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Michigan Hires Kyle Whittingham, Week 18 Rookie Draft + Week 18 NFL Preview · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 2: What's up everybody. Welcome to move the sticks, DJ and
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Speaker 2: Buck with you. A happy new year, buck Man, happy
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Speaker 2: to new you to you too, man.
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Speaker 1: It's such a great time of reflection, gratitude, but also
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Speaker 1: looking ahead at the possibilities and opportunities that twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: We were, Yeah, I mean, it's it's a great year
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Really excited about twenty six. Excited
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Speaker 2: as we kind of get into the fun part of
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Speaker 2: the season. We're here down the home stretch of the
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Speaker 2: college football season, the playoffs, getting ready to crank up
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Speaker 2: in the NFL. We've got draft talk which will start
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Speaker 2: kind of cranking up a little bit here. So it's
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Speaker 2: a fun time here. Always enjoyed January, and I was
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Speaker 2: looking at some of the things going on in the
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Speaker 2: football landscape and I was like, you know, gosh, I
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Speaker 2: feel like there's a couple of things we didn't get
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Speaker 2: a chance to address on here. We haven't talked about,
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Speaker 2: and I wanted to get your thoughts on it because
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard it yet. But the big one to
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Speaker 2: me was Michigan has a coach and it's an old
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Speaker 2: buddy of ours, someone we've followed forever and been around forever.
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Speaker 2: Is Kyle Whittingham making the move over to Michigan after
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Speaker 2: he stepped down at Utah. So what's your gut on
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Speaker 2: how that's going to go down.
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Speaker 1: I think he fits the brand. I think he fits
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Speaker 1: everything that Michigan wants to be. And I will say
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Speaker 1: that given how the Michigan franchise and brand was built,
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Speaker 1: Like let's think about bo Sham Becker and how they
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Speaker 1: always wanted to play and how it was recreated under
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Speaker 1: Jim Harbor, where they always have a certain way that
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Speaker 1: they play well. When you look at those Utah teams
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Speaker 1: and you think about the culture and all those things,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Winningham approaches football like bu.
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Speaker 3: Sham Beckley and those great coaches that Michigan have.
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Speaker 1: I think the recruiting will be different because he comes
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Speaker 1: from the West Coast and now dealing in the Midwest.
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Speaker 1: But in terms of stylistically feel all this, it feels
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Speaker 1: like a great fit. And even though it took them
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Speaker 1: a while to figure out who the coach is wanted
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Speaker 1: to be, I think they landed on a good one
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Speaker 1: regardless of the age.
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Speaker 3: I think he is a nice fit for Michigan and
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Speaker 3: what they need right now.
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Speaker 2: I think if you look at the Michigan teams that
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Speaker 2: have beaten Ohio State and they beat them a bunch
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Speaker 2: until this last year or had a nice little run,
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Speaker 2: they did it by being the more physical line of
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Speaker 2: scrimmage team. And if you're going to make a list
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Speaker 2: of the coaches that have done the best job of
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Speaker 2: building through the trenches of having a physical identity, Kyle
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Speaker 2: might be the number one guy on the list.
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Speaker 1: What they've done at Utah one d per I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what they do. But it's not only did
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Speaker 1: DJ like going all the way back. I remember Utah's
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Speaker 1: reemergence first on the Irvan Maya and then the way
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Speaker 1: that Cal Winningham extended it. It wasn't just like the
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Speaker 1: physicality into toughness. I would say it was the culture.
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Speaker 1: And I would say that one of the reasons why
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Speaker 1: we used to love to shop at Utah when it
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Speaker 1: came for NFL prospects. Those guys always seemed to find
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Speaker 1: a way to make it because they were built the
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Speaker 1: right way. They had to write in tangibles. They they
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Speaker 1: came ready to work at an NFL level. And I
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Speaker 1: mean just think about the great pros that have come
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Speaker 1: out of that university.
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Speaker 3: That's not I mean, that's not by chance.
