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Von Miller Injury Update, Breakdowns with PFF's Trevor Sikkema, & Chase Young Listed as 'questionable' · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: I'm Amarice in the NFL Network news room of course,
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Speaker 1: while all the latest on the major injuries across the NFL,
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Speaker 1: will also have much more breakdown on the incredible showdowns
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Speaker 1: we're looking at, including the Bengals and Titans rematch of
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Speaker 1: the a f C Divisional showdown last year. But we
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Speaker 1: start start with a major injury from last night where
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Speaker 1: we saw von Miller carted off in that Bill's Lions game.
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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport Tom pellas Ero with much more on the
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Speaker 1: injury front, and Ian, let's start with you and that
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Speaker 1: von Miller. What's the latest on him. Von Miller had
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Speaker 1: his m r I today and my understanding is he
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Speaker 1: sustained a lateral meniscus tear in his knee. He did
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Speaker 1: not tear the A C L. That is good news.
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Speaker 1: If he had turned the A C L, there's no
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Speaker 1: decision to be made. He would have surgery, his season
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Speaker 1: would be over. This is far more complicated for von Miller,
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Speaker 1: which isn't a bad thing, but it's not a good
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Speaker 1: thing either. Here's where it all stands. He's gonna take
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Speaker 1: about the next seven to ten days to see how
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Speaker 1: his knee responds to treatment and rehab. If all goes well,
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Speaker 1: if he's feeling okay, and then really in some ways
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Speaker 1: does depend on his feeling in addition to whether or
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Speaker 1: not he can re injure it. But if he's feeling okay,
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Speaker 1: then down the line, closer to the playoffs, close to
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Speaker 1: the end of the season, he could theoretically play with
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Speaker 1: a brace. Wouldn't be the first time he's done it,
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Speaker 1: he'd played, he's played with a brace before. If he's
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Speaker 1: not feeling good, if it's not healing properly, then he
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Speaker 1: would need surgery, which would likely knock him out for
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Speaker 1: the season. So the Buffalo Bills and von Miller have
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Speaker 1: no mediate answer in wait and c mode for their
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Speaker 1: star pass rusher. Yeah, von Miller's injury will play a
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Speaker 1: major role in the a f C playoff race. So
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Speaker 1: well Sunday's game between the Bengals and the Titans, Tom,
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Speaker 1: We're keeping an eye on a couple of injuries there
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Speaker 1: for Cincinnati. What more can you tell us about Joe Mixon, Lamar,
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is out for Sunday's game against the Titans
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Speaker 1: because of the concussion that he suffered last weekend. Mixon
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Speaker 1: did not practice this entire week. So this is not
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Speaker 1: a surprise that Zach Taylor says officially he's not going
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Speaker 1: to play, but a lot of somaj A p Rhyan
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Speaker 1: in place of mixing coming up against Tennessee. Better news
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Speaker 1: on another Bengal star, Jamaar Chase, had a good week
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Speaker 1: of practice. According to Zach Taylor, He's officially going to
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Speaker 1: be listed as questionable for Sunday. Taylor indicated this could
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Speaker 1: be a game time type of decision. Chase has not
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Speaker 1: played and suffering a hip injury back in Week seven,
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Speaker 1: so whether he plays this week or not, very good
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Speaker 1: news that Jamar Chase is getting close being back on
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Speaker 1: the field for Cincinnati. Omar, Yeah, huge news for Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: win and if Jamar Chase gets into the lineup, it
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Speaker 1: would be huge news whenever Odell Beckham Jr. Gets back
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Speaker 1: into somebody's lineup. Ian, what can you tell us about
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Speaker 1: the O B J sweep stakes. We've probably never dedicated
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Speaker 1: as much airtime min Soona has not played this season
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Speaker 1: as we did this season to Odell, which is awesome.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun thing to talk about, no doubt to
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Speaker 1: be fun wherever he signs, and at least it seems
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Speaker 1: his suitors are now lining up. We've known for a
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Speaker 1: little bit more than a week now that the Giants
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Speaker 1: and Cowboys are going to visit with Odella. Would also
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Speaker 1: not be surprised if the Buffalo Bills through their hat
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Speaker 1: in the ring as well. Of course, O'Dell and von
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Speaker 1: Miller we just talked about are pretty close. They've been
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Speaker 1: talking regularly. The recruitment has been on there. Uh, from
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Speaker 1: what I'm told, the Cowboys visit expected to be December five.
