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Can the Chiefs Keep Winning, Sam Darnold, and the Sneaky Good Game of the Week: Good Morning Football Selects · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. I think the Chiefs showed
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  Speaker 1: us that, you know, they can win a variety of ways, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but when it does come down to crunch time, no
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  Speaker 1: one is better than them.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not comparing the.
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  Speaker 3: Way that Buffalo handled the clock at the end versus
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  Speaker 3: the way Kansas City did. But if you look at
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  Speaker 3: time of possession on a piece of paper from that
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs Chargers game, thirty minutes for the Chargers twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 3: like it felt like it was all Chargers. But in
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  Speaker 3: those final six minutes, which wasn't really captured in the highlight,
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  Speaker 3: every time there was a third down conversion to be
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  Speaker 3: made to bleed the clock even more, the Chiefs found
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  Speaker 3: a way. This is the stuff that isn't going to
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  Speaker 3: show up in next gen stats, and this is the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that's not going to show up when we do
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  Speaker 3: all twenty two film. It's just the ability to make
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  Speaker 3: the play when it matters most. I look at the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs and I'm like this, at some point, it's not
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  Speaker 3: a coincidence. It's not some lucky feather, it's not some
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  Speaker 3: rabbit's foot that's doing this.
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  Speaker 2: They win these games because they.
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  Speaker 3: Know how to win games, and they've got great experience
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  Speaker 3: winning games, and they've been in these big spots. All
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  Speaker 3: due respect to a lot of those Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: Players, they haven't played as big games in the NFL before.
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  Speaker 3: This is the biggest game of many of their careers,
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  Speaker 3: and when they needed to make a stop, they couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just simply that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what it's been the last you know, eight
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  Speaker 3: weeks for the Chiefs, whether it was a win over
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers by three points or a win over the
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  Speaker 3: Raiders on Black Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It's not pretty. It's not going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be the stuff that we start to show off doing
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  Speaker 3: flips about mahomes like we used to with no look passes.
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  Speaker 3: And yet you look at the record there as good
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  Speaker 3: as they've ever been in a season. They're twelve and
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  Speaker 3: one right now and they keep on just knocking.
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  Speaker 2: Off division of homes.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't lost in the division yet, they've already clinched
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  Speaker 3: the division title.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth team in five years for Sam Darnold. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a one year deal, so it's likely like fifteen and
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  Speaker 3: six years or is it. This guy's been unbelievable. His
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  Speaker 3: numbers yesterday were incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: He thre for three hundred and fifty yards, five touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: no interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. They won the.
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  Speaker 3: Turnover battle three to nothing, and Jefferson and Addison both
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  Speaker 3: went off like, here's my thing with Donald. It's very
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  Speaker 3: easy to look at him and say, Okay, he's a
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  Speaker 3: game manager who's not gonna hurt you.
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  Speaker 2: He's not gonna talk the back. That's not Sam Donald.
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  Speaker 3: He has in the past been the guy that has
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  Speaker 3: thrown the bad interception, or has made the bad fumble,
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  Speaker 3: or has said something afterwards that makes you scratch your
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  Speaker 3: head and say, wait, why. This season, he's completely different.
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  Speaker 3: They rely on his arm to win these games, guys.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you're not looking at it and saying,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Donald's in the same breath as Josh Allen
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  Speaker 3: or Mahomes or even Herbert, But you go back these
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  Speaker 3: last three weeks. Let's start with Chicago outside in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: They got to go ninety yards to win this game
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  Speaker 3: in overtime, and Donald was just a technician on this drive,
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  Speaker 3: perfect on the drive, leads him the whole way. Last
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  Speaker 3: week against the Cardinals. They were down ten in this
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  Speaker 3: game the fourth quarter, it's like, all right, Donald, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna put the ball in your hands. In the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter of that Cardinal's victory, it was Donald Donald, Donald Donald.
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  Speaker 3: And then you go to yesterday and it's the Falcons
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  Speaker 3: and it's we're not just gonna run the ball with
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Jones and and hope for the best.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna we're just.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna blow these guys out by throwing all over them.