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Speaker 1: That is because they were developed and really given the
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Speaker 1: right tools to be successful as pros.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited to see how that whole thing comes together.
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Speaker 2: And it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to get
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Speaker 2: his first taste of the Ohio State Michigan rivalry down
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Speaker 2: the road there. And ironic, as you mentioned Urban Meyer,
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Speaker 2: kind of his mentor who he came up under. Urban
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Speaker 2: Meyra obviously is the one who got Ohio State back
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Speaker 2: on the right track, you know, and they'd been down
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Speaker 2: a little bit. So it'll be fascinating to watch that
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Speaker 2: rivalry going forward. Buck, we need to we need to
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Speaker 2: have our rookie draft here, this is the last one.
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Speaker 2: As we come down the home stretch here, I'll be
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Speaker 2: honest with you, I'm out of it. I have been
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Speaker 2: I have been hammered this year in the rookie draft.
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Speaker 2: So Rhett is in first place, seventy three points. You
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Speaker 2: have a shot here. You're at sixty nine. I'm at
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Speaker 2: sixty two, dead in the water. So I'm not gonna
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Speaker 2: lie to you. My focus and attention on this is
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Speaker 2: not great. I thought about conniving, you know, kind of
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Speaker 2: coming up with a plan. How do I how do
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Speaker 2: I not pick some goo's hard towards you. I was
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Speaker 2: trying to funnel some players towards you, but it's so hard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Week eighteen we got we got people that are
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Speaker 3: not playing their people.
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Speaker 1: So so now we're digging. We're digging in the crazy
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to come up within. The
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Speaker 1: one thing that we know is O Red is Red
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Speaker 1: is very resourceful when it comes to these things. He's
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Speaker 1: going to try and find a way to get this
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Speaker 1: thing done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Ret's not here, so Gavin's gonna have to
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Speaker 2: have to pick for him.
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Speaker 3: Gav.
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Speaker 2: I don't have this confirmed, but I think all my
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Speaker 2: good weeks came with me doing the picks, and I
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Speaker 2: think I've struggled. When you've done the picks, there's no
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Speaker 2: don't look that up. Don't don't look it up. But
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Speaker 2: that's how I'm telling myself. That's what I'm telling myself
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Speaker 2: here for how that's uh, that's where I am. So
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Speaker 2: we have got uh look at that REHD has the
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Speaker 2: first pick. It goes Red has the first and then
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Speaker 2: myself here as we uh, as we knock out our
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Speaker 2: final rookie draft. Buck, you got to have a good
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Speaker 2: one here. He's gonna go Tam Mac. He's going with McMillan, uh,
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Speaker 2: with his first pick here, So you are up next, Buck.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, like man, Let's see if we can go
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Speaker 1: with the gift that keeps on giving.
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Speaker 3: Let's see if we can go at Harrow Finning Jr.
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Speaker 1: He's hurt, he's hurt, he got hurt. Yeah, he's not
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Speaker 1: playing though. Yeah, he can't do that one.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's crummy all right.
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Speaker 1: With Coaston Lovelin for the Bears, we have to take him.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna Lennon, Yeah, because Riley Leonard is playing quarterback
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Speaker 1: for whatever.
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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna what that's gonna look back? All right?
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Speaker 2: Well, uh, I'm gonna go with Warren Warren and then
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Speaker 2: I'll come back. So that's my tight end. Now I
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Speaker 2: need a running back receiver. Well, Buka's got to play. Well,
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Speaker 2: they're in a they're in a war. So I'll go
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Speaker 2: with Buka with my wide out here. Buck, you're up, man.
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Speaker 1: So this is tricky, right because the Patriots need to
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Speaker 1: win it. Maybe whatever but then let's go to command
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Speaker 1: do Let's go with Bill, oh grossky merrit. Yeah, he
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Speaker 1: had a good game last time and gets let's go
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Speaker 1: with Bill. He's going Henderson. Oh, maybe a spring get ankle.