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Speaker 1: That is one that we know. So it's not going
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Speaker 1: to be an immediate decision, which that means we get
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Speaker 1: to talk about Odell for more than another week, which
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Speaker 1: is all, of course, very very good news for all
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Speaker 1: of us. Do we know why it's not being held
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Speaker 1: until December five? Well, I think what teams want is
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Speaker 1: just a little more information on his knee in a
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Speaker 1: little more time. There's no rush. You know, this is
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Speaker 1: someone who's going to contribute the last couple of games
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Speaker 1: and probably into the playoffs. So more information for everyone
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Speaker 1: is better on the knee, on where teams stand on everything. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to track that al right. So the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys enjoying a victory Monday today, Mark Ross and Jim
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Speaker 1: Trotter back with us. Now, Mark, you heard Mike McCarthy say,
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to clean up. What did you
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Speaker 1: take away from the Cowboys yesterday, Well, let's start with
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Speaker 1: a positive first, Omar, and when you look at that
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Speaker 1: Cowboys team, they have all the elements to make a
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl run. They've got Doc at quarterback, They've got
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Speaker 1: playmakers on offense with Ceedee Lamb and Tony Pollard can
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Speaker 1: run the ball with Zeke, the offensive line is playing well,
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Speaker 1: We'll get Tyron Smith back. Then on the defensive side,
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Speaker 1: arguably the best defense in football, and they can swarm teams,
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Speaker 1: especially with the best player in the league possible m
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Speaker 1: VP candidate and Mica Parsons who can take over games,
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Speaker 1: let alone with the Marcus Lawrence can do. So they've
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Speaker 1: got all those elements to make a run. But as
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, we have to clean up things, particularly
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Speaker 1: the penalties. They had third team penalties yesterday leave the league,
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Speaker 1: and penalties tied with Denver this year. And the issue
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Speaker 1: with teams is the consistency things that they do consistently,
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Speaker 1: and what Dallas does consistently is get penalized. And this
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Speaker 1: goes back to last year as well, where they led
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Speaker 1: the league and even in the playoff game against San
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Speaker 1: Francisco had fourteen penalties. So this is something obviously that
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been stressing, the coaching staff has been
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Speaker 1: stressing to improve. But at this point this may be
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Speaker 1: just who Dallas is that they just cannot get out
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Speaker 1: of their way. You watch the game yesterday. They do
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Speaker 1: great things when they get moved back, and they still
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Speaker 1: had so much talent to overwhelm the Giants that it
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Speaker 1: didn't matter. But once it gets to the critical juncture
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Speaker 1: of the season and playoff games and they continue to
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Speaker 1: penalize theirselves, much like last year, is going to be
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Speaker 1: a quick exit out of the playoffs despite all the
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Speaker 1: talent and playmakers that they have on both sides of
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Speaker 1: the ball. Omar and we just saw what it looks
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Speaker 1: like when they do put it all together. The beat
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Speaker 1: down that they put on in Minnesota against the Vikings
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Speaker 1: last Sunday, that forty three efforts, So they can get
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Speaker 1: that consistently. Look out. Meanwhile, Jim Stephen Jones, owner, senior
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Speaker 1: vice president of the Cowboys Challenge ceedee Lamb and said
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Speaker 1: he's got to start playing like a number one receiver.
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Speaker 1: He certainly has responded this year. What else might be
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Speaker 1: motivating here him of recent note, Well, Omar, what's interesting
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Speaker 1: is that he has responded since all this talk of O.
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Speaker 1: B J coming in has happened. He's gone over a
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Speaker 1: hundred yards and two of the last three games. That's
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Speaker 1: only the second time in his career he's had over
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Speaker 1: a hundred yards receiving in two out of three games.
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Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, that's critical for Dallas to get
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Speaker 1: him going in that way. But one of the things
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Speaker 1: I take from that game yesterday was the diversification of
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Speaker 1: this offense. We see now Zeke and Tony Pollard how
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Speaker 1: they complement each other, and we saw the incorporation of
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Speaker 1: the tight ends yesterday in the passing game, and that's
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Speaker 1: critical to this Dallas offense as well, so that teams
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Speaker 1: can't load up on that running game or on Ceedee
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Speaker 1: lamb if O b J is not there. So for me,
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Speaker 1: that's something I took away from this game. When you
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Speaker 1: see them getting more players involved offensively, and as Mark said,
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Speaker 1: you get Tyrn Smith back, this offense has a chance
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Speaker 1: to go to another level. So that's what I took
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Speaker 1: from yesterday's game was just to see more guys involved,
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Speaker 1: more playmakers involved, which should make dallas Is offense more
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Speaker 1: dangerous as we go forward, and when Dak Prescott returned.
