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  Get laced up. Let's go. It's time for Benzer with the boys.
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  Yo, yo, welcome back to Banter with the boys.
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  Gridiron updates week 12 Rob doing his thing like always messing me up.
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  I got an intro prepared this week. I really do.
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  It's Cody. Welcome back this week, man.
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  We're happy to have you back on the show right next to me here. Thank you, sir.
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  Welcome back. It feels like it's been too long already, so I'm happy to be back.
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  You're home. It was a fun week of football. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Can't wait to jump into it. For sure. Skull to the bowl.
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  Rachel, welcome. Our first
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  female guest on any Banter with the Boys episode.
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  I'm super excited to have you on.
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  I'm like the Michelle Tafoya of this place, you know, the sideline.
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  We need it. You know, Alice. So thanks for having me join.
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  For sure. Absolutely. Super excited to have you on.
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  And then I guess, of course, next to me is Rob.
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  It's all love, though. Rob, our co-host, what's popping?
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  Everything's good. You know, we're getting through the football season,
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  you know, sitting at a nice number right now.
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  And I'm excited to talk to you sitting at the nice number.
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  The Vikings, of course, the hometown team, baby.
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  Come on, this whole to the bowl. You already know. Exactly.
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  Yeah. With that, let's get right into it.
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  But before we do that, we did just want to make sure you guys know
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  that this episode is brought to you by our sponsor, the Cappy.
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  If you take a look right in front of us here at the helmets,
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  Rob is grabbing a package of the Cappy right now.
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  Little little device that helps you open your cans,
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  cover your cans, whatever you may be.
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  You know, it does have a little keychain hole, which I can be on right here
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  as a little keychain also is on my keys.
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  Always mine's a little dirty, but
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  just put it right under there.
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  You can open that can right up.
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  You can also flip it around and cover it.
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  You know what I mean? Look at that.
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  Cody, would you do you see yourself using a Cappy?
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  You know, any events?
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  I got my first Cappy last week.
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  And before that, we have a one and a half year old
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  and we'd go in the stroller on rides and you go on that tar road
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  and my Coca Cola would be everywhere by about a block in.
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  And the last week we've been on walks in the cold,
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  but it has been phenomenal. Just keeps it covered.
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  Like it helps me open it and I can already see my wife spin
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  that thing around for us. All right. On the top. Boom. Boom.
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  Look at that. If you take a look, it's it's not sealed, right?
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  It's not meant to seal it. But like you said on the road, it's a splash guard.
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  Yeah, it's not going to pop out of there.
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  And my wife has one and I haven't had to open one over Coca Cola since then.
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  So it's been perfect. There you go.
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  That four pack covers the whole fam right there.
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  The four pack goes over. Another thing is that sharp little edge
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  is a nice thing for little kids and another aspect of that.
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  So enjoying that. So where can Rachel get the four pack?
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  She can get it on Amazon all day long.
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  We have a link on the bottom of the page. So check it out.
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  So what are you doing after the show? Oh, I'm I'm going to.
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  Well, I'm going to make some gin and tonics like tomorrow over the weekend.
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  Fair enough. And I don't always use all the tonic.
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  So this will be amazing because my mother really likes fresh tonic.
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  And so do I. So I can just snap that thing off.
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  I can snap that thing back on to keep my tonic.
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  A little bit. Yeah.
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  Why not? Until it's time for that next round.
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  Yeah. Five minutes, 30 minutes.
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  I mean, it depends on the day.
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  Depends on how many doubles or singles.
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  See all the Vikings are doing probably. That's probably how it really goes.
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  Yeah, right. Right. Depends. Right.
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  So with that with that again, thank you to the Cappy for sponsoring this episode.
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  And with that, Kev, let's head right into our week 11 game recaps.
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  And of course, to start our game recap week 11, Skull to the Bull.
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  Yachty, no Vikings getting the dub 23.
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  Oh, we're all stolen in here.
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  Vikings get in the dub 23. Oh, I'm doing I'm bringing this to the game.
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  I like it. Yeah.
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  Vikings getting the dub 2313 in Tennessee.
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  Another road win for the Skull squad.
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  Cody, what excites you about this team now heading to Chicago?
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  Well, our defense is awesome.
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  I mean, being the Titans isn't our biggest feat of the season,
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  but there was a Jaguars was still there. Exactly.
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  But we looked a lot better against the Titans than the.
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  Sure. So it just felt a lot better.
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  Offense got seemed to get on a roll a little bit more,
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  getting the ball into Jefferson's hands.
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  And I thought Hawkinson was going to be a little bit more involved than he was.
