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NFL Week 12 Preview: Who Are The NFL's Best Headed Into Thanksgiving? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to the Inside the Birds NFL Week
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Speaker 1: twelve preview.
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Speaker 2: That's Friday, Week twelve.
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Speaker 1: That means after we are through with this week, man,
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Speaker 1: we really hit the last quarter of the NFL schedule.
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Speaker 2: And I always talk about this time.
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Speaker 1: This is the last weekend of NFL action before Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: Then you're gonna get a bunch of games. By the
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Speaker 1: time you hear me on this next show, you'll already
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Speaker 1: have the Thanksgiving games down, and then you'll have the
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Speaker 1: Friday Black Friday game down. So by the time you
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Speaker 1: hear me next there will be a bunch of games
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Speaker 1: that will already have been played for the following week.
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Speaker 1: So I want to take this time in the episode.
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Speaker 1: I will go through all the games, but I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do it a little differently. I just want to talk
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Speaker 1: about where it's stands in the NFL right now, as
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Speaker 1: we head into the Thanksgiving we get of action, even
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Speaker 1: though there's still week twelve to go before that, and
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Speaker 1: I really want to discuss both the AFC and the NFC,
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Speaker 1: what they look like now and what I think they're
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Speaker 1: going to look like in a few weeks from now, because,
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Speaker 1: as I always say, Thanksgiving is the time where the
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Speaker 1: NFL cream of the crop starts to differentiate itself from
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Speaker 1: the rest of the league.
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Speaker 2: Is usually.
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Speaker 1: Two to four teams in each conference that you have
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Speaker 1: a very good feeling about that you understand will probably
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Speaker 1: be there in those late and mid January weekends when
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Speaker 1: they do the wildcard, Visional Round and conference championship. The
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Speaker 1: AFC is fascinating me because if you look at the
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Speaker 1: AFC right now, your top three seeds, all right, I
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Speaker 1: am not sure though, those are your three best teams
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Speaker 1: in then, and I'm quite sure that a team that
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Speaker 1: right now wouldn't even be in the playoffs could potentially
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Speaker 1: be one of the three best teams in the AFC.
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Speaker 1: So let's start looking at the ANC right now. The
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Speaker 1: number one team is the Broncos. They are nine to two.
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Speaker 1: They deserve it. They are an impressive, impressive team defensively.
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Speaker 1: They have flaws offensively, but their defense is so good
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Speaker 1: that it keeps them in games and they don't have
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Speaker 1: to rely all the time on their defense.
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Speaker 2: To save the day.
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Speaker 1: And then the offense can just make a couple of
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Speaker 1: plays here and there that it needs to make, and
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Speaker 1: it's not a bad offense. It's just an inconsistent one.
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Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, the Broncos remind me of
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. They are excellent defensively, they are sporadic offensively.
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Speaker 1: But when you look at their schedule and all their
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Speaker 1: good wins, and they've got plenty of good wins, usually
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Speaker 1: very close, very tight wins, including their win over the
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Speaker 1: Eagles of the Link back in Week five, that twenty
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Speaker 1: one to seventeen win, you know they've got. They do
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Speaker 1: have an impressive win over the Cowboys by twenty points,
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Speaker 1: but that to me is not as impressive or as
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Speaker 1: strong of a win. They beat the Chiefs last week,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, two weeks ago by three. They beat the
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Speaker 1: Texans by three. Texans are coming on. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: them in a second. They have a couple of blowouts.
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Speaker 1: But even in their two losses, all right, they've lost
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Speaker 1: to the Colts, who right now are the number two seed.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about them a second.
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Speaker 1: But they all lost to the Colts by one, and
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Speaker 1: that was really because of a leverage penalty on a
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Speaker 1: field goal that allowed the Colts to get better field
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Speaker 1: goal position and make the field goal to win the game.
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Speaker 1: So that was really a game that the Broncos had
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Speaker 1: in the bag and just lost it.
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Speaker 2: And then they lost the following week.
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Speaker 1: To the Chargers twenty three twenty where their offensive firepower
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Speaker 1: kind of did them or lack thereof did them in.
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Speaker 1: But they deserve to be the number one. The difference
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Speaker 1: I see.
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Speaker 2: Between the Broncos and the Eagles is the Broncos don't
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Speaker 2: have the firepower on offense.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason that they are sporadical offensively, unlike the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: who have been just trying to figure it out with
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Speaker 1: all the talent they have. Denver doesn't have a tremendous
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Speaker 1: amount of offensive talent, not nearly as much as the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: They have a good offensive line, good young Rooi running
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Speaker 1: backers getting a lot more play now because Dobbins being out.
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Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton is as good as a wide receiver as
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Speaker 1: any in the league. But after that, you know, second
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Speaker 1: year quarterback Knicks plays well at times, doesn't play well
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Speaker 1: at times, and then they really don't have a bunch
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Speaker 1: of true number two, number three, a great pass catching
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Speaker 1: tight end or anything like that. So they need that
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Speaker 1: defense to be excellent because there's a reason why offensively
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Speaker 1: they could be in and out. But you have to
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Speaker 1: give them credit. They played a lot of tough teams.
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Speaker 1: They're nine and two.
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Speaker 2: I won't quabble or quibble with.
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Speaker 1: Them being the number one seed. If you want to
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Speaker 1: tell me the Broncos the best team in the AFC,
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Speaker 1: I'll believe you. But maybe the distance between them and
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Speaker 1: the number two and number three isn't as wide as
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Speaker 1: you might see over in the NFC, which we'll get.
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Speaker 2: To do it a second.
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Speaker 1: The Broncos are the number one team right now in
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Speaker 1: the A of C I would put personally.
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Speaker 2: So here's here's how it looks right now.
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Speaker 1: If the playoffs started today, the Patriots are number two seed.
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Speaker 2: They're tied with the Broncos.
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Speaker 1: Nine and two. I just like the Broncos. The Patriots
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Speaker 1: have won I believe, seven straight games. They are on
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Speaker 1: quite a tear. They started off four and two I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: eight straight games. So now they're nine and two. Do
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Speaker 1: they have a bunch of impressive victories in there? No,
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Speaker 1: to be fair, even their win over the Bills, which
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Speaker 1: was a very landmark win for them as far as
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Speaker 1: really emerging earlier in the week five when they won
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Speaker 1: that game, that was their statement win.
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Speaker 2: It's a great win.
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Speaker 1: They didn't beat the Buccaneers weeks ago. Buccaneers were banged up.
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Speaker 1: That was a good game. But other than that, you
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Speaker 1: see a lot of Jets, Falcons, Browns, Titans, Saints. So
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Speaker 1: it's very fair to give them a lot of credit
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Speaker 1: and really appreciate how Drake May is playing, and appreciate
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Henderson coming along. Christian Gonzalez a very good corner.
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Speaker 1: Mike Frable has done an excellent job, probably a candidate
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Speaker 1: for Coach of the Year. I mean, it's been a
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Speaker 1: long time now since the Patriots have you know, since Honestly,
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Speaker 1: the Patriots have been irrelevant, franchised basically since Tom Brady left.