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Speaker 2: And then Gatston with the Chargers kind of resting some
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Speaker 2: guys playing against the Broncos team, but has to win.
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Speaker 2: But I think Gatson probably still get some work there,
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Speaker 2: so he goes Gatston.
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Speaker 3: God, it can't be so dependent.
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Speaker 1: And Luther Burton had a quiet injury at the end
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Speaker 1: of the game, and I feel great about that. No, man, whatever,
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Speaker 1: Ricky Maka is gone, TMC is gone. She had the
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Speaker 1: kids from Houston, but man, you never know if it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be Higgins.
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Speaker 3: And no, well, I don't like that got.
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Speaker 2: There's another Ricky wide receiver we can lean on. I
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Speaker 2: think that you kind of named them all there.
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Speaker 1: That's it right, there's there's there's nobody like.
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Speaker 2: There's Trey Harris might be getting some work from the
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Speaker 2: Chargers with a lot of guys sitting.
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Speaker 3: Oh to throw it to somebody.
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Speaker 2: That's a tough secondary though, and that's a team in
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Speaker 2: Denver that's got everything to play for. You know, you
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Speaker 2: do you just roll the dice on Burden playing Why
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Speaker 2: don't you roll the dice? That's your best upside play
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Speaker 2: on Burden. But I don't know if he's playing.
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Speaker 3: I tested so bad. We may have to come back
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Speaker 3: with an.
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Speaker 2: Why don't you do Burden? And then if he's out,
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Speaker 2: you have Higgins.
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Speaker 3: As your fallback, all right, like because he was good,
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Speaker 3: he was so good last.
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Speaker 2: Week and it looked you got a quarterback Caleb Williams
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Speaker 2: only needs what to seventy? I think, Yeah, guys, that
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Speaker 2: four thousand yard demon. I'm going to come back with Harvey.
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Speaker 2: So I'll go with the running back out of Denver
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Speaker 2: in a game that they need to win to lock
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Speaker 2: up the number one. See my picks don't matter. It's
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Speaker 2: all Bunky versus Rhet here. So we've got Bucky is
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Speaker 2: going to roll out Loveland, Bill Uh Toikowsky, Merrit Uh Burden.
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Speaker 2: Rhet's got McMillan, Henderson, Gatston. It's good. It's a good
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Speaker 2: threesome there. But you got some ground to close, Buck,
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Speaker 2: But it's doable. We'll see if you if you can
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Speaker 2: reel down Rett Oh be a crusher if you caught
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Speaker 2: him here in the last week. By the way to
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Speaker 3: All right, Buck, let's take a quick break.
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Speaker 2: We come back. We'll look at some of these huge,
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Speaker 2: huge division matchups we've got here down the home stretch
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Speaker 2: in week number eighteen. All right, Buck, doesn't get bigger
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Speaker 2: than this. You've got division titles up for grabs here.
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Speaker 2: Let's start first of all Panthers, Bucks, that is four
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Speaker 2: thirty pm on ABC. What are you looking forward to
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Speaker 2: in that game? What's the key to the ballgame?
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Speaker 1: Man? The keys of the ball game is whiz version
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Speaker 1: of the pants is going to show up. This is
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Speaker 1: a team that has been up and down. They've taken
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Speaker 1: us on the roller coast of the entire season. Defense
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Speaker 1: is good enough to be able to get it done,
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Speaker 1: but they're gonna need their offense to show up because
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Speaker 1: I feel like Baker and the Buccaneers are going to
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Speaker 1: finally put some points on the board. To me, this
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Speaker 1: is a Bryce Young, Ted mcmilling game, t MAC game.
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Speaker 1: They got to find a way to connect on the
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Speaker 1: pass game, and then like they got to run the ball.
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Speaker 1: When they run the ball, everything flows from that. To me,
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Speaker 1: this is about their offense being able to control the game.