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys are leading the league in scoring since that
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Speaker 1: week seven efforts, so certainly an explosive offense that could
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Speaker 1: only get better here down the stretch. Mark Ross, Jim Trotter,
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Speaker 1: thank you both very much. Still to come here on
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Speaker 1: NFL now we're gonna get PFFS breakdown on the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: How realistic is a playoff run for them now that
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Speaker 1: they are on the outside looking in. That's next on
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Speaker 1: NFL now. Justin Herbert and the Chargers up twenty to
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Speaker 1: thirteen last week against the Chiefs, but couldn't hold on
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Speaker 1: and now are sitting at five and five and one
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Speaker 1: game out of the playoffs. Here's a look at the
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Speaker 1: current a f C playoff race. Of course, the Chargers
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Speaker 1: have lost two in a row, going back to the
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Speaker 1: Sunday night loss against the Forts the week before, and
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Speaker 1: there you see currently the Jets at six and four,
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Speaker 1: back into that playoff position because of the Patriots lost
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Speaker 1: last night. And there you see the Bengals and the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins there in the wild card spot because of the
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Speaker 1: Bills win yesterday. For much more on all things NFL.
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Speaker 1: We welcome in our Pro Football Focus Analysts p F
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Speaker 1: Trevor Sikama, who joins US now also co hosts a
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Speaker 1: multiple podcasts there with PFF, and we're gonna start this discussion, Trevor,
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Speaker 1: with those Chargers, despite falling out of the playoff picture
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Speaker 1: right now, despite losing two in a row, you still
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Speaker 1: think they have a chance, more than a chance at
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. How do you explain that? It's hard not
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Speaker 1: to believe in Justin Herbert when you see some of
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Speaker 1: the throws that he makes, I mean, they're alien like.
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Speaker 1: He is in a tier with some of the best
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL, and as we know, the quarterback
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Speaker 1: position is the most important position in the game. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet on a guy like that. Looked behind
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Speaker 1: the eight ball a little bit. In our PF power
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Speaker 1: rankings and our simulations, we have them at a thirty
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Speaker 1: four percent chance to make the playoffs. That's below both
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Speaker 1: the Jets and the Patriots, so they do need a
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Speaker 1: little bit of help. But Patriots, according to our stimulations
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Speaker 1: as well, and the second toughest schedule movie forward, So
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Speaker 1: that's good news for the Chargers. Ultimately, though, Justin Herbert
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Speaker 1: has been playing so well. He's got one of the
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Speaker 1: lowest turnover worthy play rates in the NFL, despite having
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Speaker 1: the second most passing attempts. He's got the most big
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Speaker 1: time throws despite having a thirty fifth ranked average step
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Speaker 1: to targets. So this guy is still playing incredibly well.
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Speaker 1: If something lets him down. Honestly, it's gonna be that
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Over the last three years
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Speaker 1: their bottom ten in the NFL and defensive points allowed,
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Speaker 1: and over the last two years their bottom five, And
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Speaker 1: so they're not going in the right direction on the
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. But if they get a
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Speaker 1: little bit held here, if they start playing a little
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Speaker 1: bit better, there, give me Justin Herbert. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's hard to bet against the guy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert not necessarily putting up the numbers he's had
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Speaker 1: in the past, but when you consider he's spent most
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Speaker 1: of the year without Keenan Allen, a lot of time
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Speaker 1: without Mike Williams, under that context becomes more impressive. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the Chargers are at the Cardinals this weekend. As for
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Speaker 1: another a f C contender, the Baltimore Ravens. Their offense
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Speaker 1: didn't look good last week. They got the win, but
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Speaker 1: what makes you confident that this offense can get it together? Well, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: the most confidence that I have in the Ravens has
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Speaker 1: to come to the defenses side of the ball. Right
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Speaker 1: when you look at the last six seven weeks, or
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Speaker 1: especially even as of late the last three or four weeks,
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Speaker 1: they've been top ten, top five in the NFL in
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Speaker 1: terms of e p A per play allowed on defense,
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Speaker 1: which is a big time metric when it comes to lighting.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot of points come on the scoreboard for
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Speaker 1: the other team, So you have to have faith in
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Speaker 1: where the Ravens defense is going. And on the other
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Speaker 1: side of things, they're just so thin a receiver. That's
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Speaker 1: the biggest worry with what they have right now is
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Speaker 1: can they keep up with some of these better offenses
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Speaker 1: in the NFL even with the good defense. Losing Rashad
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Speaker 1: Bateman really hurt this team. They loved their the offense
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Speaker 1: to run through Mark Andrews, but it has to be
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Speaker 1: more than just him. They love to get Devin du
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Speaker 1: Burney more involved. Even the coaches and talked about that
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks here, but duburne he
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Speaker 1: was making good plays as a wide receiver three? Is
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Speaker 1: he a wide receiver one type guy like they'd love
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Speaker 1: for him to be. Now with the injuries they've had
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Speaker 1: at receiving corps, I'm not so sure about that. So,
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Speaker 1: even with the fans and even the coaches clamoring for
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Speaker 1: more Devin Dubernet touches, how much return on investment are
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Speaker 1: you going to get there? Or is it just the
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Speaker 1: fact that the receiver room is so thin? You know,
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Speaker 1: it's Lamar Jackson, you know, great things can always happen
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Speaker 1: when he's the quarterback. But is the receiving corps going
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Speaker 1: to be the achilles heel for this Ravens team. We'll
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Speaker 1: have to see. And now with that Lamar Jackson hip injury,
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Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on for this offense.