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  Speaker 3: Like Donald's been great, and it's it's a misnomer to
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  Speaker 3: call him a game manager. It's also insulting. It's insulting
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  Speaker 3: the callbo game manager. He has huge numbers this season.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't throw interceptions. In these last three games, he
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  Speaker 3: has thrown nine touchdown passes and zero picks.
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  Speaker 2: Please game manage that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I had the rare opportunity of being with Gronkowski, Brady,
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  Speaker 3: and Edelman on Sunday and was able to talk to
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  Speaker 3: them both on camera and off about this, and like
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  Speaker 3: there are in original responses are just like smirks, like no,
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  Speaker 3: like how is.
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  Speaker 2: He gonna recruit and you're gonna come to our school.
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  Speaker 3: And then you start talking about unpeeling the onion a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, and it's like there might not be an
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  Speaker 3: NFL job waiting.
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  Speaker 2: For Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 3: A college job might be and right now this is
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  Speaker 3: and by the time you're watching this that news might change.
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  Speaker 2: But he got a staff ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: McDaniels, Patricia, his son is the defensive coordinator up at Washington. Steve,
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  Speaker 3: he might be the coach in waiting. He might say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: bring me to get it. You got Mick Lombardi, who's
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  Speaker 3: Mike's son, who is on all these Belichick staffs, Like
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  Speaker 3: they have a crew ready to go. It's almost like
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  Speaker 3: the Avengers, like.
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  Speaker 2: Where are we going to get the call assembled? Let's
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  Speaker 2: go assemble and let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it would be a shame if this
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  Speaker 3: crew sat and waited for an NFL job, and that
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  Speaker 3: NFL job wasn't guaranteed yet. Look, three teams are open
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  Speaker 3: right now, the Saints, the Jets, the Bears. From when
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  Speaker 3: I'm gathering, none of those organizations have reached out to Belichick,
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  Speaker 3: even though they are completely free to do so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's an.
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  Speaker 3: NFL job, And if that's the case, maybe college is
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  Speaker 3: where he should be and he can bring these guys
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  Speaker 3: and he can rebuild the.
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina football program.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's actually the sleeper game of the week.
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  Speaker 2: You've got big.
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  Speaker 3: Shiny ones in Steelers Eagles, and of course we.
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  Speaker 2: Love of our lions built. This might be for a
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  Speaker 2: playoff spot.
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  Speaker 3: Now you look at it and say, why do you
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  Speaker 3: talk six and seven verse eight and five. If the
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  Speaker 3: Colts beat the Broncos head to head, that makes them
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  Speaker 3: seven and seven. It makes the Broncos eight and six.
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  Speaker 3: The Broncos have a fairly difficult schedule left. The Colts
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  Speaker 3: have a cakewalk left. You should see the last three games.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's cool because you look at these
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  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks, two young guns, going at it, and you
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  Speaker 3: might think, well, Anthony Richardson's in his second year, he's
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  Speaker 3: got all this more experience than bon Knicks. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: bon Knicks is older. Bon Nicks has played a lot
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  Speaker 3: more football, and bone Knicks comes in with a lot
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  Speaker 3: different of a resume over the course of their time.
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  Speaker 3: And yet Richardson can steal a playoff berth from them.
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  Speaker 3: Colts have a very manageable last few weeks in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Broncos have a far more difficult one. If the Colts
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  Speaker 3: win this game, write it down, we might be seeing
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  Speaker 3: Indianapolis in the playoffs and not Miami and not Denver.
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  Speaker 3: What this did was it opened up a local story
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  Speaker 3: and made it a huge national story. We're starting our
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  Speaker 3: a bloc on a Wednesday in week fifteen to talk
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  Speaker 3: about a very specific issue for a team that should be.
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  Speaker 2: Having no problems at all.
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  Speaker 3: But when you get those comments, and then you get
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Graham, who I love and it's a fifteen year
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  Speaker 3: veteran and I'm sure regrets the second he said those
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  Speaker 3: words about friends, it now becomes this other issue. But
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  Speaker 3: then it also opens the microscope to those of us
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  Speaker 3: who wouldn't have been looking at it this way, to say, well, actually,
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  Speaker 3: what is the problem. The Philly passing attack has been
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  Speaker 3: dreadful this year.
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  Speaker 2: You saw the stats.