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Speaker 1: They got to run the ball, and they got to
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Speaker 1: hope that these Buccaneers bus coverages like they've been doing
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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, and maybe t Mac can hit
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Speaker 1: them over the top.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think they're going to try and get their past
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Speaker 2: game going a little bit early and just trying to
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Speaker 2: get Bryce Young out of the funk he was in
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Speaker 2: against Seattle last week. So to me, on the Tampa
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Speaker 2: side of things, keep him him, then control your rush,
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Speaker 2: don't let him escape and create, make some things happen there,
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Speaker 2: make him throw out of that well. And then Baker's
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Speaker 2: got to just he's just got to make better decisions,
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Speaker 2: play smart, take what's there, don't be too greedy. I
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Speaker 2: don't think you need a bazillion points to win this game.
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Speaker 2: I think Baker's got to kind of play within himself.
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Speaker 2: First one to twenty one wins here in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: in this matchup between the Panthers and the Bucks. By
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Speaker 2: the way, in terms of what will happen here, Panthers,
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Speaker 2: they win the NFC South to make the playoffs with
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Speaker 2: the win. Even if the Panthers lose, they can also
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Speaker 2: cleanse the division if the Falcons win against the Saints.
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Speaker 2: So for the Bucks to win the division get in
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Speaker 2: the postseason, need to win this game against Carolina and
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Speaker 2: have the Falcons loser tie on Sunday against the Saints,
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Speaker 2: and that would get them the NFC South title and
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Speaker 2: they would get into the playoffs. All right, complic cases,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of complicated. It's pretty easy. It's pretty
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Speaker 2: easy for Carolina. Just win and you're in. That's all.
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Speaker 2: That's the easy part. The game of the weekend is
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Speaker 2: going to follow that one eight pm Eastern on ABC.
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Speaker 2: That is the Seattle Seahawks traveling to take on the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers.
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Speaker 3: But such a good game, such a great game.
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Speaker 1: Any of those NFL NFC West showdowns are terrific.
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Speaker 3: List takes.
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Speaker 1: The Niners approach man, Look, the Niners offense is on fire.
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Speaker 1: This is the best job that I've seen Kyle Shanahan do.
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Speaker 1: I think what he's been able to do with this
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Speaker 1: team is next level. Rock Crody is dealing like he
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Speaker 1: has just found his rhythm with this and the way
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Speaker 1: they are doing it like CMC is certainly the centerpiece,
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Speaker 1: but they're now beginning to get the production in the
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Speaker 1: passing game. Bricky Pearsall is coming on board, Jamon Jennings
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Speaker 1: is making plays a tight ends, just jumping in for
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Speaker 1: George Kill and finding ways to make plays. Tom just so,
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Speaker 1: just a really good team and a really good offense.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if anybody can slow this team down.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can slow them down on offense.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Seattle's defense has been fantastic. They were fantastic
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Speaker 2: last week against Carolina, suffocating Bryce young As I was
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Speaker 2: just talking about just the way San Francisco's offense is
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Speaker 2: playing right now. I cash, you got to get twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: I would say, I mean that sounds crazy as good
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Speaker 2: as Seattle's defense has been, but San francs is got
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Speaker 2: a punt the way that they've been homming along here.
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Speaker 2: So to me, Sam Darnold, there's opportunities. You saw it
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Speaker 2: in that secondary last week against the Bears. William's able
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Speaker 2: to get some things going. I think Sam has an
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Speaker 2: opportunity in this one. I know Sam's probably sitting there going, gosh,
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Speaker 2: could we ever get one of these you know end
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Speaker 2: of the year games at my place. You had to
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Speaker 2: go on the road last year in Detroit and then
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Speaker 2: turn around go on the playoffs, go on the road
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Speaker 2: against the Rams. He has the big come from behind
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Speaker 2: win over the Rams, you know, just a few weeks
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Speaker 2: ago in Seattle. But now, man, he's got to go
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Speaker 2: do it on the road again. But I would say
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Speaker 2: this is the most consequential game. I think if Seattle
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Speaker 2: can win this game, I think that's the greatest home
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Speaker 2: field that we have in this playoff field. It would
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Speaker 2: be Seattle hosting the NFC all the way through. That
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Speaker 2: is not an easy place to go, and I think
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Speaker 2: that is going to make them not only the number
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Speaker 2: one seed with a BUYE, but I think that makes
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Speaker 2: them the clear favorite for me in the NFC if
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Speaker 2: they can secure home field advantage.
