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NFL GameDay View: Week 13 Showdowns - 49ers vs Eagles NFC Championship Rematch, Texans' Upset Alert, Pizza Pizza Pregame Predictions, and Playoff Match Predictions Unveiled · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to game debut preserved by Mercedes Benz, Patrick Clayburn.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be here with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland as.
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  Speaker 3: We are in week thirteen. We've made it, guys, lucky.
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  Speaker 4: We've got so much more to go. We haven't made anything.
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  Speaker 3: We've made it here at this point, we're all together.
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  Speaker 3: We're here. Let's check out the.
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  Speaker 2: Standings through week twelve, and yes, a crown does remain
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  Speaker 2: upon the head of one Greg Rosenthal, who leads us
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  Speaker 2: collectively by two.
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  Speaker 3: Though Greg, it's getting a little tight, are.
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  Speaker 4: You by one? By one? To you? I see you, Patrick.
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  Speaker 4: I've been so focused on the model. Here Patrick's making
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  Speaker 4: these crazy picks and here he snuck up into second.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the score board start.
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  Speaker 5: It's how we finished. We got to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: The picks might not be crazy. The forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 2: Eagles Game of the Week. In case you forgot, these
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  Speaker 2: teams played last season in the Inner Championship Game.
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  Speaker 6: Two best teams in the NFC are a mountain to colloide.
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  Speaker 6: Here at the Lant forty nine Ers and the Eagles
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  Speaker 6: for the white to head the Super Bowl fifty seven.
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  Speaker 6: The NFC Championship is home.
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  Speaker 7: So much Heckingen baking on Thomas. O'm a little lady
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  Speaker 7: the fal he light the moon said, they light them up.
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  Speaker 4: Rock Perty has been take getting out of the game.
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  Speaker 6: You have to play the title game without a quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: We had him, We had him.
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  Speaker 8: He's the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFC Championship, but they
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  Speaker 8: are heading the Super Bowl fifty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Time from the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Fins.
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  Speaker 2: Forty nine Ers Eagles at the link top two teams
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC. Brock Perty has a functional elbow going
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  Speaker 2: into the game that Eagles underdogs despite being at home
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  Speaker 2: and being ten one with the best record in the league.
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  Speaker 2: These teams do not like each other back and forth
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  Speaker 2: on social media.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see, Greg?
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  Speaker 4: I see a team in the forty nine ers that
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  Speaker 4: has a lot of extra rest. Rest is important, isn't
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  Speaker 4: it like if you get a good night's sleep the
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  Speaker 4: night before? I have a better game day view. The
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  Speaker 4: forty nine Ers have four extra days, while the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: last Sunday and their defensive players were on the field
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  Speaker 4: longer than they've ever been on the field. I think
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  Speaker 4: this matters. Ninety eight snaps for their defensive back last week,
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  Speaker 4: more than thirty more than the forty nine ers had
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  Speaker 4: on their Thursday night game. Josh Sweaton career high in
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  Speaker 4: snaps over eighty last week. Hassan Redick seventy five steps,
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  Speaker 4: fifteen more than any time with the Eagles. These are
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  Speaker 4: all like exponentially more than any other game they played.
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  Speaker 4: The same is true for Jordan Davis. Meanwhile, look at
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  Speaker 4: the forty nine ers. This is all they were dead
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  Speaker 4: last week. They were celebrating. That was the most energy
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  Speaker 4: they spent against Seattle was thirty snaps. Forty snaps. The
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  Speaker 4: defensive line was chilling in a game where I think
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  Speaker 4: the two teams are very even. I really do believe
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  Speaker 4: the schedule in terms of the Eagles coming off to
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  Speaker 4: very difficult games, especially one that went to overtime. The
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  Speaker 4: extra rest for the forty nine Ers, that's enough for
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  Speaker 4: me to pick them in this game.
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  Speaker 5: I too have the forty nine Ers, but I have
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  Speaker 5: a much closer margin, just two points twenty five to
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  Speaker 5: twenty three for me. Eagles do have luck on their side,
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  Speaker 5: but brock Purty and his good elbow. The play action
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  Speaker 5: passing should be good, especially on intermediate routes to Deebo Samuel.
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  Speaker 5: There seems to be a Deebo Samuel size hole in
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  Speaker 5: the middle back of that secondary. Now, when I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: at the play action situation for brock Purty, seventy seven
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  Speaker 5: point one percent completion of percentage in eight touchdowns. Those
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  Speaker 5: are either first or tied for first. And then look
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  Speaker 5: at the defense. Just a forty seven point three success allowed.
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  Speaker 5: So that's a high number, that's the ninth lowest. Like
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna have a good chance here to just see
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  Speaker 5: that debo end zone. Uh, there we go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he called James Bradbury trash, so he's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: extra fire.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of there's a lot of back and
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  Speaker 5: forth both ways.
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  Speaker 2: There, and I think we can, especially the way that
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  Speaker 2: I feel we can get rid of all that.
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  Speaker 3: These are two very good teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think they're both going to try hard breaking
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  Speaker 2: news there. I will take the ten to one team
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  Speaker 2: that is playing at home in the Philadelphia Eagles, and
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  Speaker 2: let's look back to that revenge game for the San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers. Yes, of course, it helps to
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  Speaker 2: have a quarterback that can throw the ball past ten yards.