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  Speaker 3: They have two hundred yards receiving on average, thirtieth in
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  Speaker 3: the league. If you go through the history of teams
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  Speaker 3: that go on to win Super Bowls, as they at
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  Speaker 3: least have something in the top half when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to that, I actually went and did the deep dive.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to the.
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  Speaker 3: Entire Brandon Graham interview full hour, a full hour like
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  Speaker 3: maybe this was taken out of context. BG's been a
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  Speaker 3: guy that we've had on the show a million times.
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  Speaker 2: He's no dummy.
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  Speaker 3: He wouldn't say something to cause problems. Kind of wasn't
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  Speaker 3: out of context. It was really just he threw it
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  Speaker 3: out there and you're like, wait.
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  Speaker 2: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: And now it's going to be dissected by all of
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  Speaker 3: us talking on ESPN, NFL Network and of course all
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  Speaker 3: of the other shows and especially locally.
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  Speaker 2: What does that all meant? They have to fix this
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  Speaker 2: passing game.
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  Speaker 3: It is now an issue because it's become a national
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  Speaker 3: issue and they can't go on with every single week
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  Speaker 3: having to deal with this, and that's when it becomes
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  Speaker 3: a distraction.
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  Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is Jalen hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, if you ask me, will you take this this
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  Speaker 3: record at this point in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, stats wise no. If you're an AJ Brown.
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  Speaker 3: Or Davonte Smith, and you'd say would you take it
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  Speaker 3: record wise yet?
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  Speaker 2: But stats wise no?
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  Speaker 3: At some point, the fear is this is going to
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  Speaker 3: catch up with them. But Kellen Moore, AJ Brown, Davante Smith,
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  Speaker 3: and of course they're without Dallas Goddard now, which hurts.
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  Speaker 3: He's in such a key part of that offense. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like this weekend it has to be now a
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  Speaker 3: concerted effort to get that going. I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 3: would have been such a concerted effort in the game
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  Speaker 3: plan to get these guys the rock early and to
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  Speaker 3: make sure AJ's happy had this all blown up the
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  Speaker 3: way it.
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  Speaker 2: Has in the last three days.
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  Speaker 3: So my long answer to the short question is yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a distraction. I think it's something they
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  Speaker 3: have to all deal with and they have to open
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  Speaker 3: up and talk about.
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  Speaker 2: It might be good in the long term, but you
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  Speaker 2: better believe they're going.
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  Speaker 3: To try to get that passing game going against Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even more so than they would have been to
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  Speaker 3: just say, hey, running the ball with Saquon works, we're
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  Speaker 3: all happy, we're all winning.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently that's not the case. What's up, everybody?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Good Morning Football.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been another week of the Fab Five.
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  Speaker 3: This segment we give the top five rookies of the
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  Speaker 3: week their due. Now, in some weeks we have an
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  Speaker 3: incredible list of household first round picks, and other.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks it's guys you might not know.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of those other weeks, And I'm so
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  Speaker 3: happy to share some of these names.
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  Speaker 2: The first one, you.
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  Speaker 3: Do know, come on, because he's in the conversation for
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  Speaker 3: defensive Rookie of the Year and he was outstanding again
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. That's Quinion Mitchell, the rookie corner for the
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Over the field thirty five snaps. They threw out him
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  Speaker 2: four times, he only give up nineteen yards. Now he
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  Speaker 2: lined up.
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  Speaker 3: Across that fellow rookie, Xavier Leaguette, who has been having
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  Speaker 3: an outstanding second half of the season. Lagett and him
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  Speaker 3: one had had seventeen times. Do you know how many
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: times Bryce Young threw the ball at Mitchell? Zero? Zero
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: times did Bryce Young throw the battle leget when he
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  Speaker 3: was covered by Mitchell. Now, Mitchell in the season has
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  Speaker 3: been an absolute dog.
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  Speaker 2: He has ten passes.
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  Speaker 3: Defended, tied amongst all rookies, and has yet zero past
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  Speaker 3: interference penalties against him.
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  Speaker 2: Really cool stat. He was outstanding again. Now Cooper Dejemed
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  Speaker 2: got picked on a little bit in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Quean Mitchell did not quew Mitchell has been a stud
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  Speaker 3: throughout and he's one of those rare corners that is
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  Speaker 3: outstanding since day one in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Our number four is a.