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Speaker 2: They're struggling to pick up the pieces.
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Speaker 1: They've gone through guys like Jacoby Brissett and Matt Jones
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Speaker 1: and all sorts of quarterbacks and finally hit on one
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Speaker 1: in Drake May.
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Speaker 2: So good job by them.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think they're the second best team in
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Speaker 1: the AC and I think that when it comes down.
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Speaker 2: To the playoffs, I would be surprised.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they got knocked off a
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Speaker 1: little early.
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Speaker 2: The third seed is the Colts. The Colts deserve it,
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Speaker 2: they're eight and two.
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Speaker 1: But what concerns me about the Colts, and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: learn a lot about them this week.
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Speaker 2: What concerns me about the Colts is you start.
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Speaker 1: To wonder, is the Daniel Jones coach gonna turn back
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Speaker 1: into a pumpkin at some point? And he played so
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Speaker 1: well for you know, six or seven weeks, and then
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Speaker 1: you got the complimentary football. He gave the complimentary footballall
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Speaker 1: to this elite running game of Jonathan Taylor, the offensive
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Speaker 1: line good, the defense been good.
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Speaker 2: They trade for Swaz Gardner.
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Speaker 1: But their last two weeks, you know, they turned them
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Speaker 1: all over six times. Week nine against the Steelers, they
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Speaker 1: lost that game. We talked about it.
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Speaker 2: I actually thought it was impressive.
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Speaker 1: Of them only to lose twenty seven to twenty despite
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Speaker 1: turning the ball over that many times. And then two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, going into the buy they kind of had
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Speaker 1: to squeak out a victory over a very bad Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons team. Well, I'll say this, a very disappointing Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons team. And you know, it's fair to call them bad.
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Speaker 1: They're three and seven and the things are getting worse
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Speaker 1: for them. And we'll get to that a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but so they went to the buy we're not really
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Speaker 1: playing their best football. And now now the Colts at
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Speaker 1: eight and two come out and they have to play
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City on Sunday against the Chiefs team that
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Speaker 1: is trying to save its season.
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Speaker 2: Right now, the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Are the ninth they will be in ninth ninth best
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Speaker 1: record in the conference, so they're looking up at Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: who they lost to already for that number seventy seed.
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Speaker 2: So they are five and five. You know that they
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Speaker 2: are going to be.
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Speaker 1: As motivated and determined as they ever will to win
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Speaker 1: this game. And it's at home, and not surprisingly, all right,
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Speaker 1: not surprisingly, the Chiefs are.
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Speaker 2: The favorite to win the game by three and a half.
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Speaker 2: This is it's been a very weird year.
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Speaker 1: You've heard probably talk about a lot a lot of
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Speaker 1: strange lines. But yes, the Chiefs at five and five
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Speaker 1: are three and a half point, for not one half,
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Speaker 1: three and a half point favorites over the Indianapolis Colts
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Speaker 1: who are eight and two. So that just goes to
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Speaker 1: show you how people view this matchup. And if if
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Speaker 1: the Colts lose this game and go to eight and three,
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Speaker 1: I think that will illustrate my point about being concerned
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Speaker 1: about how much of a powerhouse they really are. Now
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Speaker 1: they should still be able to win the AFC South.
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Speaker 1: Depends on what Jacksonville is gonna do.
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Speaker 2: I'm not. You guys know I'm not. There's six and
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Speaker 2: four Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: If they win this week, you know, I get get
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Speaker 1: their seventh win, then you know, it becomes sort of
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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs don't win, and then they're only one
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Speaker 1: day behind.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see, we'll see what happens when we get there.
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Speaker 1: You obviously don't have to worry about the Tennessee and
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Speaker 1: but there is no team that you do have to
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Speaker 1: worry about. And after they beat the Bills on Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans improved to six and five. If you've
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Speaker 1: listened to me all year long, I have talked about
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Speaker 1: the Texans like they are my baby. Okay, when they
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Speaker 1: were owing three with a five point loss to the Rams,
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Speaker 1: a one point loss to the Box, and a touchdown
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Speaker 1: loss to the Jags. When they're owned three, you heard
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Speaker 1: me say, this defense is so good and it is
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Speaker 1: getting wasted by an offense that is so bad. Now
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Speaker 1: they've they've figured some things offensively, they are still not great.
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Speaker 1: Obviously c J. Stroud has missed the last three games
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Speaker 1: Davis Mills has started, but they've won all three, including
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Speaker 1: an impressive win over the Bills.
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Speaker 2: Now the Bills are we'll get to them in a second.
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Speaker 2: They are not the.
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Speaker 1: Bills that we've expected. They have real issues on offense.
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Speaker 1: The defense has always been always, always been better coached
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Speaker 1: than it is talented, I would say, and this year
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Speaker 1: and the defense.
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Speaker 2: Has always relied on an offense.
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Speaker 1: That could score thirty thirty five points just by what
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Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen rolling out of ben. But offensively,
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Speaker 1: the Bills are sporadic this year. So they have some
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Speaker 1: big games and then they have games against the Texans
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Speaker 1: again with a very good defense, and they lose twenty
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Speaker 1: three to nineteen. So now the Texans, who zero to
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Speaker 1: three and two and four have worked their way back
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Speaker 1: and there are six and five, and they get a
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Speaker 1: little mini pie, and then they will play the Colts
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Speaker 1: the following week in a game that I will be
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Speaker 1: talking about till like How's come Home, Because if the
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Speaker 1: Colts lose to the Chiefs and they go to eight
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Speaker 1: and three and they play the Texans by the way
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Speaker 1: at home, it'll be in Indianapolis following week Week thirteen,
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Speaker 1: and if the Colts lose that game and get to
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Speaker 1: eight and four with the Texans at seven and five,
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Speaker 1: now you've got a very interesting AFC South race because
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Speaker 1: guess who the Texans play in the last week of
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Speaker 1: the season in Week seventeen. I'm sorry, Week eighteen at home.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry this game, I'm sorry. The game against the Colts, yeah,
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Speaker 1: is at this week, is at Indianapolis or next week,
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Speaker 1: but the last game of the year will be at Houston.
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Speaker 2: So if the text.
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Speaker 1: Are either tied or one game behind already with a
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Speaker 1: win over the Colts going into the final game of
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Speaker 1: the year, you would almost look at the Texans and
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Speaker 1: say they might be the favorite to win the AFC South,
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Speaker 1: despite how good of a start that the Indianapolis Colts
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Speaker 1: get it off too. So if you ask me right now,
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Speaker 1: who are the best teams and the three best teams
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Speaker 1: in the city, one of them I haven't even talked about,
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Speaker 1: and I fully expect. I note that the Ravens are
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Speaker 1: on a march right now. Right They've won four straight games.
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Speaker 1: Probably the most impressive win was over the Bears, But
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, even though Miami, Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: Cleveland don't look impressive.