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  Speaker 3: But the Eagles ran the ball forty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight times in that game. Yes, it got out of
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  Speaker 2: hand late and that changes the script. But I believe
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  Speaker 2: the addition of DeAndre Swift makes this run game better
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  Speaker 2: than when they went to the Super Bowl a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: The forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 2: Don't necessarily constantly face teams that are capable of running
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  Speaker 2: the ball against them. This Eagles team can, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why I'm comfortable picking the Eagles by a point twenty
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  Speaker 2: five to twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad that we aren't all the same on this one,
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  Speaker 5: because this one just feels like it should have some
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  Speaker 5: level of us disagreeing. If we would have been comp
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  Speaker 5: mem alert across, I mean, it'd be good for our
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  Speaker 5: standings because then we either kind of winner died together.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know. I think it's more fair.
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  Speaker 4: More even better though. If Patrick's wrong and we're well right,
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  Speaker 4: that's how we get.
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  Speaker 2: But again, look at the scores. Always look at the scores.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like we think like, oh, this team's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Let's move on to c. J. Stroud and the Texans
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  Speaker 2: who just came up short last week against the Jags
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  Speaker 2: with a rookie quarterback has been mussy TV all season long.
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  Speaker 4: The Houston Texans select c J.
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  Speaker 6: Stroud, pure natural thrower, bring a leader, I'll bring lead.
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  Speaker 7: Firing gap yet to his right, tack down to the house.
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  Speaker 5: C J.
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  Speaker 4: Stroud with more magic. CJ looking throwing to the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: Talk touch down for you, kiddy track six.
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  Speaker 6: Here's in for the touchdown and he has three interceptions.
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  Speaker 5: In this game.
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  Speaker 3: Steph Curry, don't ever stop shooting.
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  Speaker 4: What a throw Die Stroud.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna shame my game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm queen Land around the rookie phenom and the Texans
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  Speaker 2: playing host of the Broncos, both at six and five,
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  Speaker 2: both fighting for a playoff spot.
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  Speaker 3: Denver has won five straight. Do they get to six? Great?
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm picking the Broncos to win six straight.
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  Speaker 4: But I am twenty seven to twenty three. And it's
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  Speaker 4: because of their defense. And I look at CJ. Stroud,
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  Speaker 4: they asked him to do so much, whereas Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 4: has a better defense on his side. This defense has
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  Speaker 4: for seventeen turnovers since Week six. Since that week when
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  Speaker 4: they turned it round on Thursday, Night Football. They are
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  Speaker 4: seventh in the league in EPA per play allowed, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot of the pass rush. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: these guys don't get a lot of pop. But Jonathan
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  Speaker 4: Cooper has been playing well. Nick Benito has been playing well.
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  Speaker 4: Zach Allen was a nice freeze.
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  Speaker 5: Say Brandon Browning, that's like the best one.
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  Speaker 4: It was fourth on my list. Frowning. I just love
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  Speaker 4: him and I look at him against this Texans offensive
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  Speaker 4: un and they're good. But I think it's a team game,
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  Speaker 4: and I think the Texans are like more about one
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  Speaker 4: guy in their passing game, whereas the Broncos they're a
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  Speaker 4: better team.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we could.
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  Speaker 2: We could get you on board on this Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 2: defense that hasn't allowed a receiver to have more than
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  Speaker 2: seventy five yards since Week five. And yes, the index
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  Speaker 2: on pass defense it's working. But I am taking the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos because of Russell Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: Let's side everybody.
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  Speaker 2: He has the most game winning drives and fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: comebacks in the entire league, as well as the best
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  Speaker 2: touchdown interception ratio. He is playing safe, but it's very effective.
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  Speaker 2: Like look at these touchdown passes that he's throwing where
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  Speaker 2: only the receiver could get. He had this one which
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  Speaker 2: was just incredible on both his and Courtland Sutton's parts,
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  Speaker 2: But then the one last week over on.
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  Speaker 3: The other sideline.
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  Speaker 2: It's just been very good and I just want to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate Russ considering all of the heat that he was
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  Speaker 2: taking last year.
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  Speaker 3: He's playing great football.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess I get a prime number here, and
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  Speaker 5: I get a prime number on the team that's favored.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we'll by three and a half to whatever. I'll
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  Speaker 4: take it.
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  Speaker 5: I have a three point win for the Houston Texans
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  Speaker 5: twenty four to twenty one in this matchup. I'm really
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  Speaker 5: you talk about the Broncos defense causing turnovers, how do
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  Speaker 5: you not turn over the run the football? And you
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  Speaker 5: know you've seen over the past few weeks you've seen
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  Speaker 5: Devin Singletary really take this huge step forward. Obviously, when
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  Speaker 5: Pierce was injured, that's when he got his time to shine,
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  Speaker 5: and he really hasn't relinquished it now that they're both there.
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  Speaker 5: When I'm looking at the opportunity, even taking out that
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  Speaker 5: seventy burger that Miami put out on top of them,
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  Speaker 5: your yard's over expected on runs allowed by the defense,
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  Speaker 5: even with all those good players, even with every when
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  Speaker 5: we were just remember that's it's like forty percent. So
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  Speaker 5: that's a high number, one of the highest in the league.
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  Speaker 5: So I think they're run game.
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  Speaker 4: I mean bad run that's how Yeah, excellent, haven't been
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  Speaker 4: able to run against just about anybody's.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things. It's it's moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: People are still like they talk a little trash there, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Greg, Greg's getting little itchy.
