
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  Speaker 2: outstanding all season. Let's go to Kevin Harlan for the
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  Speaker 2: call on Kaylan Bullock's big play in this one.
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  Speaker 5: Second and six Ikenberg a buy and it's picked up
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  Speaker 5: for the play breakdown, Big Bullock, here's time. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if you're gonna get him. Here comes at ten
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  Speaker 5: Burgos Bullock to the five. A huge defensial playing. I
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: love Kaylan Bullock all right. Third round pick out of
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  Speaker 5: Southern California. Okay, so big star, nickname super Glue.
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  Speaker 2: That what they call him, super Glue, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: he does. Here an awesome game here. He had all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of pass breakups, guys, six tackles, the big pass
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  Speaker 2: breakup interception return you saw, guys. He leads all rookies
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  Speaker 2: right now with interceptions. Super Glue's got five five picks
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  Speaker 2: for a rookie that's unheard of. Tarheb still is. For
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  Speaker 2: the course, We've given all these guys love throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: They've all been on this This is Calin Bullock's first
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  Speaker 2: time on the list. He's going to be playing Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against the Kansas City Chiefs where he can maybe intercept
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  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz. All right, let's see, I could be Mahomes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll get to that number one though.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to our rookie of the week, the number
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  Speaker 2: one player on a team that put up five hundred
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  Speaker 2: yards of offense, two hundred yards rushing and absolutely demoralized
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  Speaker 2: the number one defense in the league. Our number one
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: rookie for Week fifteen is Bucky the Duck. Let's see
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Bucky Irvy highlights. Bucky Irvy seven fantastic yet again, guys
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  Speaker 2: fifteen carries one hundred and seventeen yard dash to the
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Chargers defense. The Bucks are four and oh. When Irving
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: gets one hundred rushing yards or more, that's just the
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  Speaker 2: truth of it. When they rush this guy, he wins.
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  Speaker 2: He leads all rookies with eight hundred and fifty two
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  Speaker 2: rushing yards. He's got six rushing touchdowns. Guys, his one
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight scrimit yards are the most
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  Speaker 2: bio rookie out of Oregon in the history of game.
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  Speaker 2: Think about all the rookies out of Oregon over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Number two Leagarrett Blunt, who also did it for the
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Number seven Bucket the Duck and Oregon Duck.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna go up against someone in the College Football
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  Speaker 2: Tournament in two weeks and we'll go down. We'll go
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  Speaker 2: big on it. But this is the list. If you
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  Speaker 2: had told me before the season started at this city
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  Speaker 2: the list for Week fifteen, I'd say, you're crazy. That
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  Speaker 2: is too eclectic, too weird, too random. That's what we get.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we do the list the Fab five. Every
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  Speaker 2: more Nay morning, we hand out the coach of the
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  Speaker 2: week who or it could be a head coach, could
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  Speaker 2: be an assistant, could be a coordinator. This week we
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  Speaker 2: go to Los Angeles, where the guy who really made
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  Speaker 2: his NFL resume, bolstered in Los Angeles for years under
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay, came back home and absolutely lit up the
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  Speaker 2: LA Chargers. Our coach of the week is Buccaneers offensive
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  Speaker 2: coordinator Liam.
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  Speaker 6: O'wellia the Bucks offense yesterday, I scored forty points, did
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  Speaker 6: not punt once, and racked up five hundred and six
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  Speaker 6: yards of offense on Jesse Minter's vaunted Chargers d Bucky
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  Speaker 6: Irving had one hundred and seventeen yards.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks ran for two hundred and twenty three yards,
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  Speaker 2: and they went nine to fifteen on third down. Baker
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  Speaker 2: Mayfield only had five incomplete passes and the team again
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  Speaker 2: did not punt. Liam Cohen, Remember Dave Knalis was the
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  Speaker 2: OC last year, he gets a head coaching job with Carolina.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: They hired Liam Cohen as the OC and Liam Cohen's
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  Speaker 2: team look at these numbers yesterday against a good Chargers
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  Speaker 2: defense in LA. What to say at bottom offeter zero punts?