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Speaker 2: Miami just Miami beat Miami handled the Bills a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: Miami is the type of team that can sneak up
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Speaker 1: on you, and they throttled the Ravens throttled them. Okay's one, two,
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Speaker 1: two out of two straight games, with three out of four,
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Speaker 1: they're not good. But my point is the Ravens were
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Speaker 1: up against the wall at one and five, and then
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Speaker 1: they beat the Bears, good Bear, good, good good win,
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Speaker 1: fourteen point win, two and five. Then Miami three and five,
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Speaker 1: then Minnesota four and five. Then they beat the Browns
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Speaker 1: their divisional you know, division rivalry.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't a pretty win, but they won.
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Speaker 1: Now they're five and five and guess who they have
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Speaker 1: this week? The Jets, Yeah, the Jets, followed by the Bengals. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals game will be interesting because that will be
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Speaker 1: the week that Joe Burrow makes his return, So the
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Speaker 1: Ravens could be six and five. The Bengals are still
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Speaker 1: the Bengals even with Joe Burrow there. Certainly got they
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Speaker 1: certainly can score points. But the Ravens win that game,
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Speaker 1: they get the seven and five then they played the
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Speaker 1: Steelers and the Bengals again. It's very possible that you
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Speaker 1: could see the Ravens winning their next four right and
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Speaker 1: getting to nine and five. Then you got Patriots, Packers, Steelers.
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Speaker 1: The Ravens are very good. They're a little bit banged
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Speaker 1: up again on defense, so I have some concerns. But
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Speaker 1: if you ask me right now, how different could the
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Speaker 1: top three seeds look as in the AFC from now
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Speaker 1: to four weeks from now, five weeks from now, it
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Speaker 1: could very easily. My outlook be Broncals one, Ravens two.
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Speaker 1: Now you know what, it'll still be still be the Patriots.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have all right, let me restart this. As
14:18
Speaker 1: far as who I think are the best teams, it
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Speaker 1: won't be seating wise not seating, but who will be
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Speaker 1: the three best teams in the AFC in four to
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Speaker 1: five weeks? I could see it being the Broncos, the
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Speaker 1: Ravens and the Texans.
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Speaker 1: Because there's a schedule with tell you they haven't faced
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Speaker 1: too many tough opponents. Are they good enough to withstand
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Speaker 1: the any playoff caliber teams? Because the Patriots the rest
16:01
Speaker 1: of the way have the Bengals, then the Giants, then
16:04
Speaker 1: another rematch against the Bills. I mean Week sixteen Ravens
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Speaker 1: will be a very very interesting game. We're all start
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Speaker 1: to get part of my answer by the way I
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Speaker 1: came to Baltimore. And if the Ravens win that game
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Speaker 1: and are continuing to be on the winning streak, I
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Speaker 1: think it'll prove me right about the Broncos, the Ravens,
16:21
Speaker 1: and the Texans as the three best teams in the AFC.
16:27
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you right now that the Colts are done.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot will be determined over the next
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Speaker 1: few weeks. Again, this Kansas City game is huge for them.
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Speaker 1: Have concerns, but I'm not gonna.
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Speaker 2: Just throw out the fact that they're eight and two.
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Speaker 1: But Chiefs, Texans, Jaguars after the bye week for the Indianapolis,
16:47
Speaker 1: well not they just have.
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Speaker 2: Their bye weeks.
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Speaker 1: Chiefs this week, Texans followed by Jaguars followed by Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Seahawks are a really good team. So I think
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Speaker 2: when you look at the Colts schedule, you say, hey, great,
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Speaker 2: you're great.
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Speaker 1: You're eighting too, But any little slide here, they certainly
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Speaker 1: can lose a couple of these games over the next
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Speaker 1: four or five weeks, and the tide my turn in
17:12
Speaker 1: the favor of the Texans. Now, I could also be
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Speaker 1: completely wrong about the Texans.
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Speaker 2: Strap will come back.
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Speaker 1: They get this little mini bike because they played Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: and maybe he just is having a bad you know,
17:24
Speaker 1: continue to have a bad year, or doesn't have the
17:26
Speaker 1: little spark that Davis Mills seem to supply. It's not
17:29
Speaker 1: like Mills was lighting up the scoreboard, by the way,
17:32
Speaker 1: but they were moving the chains. They have found something
17:34
Speaker 1: with Woody Marks, the rookie at usc As. They're running
17:37
Speaker 1: back Nico Collins playing. Whether it's the defense, their defense
17:41
Speaker 1: is so so good.
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Speaker 2: I still don't know how they have twenty nine points
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Speaker 2: to the Jacks.
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Speaker 1: But every once in a while you have a bad game,
17:48
Speaker 1: but their defense is tremendous.
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Speaker 2: And if they can get.
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Speaker 1: A little bit of offensive firepower from CJ. Stroud when
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Speaker 1: he comes back, this can be a very dangerous team.
17:58
Speaker 2: I want to remind everybody the Texas. We're in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Last year, played the Chiefs in the I want to
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Speaker 1: say divisional round or was it? Well, yeah, the Dolphins, right,
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Speaker 1: and then they lost to the Chiefs in the divisional
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Speaker 1: round last year. Is that that's not right? Give me
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Speaker 1: one second on this, guys. I'll remember exactly what they did.
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Speaker 2: They beat the Chargers. They beat the Chargers. That was
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Speaker 2: an impressive win. They smoked the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: In the first round by round thirty two to twelve,
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Speaker 1: and then they only lost to the Chiefs by nine
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Speaker 1: twenty three fourteen. And if you remember, there were some
18:33
Speaker 1: pretty brutal calls in that game in terms of roughing
18:36
Speaker 1: the passer against my homes and everything as there typically is.
18:40
Speaker 1: So look, the Texans to me, with that defense, they
18:45
Speaker 1: can be a lot like the Broncos. They can just
18:47
Speaker 1: be really, really tough as things come together for them,
18:49
Speaker 1: as long as they can move the ball a.
18:51
Speaker 2: Little bit offensively.
18:53
Speaker 1: Let's look over, you know, you got the very I
18:56
Speaker 1: think THEFC is far better from top to bottom than
19:04
Speaker 1: the AFC. I mean, you have your first three or
19:07
Speaker 1: four teams here, and again, if the playoffs ended today,
19:10
Speaker 1: you know the Eagles are number one seed, the Rams
19:11
Speaker 1: of the two seed, the Bears of the three seed.
19:14
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna hold. We'll see, but
19:16
Speaker 1: the Bears have been formidable. But they're kind of like
19:17
Speaker 1: the Patriots. They've gotten fat off, finally having a quarterback
19:23
Speaker 1: and some talent and the new head coach, but playing
19:25
Speaker 1: a pretty soft schedule. However, however, it's not been too
19:30
Speaker 1: soft schedule. I don't want to take away some of
19:33
Speaker 1: the impressive Chicago wins. You know, their first win was
19:37
Speaker 1: at home against the Cowboys, in a game that nobody
19:39
Speaker 1: thought the Bears were gonna win.