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  But it's still good to see him out there catching first downs.
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  Yeah. Two catches. What do you have about TJ?
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  Yeah. Yeah. Two catches.
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  Thirteen yards. One of them was a first down on like a third and seven.
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  We need those. He's always there for those.
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  So you got to love that. Absolutely.
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  You know what I didn't do, Rachel, when we introduced you.
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  Did I even introduce her? Yes, I did.
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  OK, I want to make sure.
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  Totally. But when I did that, I didn't let you do, you know,
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  let us know your football knowledge.
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  What got you watching the game? All that.
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  What got you? You know what I mean? Oh, sure.
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  I watching ball. Well, I sure was about four years old.
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  That was just something my family always did every Sunday.
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  And my dad, it was my my dad's favorite sport.
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  For sure. It was something we could do as a family.
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  And it was a really good reason to get out of church.
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  I was like, the game is on and the church started at 11.
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  Like, we got to get rolling.
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  We're not going to eat after this are we? We're going home, right?
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  Yeah, right, right.
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  So my friends get impressed and they're like, how do you know this stuff?
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  I go, I've been watching this for I'm not going to say my age,
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  but I've been around a while and I've been watching it since I was four.
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  So, OK, yeah.
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  Give or take. You got all sorts of.
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  I got some time on my hands here. Yeah, for sure.
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  You always been a Vikings fan. Yes, sir.
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  Let's go to the ball. Yeah, she's waiting for one to run.
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  I'm ready. Right.
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  I can't remember one of the local podcasts here.
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  Say something about like one before I die or whatever. Who is that?
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  I think everybody can probably remember somebody that uses
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  that game ever fits KFAN or score north, whatever.
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  But shout out to them because they're local. But yeah, no.
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  Like we said, Vikings get in the dub.
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  Russian game was a little stagnant this week.
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  And I think a little bit was honestly the Titans deep.
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  You know, I think they were giving it to him a little bit more than people
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  were expecting. But what can we say about that?
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  What the Titans did you?
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  What do you think about Will Lepus, the quarterback for the Titans?
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  How do you think he played?
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  You know, he's still young, right? Yeah, he's still young.
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  He had some good plays on us.
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  But, you know, we have everybody coming at him all the time. Right.
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  So I have that floor is sending that pressure.
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  I think the best thing about the Titans probably is their defense.
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  You know, that was one thing that going into the game,
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  I knew they would be pretty good for sure.
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  And they're a talented team, but they're young and they made, you know,
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  they had a lot of penalties, right?
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  Like they're like 14 penalty.
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  Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Some really foolish ones.
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  You're like you didn't need to do that one.
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  Yeah. Well, they had a lot of plays they made and then they just got called back.
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  Thankfully, right. They went our way. Right.
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  A lot of them did. I wasn't mad at that, but I would be frustrated
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  as a Titans fan. Yeah.
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  To see that, you know, it's kind of you asked about Will Lepus
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  out of the five games that we predicted for this week
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  for this past week and all the quarterbacks that we had out of those 10.
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  The one with the most passing yards was Will Lepus.
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  Interesting. 295. Yeah. Interesting.
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  And nine and 98 of them came off of one play.
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  So that's a little tough on the Westbrook, a keen a 98 yard touchdown.
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  Other than that, he had what?
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  198 yards passing. So well, he played OK.
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  But his stats look pretty darn good.
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  And we talked about it last night, Rob, that 98 yarder.
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  I mean, Mattel is in the right position.
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  He's making the right move.
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  And then he decides to flip his hips late for some reason and try to back.
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  I don't even know.
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  You look like a linebacker versus safety in that point.
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  You know that point. Yeah.
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  I will have us look like a NFL quarterback to me last year.
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  This other game, they're really hurting on the offensive line.
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  That defense is really good.
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  They're rated number one in the NFL in the past.
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  Yeah. No, the yeah, the Titans and second in running.
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  So are overall. So that's no joke of a defense right there.
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  So we've actually played pretty well with them overall, I thought.
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  You know, I think we could have maybe stretch that game out a little bit more
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  if we a couple of plays a little bit more.
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  But I might give Tennessee a little credit.
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  Will have us, I think is going to be an NFL quarterback.
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  You know, OK. I mean, he's the most ripped quarterback I've seen.
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  His arms were huge.
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  Just I'm just saying I usually say that stuff. That's cool.
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  Hey, I don't know. Hey, I'm not trying to like paint myself
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  in whatever picture you guys want. Right.
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  But like I was like, whoa, that dude's got pipes.
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  It's like, oh my God.
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  I did want to ask you, Rachel, what do you think of Sam Darnold's play?