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  Speaker 2: People expect points this one. This one has one of
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  Speaker 2: the highest over unders of the week. Looking at the rest,
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  Speaker 2: people are expecting boatloads of points, but not quite fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Between the Miami Dolphins and the Commanders. There's the game
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  Speaker 2: we just discussed, the Lions and the Saints, and then
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  Speaker 2: the championship game rematch. But let's focus on the Lions
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  Speaker 2: and Saints. Expected to be high scoring game as this tradition.
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia's hometown Lions kinda didn't have the success that she
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  Speaker 2: wanted on Thanksgiving, losing to the Packers.
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  Speaker 3: Will they bounce back? Cynthia?
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  Speaker 5: This gaid, what that actually says that you wrote that
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  Speaker 5: You didn't say lost got waxed.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say that, but it's true, and.
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  Speaker 5: Why because the pass defense looked not so good, as
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  Speaker 5: in terrible. When I'm looking at the opportunity in this game,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be different. I'll tell you why in
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  Speaker 5: a second, But I do want to point out my
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  Speaker 5: Lions are really letting me down over the past four weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Their pass defense has been pretty abysmal. So it's their
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  Speaker 5: run defense. Let's just put it that way. They're like
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  Speaker 5: twenty eight in the league on defense, and Jordan Love
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  Speaker 5: was out here looking like the third coming of a
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  Speaker 5: great Packers all MVP in a row, which would just
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  Speaker 5: be sickening for everyone else in the NFC North. But
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  Speaker 5: I do have the Lions winning in this game twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: To twenty negativity for a Lions win here.
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  Speaker 5: I call it like I see it in that defense
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  Speaker 5: is needs a little help, needs a little help.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Their defense struggling is one reason why, Like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: give you a free write this out. I maybe should
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  Speaker 4: save it for later, but the points in this game
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  Speaker 4: are gonna be much higher than forty six and a half.
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  Speaker 4: I got the Lions winning thirty one to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if it's thirty eight to thirty
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  Speaker 4: something like that. The only reason it'll be a little lower,
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  Speaker 4: And why have the Lions winning and buy more than
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  Speaker 4: four and a half is because the Saints kick a
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  Speaker 4: lot of field goals. Derek Carr has been struggling in
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  Speaker 4: the red zone now for a few years. Really throughout
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  Speaker 4: his career, it hasn't been a strength of his but
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  Speaker 4: this year and last specifically, if you look at his
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  Speaker 4: throws inside the ten yard line, he is under thirty
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  Speaker 4: percent completion. There is no other qualifier, you know, with
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  Speaker 4: more than twenty attempts within ten or fifteen percent of him.
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  Speaker 4: The next closest quarter back in terms of low completion
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  Speaker 4: percentage is Matt Ryan, who may be calling this game.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what's going on this this Lion's defense.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's NFC. So it's Fox.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna they're gonna bounce yeah it well, yeah they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna bounce back. And I know, uh, Patrick, you don't
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  Speaker 4: like to say, Okay, we know the Lions are gonna
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  Speaker 4: try harder here, but do you believe in vibes? Because
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  Speaker 4: the Lions vibes coming off a loss, needing the win,
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  Speaker 4: they're just gonna be so much better than these Saints
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  Speaker 4: vibes where the booze are there. Well, things aren't great.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, both teams coming off of losses.
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  Speaker 2: With the Vibes and New Orleans, we've charted them as
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  Speaker 2: the seasons has gone on and on motivation factor. I
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  Speaker 2: do wish we had the CJGJ revenge game, but we don't.
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  Speaker 2: He did posts perhaps a comeback date December twentieth this week.
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  Speaker 5: So you'll love to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Lions need help on defense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they need it this week because the
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  Speaker 2: Lions could put too much speed on the field for
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  Speaker 2: a Saints team that, of course plays a lot of
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  Speaker 2: nickels twenty twenty three airbys in the nickel a whole bunch.
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  Speaker 2: But they're one of those teams that might not prefer
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  Speaker 2: to They're in four to three about twenty percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time. They don't have a linebacker. Nobody does that
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  Speaker 2: could run with Jamir Gibbs. The safeties are gonna have
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  Speaker 2: issues with Gibbs and coverage as well. Considering New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: is number thirty against runs from the shotgun, I think
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  Speaker 2: this might get bad. I have Detroit winning thirty four
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  Speaker 2: to twenty one coming up, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: going to Lambo for a huge Sunday Night game. Is
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  Speaker 2: anyone bold enough to take.
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  Speaker 3: The Packers here? One person is Wowo.
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  Speaker 7: We'll tell you who's right there next on game debut, It's.
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  Speaker 3: Time for pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Pizza pregame predictions delivered by Little Caesars, Chiefs, Packers and Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Night and Lambo. You might want to hot and ready
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  Speaker 3: warm up for that one.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City currently the two seed in the AFC, the
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  Speaker 2: Packers fighting for a wildcard spot. Do they fight and
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  Speaker 2: get closer to the wild card something?
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  Speaker 5: No? Well, I mean they get closer.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: It's definitely plausible for them to make it. But this
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  Speaker 5: isn't the week where that scale really tips in their favor.