19:42
Speaker 2: They have.
19:42
Speaker 1: They smoked the Bengals, scoring forty seven points.
19:46
Speaker 2: They had.
19:46
Speaker 1: They did beat the Vikings all right last week at home.
19:49
Speaker 1: They got the Steelers this week. I know their schedule
19:52
Speaker 1: wasn't loaded a bunch of great wins, but they've been
19:56
Speaker 1: impressive nonetheless, and so they're right now the number three seed.
20:01
Speaker 2: Now, the team to watch, you.
20:03
Speaker 1: Guys are thinking they're gonna be funny for saying this.
20:05
Speaker 1: The team to watch is the Detroit Lions.
20:07
Speaker 2: All right.
20:08
Speaker 1: The Lions have lost two of their last three games.
20:11
Speaker 1: They're six and four. They just scored nine points against
20:15
Speaker 1: the Eagles, last week at the link.
20:17
Speaker 2: Why are they the team to watch?
20:19
Speaker 1: Well, let's go through the Detroit line schedule over the
20:23
Speaker 1: next six or seven weeks here. Okay, first of all,
20:27
Speaker 1: they don't play a single game in a cold, outdoor environment.
20:34
Speaker 1: And when the Detroit Lions are inside with all that
20:36
Speaker 1: speed they have with Williams and with Gibbs, and then
20:40
Speaker 1: you know, with Goff tending to be a better quarterback
20:42
Speaker 1: inside than out. Okay, they the schedule aligned so well
20:46
Speaker 1: for them. It starts off this week at home against
20:48
Speaker 1: the Giants. The following week at home against the Packers.
20:52
Speaker 2: That'll be a tough game, it will be. They already
20:55
Speaker 2: lost the Packers, but that was at Land Bow. Then
20:58
Speaker 2: they get another three straight home games.
21:02
Speaker 1: The Eagles haven't had two straight. The Eagles will not
21:04
Speaker 1: have back to back home games at all this year.
21:07
Speaker 1: The Lions get three in November, amazingly. Right so, and
21:12
Speaker 1: of course that's a Thanksgiving game against the Packers, right so,
21:15
Speaker 1: home versus Giants, home versus the Packers. Then you get
21:17
Speaker 1: a little mini by there, and then home again the
21:21
Speaker 1: following week against the Cowboys. Not an easy stretch from
21:25
Speaker 1: an opponent standpoint, but you're a home you're home in
21:29
Speaker 1: all three games and you're inside, and then you got
21:32
Speaker 1: to go play the Rams week fifteen. All right, that
21:35
Speaker 1: will be a very very difficult game. But we know
21:38
Speaker 1: la it's a stadium that has a roof and turf.
21:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's open on the sides and
21:43
Speaker 1: everything like that, but whether it will not be a factor.
21:46
Speaker 1: Then they come home to play the Steelers, not a
21:48
Speaker 1: very good team, but again at home, and then they
21:51
Speaker 1: play at Minnesota and then their last game of the
21:56
Speaker 1: year is at the Bear, So they will play six
22:01
Speaker 1: consecutive games indoors without any weather issues. They have injuries
22:07
Speaker 1: that will probably start to work out in their favor
22:10
Speaker 1: as far as guys coming back, especially in the secondary
22:13
Speaker 1: with Kirby Joseph and with Terry and Arnold and with
22:16
Speaker 1: their other corner I mean, they've had injuries everywhere, but
22:18
Speaker 1: they still played some pretty good football, and defensively they've
22:21
Speaker 1: played decently as well, even with their injuries. So the
22:24
Speaker 1: Detroit Lines to me are the team that could very
22:28
Speaker 1: easily make a move here over the next few weeks.
22:31
Speaker 1: And if it wouldn't surprise me if they overtook Chicago
22:34
Speaker 1: for that number three seed. I like the Bucks at
22:37
Speaker 1: six and four. The Bucks got to get healthy. I
22:39
Speaker 1: guess they're getting god and went back. They need Bucky
22:42
Speaker 1: Irving back in the worst way. But they have hung
22:46
Speaker 1: in there. I know that it doesn't look great for.
22:49
Speaker 2: Them right now they've lost a couple of games.
22:51
Speaker 1: That this is a team that was once looking as
22:53
Speaker 1: good as any team in the NFL. They were six
22:58
Speaker 1: and two at one point two games six and four,
23:01
Speaker 1: and now they have the Rams this week, so it's
23:03
Speaker 1: very possible they fall to six and five and everybody
23:06
Speaker 1: looks at them, the Bucks and says, this isn't that
23:09
Speaker 1: good a team. Their defense is not that great. They
23:12
Speaker 1: give up a lot of points. However, let them get
23:15
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving back, let them get Chris Godwin who'll be returning.
23:20
Speaker 1: And the bottom line is they're gonna borrowing some major,
23:24
Speaker 1: major fall from Grace. They're gonna win the NAC South.
23:29
Speaker 1: So they got the fourth seed locked up. So what
23:31
Speaker 1: I think will happened was.
23:32
Speaker 2: We'll be will be the Eagles one s two seed
23:35
Speaker 2: or flip flop.
23:36
Speaker 1: It could be the Rams Eagles. By the end of
23:38
Speaker 1: the year, we'll see Rams Eagles. The three seat will
23:40
Speaker 1: be the Lions. The four seat will be the box.
23:42
Speaker 1: Then you got Seattle, uh, Seattle, Green Bay, and San
23:46
Speaker 1: Francisco right now, five, six and seven.
23:48
Speaker 2: But again I.
23:49
Speaker 1: Think Detroit will probably win, so that kicks Chicago probably
23:54
Speaker 1: into the seventh seed or six or seventh seed. It's
23:57
Speaker 1: basically gonna be between Chicago, Green Bay, and San Francisco,
24:02
Speaker 1: with Carolina as an outside chance as those last three seeds,
24:07
Speaker 1: but I.
24:07
Speaker 2: Mean those are tough.
24:08
Speaker 1: I mean San Francisco is seven and four. They have
24:12
Speaker 1: with all the injuries they've had. The forty nine Ers
24:15
Speaker 1: at seven and four look thirty times better than the
24:18
Speaker 1: Jaguars at six and four.
24:21
Speaker 2: So that's why I.
24:22
Speaker 1: Said I think the NFC, there's gonna be a team
24:24
Speaker 1: that doesn't make it that is a pretty good team.
24:28
Speaker 1: And by the way, I know the forty nine Ers
24:30
Speaker 1: did lose to the Jags in Week four, but again
24:33
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers have been as banged up. They've
24:35
Speaker 1: lost everybody on defense posta Warner, They've lost guys in
24:39
Speaker 1: the secondary, they lost their backup to Warner.
24:42
Speaker 2: All right, he's been heard.
24:43
Speaker 1: They've lost. They still haven't had Brandon i Yuk played.
24:46
Speaker 1: They lost Kittle for a few weeks. They lost Shirt Jennings.