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  He's been, you know, up and down the last few weeks.
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  How do you think he played on Sunday?
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  You know what, Sam?
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  So the interesting thing about Sam is we got to remember
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  he was a number three pick. He was in the first round in 2018.
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  Same with Lamar. Same with Josh Allen.
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  We're going to talk about those guys later.
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  So it's really interesting. They all have that in common, right?
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  So I think he's been he wants to win.
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  He's super competitive.
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  And he went to the Super Bowl last year.
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  Like he's he's seen a lot.
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  This is his fourth team and he is proving himself.
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  And I'm glad to have him. I'm glad to have him.
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  It's really fun to watch him.
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  And he definitely wants to win.
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  And he's spreading the ball around to a lot of teammates.
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  And he has a lot of people to pick from. Right.
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  He took care of the ball this week is what we needed.
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  I mean, it's kind of a revenge game off of how he played it.
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  He needed something, a game like that. So. Yeah.
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  And with again, no rushing help almost.
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  It was really nonexistent.
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  But got enough when it mattered.
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  Anyway, let's let's move on again.
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  We always love talking about the Vikings.
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  I know he's going to suffer an hour and a half. Vikings.
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  OK, actually, one more question for Rachel.
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  Cody, you've been on the show before.
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  Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
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  I don't know the answer.
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  What was I going with? Oh, so next next season,
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  would you like to see if Sam continues on here,
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  would you like to see the Vikings sign him like a three year deal
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  while we kind of wait for J.J. McCarthy to develop a little bit
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  and heal from that injury?
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  Or are you like if J.J.'s healthy, you know,
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  have you seen enough video of him or whatever
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  that you'd be willing to let him start next season?
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  Well, I haven't really seen enough video, but I like what Sam's doing.
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  I think it's a no brainer to keep him.
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  OK, fair enough.
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  I mean, he's less expensive than our former quarterback
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  and all the other guys that are playing that are in that
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  we're in that same NFL draft, right?
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  They're getting paid more. But his payday is coming.
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  He's playing for a lot of things, pride and money.
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  And, you know, again, he's he's competitive, so he does win.
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  Why not make it Sam Darnold to get us to the Super Bowl?
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  Why not? I'm ready.
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  I know. I'm ready.
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  Matt, if we win the Super Bowl with Sam, how do we not keep him?
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  Oh, yeah, they win their key.
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  But I thought the top part is he's not going to be
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  10 million dollars a year anymore.
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  He's going to be 25, 30 million dollars a year.
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  And I don't know if we have the budget for that,
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  especially after signing J.J.
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  to that big contract last year. Thank God.
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  A little time with Kevin O'Connell turns you from a 10 million dollar
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  quarterback into a 25 million dollar just like that.
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  Just like that. KOC. Yeah. Yes, sir.
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  Well, you know, you know, he has Josh McGowan, right?
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  Like his former teammate, which is which is super interesting.
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  Yeah. QB coach.
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  And they were also teammates in 2018 at the Jets.
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  So I think that's super fun for them.
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  I don't know why I get I get a kick out of this, but I do.
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  No, I think I think it makes a difference.
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  Familiarity with somebody else makes it makes it. Yeah.
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  Yeah. It makes a difference. Yeah.
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  It's cool that he was a he's a young coach
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  and he was a quarterback in the league recently.
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  I think that gives him a lot of pull in different places,
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  both in the locker room and around the.
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  You can trust him. He was just doing it.
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  Yeah. You know what I mean?
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  So not not as good as he can coach it, but he was doing it.
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  But that's OK.
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  Some put some people aren't as good at playing,
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  but they're really good at coaching.
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  You know, like yours truly, obviously.
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  But you know, 100 percent.
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  Mike Mcdian or 240 speed right there.
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  Well, whoops.
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  Well, one last thing about McGowan, he was a lot of different teams.
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  So he now I think he was at six different teams.
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  I don't remember exactly.
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  But, you know, he's been around and seen different things.
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  And it's just like like KOC.
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  He moved around. He was just learning, learning, learning.
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  I understand where Sam's coming from, trying to establish himself.
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  Yeah. But yeah.
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  But if I'm not right, was he the quarterback in Arizona and at our season?
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  Oh, I don't know if he was.
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  He did play in Arizona.
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  Back that's probably like 10 years ago.
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  But we needed that win in the last week.
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  Yeah, it was no good. But.
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  Well, let's not talk about that stuff.
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  We're talking about present.
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  Go to the bull, eight and two Vikings, of course, like we expected
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  and bringing up nightmares to me.