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  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen, get to know his name well. It is
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  Speaker 2: going to start popping up in a lot of head
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  Speaker 2: coaching conversations over the next several weeks. I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you now makes a lot of sense with the Jets,
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense with the Saints, makes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense with the Bears, and it'll make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense with any team looking to get an
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  Speaker 2: offensive bump and some good quarterback coaching for their quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen. Of course with Stafford was that at Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: went back to la and then of course is now
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa. Liam Cohen, yes, the offensive coordinator of the
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  Speaker 2: Tambay Buccaneers, is our coach of the week. Two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: I reported on Fox NFL Kickoff two weeks ago with
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  Speaker 2: shock that despite not throwing a touchdown in three weeks
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  Speaker 2: or having all these interceptions, that Kirk Cousins still was
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  Speaker 2: getting number one reps and Michael Pennix wasn't being used.
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  Speaker 2: That was two weeks ago. Since then, they lost another
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  Speaker 2: bad game, and then they just got by a terrible
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  Speaker 2: Raiders team in a terrible game on Monday night where
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  Speaker 2: Cousins couldn't move. So you're looking at Kirk Cousins and
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: again this is like that you have to say this.
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  Speaker 2: We like Kirk Cousins. We all like Kirk Cousins. They
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: love Kirk Cousins. You saw the Vikings players and how
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: they responded to seeing Kirk Cousins two weeks ago. They
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: love Kirk Cousins. He's not able to play quarterback at
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the moment. I don't know if it's age. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's coming off the Achilles Not everyone's a miracle man
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  Speaker 2: and can get back. So what do we do now, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we could still salvage the season. There's three games less
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  Speaker 2: Michael Pennison. He hasn't had first team reps all year.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't seen the field very often, only in blowouts,
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  Speaker 2: so he hasn't even got in on spot. Dude, you're
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  Speaker 2: putting a lot of pressure on him to go and
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  Speaker 2: save the day, especially because they're behind Tampa in the standings.
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  Speaker 2: Long and short of it is, Kirk cousins time with
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta is likely done if he gets injured. Now they're
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  Speaker 2: on the hook for an extra you know, so on
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. They don't want to see him on the
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  Speaker 2: field because of all the guarantees, and you can't get
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  Speaker 2: him because of the injury stuff. He likely will not
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  Speaker 2: be on the Falcons after March because of what the
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: salary capstenuates. He could be traded, but he's got no
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  Speaker 2: trade clause, so it'd have to go to a place
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  Speaker 2: he wants to go to. Can't imagine a great team
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: is looking to trade for Kirk Cousins at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: which puts you in this thing where you're probably gonna
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: get cut, which means that the Falcons will have paid
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  Speaker 2: ninety million dollars to Kirk Cousins for fourteen weeks of
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: NFL action, and fourteen weeks that does not even have
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: them in the playoff position right now. One of the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: strangest situations we've seen with a veteran cour her back.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: But they're pulling the plug, and as financially committed as
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: they are, they might have been too financially committed, because
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  Speaker 2: I think the last two weeks, everyone watching at home
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and everyone around the league knew that Goose was cooked.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: It was probably time to go to Pennix then before
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the season's almost lost. As someone who travels every single
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: weekend during the football season and takes my little carry
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: on bag and my little backpack that says NFL media
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  Speaker 2: on it, and I go to the airport and I
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  Speaker 2: go to it, and I'm professional. I have my spots.
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  Speaker 2: I go in, I get, I get to my airport.
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  Speaker 2: I go to my little kiosk, I get my thing.
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  Speaker 2: I go I wait to get You're all amateurs, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I know you're coming. Just get out of my way.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I know you're coming. The airport from December twenty second
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: to January second, it is like it's like sodom and gomoor.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I want nothing to do with it. And it's just
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that's the world is melting, and everyone's the first time
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: they've ever been inside an airport. They have their three kids,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: they're all sick, they all have tissues. Then they get
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: on the plane and it's like the plane lands and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the guy sitting in thirty seventy and he sprints to
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  Speaker 2: the front and then his wife though, has her bag
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: all the way back, so she gotta go back to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It's amateur hour. I know New York's Eve is supposed
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to be amateur night, Amateur hour at the airport. Just
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: get out of the way. Just try to make this
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  Speaker 2: as easy and seamless as possible for everybody. I beg
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  Speaker 2: of you, Thank you.
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