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Speaker 1: And I think the Niners play would have leveled the
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Speaker 1: desperation because as a shorthanded team, being able to play
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Speaker 1: their games at home and get the buy significant advantage
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Speaker 1: because of it helped some of their guys get back
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Speaker 1: because they talked about free wan or potentially being able
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Speaker 1: to play if they played long enough in the postseason.
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Speaker 3: But George getting rested making sure CMC is ready to go.
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Speaker 1: And it's such a difference in having too to go
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Speaker 1: to the show than having to play that extra game.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's a real chance that the Niners win
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Speaker 2: and they have the number one seed lose, they could
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Speaker 2: end up being the sixth seed have to go to Philly.
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Speaker 2: I mean that is the difference. Yeah, and they don't
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Speaker 2: want those problems. I will Look, I'm gonna go with
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Speaker 2: the Niners. I just look, did just so hot. Now
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Speaker 2: they can't stop him. But they don't have to play
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Speaker 2: band but don't break good offense just maybe because it's
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Speaker 2: recency buys just watching them go up and down the field.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, Seattle defense is really good, though, Buck, I just
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Speaker 2: you know, they they're terrific.
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Speaker 3: I went back.
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Speaker 2: I went back and watched their Week one game, and
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Speaker 2: like they had seven explosives in the air. San Francisco
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Speaker 2: did with a lot of just deep, too high safeties
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Speaker 2: from Seattle. So they hit a slot seam, they sneak
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Speaker 2: U check down the sideline, they hit a whole versus that. Look,
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Speaker 2: they're running everybody out of there with those two deep safeties.
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Speaker 2: He checks one down to McCaffrey. I believe and he
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Speaker 2: goes and gets a bunch of yards, and then there
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Speaker 2: was a couple opportunities down the field where they hit
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Speaker 2: and then beat some man coverage on why am I
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Speaker 2: blinking on his name? Twenty seven? This huge corner for
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Speaker 2: Seattle is it Willah yeah three qualling, Thank you for requalling.
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Speaker 2: They beat him a cup pearsall got him a couple
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Speaker 2: of times the stutter go, and then beat him on
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Speaker 2: a seven rout, but they only had one explosive run.
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Speaker 2: They took the run away, and I would say Seattle's
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Speaker 2: defense has played a lot more snug coverage since then.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to play quite as conservative,
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Speaker 2: you know, with their safeties. I think they can pull
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Speaker 2: those guys down a little closer to the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: Eman Warre's is a big time difference maker the way
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Speaker 2: he's kind of evolved in that defense, so they I
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Speaker 2: think Seattle's defense is really really good. But like you,
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Speaker 2: I'm just it's hard to get what we've seen out
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Speaker 2: of San Francisco's forty nine or the San Francisco offense
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Speaker 2: out of my head. So I ended up going with
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Speaker 2: San franciscoing to a close game. But I think this is
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Speaker 2: like a twenty eight, now twenty four, thirty twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a good game.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 1: Look, I think it's very similar to the Thursday night
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Speaker 1: game they played against the Rams. It's a back and
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Speaker 1: forth affair and it comes down to the end. It
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Speaker 1: comes down to who was able to win the fourth quarter. Look,
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Speaker 1: I'm in on the Niners, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 1: I will say this, Sam Donald's experienced last year should
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Speaker 1: help him play better this year. Down the street those
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Speaker 1: two games where he had to play like high end
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Speaker 1: games for the Vikings and it didn't go his way.