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  100% of the banter at the boys picks
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  picked the Vikings to win that game. So.
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  That was easy. No, John. But yeah.
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  Moving on to a game that wasn't so easy.
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  We did have a couple picks here that went the other way.
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  But Packers went on a blocked field goal.
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  Packers traveling to Chicago. Tough game.
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  Tough game. Honestly, I was surprised to.
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  I felt like the game was relying on both quarterbacks to make plays on their legs.
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  Which when it when it mattered, I mean, I know Jordan Love only has four rushes.
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  But all four of those mattered.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Caleb Williams also only had nine rushes, but he also had 70 yards.
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  Don't get me wrong. But you know, both quarterbacks really led the team.
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  That that's that's what stood out to me in that, you know, personally.
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  Yes, the block field goal.
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  And that sucks for the Bears with with just their kicking.
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  Well, it's a double doing you.
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  Everybody knows it. But
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  I feel like they earn that, though, that blocked.
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  They did. But I think the Bears played a good game.
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  They played an excellent game.
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  They had their time possession.
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  There was like 36 minutes.
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  Love only threw the ball 17 times, which is a really low number for the Packers.
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  But that's back to the time of possession.
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  Time of possession.
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  Bears just held it.
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  Josh Jacobs, 20 plus carries, which they still didn't do this game.
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  They didn't, you know.
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  So often, the Packers just weren't on the field a ton.
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  So I think that's probably it was a good game plan for the Bears
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  to stay, keep the ball out of that high scoring offense.
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  So they didn't have to go in and shoot out.
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  I think this was Caleb Wilmott's best game of the year by far.
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  Oh, yeah. You know, he took the ball and ran when he needed to,
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  especially on a lot of third down plays. So.
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  But at the end of the game, they had 35 seconds left.
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  They ran that little two yarder and then they sat on the clock and wind it on.
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  They were upset about that.
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  I was very upset because I think you could get another five, eight yards
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  because I don't know, 46 yard field goal is not guaranteed.
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  So you got to, you know, kick it a little lower.
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  Now you're playing outside a little colder weather.
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  These 50 yarders that we've been seeing in the beginning of the year
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  not going to be as round as much anymore.
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  So 100 percent.
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  Especially at the outdoor stadiums, like you stated.
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  I do want to bring up Christian Watson.
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  I've been on his, you know, he's been on my crap list
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  for lack of better terms all season.
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  Had his best game of the year.
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  But yeah, Rachel, what did you see from Christian Watson this game?
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  I mean, he balled out, to say the least.
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  Well, I don't really have a lot to say about him.
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  I don't. So I'm only lean on someone else for that.
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  I do think the Bears had every opportunity to win the game.
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  And their defense, you know, is pretty good.
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  So they had just couldn't finish games.
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  And then the field goal like the Packers did know that he was going to kick it low.
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  So they knew what they were going to do.
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  So there is a lot.
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  I mean, I mostly what I know about that game is that part.
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  Right. Because the end is what matters.
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  And the end is what really sticks in our head.
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  And the Bears were going to send the footage into the NFL.
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  Whatever. What were they trying to claim the guy?
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  So you cannot go through the center.
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  Yeah. During a field goal.
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  And it was, I don't know, a gap.
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  If you want to get it, so it's a judgment call in that scenario.
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  We'll call it a A plus gap, maybe.
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  So it was borderline.
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  But I'm fine with the no call.
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  You know, you got to let it play at some point.
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  You know, I mean, they still block the field.
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  You know, you can't take that away from them.
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  They got it done. And then Mikaela Williams.
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  And I hate the Packers. Yeah, I was good.
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  I hate the Packers.
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  Matt LaFleur has never are the pair.
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  The Bears have never beat Matt LaFleur.
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  He's won nine times in a row. Really?
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  Yeah. And I know that.
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  Nine times in a row.
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  And they still need to travel to Green Bay.
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  No, they already played them.
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  They're going to play in Chicago next, I think.
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  They just played in Chicago.
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  Again, in Soldier Field.
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  I can't remember if they play them again this season or not, or if they already did.
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  I thought they played them at Green Bay.
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  No, no, no, they do play them again.
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  I'm sorry. They end the season at Green Bay.
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  OK, so Rachel's on point there with her schedule.
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  But no, but but last season, we kind of saw this with the Bears, right?
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  They got to that second half of the season.
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  Oh, when they start picking up a little bit of steam, they all around
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  the whole team started playing a little bit better.
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  Yes, they beat the Vikings in our house.
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  I was there. That sucked.
• 17:16
  But they started playing better.