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  Speaker 5: I have the Chiefs pinning this one twenty five to twenty,
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  Speaker 5: maybe a little bit closer than expected. But I want
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  Speaker 5: to show you something about these Rashi Rice crossing routes
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  Speaker 5: from last week. They're simple, that's it, Yes, right, They're
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  Speaker 5: not doing anything crazy. They're not trying to ask him
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  Speaker 5: to go so so deep that you're really airing it
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  Speaker 5: out where Patrick Mahomes is rifling it to you at
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  Speaker 5: sixty something miles per hour. We saw that from another
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  Speaker 5: quarterback didn't go as well. Right, So when you're trying
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  Speaker 5: to get things back into a rhythm, intermediate crossing routes
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  Speaker 5: really a good plan for them, and it worked, especially
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  Speaker 5: when you look at this Packers' injury report. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if jyr Alexander will play. He's still on it
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  Speaker 5: as a Friday. There's also a litany of other guys
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  Speaker 5: that are missing, and by the way, Rasul Douglas he's
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  Speaker 5: now a bill, So they're missing pieces in the secondary.
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  Speaker 5: And while the front is really good, I still think
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  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes and that O line has an advantage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a lot of similarities this week, and
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  Speaker 4: one is that the Chiefs will win this game, but
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  Speaker 4: not by six points. I only have it as one point.
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  Speaker 4: Who I feel stronger that the Packers keep it close
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  Speaker 4: than I do either way winning. But I just didn't
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  Speaker 4: have the guts to do it. Maybe I should because
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Loves is playing out shat.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not going to witch it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not taking this big underdog. Jordan Love's eyes are amazing.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the things you want to look for
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  Speaker 4: in a young quarterback. I don't mean like you're looking
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  Speaker 4: into his eyes and they're like soulful and green or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that. I mean you can tell he's looking
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  Speaker 4: at the right receivers at the right times and going
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  Speaker 4: through his progression and it's pretty quick. And that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that you look before because you see
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  Speaker 4: throws like this and you know he can do the
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  Speaker 4: extra stuff. He's got the big time throws. He's got
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  Speaker 4: the eyes that shows me he's gonna have a long
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  Speaker 4: career in big games like this. I can't wait for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait to watch Jordan Love playing in
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  Speaker 2: a big game. Can't wait for you guys to pick him.
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  Speaker 3: I will pick him right here against the Kansas jef.
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  Speaker 3: It's a one point win for me. We're barking twenty
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  Speaker 3: five to twenty four the.
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  Speaker 2: Home team because they are playing at home that it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be juiced up. And I know it's like, well
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  Speaker 2: does that matter? Maybe maybe it does, but the team
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  Speaker 2: itself is playing well. I hope Jayden Reid questionable coming
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  Speaker 2: into this game. I hope he's able to play. But
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  Speaker 2: the past five weeks, Jordan Love has no touch excuse
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  Speaker 2: me the past couple of weeks, five touchdowns, no picks
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  Speaker 2: for Jordan Love and Read.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of these rookie receivers.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: We talk about Tank Dell, we could talk about Zay Flowers.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Jade Reid is one of the rookie receivers who's leading
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: his team in receiving yards.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: He's playing spectacularly. I've got the packers.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Are you sure you don't want to switch it so
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: I can myself again over?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the full right route tree. Maybe maybe that's why
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: a certain Raiders corner was no longer on the team
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: after all those crossing rounds.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Moving on.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but Sean McVay has the Rams in
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: playoff contention.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Play fake boot left, Stafford clips's hips fires still fly
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: cat it take me. He goes in for his first
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: touchdown season.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: It's a snap back to throw, slide the pocket slings
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: one back of the end zone.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: It's hippy again.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: It's a screen left kickout block.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Kiren has it fifteen ten.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Five, linking into the end zone and touched back to throw.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: Stafford lobs it left side end zone, touch touchdown. Karen
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Williams touchdown Alaye.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: After scoring a jillion points against the Cardinals. The Rams
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: playhost of the Browns at SOFI Stadium right over there,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: both games alive and the race for the playoffs DTR
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: is out.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: We're gonna get Joe Flacco. How do you feel about
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: this matchup?
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I love personally having Joe Flacco back in
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: my life, and I like the Browns to keep it close.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: But I like the Rams to win it in part
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: because they've totally transformed their run game under Sean McVay.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Think about what they're doing this year in the run game,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: it's all about duo. I'm not the the film guy,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: but duo's pretty obvious what it means. It means two
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: guys on one. It's power running. It's using your tight
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: ends and sometimes these wide receivers to get a double
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: team and run the ball downhill. And that's the opposite
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: of what Sean McVay used to do with his zone
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: blocking scheme. And it's really working against these lightweight defenses,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: kind of like the Browns, who are incredible, but you
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: don't really want to throw the ball against them. You'd
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: rather run the ball against them. And I think that's
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: what the Rams will do in a fun game.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: It's like an inverse Todd Gurley right, with all those
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: screen passes, and now they've completely changed it to power.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: I too have the Rams winning this one. I have
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: a little bit bigger margin than you, though. I have
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: twenty four to nineteen, so a five point win. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: will say that one of the ways that we will
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: see the Browns attack this defense is to run the football.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Why because if you look at where the Rams rank
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: in terms of EPA allowed on the ground, it's twenty eighth.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: That's an area to exploit, especially since Jerome Ford has
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: more than two hundred yards after contact over his past
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: four games. So if they're gonna upset the Rams, or
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: if they're gonna buck the trend of what you and
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I are both saying, it will probably be because they
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: get the run game down really well.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe get Joe Flacco out there on the edge with.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: I don't need to Can you imagine Joe Flacco, We
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: get like a next gen stats.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Of how I mean, you guys have both picked the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Rams here, But I have some information coming in. It's
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: from Brown's receiver of Marik Coople regarding one Joe Flacco
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: that may change these folks minds.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: He looks good he throws a very pretty ball. You know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: I don't know if his intentional or what, but when
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: he drops it back and he lets it go the
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: whole motion, it's like, it's like poetry emotion.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: It looks good, it's like poetry emotion.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's not wrong. First of all, great hair,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Joe Flacco, and I think back to the Super Bowl.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm talking right now, have super
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Bowl performance against the forty nine er. I've never seen
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: a ball move through the air like prettier. Well then
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: he then Joe Flaco.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Threw it on that night to look poetry emotion. A
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: super Bowl champion. I believe in Joe Flacco that he exists. Yeah,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and taking the rams as well. Twenty three eighteen meme away,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: you know, despite how beautiful the ball flies.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Through the air, poetry in motion, but not a win.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot to ask and Joe Flacker to
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: come back and get this win. Coming up, Aaron Rodgers
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: is back. Kind of the Jets need to stay in
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: the playoff race for Rogers to return. Can they pull
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: off a win Sunday against the Falcons?