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Speaker 1: He'll be better prepared to handle depression. You know this,
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Speaker 1: having been able to playoff teams whatever, DJ, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: that gets you ready to play in the playoffs except
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Speaker 1: playoff game like you have to play in those games
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Speaker 1: to get used to the urgency and the intensity.
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Speaker 2: He'll be better prepared. I think he'll play much better
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Speaker 2: this time. Yeah, and look some of the stuff they
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Speaker 2: had success with swift on the ground last week the
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Speaker 2: Bears against that team, and you see Seattle do a
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Speaker 2: lot of this same thing as you'll see some cracked toss.
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Speaker 2: You'll see them get out to the perimeter a little bit,
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Speaker 2: so that'll be key. Get some balance to help Sam
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Speaker 2: Darnold out there.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: The last one, it is the battle for the AFC North.
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Speaker 2: As we're recording this still not We don't know yet
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Speaker 2: if Lamar Jackson is going to start, but it looks
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Speaker 2: like he was practicing as of Wednesday. So we've got
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Speaker 2: the Ravens at the Steelers. That's eight twenty eastern on NBC.
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Speaker 2: The winner is going to clinch the division of the
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Speaker 2: number four seed. The loser is out, so it literally
16:30
Speaker 2: is a loser leave town match.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, did you?
16:33
Speaker 1: I think the best thing that happen to the Ravens
16:35
Speaker 1: was playing without Lamar Jackson last week and being forced
16:39
Speaker 1: to give the ball to Derrick Henry thirty six times.
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Speaker 3: To me, I think that is the epiphany that everyone
16:45
Speaker 3: in the building.
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Speaker 1: Has to have, Like, you know what, guys, maybe we
16:48
Speaker 1: should get back to the recipe that works for us,
16:50
Speaker 1: and that's running the football. And even if Lamar Jackson plays,
16:53
Speaker 1: running the football to sit the table should create some
16:57
Speaker 1: big play opportunities. And going into this game, I think
17:00
Speaker 1: if you're Baltimore, you have to say the magic number
17:02
Speaker 1: is twenty one. You can't imagine the Pittsburgh still is
17:05
Speaker 1: scoring more than twenty one points given what they're playing with.
17:09
Speaker 1: So how can we manufacture twenty one points?
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Speaker 3: Man?
17:11
Speaker 1: Run it, run it, run it, kick it every time
17:13
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity, and just keep stacking points and
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Speaker 1: see if Aaron Rodgers and company are good enough to
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Speaker 1: match in point for point.
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Speaker 3: I just don't think they can do it.
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Speaker 2: If I'm Pittsburgh, if I'm Mike Tomlin, I'm talking to
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Speaker 2: my defense and special teams that I'm saying you got
17:29
Speaker 2: to give us. You got to give us something in
17:30
Speaker 2: this one. We need some short fields, you know, whether
17:33
Speaker 2: that's a big kick return, we got to block a punt.
17:36
Speaker 2: Are we gonna be able to get a sack fumble?
17:38
Speaker 2: With our defensive front healthy and back put together, we
17:43
Speaker 2: got to We've got to help our offense out here.
17:45
Speaker 2: To me, that Darnault Washington loss is huge.
17:48
Speaker 3: They're dead.
17:48
Speaker 2: You bullies had two bullies on their teams, dk Metcalf
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Speaker 2: and him and they're both out. So that's a big
17:54
Speaker 2: piece of their offensive identity. They have got to run
17:57
Speaker 2: the ball. They've got to throw the ball to their backs.
17:59
Speaker 2: Baldy said it when we're talking on Monday game. Well's
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Speaker 2: the best option right now. He's their winner. He's one
18:04
Speaker 2: who can win one on one. So they've got to
18:07
Speaker 2: do that. They've got to make kicks, and they have
18:09
Speaker 2: to have their defense special teams help them out a
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Speaker 2: little bit here.
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Speaker 1: They Man, you talk about pulling out all the stops.