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Speaker 1: We saw the a f C playoff picture a moment ago.
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Speaker 1: Take a look at the NFC playoff picture. Now. The
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Speaker 1: forty Niners, thanks to that Monday night win over the Cardinals,
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Speaker 1: take over the top spot in the NFC West thanks
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Speaker 1: to their earlier winning the season over the Seahawks are there.
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Speaker 1: They are number three, of course, the Vikings and the
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Speaker 1: Eagles in front of them with that nine and one,
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Speaker 1: nine and two record, and they're the Buccaneers hanging on
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Speaker 1: five and five, leaders of the NFC South. And you
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Speaker 1: see the Cowboys, Giants, and Seahawks all right there, and
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Speaker 1: there was Washington coming in, you know, the dark horse
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Speaker 1: that they are as the eighth seed. But let's go
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Speaker 1: back to the forty Niners. We saw the embarrassment of
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Speaker 1: riches they have on offense there on Monday night. So
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Speaker 1: many weapons to choose from. What's your take on San
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Speaker 1: Francisco's offense. Look, it's Thanksgiving. I got family from Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: They're all big Eagles fans. They loved what's going on
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Speaker 1: this season. But I was telling him last night for Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: the biggest threat to the Eagles to me is the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners. You look at what they can
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Speaker 1: do on both sides. The ball, of course, to Miko
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Speaker 1: Ryan's has that defense flying around, playing like one of
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Speaker 1: the best defenses in the NFL. But then he moved
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Speaker 1: over to the offensive side. Even if you want to
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Speaker 1: sit there and say, Jimmy Garoppolo, he's not a takeover guy.
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Speaker 1: He's just a game manager. Even if that's the case,
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Speaker 1: which I'm pushed back on a little bit, look at
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Speaker 1: who he's got to be a game manager to Christian McCaffrey,
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Speaker 1: Italy receiving great out of the backfield, Deevo, Samuel most
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Speaker 1: miss tackles force of any player at the receiver position
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Speaker 1: so far this season, Brandon i Us now in the
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Speaker 1: eighties grades. He is becoming one of the better route
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Speaker 1: runners in the NFL. And of course George Kittle, he
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Speaker 1: plays so well as a blocker and a receiver. You
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Speaker 1: can't cheat. You can't cheat either side because he'll beat
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Speaker 1: you anyway. And I think that that is the story
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Speaker 1: of San Francisco's offense at this point, after they acquired
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. You can't afford to lean one way or another.
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Speaker 1: You have to focus on each one of these guys
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Speaker 1: and demanding a defense to cover Deebo, Samuel Brand and I,
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle every single play. That's tough, and
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Speaker 1: that's a tough pass. That's why the Nights are so
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Speaker 1: good and as dangerous as they've looked already, including Monday
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Speaker 1: putting up thirty eight points on the board, they've only
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Speaker 1: had a few games of experience playing together. You can
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Speaker 1: imagine what they might look like in January once they
14:43
Speaker 1: really get a full head of steam. Trevor Sickamo, We
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Speaker 1: don't have to imagine. He's always good when he's here
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Speaker 1: on NFL and L. For much more in hip coverage,
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Speaker 1: go to PF dot com. Go to the app at
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Speaker 1: PF for much more from Trevor. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Packers heading to Philadelphia to take
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Speaker 1: on the nine and one Eagles. Will break that one
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Speaker 1: down next right here on NF. On that I got drums,
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Speaker 1: I got banned third time he came off the line. Hurts,
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Speaker 1: He's back, He's gonna run, he said, talks down, hearts
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Speaker 1: Hurts quarterback Rock scores at the Eagles points. Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: was a big time touchdown by Jalen Hurts to win
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Speaker 1: the game against the Colts and cap that ten point
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback. For much more on the Eagles game
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Speaker 1: upcoming against the Packers, we welcome back James Palmer and
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Speaker 1: Jim Trotter, and James will start with you. Nick Sirianni
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Speaker 1: and at Eagles offense fifth in the league right now,
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Speaker 1: But where are they looking to improve. It's that spot
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Speaker 1: right there. It is the tight red zone, which is
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Speaker 1: a major focus for this team each and every week.