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Are picks for that game?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Next on game debut.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, we might actually see Aaron Rodgers
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: back on the field, the field at least the season.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: The Jets quarterback was clear to Wednesday to return to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: practice eleven weeks after tearing his achilles gang green, opening
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that twenty one day window to be activated off injured reserve.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: He did say this week, as the Jets play the Falcons,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the only way he were turns is if the team
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: is in the playoffs.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Do the Jets give him hope this week?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Greg, no hope for Jets fans. That's what happened in December.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's been like that ever since Robert Sala showed up.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: The Falcons are gonna win this game. I have it
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: as twenty to twelve four field goals for the Jets.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: But it's the Falcons offense that got me feeling a
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: certain way last week. Maybe we can have a fun
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: NFC South team this season, because when I saw how
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: their outside zone was working, I thought, wow, this reminds
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: me of the twenty twenty two Falcons. They were all cohesive,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Kleb McGarry, Chris Linstermann up front, big hole. Well, you're right,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: they all looked great, And maybe I thought Arthur Smith
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: got back in the lab during their bye week and
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: they tightened the bolts and they fixed what had been
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: going wrong all year, which is they've just been a
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: terrible run blocking team. Because if they can do that,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: they can at least be the best team in the
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: NFC South and they can beat a bad Jets team.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And they were able to get that win over the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Saints with just thirteen completions from Desmond Rider.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: But he did make some plays last week.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He had the interception, there was another slip up to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the honey Badger, but he had the ball that was
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: ripped down the field to Drake London right there. Great catch.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: He lofted that touchdown to Bejon Robinson. I think there's
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: there's some spots.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Well, it wasn't that touchule.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: This is the one where that's pretty to.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Be John Robinson. He struggled this year when he's trying
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to do too much. I think a reserved and a restrain.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Des beats the Jets this week, must score nineteen to thirteen.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Well, the model made me feel a little something this
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: week because I picked the Jets nineteen eight.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Shout out to the model.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: And sometimes I question myself in my own sanity, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: this thing has become sentient. But I don't know what's
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: going on. Look, the reality is is when I'm looking
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: at the opportunity in this matchup, Aaron Rodgers being back
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: signifies one thing that they're not giving up yet. And
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: when I look at the opportunities for bres Hall, for
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: the guys that are going to catch some passes. Do
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I believe that Tim Boyle is a great quarterback?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Uh uh?
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: But I do think that this Jets defense is awesome
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: and they do deserve some respect, and I think that
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: that's what the model is here. This year is a
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: defensive year. We've had so few games that are even
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: projected to be more than fifty points, Like ten times
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: have games been projected to be more than fifty points
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: this whole season. So I believe this is just a
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: lot of respect to the defense.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Or it's the football guy and it's sessing with the
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: model and saying no, you don't deserve to have the
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Texans as a prime number here, or.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: We've reached the singularity and the model is now alive.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: The model's just in solidary, Greg and I stop for
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: quick picks presented by Zillo Panthers and Bucks Carolina fired
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Frank reg Earlier this week, Chris Taber named interim coach
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Who's winning this one?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Greg?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I like the Bucks, although I think the Panthers get that,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you know, fired coach principal bounce and keep it close.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: But I want to talk about Mike Evans because this
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: guy is getting better with age. What a contract year
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Mike Evans is having, and unlike most contract years, actually
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: think he could change teams. It would be a shame
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: to see after he racked up a thousand yard season.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: After a thousand yard season for the Bucks, one of
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: my favorite streaks and sports. He could break a thousand
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: this week with one hundred and fifty yards, He's on
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: pace for more than thirteen hundred yards. It would be
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: his best season since twenty eighteen. Still getting it done.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Mike Evans. Love him?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out to Mike.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Bengals and Jags on Monday Night, Jags winning two in
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: a row, Cynthia. Any chance Jake Browning and the Bengals
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: can get the upset.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: There's always a chance. I just don't think that it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: gonna happen in this matchup. However, I do want to
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: point out that Cam Taylor brit who hasn't been playing
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: and isn't going to play in this when it doesn't
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: seem this guy has been excellent all season long. This
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: corner has taken a really big step forward. And in
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: honor of it being Big Ten championship kill and he
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: went to Nebraska, that's a Big Ten school, We're going
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: to talk about how he's taken a massive step forward
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: this season and he will come back next season and
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: be a part of a very improved situation for the
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Bengals all around. But needed to get some Cam Taylor
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Britt love in the show.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, feel better, Bengals fans. We'll show you all the
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: players missing every week for the rest of the season.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Well and you'll get good draft picks. Like this isn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: a bad thing if you're a Bengals fan.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every cloud has a silver line.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I think Kyler Murray and the Cardinals going to Pittsburgh
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: take on the Steelers. I've got Mike Tomins squad yet
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: again sneaking out a win in this one twenty one
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: to twenty and coming into last week, Pat Fryarmof had
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: a total a total of three targets within two yards
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: of the hashes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: He had five alone last week.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They've discovered the fact that the rest of the field
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: exists and that slight adjustment is enough to give me
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the win for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: We're all in unison on all of.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: These quick picks AFC Playoff pictured with the Ravens on
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a buy you want to talk to long jam. There's
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: perhaps a chance at the end of this week we
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: could have four teams at nine and three at the
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: top at the start of Week fourteen. As we get
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: to the look at some of those teams in the hunt,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: let's talk about some of these fringe playoff teams and
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: what we think is actually going to happen. We start
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: with the six and five Texans, who sit just outside
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: a wild card spot right now. Cynthia, is Houston going
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to make the playoffs?