• 17:17
  You know what I mean? And I will talk about it in the preview,
• 17:21
  but I'm a little bit nervous
• 17:22
  in this game to into Chicago to play the Bears this week.
• 17:26
  I'm going to be honest with you.
• 17:27
  Nervous now. I think it depends a lot on Caleb Williams.
• 17:30
  I mean, they have a great defense, but if they are constantly playing defense,
• 17:36
  it's going to be tough to stop anybody, right?
• 17:38
  Especially in offense like we have.
• 17:39
  If they're going to stop our run like Tennessee did this week.
• 17:42
  Yeah, I don't know. It's going to be in Sam's hands.
• 17:44
  Yeah, then it might just be a six to six.
• 17:47
  And yeah, exactly.
• 17:49
  As long as we win, I don't care.
• 17:50
  Yeah, that's fair.
• 17:51
  Right. 100. Sign me up for W is one to nothing all year long.
• 17:56
  For sure.
• 17:57
  They will be hungry for a win, though.
• 17:59
  So I get what you're saying.
• 18:00
  That's what I mean. I just something's I hate to say it.
• 18:03
  I got the fuck got my cape up here and everything.
• 18:05
  And I'm just a little bit worried.
• 18:07
  Man, I worry about that defense against a rookie quarterback.
• 18:11
  You think it's true?
• 18:12
  That's true. We'll get to it.
• 18:14
  We'll get to it.
• 18:15
  Commanders traveling to Philadelphia.
• 18:18
  A lot of people thinking the commanders are just going to walk in there
• 18:21
  and get the dub and Philly had other things not land in it.
• 18:24
  Not me either. I'm with my buddy.
• 18:26
  Yeah. Eagles get the dub 2618 over the commanders in Philly.
• 18:32
  Obviously a tough place to play.
• 18:34
  But what a fourth quarter for Philly.
• 18:36
  I mean, they just absolutely exploded.
• 18:39
  Saquon is just on another level.
• 18:42
  Rachel, did you catch Saquon's what spin move reverse hurdle
• 18:47
  like two weeks ago?
• 18:48
  I didn't see it, but I did. I saw it after.
• 18:51
  The highlights. I mean, it's he is a beast.
• 18:53
  I mean, those quads are crazy.
• 18:55
  You know, they are for real.
• 18:57
  He's got huge legs. Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:00
  Three trunk. But you know, Washington had
• 19:02
  they were they scored at the end of the game, too.
• 19:05
  So they really gave him a run for their money.
• 19:08
  They were winning that half. Yeah.
• 19:09
  Oh, for sure. They do not have give up by this at all. Right.
• 19:13
  No, it was a great game. Yeah. Yeah. Great battle.
• 19:16
  Again, Saquon kind of carrying the Eagles,
• 19:19
  but Jalen Hurston have a bad game, either more of that game
• 19:21
  game manager role this time around.
• 19:24
  But we'll still sling that thing to A.J. Brown.
• 19:27
  I mean, Daniels looked like the game manager on that.
• 19:29
  He's 22 for 32, 191, an average of three point three.
• 19:35
  Is that come out that math like that?
• 19:37
  And he has 17 completions to tight ends and running backs.
• 19:41
  So he's not. That's the checkdown.
• 19:42
  He wasn't pushing the ball down the field at all.
• 19:45
  So that's that little rookie.
• 19:47
  I'm going to give the defense
• 19:48
  because they're secondary.
• 19:50
  The Eagles is really nice right now. So they're getting hot.
• 19:53
  Yeah, they're getting real trending right now.
• 19:55
  I'll go. Yeah, it was a solid game, but Daniels played all right.
• 19:57
  But Hurst played a solid game and then Barkley just finished it off
• 20:01
  with those two touch down.
• 20:02
  Dude, that run to split the defense, his speed from just start
• 20:06
  just, you know, stop to start, I guess that acceleration is just outstanding.
• 20:11
  Yeah, he's from Saquon.
• 20:12
  I mean, he's game changer for Philly.
• 20:14
  I mean, he changed that off.
• 20:16
  He was exactly what they needed.
• 20:17
  You could argue down under Swift gave him that here and there, too.
• 20:19
  But I mean, that's he's not he's not.
• 20:21
  He's not. No, he's not a powerback with afterburners.
• 20:25
  That can jump over. Great example.
• 20:27
  I mean, with after. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 20:29
  I mean, honestly, when you look at Philly's defense, their their whole
• 20:33
  or offense, I'm sorry, their whole offense is,
• 20:36
  I don't know, one of the best in the league.
• 20:38
  I mean, Jalen Hurts, that quarterback, you have Devante Smith and A.J.