24:48
Speaker 1: I mean, amazingly McCaffrey state healthy, Pierceoll has been out.
24:51
Speaker 1: I mean Mac Jones had to start what five games.
24:55
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers are a good team, and they've
24:57
Speaker 1: had a case scheduled too, all right, so I look
25:00
Speaker 1: at them as a seventh seat, and as green Bay
25:02
Speaker 1: right now as a sixth seed, but that could be
25:04
Speaker 1: you know, Seattle to Chicago, and you look over in
25:08
Speaker 1: the AFC Chargers Buffalo Jags five.
25:11
Speaker 2: To six, seven flood teams.
25:12
Speaker 1: The Chargers, Chargers are in a tough spot. I said
25:17
Speaker 1: last week, I thought that the Chargers are in for
25:21
Speaker 1: a second half slide because they lost both of their
25:25
Speaker 1: offensive tackles. In fact, I think I said it two
25:27
Speaker 1: weeks ago after the beat the Dealers twenty five to ten.
25:30
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I said it last week. I said, I
25:33
Speaker 2: feel like the.
25:33
Speaker 1: Chargers will probably beat the Jaguars head into the buy
25:37
Speaker 1: to get to eight and three. But then I worried
25:41
Speaker 1: about them down the stretch when they had to put
25:43
Speaker 1: the Eagles to Chiefs, the Cowboys and Texans and Roncos.
25:45
Speaker 2: Well, their slides started early.
25:46
Speaker 1: They lost, They got absolutely throttled by the j Jaguars,
25:51
Speaker 1: thirty five to six, the same Jaguars team that every
25:53
Speaker 1: week I talk about here on the show and say
25:55
Speaker 1: that I don't like.
25:56
Speaker 2: Well, they throttled the crap out of the Chargers.
25:59
Speaker 1: So now that Chargers seven and four, and they'll get
26:03
Speaker 1: a gift against the Raiders coming out of the buy.
26:06
Speaker 1: I imagine they'll be able to win that game, go
26:08
Speaker 1: to eight and four, but with their offensive tackles out
26:11
Speaker 1: and that offense going to struggle, the good luck finding
26:16
Speaker 1: three more wins among Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, Broncos, and
26:20
Speaker 1: I don't know how many wins it's gonna take to
26:21
Speaker 1: get to hold on to that seventh seed or I'm sorry,
26:24
Speaker 1: they're in the fifth seed right now at six and two.
26:26
Speaker 1: But again, Houston and Kansas City and Baltimore, they're all
26:30
Speaker 1: on the outside looking in. Now all those teams are
26:32
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28:12
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28:16
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're keeping back down the guard. They
28:19
Speaker 1: gotta figure out a way to get offense and keep
28:22
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28:25
Speaker 1: he gets hurt. He runs, he takes hits, and if
28:28
Speaker 1: he starts taking a bunch of hits, they are not
28:30
Speaker 1: going to be the same team as the one team
28:33
Speaker 1: that I feel like I was right about a couple
28:35
Speaker 1: of weeks ago when I said watch out, they might
28:37
Speaker 1: be in for a major, major slide.
28:40
Speaker 2: So right now, the top three teams to.
28:42
Speaker 1: Me in the NFC the best teams, the Rams, the Eagles,
28:50
Speaker 1: and to me, I'm really you know, it's either Detroit
28:52
Speaker 1: or Seattle. I'm very anxious to see how Tampa Bay
28:55
Speaker 1: plays when it gets healthy, but it might be one
28:57
Speaker 1: of those years where they just don't get everybody healthy.
29:00
Speaker 1: I don't know about Green Bay, even with getting Jayden
29:04
Speaker 1: Reed back soon, not this week, They'll get them back soon.
29:06
Speaker 1: They're certainly formidable, but I think something's missing from them
29:11
Speaker 1: as far as on the first team out, which I
29:15
Speaker 1: think they'll be in. You know, Carolina Cowboys, we'll see.
29:20
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know if they have enough. Obviously,
29:25
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have to make their move right now, and
29:28
Speaker 1: I think we'll know.
29:29
Speaker 2: A lot about the Eagles. They're eight and two by
29:33
Speaker 2: the time I do this next show.
29:34
Speaker 1: They're gonna play two games. They're gonna played the Cowboys
29:37
Speaker 1: Sunday and they're gonna have played the Bears on Black Friday.
29:43
Speaker 1: So if the Eagle go to and Oh and get
29:46
Speaker 1: the ten and two, they're the best team in the
29:47
Speaker 1: NFC and making them a strong case of the best
29:49
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. And you can't stay but their
29:53
Speaker 1: offense anymore.
29:54
Speaker 2: You just can't.
29:55
Speaker 1: If they get to ten and two, you got we
29:57
Speaker 1: all got to stop just worrying about the offensive slide.
30:00
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean with the Super Bowl, no, but if
30:02
Speaker 1: they get to tend two and beat the Cowboys and
30:05
Speaker 1: then beat the Bears, then they have made a case
30:07
Speaker 1: with their strength of schedule wins with right now, is
30:09
Speaker 1: the best in the league of fifty strength of victory
30:13
Speaker 1: teams of fifty percentage, All right, then you just say
30:19
Speaker 1: there's nothing more they can prove. It doesn't matter if
30:21
Speaker 1: they have flaws. They are ten and two, they'll be
30:24
Speaker 1: the best team in the NFL if that's the case.
30:26
Speaker 1: If they go one in one, it means they either
30:34
Speaker 1: lost to an average Cowboys team, which would validate some concerns,
30:41
Speaker 1: but then and then beat a Bears team that again
30:43
Speaker 1: is a little bit inflated. They're not as great as
30:48
Speaker 1: the schedule may look. Okay, but you go one and one.
30:51
Speaker 1: So when if they go one on one in that stretch,
30:52
Speaker 1: that means one of those two things happened, or it
30:56
Speaker 1: means they beat the Cowboys and lost to the Bears.
30:59
Speaker 1: So either one will if they go one on one
31:02
Speaker 1: over the next two games kind of will open up
31:04
Speaker 1: a little bit of a question, and not about how
31:07
Speaker 1: could they or if they're going to be a top seed,
31:10
Speaker 1: but more about is there a distance between them and
31:13
Speaker 1: teams like the Rams and the Seahawks, Okay, and maybe
31:17
Speaker 1: even the Lions as they make their ascent over the
31:20
Speaker 1: second half of the year.
31:21
Speaker 2: In a rematch would be very interesting.
31:24
Speaker 1: If they go oh and two, which is the most
31:27
Speaker 1: unlikely scenario, and they're eight and four, folks, it's going.
31:31
Speaker 2: To be a discussion.
31:32
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen, but hey, I'm just saying,
31:35
Speaker 1: I'm giving you every single scenario on how we would
31:39
Speaker 1: view the Eagles.
31:39
Speaker 2: They're either going to be.