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Yes, they are going to make the playoffs. If they
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: win this week against the Broncos, which I'm the only
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: one that thinks that they will, it'll go up to
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: seventy four percent their odds of making the playoffs, which
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: is a very high number when I'm looking. We talk
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: a lot about Tank Dell. You know that, but you
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: know who else we need to talk about a Michigan man,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Nico Collins. Again, he's actually his former team's actually playing
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: for the Big ten championship. Oh but Nicocollins if he
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: has one hundred and sixty nine receiving yards over expected,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: which is number seven in the league, and he's number
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: four in yards after the catch over expected, which means
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: he's very good. And he's also adding to their whole team.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: And it's not just Tank Dell. We love Tank Dell,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: but we also love Nico Collins.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know, you kind of spoiled it. I mean,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: it's definitely a yes for me. We're at Texans friendly
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: show here and I am going to talk about Tankdell
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: because look this, this tandem, this trio, the tandem being
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Nico Collins and Tank Tell, the trio adding CJ. Stroud
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: is as good as any young group in the league.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Texans fans can be celebrating because every week on this show,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I say, however good you think Tank Dell is, he's better.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: He's actually better, and every week he just tops himself.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: He very well might be the best rookie receiver in
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the league. Over Jordan Addison, over Pooka nakua over everybody
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: over it's tanka, thank you?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But why not? They're all good?
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Most certainly is yes.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And I also think the Houston Texans are going to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: be going to the playoffs because well, they are a
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: functional team with a good offense and a solid defense.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But you can't discard the fact that other people might
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: have to not make the playoffs, and the fact that
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills had every opportunity, especially late, to knock
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: off the Eagles in that win and what could have
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: been the best game we've seen all season long. The
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: fact that they came up short, the road becomes a
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: little bit more difficult to them, and you're looking at
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the remaining schedule and who the challengers are. I think
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the fact that the Bills lose that game means the.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Doors don't rub salt in the wounds. This would have
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: been my best pick of the year, was the Bills.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: That's the only reason you guys caught up? Was this disastrous? Well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're breaking my heart.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: All the games are Cumulus. Well, let's take a look
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: at the playoff picture in the NFC.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Over there, we do see those Eagles who play those
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: forty nine Ers at the top. But let's look at
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that in the hunt graphic, because we have a mixture
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of teams, including the Green Bay Packers, who are currently
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: just outside of the wild cards. They have won two
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: games in a row. Greg Rosenthal, do the Green Bay Packers.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Make it to the posts? Well?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: That this beautiful glove here says it's going down, But
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: the Packers' chance is going up, partly because it's not
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: just about Jordan Love and the offense. The defense is
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: getting after it lately, especially Rashawn Gary in the front.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Kenny Clark had a throwback game on Thanksgiving that was
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: nice to see because he hasn't quite been himself. But
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Rashan Gary wins about as much as any defensive end
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: in the league not named Micah Parsons.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: You remember wear Arashan Gary went to school multi Yich again. Yes, okay,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: He's the man and dire Alexander. I know he's on
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: the injury report. He's getting back this week, so they're
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: getting healthier, it sounds like in the secondary overall. And yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: this pass rush I think is going to be good
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: enough to help out the offense.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be close, But I don't
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: have them making the playoffs. It's nothing personal. It's just
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: the fact that there's too many people on the injury report.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: You don't have Aaron Jones. That's a problem. What's going
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: on in all of your writers?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Jayden Reid on the on the injury report, sweet thought.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying every game matters from here on out.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: This is a very important thing. With jay r Alexander
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: not playing the secondary, I've seen them get smoked. See that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: That's a'm on Ross Saint Brown. That was one highlight
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: of my Christmas or Christmas Thanksgiving, which is kind of
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: like Christmas if you're a Lions fan. But I'm looking
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: at the opportunity here and being able to pass on them.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: That's going to be the heartbreaker for them.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I am going to say that Jordan Love and the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers will make the playoffs. And yes, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: say Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers because Jordan
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Love has been playing.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Great as of late.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: These throws that he's making under pressure when he does
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: have time, he's dropping dimes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Sin, they were sitting the touchdown by Christian
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Watson against the lines of the fourth time. But it's
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: not just the MotorCity kidding.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Jordan Love is playing football right, Chargers, And as Greg
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: pointed out, when Jordan Love was missing these throws, he
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: was still making the right decisions. He was going in
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the right places, and it's just now everything's linking up.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I think the Packers make it to the playoffs, but
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: let's talk about some bubble teams, not just that we
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: want to that we think will make the playoffs, but
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: we hope will make the playoffs.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Who is your team?