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  Speaker 3: Guy who stepped it up in a big moment when
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  Speaker 3: the first two players at his position were down. It's
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: running back Isaac Garndo from the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Everyone picked him up in fin fantasy.
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  Speaker 3: You had no McCaffrey, you had no Mason, and Grendo delivered.
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  Speaker 2: This was his first NFL start.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the crazy stab, and they set it on
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  Speaker 3: the broadcast. He only started one game his entire college career.
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  Speaker 3: He played at Wisconsin and Louisville and only started one game.
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  Speaker 3: In those two combined places. He had seventy eight rushing yards,
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  Speaker 3: two rushing touchdowns, he had two catches, and he had
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  Speaker 3: fifty yards receiving.
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  Speaker 2: Girndo a hugein Now.
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  Speaker 3: He got hurt at the end of this game and
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: he had a foot sprain, so we're not sure we're
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: going to see him tomorrow night against the Rams. They
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  Speaker 3: already went to Patrick Taylor, his backup in the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter of this game.
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  Speaker 2: So Gorendo doing this and then he got hurt, But
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  Speaker 2: we have to give him his love.
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  Speaker 3: Isaac Girndo, Peter, I'm picking on Patrick Taylor right now.
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  Speaker 2: Time to get doctor Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Min segment and get Patrick Taylor's back up.
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  Speaker 2: There we go. You know they run the ball in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Number three, it's a rookie wide receiver of the University
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  Speaker 3: at Washington. It's not Jalen Polk, it's not Roe mcdoonsday.
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  Speaker 3: It's Jalen McMillan, the rookie for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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  Speaker 3: who had a big day against the Raiders. McMillan had
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  Speaker 3: fifty nine yards receiving, but he had two receiving touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Both of them key in this victory.
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  Speaker 3: He had two career games with two plus receiving touchdowns
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  Speaker 3: in his entire career at college, and yet he did
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  Speaker 3: it twice here in this game against the Raiders as
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  Speaker 3: a rookie. The cool part about McMillan's weekend he turned
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  Speaker 3: twenty three on Saturday and on Sunday catches two touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 3: A loaded rookie wide receiver class this year, Jalen McMillan
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  Speaker 3: is performing at as high as a level as just
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  Speaker 3: about anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Every week.
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  Speaker 3: He has become a guy that Baker Mayfield can trust.
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  Speaker 3: We see you, Jalen McMillan, Number three on this list.
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  Speaker 3: Number two It's a player whose name we mentioned on
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  Speaker 3: the show a couple of weeks ago, and he has
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  Speaker 3: been just a force for a hot.
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  Speaker 2: Team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Get to know see Hawks linebacker ty Reese Knight. Ty
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  Speaker 3: Reeves Knight getting out there and has been absolutely awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: He had twelve tackles in this win against the Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. He had two passes defended as well. He
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  Speaker 3: leads all rookies and tackles since he became the starter
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  Speaker 3: in Week ten.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks are six.
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  Speaker 3: And one in twenty twenty four when Knight plays at
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  Speaker 3: least ten snaps on defense. Their only lost was when
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  Speaker 3: they played the Lions, who basically have beaten everybody. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as we know Tyrese Knight, the linebacker, Mike McDonald is
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  Speaker 3: a former linebackers coach. Knight is the only linebacker that
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks drafted in the draft this year. They've been
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  Speaker 3: shuffling linebackers all season. They had Dodson, they waved Baker,
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  Speaker 3: they traded, they traded, Ernest Jones came in, and then
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  Speaker 3: they got.
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  Speaker 2: This guy at Knight.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, what he's doing is outstanding. And
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the record the Seahawks. They are
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  Speaker 3: one of the best teams in the NFL over the
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  Speaker 3: past four weeks. But who's number one? Who is number
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  Speaker 3: one on the list? Quarterbacks were on bie weeks. Caleb
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  Speaker 3: didn't play particularly great. Can't throw him in here.
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  Speaker 2: Usually it's a quarterback, we love the quarterback. It's a
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver this week.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a guy who has not been on this
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  Speaker 3: list often because his team is usually on the losing end,
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  Speaker 3: but he has had an out standing rookie season. In
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  Speaker 3: his first round pick for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Jude all Right. Thomas was awesome Sunday against the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: Big numbers and if you played fantasy and you started him,
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  Speaker 3: you might have gotten into the playoffs because of his performance.