31:40
Speaker 1: Viewed by the time I do this next show as
31:43
Speaker 1: unquestionably the NFL's best team is right in that mix
31:47
Speaker 1: with the Rams in Seattle where there's not as much
31:50
Speaker 1: distance Detroit, anybody else you want to throw in there,
31:53
Speaker 1: maybe Tampa when they're healthy, or doomsday scenario, which is
31:57
Speaker 1: uh oh there, this team can get tripped out. Then
32:01
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out some things very quickly. The Rams
32:05
Speaker 1: clearly the second bat the Rams can make an argument
32:07
Speaker 1: that they're the best team in the NFL. Their strength
32:10
Speaker 1: of victory is not far behind the Eagles. Eagles are
32:12
Speaker 1: at five to nine, the Rams are at point five
32:15
Speaker 1: to one to two. All right, and we all know
32:17
Speaker 1: that the Rams very easily could have won that game
32:18
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. They got their field goal blocked. Kind
32:20
Speaker 1: of crazy things are happening for the Eagles in the
32:23
Speaker 1: first part of the schedule, but the Rams have been
32:26
Speaker 1: rock solid spins. But hey, this is a big week
32:29
Speaker 1: for them as well. And in fact, their schedule will
32:33
Speaker 1: continue to be difficult. To get the Bucks and then
32:36
Speaker 1: the Panthers over the next two weeks. All right, it's
32:39
Speaker 1: not impossible, but they have to play the Bucks at
32:41
Speaker 1: home and then the Panthers on the road. They get
32:43
Speaker 1: a lay up after that, somewhat of a layup they get.
32:45
Speaker 1: It's an NFC West game. But they'll have the Cardinals
32:48
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen, then that big Week fifteen showdown against
32:52
Speaker 1: the Lions, which is interesting because I thought, I think
32:55
Speaker 1: last year they had a huge showdown against the Lions,
32:57
Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, it was in December, and the
33:00
Speaker 1: Rams scored like forty one points in that game.
33:02
Speaker 2: For give me a second, I'll try to check on that.
33:07
Speaker 2: Oh no, it was the Bills, that's right.
33:08
Speaker 1: They beat the Bills forty four to two, forty four
33:10
Speaker 1: to forty two in Week fourteen, and that was sort
33:13
Speaker 1: of like that statement win that made you realize how
33:15
Speaker 1: good the Rams tour actually. But they are Rams are
33:19
Speaker 1: a good, good team. They are so balanced. They have
33:22
Speaker 1: good offense, good defense. Now, the one thing about the Rams.
33:25
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring this up. The Rams just put
33:28
Speaker 1: three starters on IR. They put their offensive tackle, Rob
33:33
Speaker 1: Havevenstein on IR. They put maybe the best overall player
33:36
Speaker 1: on their back end, Quinton lake On is like this.
33:40
Speaker 2: Hybrid Nickels safety guy. They move them all around.
33:43
Speaker 1: Really good player, excellent player, big part of what they
33:47
Speaker 1: do defensively. He's on IR, and they're tight end Tyler
33:50
Speaker 1: Higbee on IR as well. That is pretty significant for
33:54
Speaker 1: this Rams team, and I'm very curious to see how
33:57
Speaker 1: they how they handle that because those that's not like
34:01
Speaker 1: three minor guys. Now, I know they play a bunch
34:04
Speaker 1: of tight ends. They've been playing four tight ends and
34:05
Speaker 1: they have some good young ones, but losing three starters
34:11
Speaker 1: h is not very easy. And then of course you
34:13
Speaker 1: got there. They're the Sunday night game against the Bucks.
34:16
Speaker 1: I mean, if ever time for the Bucks to start
34:18
Speaker 1: to say, all right, look, you know we got all
34:20
Speaker 1: these injuries and now you got some let's go, let's
34:24
Speaker 1: go square it off. And see the Rams are seven
34:26
Speaker 1: point favorites in that game. So those are that That's how
34:30
Speaker 1: I see the NFC right now. I mean, I think
34:33
Speaker 1: the Lions are really the sneaky team to watch. I'm
34:35
Speaker 1: not sure about the Packers. I think the Seahawks are
34:38
Speaker 1: is good. By the way the Seahawks losing to the
34:39
Speaker 1: Rams last week and the four interceptions by Darnold and
34:43
Speaker 1: everything like that, I'm gonna make a similar statement that
34:46
Speaker 1: I did when the Colts lost this to the Steelers
34:49
Speaker 1: after their six turnover game. It's amazing and you only
34:52
Speaker 1: lost by a touch. It shows how good you are.
34:56
Speaker 1: That game for the Seahawks, losing into the Rams twenty
35:01
Speaker 1: one to nineteen despite four interceptions actually tells you how
35:05
Speaker 1: good the Seahawks are.
35:06
Speaker 2: That they have four.
35:07
Speaker 1: Interceptions, four turnovers and only lost by two. They had
35:10
Speaker 1: every opportunity to win that game. That should be in
35:12
Speaker 1: the back of the Rams minds a little bit and
35:14
Speaker 1: that should be fuel for the Seahawks as they go
35:17
Speaker 1: and play the Titans this week, and if they're going
35:20
Speaker 1: to take their frustrations out, that game could get very,
35:22
Speaker 1: very ugly. The Seahawks are thirteen and a half point favorites,
35:26
Speaker 1: even though they're in Tennessee, and Tennessee's got some good
35:29
Speaker 1: defensive players, But man, Seattle, if you're ever gonna look
35:32
Speaker 1: at a team and a loss and say, hey, you
35:34
Speaker 1: guys are really legit, that would be the one. So
35:39
Speaker 1: that's a look at the NFL. You know, as far
35:41
Speaker 1: as the games, you know we've got. I told you
35:43
Speaker 1: the Bears are playing the Steelers. The Steelers are an
35:45
Speaker 1: up and down team. Rogers is hurt bribe. I guess
35:48
Speaker 1: he's going to try to play through a left a
35:51
Speaker 1: fractured left rift, something like that.
35:53
Speaker 2: That's going to be very tough. I don't know how
35:55
Speaker 2: they're going to handle that.
35:56
Speaker 1: I feel like the Bears are again, they're playing a
35:59
Speaker 1: cake schedule. There's a good spot for them. You hope
36:02
Speaker 1: they're not looking ahead too much of the Black Friday game.
36:03
Speaker 1: They're two and a half point favorites over to Steelers.
36:06
Speaker 1: The Patriots should get the Patriots probably.
36:10
Speaker 2: I wonder if the Bengals did this.
36:12
Speaker 1: They practiced Joe Burrow all week, and I wonder if
36:14
Speaker 1: that was to get New England to prepare as if
36:17
Speaker 1: Burrow is going to play.
36:18
Speaker 2: I don't know.