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Centthing the Bells. They only have a fifteen percent chance
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: in my models right now, which is very low. But
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: this offense deserves to be and we deserve to watch
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: this offense in the plip. We deserve to see Josh
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Allen is playing lights out this year. I understand there's
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: been some turn YadA YadA, but if their defense had
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: played even just a little bit better in several of
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: these games, we would still be talking about them as
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl contenders. I just think this is an offense
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: and the way they find Khalil is even being good.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Like what I already told you that they're making the playoffs.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago, write this down was Bills
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: make the playoffs. Now the odds are even less that.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: That's great. The greg Heads know the Bills are making
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: the playoffs.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: I'm Greg Head. I'm totally a Greg Head.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I am going to take the Denver Broncos. But Greg,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: who do you think.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: I want to see the Rams in the playoffs? This
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: is a fun team. Matthew Stafford old slinging. And isn't
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: it nice to see Sean McVay happy again, just like
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: he was last year was a downer like this was
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: back to the good times. What a smile. It's just
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: like he loves the game. He loves football. When you
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: when you see Sean McVay on the sidelines lately, this
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: is the kind of vibes he's been given off, like
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: how McVeigh got his groove back type of vibe.
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  Speaker 5: He's a new dad too.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And for anyone you know younger that there was
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: a movie in the nineties How Stella Got His grew
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: back then, I don't think anyone really watched, But the
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: phrase has lived on, and this Rams offense has lived
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: on in new form like they they've transformed into a
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: different sort of running team. They're fun.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: So does that mean that the Packers would be out
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: because I don't know if it's possible for the Packers.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I said they're both in, which would mean the Seahawks.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: In my mind, we got it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And ultimately how Stella got her grow back is one
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: of those soundtrack movies. Yes, yeah, and I didn't know where.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Denver Broncos. I think the Denver
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Broncos are going to make the playoffs and it's gonna
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: make a lot of those people who had like weird
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: victory laps in the middle of the season about the
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the the early success for the Jets and maybe the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: relative success for the Broncos.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: That's all out of the window.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: But how about the season that Courtland Sutton is having
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: now a couple of years removed from that ACL injury.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: It was difficult for him to come back. He's a
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: big receiver with a big frame. Well now Courtland Sutton
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: is back making huge plays in big moments after big
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: moment after big moment, and I hope the Denver Broncos
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: are able to celebrate a birth in the playoffs. Speaking
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: of belief, let's move out to a segment called you
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Buying It. I'm gonna ask you guys a good question
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: about a few squads. You're gonna tell me if you're
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: buying them as playoff team.
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  Speaker 4: OK?
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  Speaker 3: So, Greg, are you buying the seven and four Steelers? Yes?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: As a playoff teap.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm rolling up to the store. I'm putting
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: the card down. I'm purchasing the Steelers. They are they're in.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, look at that number minus two forty five.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I think the bigger question here is do they become
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: the best running team in the league the rest of
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: the season, because the numbers would say since they're buying
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Week five, they're up there with the best of the
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: best in terms of running the ball. Gives them an
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: identity on offense. We know what the identity is on defense.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I actually think there's a better chance, and I don't
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: think it's gonna happen, but I think there's a better
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: chance they win the division over the Ravens than there
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: is them missing the play pencil them in five seed.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: They're gonna be playing wild card weekend, A.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Pencil it in a team that's currently in and it
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: is and winners of three straight the Indianapolis Colt Cynthia,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: are you buying them in the playoffs?
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: I am selling them in the playoffs. I don't think
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: that they are a playoff team, not because I don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: necessarily believe in their run game, because I do, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I have seen really inconsistent passing situations from them. Sometimes
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: it looks like maybe the route wasn't the right one.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Sometimes it looks like they're just not holding onto like
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: right and no, not that's gonna fall short drop it five.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: I just think you need, especially in the AFC, the
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: passing quotient is so important, and you can't have a
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: team that only is. Really I do believe in them running,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: even this week with Zach Moss, I'm not worried about
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: the run game at all. I'm worried about their pass catchers.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: So yeah, Minshew often trying to throw it to the
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: other team. They're not catching it all the time. That's problem.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes it feels like the passing game is kind
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: of smoking mirrors the Vikings on a bye. They have
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: lost two straight there at six and six. Right now,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: do you still believe Greg Rose?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: I am buying them to I'm buying everyone. It's Christmas season,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: it's the holidays. We're buying things. Let's disappoint anyone. Justin
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Jefferson's coming back. I almost feel like it's been not
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: under the radar, but just we've been like, oh oh,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: what a disappointing loss for the Vikings. They only finished
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: two and two with Josh Dobbs, who just arrived there
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: as their quarterback, without Justin Jefferson, the best wide receiver
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: in the game. If I had to choose just one,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: it's Justin Jefferson. He's gonna come back after the bye
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: with superpowers and tech. I don't even know who's got
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: the quarterback's going to be, but I know the defense
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: is really Nick Mullens. I tend to think it's gonna
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: be Jaron Hall, who looked good for his one drive.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I hope it doesn't happen because I like Josh Dopps.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: But no matter who you is a quarterback, you have
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson at wide receiver.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks Cynthia have lost some heartbreakers, including against the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Cowboys on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: They have the final wildcard spot as of right now.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Are they in I'm buying them. I'm buying the Seahawks.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: I saw a lot of great things last night, but
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: mostly I saw DK Metcalf get his stella like groove
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: back last night.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Young for that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: It doesn't mean yeah, I mean that's around Bland right there,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. But when I'm watching DK Metcalf and
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: the routes between him and JSN and Tyler Lockett, but
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: him and JSN specifically, sometimes it looks confusing. I don't
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: know if maybe it wasn't. I don't know. Maybe maybe
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: there's some confusion, but especially because we'll probably get even
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: healthier versions of this team in the run game. So
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: between an increased runability and what we saw from DK
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Metcalf last night, I'm buying them.