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Speaker 1: It is their longest meeting of the week. It happens
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night. They start preparing for it tuesdaynight, where all
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Speaker 1: the coaches are in there trying to find little added wrinkles,
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Speaker 1: little adjustments or changes to what they do in that
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Speaker 1: tight red zone at last about three or four hours
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Speaker 1: every Wednesday night. And that play in particular, was a
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Speaker 1: wrinkle that they put in that very week to play
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Speaker 1: off of some of the stuff that they have down there.
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Speaker 1: Using Jalen Hurts to run the football in the red zone,
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Speaker 1: that's where they feel like they have an added advantage
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Speaker 1: because teams have to find a way to defend them.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time they know that Jim a
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Speaker 1: lot of teams do things differently down deep in the
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Speaker 1: red zone against the Eagles because of Jalen Hurts, So
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Speaker 1: it actually adds in their preparation a sense. But they
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Speaker 1: do think this is an advantage. And that play right there,
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Speaker 1: running a draw with Boston Scott, they're running back to
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Speaker 1: his right in the backfield, something I haven't shown this year.
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Speaker 1: Fool guys like DeForrest Buckner at fool Janik and got
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Speaker 1: Way and as they keep trying to find these little wrinkles.
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Speaker 1: That's why they have the fourth best red zone offense
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Speaker 1: OMAR in the NFL. And running Jalen Hurts down there
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Speaker 1: is a major advantage. And that's why Matt Floor said
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Speaker 1: today in his meeting that he looks at Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: as Josh Allen carrying the football. He can either run
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Speaker 1: you over or run a round you. And it's just
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Speaker 1: a great advantage that they keep tinkering with with this
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Speaker 1: Eagles offense and certainly can run into the end zone
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Speaker 1: with those eight rushing touchdowns, can attest James Jim Rather.
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Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, you have the
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Speaker 1: Packers coming in four and seven. Of course, in Matt
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Speaker 1: Lafour's first three season, they'd won thirteen games every single year.
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Speaker 1: They're not used to being in this position to climb
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Speaker 1: out of this big hole. How concerned are you for
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Speaker 1: them to be able to turn it around here? Well,
17:32
Speaker 1: it's not so much if I'm concerned, Olmarks that we
17:35
Speaker 1: should all be concerned. Look, we're gonna learn a lot
17:38
Speaker 1: about the Packers offen or athletic character in the coming weeks.
17:43
Speaker 1: As you say they're four and seven, they're on the
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Speaker 1: cliff of irrelevancy here. They're five games behind Minnesota in
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Speaker 1: the NFC North. There, two and a half games behind
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Speaker 1: Seattle for the final wild card spot, and even if
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Speaker 1: they went out to get to double digits, there's still
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Speaker 1: no guarantee that they're going to make the playoffs. Think
17:59
Speaker 1: about this from our research staff, they say that since
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Speaker 1: teams that are five and seven have reached the playoffs
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Speaker 1: only ten out of a hundred and fifty one times
18:09
Speaker 1: that same period, if you are four and eight, you
18:12
Speaker 1: have reached the playoffs just once in a hundred and
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Speaker 1: nine times. So the answer against the Packers making a
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Speaker 1: run here. But if they are going to as slim
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Speaker 1: as they are, history says they better win this game. Yeah,
18:26
Speaker 1: the Eagles can make the playoff chances go from slim
18:30
Speaker 1: to none by the end of Sunday. There's a scenario.
18:33
Speaker 1: There's actually a scenario where they could be eliminated this weekend. Yeah,
18:37
Speaker 1: I saw that, and the Vikings could actually win the
18:39
Speaker 1: NFC North if things break their way. So we'll be
18:43
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on that one. For sure, Jim James,
18:45
Speaker 1: thank you both very much. Meanwhile, New Right Now and
18:48
Speaker 1: did the DT on Network News Room. Chase Young officially
18:52
Speaker 1: listed as questionable with that knee injury. Of course, coming
18:56
Speaker 1: back from the injury last year, it's been a long
18:59
Speaker 1: road ahead for Chase Young and the Washington commanders have
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Speaker 1: been on fire of late. Of course, Taylor Heineke has
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Speaker 1: been a big part of that, and now they get
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Speaker 1: ready for the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. For more on
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Speaker 1: that matchup, we welcome back Judy Batista and Mark Ross,
19:14
Speaker 1: and Judy will start with you. Taylor Heineke. He's been
19:17
Speaker 1: the spark. But where else are you looking to attribute
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Speaker 1: some of that success from Washington? Well, Taylor Heineke and
19:23
Speaker 1: the offense has an awfully nice safety net in that defense.