36:18
Speaker 1: You know, Joe Flacco throws the ball around too, But
36:21
Speaker 1: either way, Flacco is gonna go. Flacco didn't have a
36:23
Speaker 1: very good game last week against the Steelers. It may
36:26
Speaker 1: just be that his steam engine from the first three
36:28
Speaker 1: starts is gonna diminish it a little bit, but the
36:31
Speaker 1: soft schedule for the Patriots continues. They will be This is,
36:34
Speaker 1: by the way, the week where you start to look
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Speaker 1: at these really good teams that you have questions about
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Speaker 1: and say, do you slip up somewhere? Did the Patriots
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Speaker 1: go into Cincinnati and lose a little edge. We'll see
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Speaker 1: there should be a game that they win their seven
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Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. I'd said the Lions are
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Speaker 1: at home against the Giants. Dart once again is gonna
36:53
Speaker 1: take a back seat, which is the right thing to do.
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Speaker 1: Jamison Williams, will Jamison, Jamius Winston, We'll start for the
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Speaker 1: Giants again. Had an opportunity to win the game at
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Speaker 1: the end last week against the Packers, didn't do it.
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Speaker 1: Detroit twelve and a half point favorites. Packers are not
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Speaker 1: yet fully healthy, They're not getting Jaden Reid back. They
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Speaker 1: are six point favorites at home against the Vikings. Vikings
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Speaker 1: are kind of dead and buried.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 1: I think that they really need an off season of
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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy being healthy, not rehabbing and working with Kevin
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Speaker 1: O'Connell to really figure out what JJ McCarthy is because
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Speaker 1: they've won games this year in spite of him.
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Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say in spite of their
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Speaker 2: quarterback play. They have one games. But you know, the
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Speaker 2: Packers going.
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Speaker 1: Into Lambeau finally getting snapping out of their streak and
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Speaker 1: getting a win over the Giants are going to be very,
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Speaker 1: very motivated to put things together. And I know Jacobs
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Speaker 1: is banged up and it sucks that they lost their
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Speaker 1: center for the year against the Eagles. I don't know
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Speaker 1: this will be an easy game because the division game,
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Speaker 1: but the Packers are really trying to establish momentum right now.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned Seattle going to Tennessee Indianapolis Chiefs. We talked
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Speaker 1: about Ravens at home against the Jets. They are thirteen
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Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. The one thing about the
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Speaker 1: Ravens that I think is a little bit different, even
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Speaker 1: in their win streak, you can tell Lamar is not
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Speaker 1: running as much. You know, he missed all those games
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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. It seems like they have been
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Speaker 1: determined to make sure he doesn't reaggravate it while these
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Speaker 1: weeks he's been back, but as soon as he gets
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Speaker 1: to feel one hundred percent and starts to get his
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Speaker 1: own running game mixed in, and that could be this
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Speaker 1: week against the Jets.
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Speaker 2: We'll see then.
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Speaker 1: I think you will see the Ravens really really take off.
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Speaker 1: The Jets are making a quarterback change to Trod Taylor.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I could say about the Jets is,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're fighting a little bit harder and maybe
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Speaker 1: the quarterback change to Tarrod Taylor helps them move the
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Speaker 1: chains a little bit. You know, they had won two
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Speaker 1: in a row. They lost to the Patriots, but it
38:48
Speaker 1: wasn't a blowout. I mean they lost by thirteen, but
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Speaker 1: it was a close game and then the Patriots tacked
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Speaker 1: on with a touchdown at the end.
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Speaker 2: But the Ravens, it will be a whole ball new
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Speaker 2: ball whacks for them.
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Speaker 1: But we'll see if Tyrod tayl can get the ball
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Speaker 1: to Ady Mitchell, the receiver the Jets got in a
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Speaker 1: trade when they traded Gardner to the Colts, is a
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Speaker 1: pretty good receiver. He has some drops issues, he has
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Speaker 1: some other issues, but you know they need some firepower
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Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson out and Adie Mitchell can give it to him,
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Speaker 1: and maybe Torot Taylor can get him the ball man
39:18
Speaker 1: four o'clock, the Browns and the Raiders. I listen, I
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Speaker 1: know it's Sadr Sanders's starting debut. I must be like
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Speaker 1: with a one guy in the world that doesn't care.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just you know who cares. Shad Door
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Speaker 1: Sanders is, don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't look at him as some guy who should
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Speaker 2: have gone in the first round and fell all the
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Speaker 2: way to the fifth or six. We'll see. I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe he'll surprise us all and throw for three hundred yards.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Raiders could certainly be the team that
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Speaker 1: you can do that against. The Raiders are four point favorites,
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Speaker 1: though at home Jacksonville, Arizona. Now, if I'm right about Jacksonville,
39:52
Speaker 1: like I've said all year, don't buy into them. They
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Speaker 1: are they are coming off a very impressive win that
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Speaker 1: I mentioned against their Chargers. But I have not liked
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Speaker 1: this team all year long. They've been sporadic. I will
40:06
Speaker 1: say that their losses mostly have been to some good teams.
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Speaker 1: Their last three losses have been close to the Texans
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Speaker 1: by a touchdown to they lost to the they got
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Speaker 1: killed by the Rams by twenty eight points, and they
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Speaker 1: lost to the Seahawks. By eight, So you know they've
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Speaker 1: lost the good teams, and the Cardinals are just the
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Speaker 1: type of team who've been just taking it on the
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Speaker 1: chin the last two weeks that I could see delivering
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Speaker 1: an upset Jacksonville's only two and a half point favorites.
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Speaker 1: If Jacksonville wants to prove to me that they're for real,
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Speaker 1: and I don't, who can. I'm sure they don't care
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Speaker 1: what Jeff Moser thinks. But they win this game, and
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Speaker 1: they win it pretty convincingly. If they don't, they are
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Speaker 1: the frauds that I've basically said that they've been all
40:45
Speaker 1: year long. Eagles Cowboys. We covered that in the Inside
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Speaker 1: the Birds pregame show. It's already up on the platform.
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Speaker 1: I got some concerns. I think I don't know whether
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Speaker 1: Dallas is a one week wonder with that pass rush
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Speaker 1: against the Raiders or if talent is just talent. And
41:01
Speaker 1: when you add Quentin Williams to an interior rush that
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Speaker 1: includes Odegi Zua Kenny Clark, it's pretty good. And then
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Speaker 1: the edge rushers have really come on. Is this defense
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Speaker 1: truly better? We will find out, and ken the Eagles
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Speaker 1: muster some offense, we will find out. The Eagles are
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Speaker 1: three point favorites in that game. The last four twenty
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Speaker 1: five game Falcons at Saints. The Falcons have lost Pennix
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Speaker 1: for the year, They've lost Drake London. They're out, I
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Speaker 1: mean right now. B John Robinson is really their only
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Speaker 1: offensive weapon.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if Kyle Pitts and.
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Speaker 1: I guess Darnell Mooney can help move the chains. We'll
41:39
Speaker 1: see what Kirk Crausins have left. The Saints are two
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Speaker 1: and a half point favorites, and I get it, Shuck
41:46
Speaker 1: Shuck has looked okay. You know, they had a pretty
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Speaker 1: I guess good win for them, you would say, against
41:52
Speaker 1: the Panthers seventeen to seven.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people didn't think that was gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: They were off.