• 35:41
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• 36:04
  Speaker 3: It's start for some quick picks.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: The Dolphins and the Commanders, the greatest show on surf
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: versus that Washington defense, Greg, what do you see to Washington?
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: If that one is low?
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Is that I think the Dolphins are gonna have a
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: great time in Washington thirty seven to twenty seven. And
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: I want to take you back to Week six. This
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: is the last time I feel like we got the
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: full to a tongue of I looa Dolphins offense experience
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: of just like a fire show. They've been good to us,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: played well, but they haven't put together a complete offensive
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: game for a while, and I think this matchup is
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the perfect opportunity to do so. Sometimes in life you
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: just want to be dazzled. Dazzle me too, you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: like give it again.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Dazzled, Greg, I'm dazzled by knocks. I'm dazzled by coach,
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: like I'm dazzled by the whole thing in.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: All dazzling Markles.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: The Coltson Titans in Nashville, India will be missing Jonathan
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Taylor for this one.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: What takes place, Cynthia Well, I think that the Titans
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: win this one at home. I only have a twenty
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: two to twenty one victory. Why, because you can pass
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: on this Tennessee defense. And I want to say, when
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: it does work, the RPOs do work. I told you
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: I'm a little worried about their pass catchers in terms
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: of playing in the playoffs. Making the playoffs, however, RPOs, Baby,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: When the RPOs work, it's great.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: I thought I was select taking the home underdog here
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: with the Titans, the underde you actually.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Have the biggest margin of victory, so you're the least.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Grease.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Now we all agree, Let's go to the Charger in
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the Patriots, where we all agree as well. Spoiler alert,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Belichick declined to name and starting quarterback either way.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I think the Chargers get.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: The win on the road twenty four to nineteen, and
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I am looking back because Brandon Staley's confident against his defense.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I'm confident that the Patriots are going to run a
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: bunch of wide receiver screens, not all of them as
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: successful as that one. When Bailey Zappi came into the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: game and finished the game against the Giants, seven of
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: his fourteen attempts were behind the line of scrimmage. I
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: don't know how confident they are in Bailey's appy. If
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Bailey's Appy plays, I think we're going to see a
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: lot of the same.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: And we've been looking forward to write this down all days.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: We've got some predictions for you that we feel, really,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: really good about for week thirteen?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Greg, what is yours?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: You know, when I want a great number, I go
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: to the Queen the Model, Cynthia Friedland, and she told
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: me the Saints rush defense over the last four weeks
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: are twenty fifth in her model in terms of wind
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: shares allowed. And Jamir Gibbs is going up against him
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: this week and he's got to go over seventy six
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: and a half scrimmage yards. I threw the scrimmage yards
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: in there because I want the safety of a big
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: receiving play that's more fun to root for as well,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: because when I look at Jamir Gibbs, I don't need
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: any numbers to figure this out. He's really really fast
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: and this defense is really really slow as defenses go.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: I've got some more numbers for you. One sixty four,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: one fifty six, one twenty five to twenty eight. These
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: are not the numbers of a surprisingly good bowling performance
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: by me. No, it's their rush defense every week, the Saints.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: So they're just shive it up. That's bad.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I remember that when they were so good against the road.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Things have changed, Cynthia.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Okay, are you guys? Are you this is a spicy
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: one you're ready. Kyle Pitts. Do you know how many
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: touchdowns he's had this year?
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Yep?
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Do you know what he's gonna have after this week?
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: To Pitts is scoring a touchdown? You know why because
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Arthur Smith hates your fantasy team and there's no other
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: reason than that. No, but ultimately, the Jets defense is
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: vulnerable to the tight end position. Arthur Smith knows that,
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: Desmond Ritter knows that, even Jon Robinson knows that. So ultimately,
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: this is going to be an opportunity.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: By the way, give me that touchdown.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: One more time.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: This is this is the same. Yeah, you know what,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: seventy five different angles, any angles.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: It's beautiful and it's not going to be in London.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: It'll be just you know last year he had one
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: in London that was like his first one. Anyways, I was.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: There for that. How many How do we have angles?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Kyle Pitts one touchdown and we can't put a camera
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: on every end zone.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I want to see the skycam angle as well.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: My write this down is the fact that Brian Robinson
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Junior will have forty one over forty one and a
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: half rushing yards against the Miami Dolphins.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: The Dolphins defense giving up.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: A respectable all right, less than four yards per carry
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: on the season, but I think they pound Brian Robinson
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: trying to keep the offense off the field, and Brian
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Robinson Jr. Has been having some great games also through
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: the air. I would take the air cavy out, but
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I feel confident. I'm like Greg and this Jumior Gibbs pick.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I keep it ground only.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: I'm so confident. I'm confident. In fact, here's what else
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: you can write down. All three of us are getting
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: to write this down right this week. Oh, come back,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: we'll revisit it and we'll honk and we'll brag.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's get that I.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: That's I win the whole thing.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Then, yeah that we can put the crown on SI.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: If that pick comes up right. We'll see you next
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