19:27
Speaker 1: That Washington defense is really what is propelling them on
19:31
Speaker 1: this winning streak that they are on. They are third
19:34
Speaker 1: in third down defense and third in big play defense,
19:38
Speaker 1: which means they're not giving up the big chunk plays
19:40
Speaker 1: and they're also getting off the field. They're not allowing
19:43
Speaker 1: those long extended drives. How are they doing it well?
19:46
Speaker 1: Their third in quarterback pressure rate in the league and
19:49
Speaker 1: their fourth in the league in quarterback pressure rate with
19:53
Speaker 1: only four men, so they're not having to bring extra
19:56
Speaker 1: rushers up there to get to the quarterback. They've got
19:59
Speaker 1: three players who have six sacks at least six sex
20:03
Speaker 1: and of course, as you just mentioned, Chase young Key
20:05
Speaker 1: maybe back this week. He's questionable or could be coming
20:08
Speaker 1: in the next few weeks. But all good news for
20:11
Speaker 1: this defense, and that is a real security blanket for
20:14
Speaker 1: Taylor Honecky, no question, judy with that defense what they're doing,
20:19
Speaker 1: only giving up an average of fifteen points in those
20:22
Speaker 1: five wins that they've had. But of course they're inspired
20:25
Speaker 1: by the quarterback, as all teams are. We gotta give
20:28
Speaker 1: Taylor Heinecke love where rond rivery earlier in the year,
20:32
Speaker 1: remember where they asked what the difference between his team
20:34
Speaker 1: was and the NFC East and he said quarterback through
20:36
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz under the bus. But that was prophetic because look,
20:41
Speaker 1: Taror Haneke is not setting it on fire on the
20:43
Speaker 1: field with his stats and throwing. But again, it's the
20:46
Speaker 1: belief that a quarterback gives a team where they're going
20:49
Speaker 1: into the game, that defense the whole team saying this
20:52
Speaker 1: guy is going to give it his all, make key
20:54
Speaker 1: plays for us when he when he needs to not
20:57
Speaker 1: beat beat, beat us and beat himself turning the ball over.
21:01
Speaker 1: And Tara Heneke has done a good job of just
21:03
Speaker 1: making key plays, getting it in Terry McLaren's hands and
21:06
Speaker 1: his playmakers there and staying out of the way so
21:09
Speaker 1: the defense can feast and make plays and win games
21:13
Speaker 1: for the for the Commanders. And when you look at
21:15
Speaker 1: the stretch here this next game against uh the Falcons
21:18
Speaker 1: who run the ball, Washington six against the in the
21:21
Speaker 1: league versus the Rush, another good matchup for them where
21:24
Speaker 1: the defense can feast and Taylor Heineken can inspire and
21:27
Speaker 1: lead omar. Yeah. Remarkably, they were one in four at
21:31
Speaker 1: one point and by the end of this weekend again
21:33
Speaker 1: at things break their where they could be in the
21:35
Speaker 1: NFC playoff picture. It's been a remarkable turnaround to watch
21:39
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke and that defense certainly focal points for the
21:41
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. Judy Mark, thank you both very much. Meanwhile,
21:47
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22:13
Speaker 1: Still to come here on NFL Now All my favorite
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Speaker 1: player growing up, Bo Jackson. We're celebrating an anniversary. Jim
22:21
Speaker 1: Trotter back with us to tell you what that is
22:24
Speaker 1: next on NFL now. Ah, this takes me back to
22:34
Speaker 1: my childhood. My favorite player growing up, Bo Jackson is
22:37
Speaker 1: a ninety one yard touchdown in Week twelve against the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks thirty five years ago. Of course, the Raiders and
22:46
Speaker 1: Seahawks getting together this weekend, but November anniversary of this
22:52
Speaker 1: historic run and performance by Bo Jackson, one of the
22:56
Speaker 1: great players of all time. Of course, the great career
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Speaker 1: cut short with that hip injury in the playoff game
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Speaker 1: against Cincinnati in Jim Trotter wrote about that historic performance
23:07
Speaker 1: by Bo Jackson recently. You can see that article on
23:10
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Trotter and Jim. When you look
23:13
Speaker 1: at that play, what maybe something that we might not
23:16
Speaker 1: know about it? Here? All these years later, Oh, Mars,
23:19
Speaker 1: not just us, it's some of the players who were
23:21
Speaker 1: actually on the field. And that's that that play was
23:23
Speaker 1: not supposed to happen. It was supposed to be a
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Speaker 1: pass play. Mark Wilson, the quarterback that day, told me
23:29
Speaker 1: that when the play came in, it was a pass play.