• 20:42
  Brown as your top two wide outs.
• 20:44
  Zach Hurts is your your tight end.
• 20:46
  Dallas. Scott Hurts.
• 20:48
  I'm sorry. Back to 2007.
• 20:50
  He's on the other side of the wall, though.
• 20:51
  Or the other team.
• 20:52
  Yeah. And then Saquon in the backfield, it's just I don't know.
• 20:55
  They're on their hot.
• 20:57
  They're hot right now.
• 20:58
  Right now. I'm looking back.
• 20:59
  Wondering how I pick the commander.
• 21:00
  That was a fun game to watch, though.
• 21:02
  I will say. And I picked Dallas during the division.
• 21:04
  So what was me? So I hear you.
• 21:06
  I know. Well, I don't think any of us expected that.
• 21:09
  Football, my if you will.
• 21:12
  It's been a weird year.
• 21:14
  Yeah, no.
• 21:15
  But yeah, Washington, you know, they battled hard.
• 21:17
  Who do they got next?
• 21:18
  I don't think we're covering them this week.
• 21:20
  Let me look. We're not.
• 21:21
  So Washington, let's see.
• 21:24
  They go to the Cowboys. That's a win.
• 21:25
  They go to the Tennessee. That's probably a win.
• 21:27
  They go travel to the Superdome.
• 21:29
  That's going to be tough.
• 21:30
  Any game I think in New Orleans is tough.
• 21:33
  You think they lose at Tennessee?
• 21:35
  Yeah. Why is that?
• 21:36
  Because Tennessee defense is going to give them a lot of fits.
• 21:40
  Fair enough.
• 21:40
  But I'm not that scared of the Tennessee offense either, though.
• 21:43
  You know, I mean, that old line is just it's going to be 12 to 11.
• 21:46
  Yeah. OK. OK. OK. OK.
• 21:48
  I'll give you that. That's fair. That's fair.
• 21:50
  But and then they wrap up with the Eagles one more time at home.
• 21:54
  Do they beat the Eagles in the rematch?
• 21:57
  Oh, you put me on the spot on.
• 21:59
  I'm going to the commanders let me down the first time.
• 22:02
  I'm going Eagles the second time.
• 22:04
  Oh, OK. Offense is just looks so good. Sure.
• 22:07
  And I know Jaden Daniels is going to get better as the year goes on
• 22:10
  and as he gets more experience.
• 22:12
  But I think Philly is going to be a tough one to take down.
• 22:16
  Absolutely.
• 22:17
  Rachel, last question before we move on.
• 22:20
  Philadelphia, sitting at eight and two, leading the division.
• 22:22
  The commander sitting at seven and four right now, second in the division.
• 22:26
  Do you think the commander still have a shot to win the division?
• 22:29
  The NFC East now?
• 22:31
  One, two, three, four, five, six games left.
• 22:35
  I think the Eagles are going to take it home.
• 22:37
  They just have more experience.
• 22:38
  I mean, Jaden Daniels, he's super fun to watch.
• 22:41
  He's really doing the best of all the rookie QBs out there.
• 22:44
  So props to agree with that.
• 22:46
  But I just don't see that happening because the Eagles are right.
• 22:50
  Like you said, peaking at the right time.
• 22:52
  This is when you want to get hot.
• 22:54
  Oh, no, 100 percent.
• 22:55
  There'll be a wild card team and they're going to be a tough out, though.
• 22:58
  They're not going to be an easy wild. No, no.
• 22:59
  But maybe they're inexperienced will house them in the win.
• 23:03
  The wild card. We'll see. We'll get there.
• 23:04
  We got plenty of football left.
• 23:06
  Speaking of plenty of football left, what a game we had
• 23:10
  between the Ravens and Steelers in Pittsburgh.
• 23:13
  A tough, hard nosed game in the AFC North.
• 23:17
  I mean, exactly what we expected.
• 23:19
  There's a little lower scoring than I planned on, you know,
• 23:23
  that Baltimore Ravens defense I was a little bit worried about,
• 23:26
  but they didn't play all that bad either.
• 23:28
  Yeah, they played really well.
• 23:30
  I mean, I was looking at their city defense defensively.
• 23:34
  They're towards the bottom of the league, actually.
• 23:36
  The Ravens. The Ravens. I know. That's why that's why it's scary.
• 23:38
  That's why people are concerned about them
• 23:40
  maybe making that long run in the playoffs this year.
• 23:43
  Literally because their defense.
• 23:45
  I mean, there was another awesome divisional game.
• 23:48
  You know, it was nine, seven and a half. It finished.