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Speaker 1: Last week in the bye So now they play the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons and there's a good chance that they can
42:02
Speaker 1: win that game.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe they can blow out the Falcons. Who knows.
42:05
Speaker 2: We'll see.
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Speaker 1: And then of course I mentioned Rams Bucks. The Rams
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Speaker 1: are seven and a half point favorites. Should be, should be.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that this is gonna be a high
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Speaker 1: scoring game. And then the Monday night game, the Panthers
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Speaker 1: at Niners. With the Niners win that game and they
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Speaker 1: are seven point favorites. The Niners win that game and
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Speaker 1: they get to be eight and for four, and what
42:26
Speaker 1: a great coaching job by Kyle Shanahan and Robert Sala.
42:29
Speaker 1: You really got to give them a lot of credit
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Speaker 1: for being seven to four. I know the schedule is
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Speaker 1: not tremendously difficult, however, it's been tougher than Green Bays.
42:40
Speaker 1: It's been tougher than the Bears by a lot. The
42:41
Speaker 1: Bear's strength of wins is point two a five. The
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Speaker 1: Niners is point three nine to four. So the Niners
42:48
Speaker 1: strength of wins would be right behind basically Seattle's so
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Speaker 1: to be eight and four or four, Yeah, with all
42:56
Speaker 1: those injuries that they had, and then they would improve
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Speaker 1: to let's see, would that be they would prove the
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Speaker 1: eight and two in the conference. You got to give
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Speaker 1: them their the flowers and props for that. So if
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Speaker 1: they win that game, and it's a big game for
43:11
Speaker 1: Carolina because then at six and five versus the seven
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Speaker 1: and four team, if they get to seven and five
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Speaker 1: and knock the Niners to seven and five, then all
43:20
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're tied with the Niners. For the
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Speaker 1: seventh seed, and you've got the tie breaker. So a
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Speaker 1: really really big game from Carolina that finally finally got
43:30
Speaker 1: a big breakout game last week from from their quarterback
43:34
Speaker 1: Bryce Young against the Falcons. We'll see if that was
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Speaker 1: just an outlier and if that can continue against the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers or if that was just one week.
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Speaker 1: The one thing I can tell you about the Carolina
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Speaker 1: Panthers is that McMillan, the wide receiver, is the real deal, folks.
43:48
Speaker 2: Tet McMillan is excellent.
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Speaker 1: Him and Mecca Agbuka have been fantastic rookies wide receivers,
43:56
Speaker 1: just fantastic rookies altogether.
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Speaker 2: Certainly a name to watch down the road.
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Speaker 1: And we'll see if Bryce Young can again get better
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Speaker 1: or if the Panthers wind up finding a different quarterback
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Speaker 1: in the off seasons and when you can get the
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Speaker 1: ball to the receivers more, because Ted.
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Speaker 2: McMillan is the truth.
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Speaker 1: one and up. All right, Dad, is a look at
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Speaker 1: the entire NFL picture, the NFL slate, and of course
45:15
Speaker 1: this week's matchup. I have to do my three picks
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Speaker 1: and I did. I think I did better last week.
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Speaker 1: I told you I was really trying to trying to
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Speaker 1: lock myself in get a little bit better.
45:27
Speaker 2: I've been doing a bad job.
45:30
Speaker 1: Last week I lost my first one the Chargers two
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Speaker 1: and a half against the Jags. I'm so anti Jags
45:36
Speaker 1: that I actually went against my gut about the Chargers
45:39
Speaker 1: and picked them and I lost that game. But I
45:42
Speaker 1: had the Cowboys three and a half over the Raiders,
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Speaker 1: so I won on that game too, So that made
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Speaker 1: me one in one.
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Speaker 2: At the time.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, because they were one by fifteen and I
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Speaker 1: had the Bears getting two and a half points at
45:58
Speaker 1: the Vikings, I couldn't believe the Bears were getting points
46:01
Speaker 1: at the Vikings. And of course the Bears won that
46:03
Speaker 1: game outright, So I went to two and one for
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Speaker 1: the week, and that improved me to fourteen and nineteen
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Speaker 1: for the year.
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Speaker 2: I get. I continue to say this in my pick
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Speaker 2: them league.
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Speaker 1: I am number one. I've been had a great year,
46:17
Speaker 1: but when I have to narrow down to just three,
46:20
Speaker 1: it seems I really struggle. So let me give you
46:23
Speaker 1: what I got this week. Let me tell you what
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Speaker 1: I think is going to happen.
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Speaker 2: Here. I'm actually doing I usually prepare.
46:30
Speaker 1: I'm doing this one on the fly a little bit
46:32
Speaker 1: because I just I remember saying to myself, I just
46:34
Speaker 1: don't know. I wanted the final injury report to come out,
46:37
Speaker 1: and I wanted to see if there were any lines
46:39
Speaker 1: that I thought were really advantageous here and nothing, you know,
46:46
Speaker 1: they're It's hard to say what really jumps out to me.
46:49
Speaker 1: I kind of like the Bears again, but I've gone
46:52
Speaker 1: with the Bears a lot lately. So what I'm gonna
46:53
Speaker 1: do is, I, you know, the Bengals to me without Flack,
46:58
Speaker 1: go back. I believe they're They're still out Troy Hendrickson
47:02
Speaker 1: and they are still out. They're out Cameron Taylor, britt
47:04
Speaker 1: one of the better corners. So I'm gonna I know
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Speaker 1: it's a big line for a road team, but I
47:10
Speaker 1: am going to take the Patriots to cover the seven
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Speaker 1: and a half in Cincinnati. I am going to take
47:18
Speaker 1: Detroit big line to cover the twelve and a half
47:23
Speaker 1: against the Giants. I know Detroit's banged up, but again,
47:26
Speaker 1: the Giants will be starting Winston, They're still without Pulse
47:29
Speaker 1: and the deebo. I think Detroit coming inside is going
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Speaker 1: to make a huge difference being at home so much firepower.
47:36
Speaker 1: So I like Detroit, even.
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Speaker 2: Though that line is big, and.
47:42
Speaker 1: You know, Baltimore thirteen and a half that's too big.
47:45
Speaker 1: Las Vegas get favor.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm gonna stay away from that game.
47:52
Speaker 1: At this point, I think you just gotta go with
47:54
Speaker 1: some really good teams and.
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Speaker 2: Take your chance that they're gonna win by the spread.
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Speaker 2: So give me, huh, give me, man.
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Speaker 1: This is tough, guys, I'm trying to do this on
48:11
Speaker 1: the fly, and there's a lot of these lines that
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Speaker 1: I don't really love. Give me New Orleans. Give me
48:17
Speaker 1: New Orleans at home two and a half over the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Falcons have so many injuries that I
48:22
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be really tough for them to move
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Speaker 1: the ball. So I will take the Saints giving two
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Speaker 1: and a half to the Falcons. The Saints is two
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Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. So those are my three picks.
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Speaker 1: As I say every week, enjoy your football watching. This
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Speaker 1: has been the Inside the Birds Week twelve preview