23:32
Speaker 1: And he said one thing he knew about playing in
23:35
Speaker 1: the Kingdome and said, you don't want to make a
23:37
Speaker 1: mistake and get that crowd involved, because it can be
23:39
Speaker 1: an avalanche on you. But when he heard the play,
23:42
Speaker 1: he looked and he saw that the Seahawks had six
23:45
Speaker 1: defensive backs on the field. Well, the Raiders only had
23:48
Speaker 1: they had their twenty two personnel, two backs and two
23:50
Speaker 1: tight ends. Only had one wide receiver on the field
23:53
Speaker 1: and that was James Lofton. And Mark said he didn't
23:56
Speaker 1: want to take a chance of a mistake happening. The
23:58
Speaker 1: matchup wasn't good, so he changed it himself, not at
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Speaker 1: the line, but actually in the huddle through a run play.
24:04
Speaker 1: And the rest, as they say, is history. Yeah, truly history.
24:07
Speaker 1: What was the most impressive part of that run that
24:10
Speaker 1: performance there three five years ago to you, Jim, I'll
24:14
Speaker 1: say this, Omar doesn't get talked about enough, and it's
24:16
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen and his role in this look. When both
24:20
Speaker 1: came to the team off the baseball season, he didn't
24:22
Speaker 1: know the playbook and so he was behind obviously, And
24:26
Speaker 1: in practice one day, one of the coaches is yelling
24:29
Speaker 1: at him about missing an assignment and whatnot. Well, Marcus Allen,
24:32
Speaker 1: who lets remember as a former league MVP and an
24:34
Speaker 1: All Pro running back, takes the football, turns around and
24:38
Speaker 1: hands it to Bow and says, I will block to you.
24:40
Speaker 1: Not only that, what he would do to help Bo
24:43
Speaker 1: is that he would lean to one direction to show
24:46
Speaker 1: Bow which way the quarterback was going to pivot or
24:50
Speaker 1: the handoff. And so those sorts of little things help
24:53
Speaker 1: Bow get to where he was and do the things
24:56
Speaker 1: that he did. And when you talked to the offensive
24:58
Speaker 1: alignement who were involved in that play, without being solicited,
25:02
Speaker 1: they bring up Marcus Allen being so unselfish in terms
25:07
Speaker 1: of sacrificing uh carries, sacrificing yards, those sorts of things
25:12
Speaker 1: to help Bo be as good as he could be. Yeah,
25:14
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen one of the great class acts in the
25:17
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, certainly in Kenton. In his own
25:19
Speaker 1: right with that gold jacket. Jim Trotter, thank you very
25:22
Speaker 1: much for much more on that article. Again, go to
25:24
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Trotter to learn about more history
25:27
Speaker 1: on bo Jackson and that historic performance still to come.
25:32
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Raiders and the Seahawks, Josh Jacobs Kenneth
25:36
Speaker 1: Walker might not be in the same category as bo Jackson,
25:39
Speaker 1: but they put up some solid numbers this season. So
25:41
Speaker 1: is this matchup in Seattle worthy of your fantasy attention?
25:45
Speaker 1: Here's Patrick Clavan in the Fantasy Life crew with their
25:47
Speaker 1: games of the week. Oh we are stuff, not just
25:52
Speaker 1: with Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving leftovers, but with football. But we
25:56
Speaker 1: got more football, especially fantasy related football, to look forward
25:59
Speaker 1: to this weekend. So let's go through our games of
26:01
Speaker 1: the week. Mike, what are you looking forward to the most?
26:03
Speaker 1: The Chargers in the Cardinals me stands out immediately, like
26:06
Speaker 1: we have two wide receiver ones back in our lives
26:09
Speaker 1: now with d Hop and Keenan Allen. Justin Herbert was
26:12
Speaker 1: playing better football last week and this is a great
26:14
Speaker 1: matchup for him. We know Alson Neckler's awesome. James Conner
26:17
Speaker 1: now has a really good matchup as well. There a
26:19
Speaker 1: lot of big names in this game, and I think
26:21
Speaker 1: a lot of points will be scored, a lot of
26:23
Speaker 1: fantasy games will be determined. I'm really interested in the
26:26
Speaker 1: Raiders versus the Seahawks, and not just because Jim Trotter
26:28
Speaker 1: recently wrote about Bo Jackson trucking Brian Bosworth all those
26:31
Speaker 1: years ago, but I do like the running backs in
26:33
Speaker 1: this when Josh Jacobs has been kind of a revelation
26:35
Speaker 1: for us in fantasy. He's been consistently good all year long,
26:39
Speaker 1: and Kenneth Walker the Third has just stepped up and
26:41
Speaker 1: been huge in the absence of her shot. Penny looks
26:43
Speaker 1: like a guy who could potentially be a league winner.