• 23:52
  Lamar was 50 percent throwing the ball.
• 23:55
  He'd had a few drops and stuff, too.
• 23:58
  Henry fumble, the second player of the game, and he hasn't fumbled
• 24:01
  and changed the Momo a decade. Yeah.
• 24:03
  Change the moment.
• 24:05
  He didn't. Did he even have 100 yards rushing?
• 24:07
  No, not. He was not a factor this time.
• 24:10
  So, yeah, Rachel, what was your stat about Lamar Jackson at?
• 24:14
  He used to be called Hinesfield.
• 24:16
  Yeah. Well, the Steelers have won eight and nine against the Ravens.
• 24:20
  So Lamar's stats are the worst against the Steelers.
• 24:25
  So he they got his number. They got his number.
• 24:27
  I don't know why. I don't know that.
• 24:29
  But that's what I do know.
• 24:31
  So for me, I wasn't surprised.
• 24:33
  And I knew that Steelers defense would come hungry.
• 24:36
  They really did.
• 24:37
  I want to get on that offer.
• 24:39
  Yeah. The answers are lively.
• 24:41
  Patrick Queen getting the I guess the revenge game
• 24:45
  against the Ravens, you know, great.
• 24:48
  Yeah. Great game from him.
• 24:49
  T.J. Watt at the end of that game was just outstanding,
• 24:53
  making it really difficult for the Ravens to do anything.
• 24:56
  So interesting take, though.
• 24:58
  Justin Tucker after the game was complaining about the field
• 25:01
  conditions are kicking.
• 25:02
  But then on the opposite side, Boswell won six for six.
• 25:05
  Yeah. No, I'm sorry.
• 25:07
  Three of them over 50, right? Yeah.
• 25:09
  And one at 57.
• 25:11
  So, yeah, I don't I don't know if it came down to the conditions.
• 25:16
  But he missed how many?
• 25:18
  He was one for three. Yeah.
• 25:19
  One. Yeah. So that's not like he's the best to do it.
• 25:22
  I think he's just using the excuse.
• 25:24
  I'm sorry. Oh, no, I was going to say he's really great kicker.
• 25:27
  So that is not like him.
• 25:29
  So whatever some must been.
• 25:31
  But the Ravens need to clean up their their penalties.
• 25:34
  They had 12 penalties in this game, which kept the Steelers
• 25:38
  actually probably in that game.
• 25:39
  I don't know their fall start discipline.
• 25:41
  That's typically not a hardball team.
• 25:43
  But yeah, they've been sloppy all year.
• 25:45
  I know they have a lot of experience in that line,
• 25:47
  I think, replacing three starters we talked about earlier.
• 25:50
  I know. Yeah.
• 25:51
  And a lot of false starts there and holdings and stuff.
• 25:53
  But with Lamar, he holds the ball so long,
• 25:56
  you're going to get a couple holding penalties on that.
• 25:59
  That scramble extended play style. Right.
• 26:02
  You know, so yeah, the Ravens got to clean some stuff up.
• 26:05
  I don't think, you know,
• 26:07
  I think that, you know, that their tape gets out a little bit more
• 26:10
  and there's receivers still need to make some plays.
• 26:12
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:13
  Like you said, the offense needs to clean up, though,
• 26:15
  because that defense ain't going to do it for the playoffs right now.
• 26:18
  They got six games to fix it.
• 26:19
  Yeah. But that offense needs to be almost perfect for them to be winning.
• 26:23
  These games are great. Lamar needs to be on his best. Yep. For sure.
• 26:27
  Moving right along to our final game of the week,
• 26:31
  probably the game of the week for us.
• 26:32
  I can't remember if we stated that last week or not.
• 26:34
  Probably the game of the week for the nation.
• 26:37
  Chiefs traveling to Buffalo.
• 26:40
  What a game this was.
• 26:43
  Was this the AFC championship last year?
• 26:47
  It has been before.
• 26:48
  I can't remember if it was last year or not.
• 26:50
  I mean, these teams got history.
• 26:52
  These quarterbacks got history trying to think off, you know,
• 26:54
  at this point, the old tip of the old brain.
• 26:57
  But Buffalo really, they felt like they were kind of controlling
• 27:01
  the game almost the whole time.
• 27:03
  I know they got the score right before half, but to me,
• 27:05
  they just felt like they were in control,
• 27:08
  not really freaking out about anything, you know.
• 27:12
  They just had a good rhythm on offense until that second half
• 27:15
  kind of started getting shaky.
• 27:16
  And then fourth quarter, they just blew up, you know.
• 27:19
  I don't know.
• 27:20
  This is this could be the AFC championship.