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  Speaker 3: Eight catches eighty six receiving yards in the jags first
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  Speaker 3: win since October. It was his seventh game of the
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  Speaker 3: season with seventy five receiving yards or more.
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  Speaker 2: You want a cool stat.
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  Speaker 3: Only one player has more games of seventy five receiving
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  Speaker 3: yards or more and that's another former LSU star, Justin Jefferson.
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  Speaker 3: Thomas has been great all season. It's a shame we
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  Speaker 3: haven't had on this list that often the Jaguars just
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  Speaker 3: don't win enough. We like to reward the winners. Look
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  Speaker 3: at Thomas here as far as rookie ranks go in
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  Speaker 3: a loaded wide receiver class, fourth in reception, second and
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  Speaker 3: receiving yards, second.
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  Speaker 2: And receiving touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: Neale Dahldon the twenty plus receiving yards.
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  Speaker 2: He was really good on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve targets, eight catches, eighty six yards. Brian Thomas Junior,
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  Speaker 3: we see you, and there you have it, folks. It's
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  Speaker 3: my fabulous five and an orthodox list compared to some others.
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  Speaker 3: These are not your typical names that you'd see of
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  Speaker 3: just littered with first round picks. We got two of them,
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  Speaker 3: and then you got guys who would stepping it up
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  Speaker 3: night McMillan and Grindo. Hopefully we see Grendo tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see spring.
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  Speaker 3: Foot usually doesn't bode well, Kyle, your thoughts on a
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  Speaker 3: very unusual fat fuck.
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  Speaker 2: I will keep banging the drummer, banging the bricks for
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: this guy. Jake Freaking Baits. Jake Bates was a brick salesman.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, a brick salesman as early as last spring, and now.
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  Speaker 2: He is the kicker for argue me, the best.
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  Speaker 3: Team at all of football, and he's winning games week
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  Speaker 3: after week after week. The trust that they have in
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Jake bates the fact that Dan Campbell throws this guy
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  Speaker 3: a game ball every single locker room speech.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's like, guys, so let's keep on.
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  Speaker 3: Fighting one week at a time, Pleas you're playing for
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  Speaker 3: you boys.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the best stories you all have ever imagined,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: from the UFL where he would bang in these sixty
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  Speaker 3: yarders to not being with an NFL team, to then
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions saying, hey, you're with us doing the
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: bringing in the boom big Justice.
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  Speaker 2: And agent we bring them boo. Love this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Jake Freaking Baits is my story of the year. I
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  Speaker 3: love his deal and I think he's gonna have to
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: make a big kick in a big game soon and
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: we're gonna see if he's up for the challenge. Each
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: week on this show, we gave a Coach of the
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Week award. Sometimes it's a coordinator, sometimes its assistant. Sometimes
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: it's just the head coach of a team that got
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: a big win. Week fourteen's case we're giving it to
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Sean McVay aved to make a big decision. On fourth
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  Speaker 3: and five, with the ball and a lead, do you punt?
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  Speaker 3: Do you kick a field goal, a long one with
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: a rookie kicker, or do you decide to go for it? McVeigh,
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  Speaker 3: with the time I'm ticking away here, decides let's rely
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  Speaker 3: on two to.
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  Speaker 2: At Well on a crossing route.
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  Speaker 3: Not Nakua, not Karen Williams, and not Cooper Cup but
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: two to two at Well coming across the middle gets
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  Speaker 3: the play.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: This was just one of.
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  Speaker 3: Several gutsy calls, but also one of several huge offensive
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  Speaker 3: plays for.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: The La Rams yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: This is the credit to both Sean and Mike Lafleur,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator, and of course the players who did this.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Four hundred and fifty seven yards, one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 3: seven rushing yards, forty two rushing attempts, six different offensive touchdowns.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I know, yeah, Kuka Nakua had one hundred and sixty
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: two receiving yards.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Sean mcvay's team needed to win.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: They got the win, and they beat a team that
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: looked like they were unbeatable coming into this game.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: In the Buffalo Bills. Sean McVay is our head coach
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: of the week.
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