26:46
Speaker 1: Has a great matchup this week against the Raiders should
26:48
Speaker 1: absolutely being fantasy lineups. You know what, I'm gonna go
26:50
Speaker 1: off the side stage here. I know a lot of
26:52
Speaker 1: people aren't looking at that Texans and Dolphins game and
26:55
Speaker 1: be like, I gotta watch this one, But honestly, I'm
26:58
Speaker 1: really looking forward to this one. One of the reasons
27:00
Speaker 1: why is the running backs on both sides of the football.
27:03
Speaker 1: We got Damian Pierce, who has been one of the
27:05
Speaker 1: players in fantasy football this season, but the Miami Dolphins,
27:08
Speaker 1: who are not very good running the football statistically there
27:12
Speaker 1: in the NFL in running the ball, but Roheem Mostert
27:16
Speaker 1: and Jeff Wilson Jr. Both have an opportunity and both
27:19
Speaker 1: of them need to be in your line. Yeah, so
27:21
Speaker 1: many fantasy viable players, especially on that Dolphins offense. I'm
27:24
Speaker 1: looking at the Titans taking on the Cincinnati Bengals, and
27:27
Speaker 1: there's really only one fantasy viable player on the Tennessey Titans,
27:31
Speaker 1: fortunately for you and for anybody else that has them,
27:33
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Yes, it is Derrick Henry the King. In
27:37
Speaker 1: six of his last eight games, he's gone over twenties
27:40
Speaker 1: fantasy points. And then on the other side, Tee Higgins
27:43
Speaker 1: right now in terms of receptions is a overall wide
27:45
Speaker 1: receiver three so this week nine. So keep an eye
27:48
Speaker 1: on that game and keep an eye on us on
27:50
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Live all week on a NFL network. Yeah,
27:54
Speaker 1: right there at six eastern. Thank you, Patrick and crew.
27:56
Speaker 1: Time now for the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the
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Speaker 1: Week Award. Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson is this week's
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Speaker 1: when you're getting forty uno the votes after reporting both
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Speaker 1: an interception and a fumble recovery in the Lions Week
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Speaker 1: eleven win against the Giants. Congratulations to Aidan Hudchison, your
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Speaker 1: Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Week four Week eleven.
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Speaker 1: Time now for one more thing? Judie Batista will start
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Speaker 1: with you. What's your one more thing? Well, Stefan Diggs
28:24
Speaker 1: made one of the biggest place of the day yesterday
28:26
Speaker 1: to save the Buffalo Bills. But how about this Before
28:30
Speaker 1: the game, he pulled this young fan down out of
28:32
Speaker 1: the stands to participate in pre give wroops. Took him
28:35
Speaker 1: out on the field through my path and then the
28:38
Speaker 1: kids who are pretty good path back to Stefan. That
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Speaker 1: is a fan for life. Great jobs to find Diggs, Mike,
28:44
Speaker 1: what's your one more thing? All right to me? Thanksgiving
28:46
Speaker 1: us all about family and football, and yesterday it all
28:49
Speaker 1: came together for yours truly. The man seen it is
28:52
Speaker 1: my father, the man behind him is my brother. The
28:55
Speaker 1: number seventeen is my son. Big win for them yesterday
28:58
Speaker 1: on a Thanksgiving Day, and to have those guys together
29:01
Speaker 1: with me was pretty awesome. Impressive that they're playing on Thanksgiving.
29:03
Speaker 1: Good on Mike's sons to team Mark. What's your one
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Speaker 1: more Thing, marblee more thing yesterday. The three games, the
29:10
Speaker 1: first time since nineteen six that three Thanksgiving games, we're
29:14
Speaker 1: all within one score and it helped at the Giants
29:16
Speaker 1: with that late, uh late score helped a lot of people.
29:20
Speaker 1: I'm sure our friends in Vegas know what you're talking about.
29:23
Speaker 1: It's also the twenty one anniversary of this. Uh. Playoffs,
29:29
Speaker 1: don't talk about the playoffs. You're kidding me. Playoffs. I
29:33
Speaker 1: just hope we can win a game. One of the
29:35
Speaker 1: great sound bites of all time. Jim Mora and the
29:39
Speaker 1: Playoffs even spawned a whole commercial campaign there with that speech.
29:44
Speaker 1: I caught up with Jim Mora UH in Arizona little
29:47
Speaker 1: earlier this season, as great a personality as ever. Thank
29:51
Speaker 1: you for giving us that one, but we'll never forget. Everybody,
29:54
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