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Speaker 1: This is a trick play game. This is a fake
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Speaker 1: punt game. This is all hands on, Dick. Let's have
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Speaker 1: all of them ready because for them, they have to
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Speaker 1: manufacture points any way possible. They don't have the luxury
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Speaker 1: of being able to say, hey, we're gonna run it
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Speaker 1: down Baltimore's throater. We're gonna find a way for Aaron
18:34
Speaker 1: Broders to dink and duck and carve them up resurgical precision.
18:38
Speaker 1: This is one it's going to take, I would say
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's best coaching job to be able to get
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Speaker 1: it done, because in my mind they're a heavy underdog
18:45
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens with it without Lamar Jackson play.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just think though, man, if somehow they do win
18:51
Speaker 2: and they get DK Metcalf back, it's going to be
18:55
Speaker 2: more than likely you can get some bad weather in Pittsburgh,
18:57
Speaker 2: They're gonna be hosting a game. It's one of those
18:59
Speaker 2: deals to me, like, I could see Pittsburgh winning an
19:02
Speaker 2: ugly game here and then people say, oh, their one,
19:05
Speaker 2: and and then you don't want to go in there.
19:07
Speaker 2: You don't want to go into Pittsburgh in the in
19:08
Speaker 2: the in the weather. DK Metcalf back Aaron Rodgers has
19:12
Speaker 2: some you know, as much experience and more experience than
19:14
Speaker 2: anybody in the in the whole field. Might be able
19:15
Speaker 2: to combine everybody in the field. They might have more
19:17
Speaker 2: experience when you look at the landscape in the AFC
19:20
Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, I think they're a dangerous team if
19:23
Speaker 2: they can get by this week. This is a big
19:25
Speaker 2: challenge for them. Yeah, And I would say the same
19:28
Speaker 2: thing for Baltimore. Baltimore gets in the tournament, I think
19:30
Speaker 2: they're dangerous in terms of being able to do this.
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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it doesn't matter what the record is. Everyone
19:36
Speaker 1: is owing up. Like we believe coming into the season
19:39
Speaker 1: that we were a super Bowl team. We get a
19:41
Speaker 1: chance to prove it all over again. They get the
19:43
Speaker 1: benefit of a home game, They'll have played some meaningful
19:47
Speaker 1: games getting ready to there would be a hardened sense
19:50
Speaker 1: to them, and I think they get a chance to
19:52
Speaker 1: edit the reset button and make of the season what
19:55
Speaker 1: they want given this success in the postseason, so either.
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Speaker 3: Team can danger.
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Speaker 1: But man, I just see the Ravens and after watching
20:03
Speaker 1: Dick Henry just run the football down there. Any look,
20:06
Speaker 1: he's done it the last couple of weeks where you
20:07
Speaker 1: just run the football down people's throats.
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Speaker 3: I am going to give it like it may be
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Speaker 3: a forty maybe a forty Krry game, DJ. It may
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Speaker 3: it may be one of those type games.
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Speaker 1: Where a dudejar on, we're gonna ride big feather, We're
20:19
Speaker 1: gonna run him over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a physical affair,
20:24
Speaker 2: and we can we can definitely agree one hundred percent
20:26
Speaker 2: on that one. Anything else you want to add, Buck
20:28
Speaker 2: before we get out of here on a quick, quick
20:30
Speaker 2: little episode.
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Speaker 1: Man, nothing is better than getting ready for the postseason
20:35
Speaker 1: and these games and the way the league has kind
20:37
Speaker 1: of set it up where all these games are meaningful
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Speaker 1: to end it on a Sunday night, affair still is
20:44
Speaker 1: in Ravens.
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Speaker 3: Loser lead town match.
20:47
Speaker 1: I mean not in literally, DJ, We're talking about loser
20:51
Speaker 1: leaving tally, maybe the.
20:53
Speaker 3: Head coach might leave down all stakes robbery. Love it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun weekend of football. Cannot wait.
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Speaker 2: We'll be back next week to wrap it all up
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Speaker 2: for you as well. We appreciate you guys hanging with us.
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Speaker 2: We will see you next time right here on moving sticks.