• 27:23
  You know, what am I?
• 27:24
  What's the word? Preview. Preview.
• 27:26
  Geez. Thank you. Perfect. Thanks, Rob.
• 27:27
  Yeah, that was a solid.
• 27:29
  Rachel, do you get a chance to look at this game at all?
• 27:31
  Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah.
• 27:33
  I mean, I'm happy for Josh Allen.
• 27:34
  He's got a lot of people to spread the ball around to.
• 27:37
  He's having fun. He's playing a little looser.
• 27:39
  It's not all on Josh Allen, right?
• 27:41
  He's can be a little more relaxed.
• 27:43
  And he made that big, huge touchdown, running touchdown
• 27:46
  at the end that was a little bit of a relief.
• 27:48
  But at the end, that was I know I just thought that was fun.
• 27:50
  I'd be the best run I've seen this year out of a quarterback
• 27:53
  for a touchdown.
• 27:54
  I mean, the Bills fans want that Super Bowl.
• 27:56
  It wouldn't that be nice Vikings Bills this year.
• 27:58
  Super Bowl. It'd be great. Sorry for the Bills.
• 28:00
  Sorry for the Bills fan, right?
• 28:03
  Yeah, no doubt.
• 28:04
  I mean, are the Bills the same as us own foreign Super Bowl?
• 28:08
  I can't remember. You are correct.
• 28:09
  Yeah, the four falls of Buffalo.
• 28:11
  So we might as well. Right.
• 28:12
  Might as well. And one of us has to win.
• 28:14
  And it's going to be the Vikings.
• 28:15
  You know, since we're going to go there. No doubt.
• 28:18
  But I'm pretty sure we got Josh Allen's number.
• 28:21
  I think it would be a really good game.
• 28:22
  But it will be a great game.
• 28:24
  But no, looking at this game again, again, a great addition
• 28:28
  for the Chiefs, having Kareem Hunt back there while they're
• 28:30
  still waiting for Pacheco again, who could return before playoffs.
• 28:35
  The Chiefs did just sign another receiver to their practice squad.
• 28:38
  It was a former second or third rounder, I think.
• 28:42
  I think second round receiver that's kind of a speedy guy from the Patriots.
• 28:45
  Can't remember his name.
• 28:46
  Taekwon something didn't make my radar.
• 28:49
  But that's what I mean.
• 28:50
  Like I didn't. Graham told me about him.
• 28:51
  So I just had to. I told Graham I'd mention it.
• 28:53
  I want to mention it.
• 28:54
  He does have speed, though.
• 28:55
  So maybe another guy you can try to get going with Xavier
• 28:59
  Worthy on that deep threat.
• 29:00
  Maybe try to open up Deandre Hopkins a little bit more or Kelsey, you know.
• 29:05
  That often so weird, they spread it out.
• 29:07
  I was talking to somebody like you, like fantasy wise, like he
• 29:10
  there's no consistent guy anymore.
• 29:12
  There's no one he's going to get 10 targets, eight catches.
• 29:16
  I mean, they every play, they're doing a sweep to Hartman a little.
• 29:20
  They have like three tight ends.
• 29:22
  Gray's catching touchdowns.
• 29:24
  Just so much randomness of that offense.
• 29:27
  They are missing that deep threat, though, consistently.
• 29:30
  Ever since Tyree club.
• 29:31
  Yeah. You know, Worthy really hasn't developed quite into that yet.
• 29:35
  But, you know, and Kelsey's, you know, still doing his thing.
• 29:38
  But what do you have to catch this last week?
• 29:40
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:41
  Weird. But yeah, it was an interesting game.
• 29:44
  It's tight at half.
• 29:45
  And then the Bills just kind of made a couple extra plays in the second half.
• 29:48
  And I was, you know, and then kind of took the ball out of my home's hands
• 29:52
  to come down and do a game winning drive.
• 29:54
  You know, so right.
• 29:56
  I think that you start missing like almost like an X factor
• 29:59
  to kind of make the defense open up a little bit.
• 30:01
  I think because there are some games when they play against defenses
• 30:04
  that aren't quite as good.
• 30:06
  And, you know, they kind of can focus on one guy that exploits everything
• 30:10
  and they hit Kelsey for 10 targets and nine receptions and two touchdowns.
• 30:16
  But yeah, they haven't had that X factor.
• 30:18
  And you guys said it. I think it's Pacheco.
• 30:20
  So that'll be I mean, and like you said, Kareem Hunt has been a great fill in.
• 30:24
  He's a great powerback, but he's not.
• 30:26
  I don't know. I just don't know if he's somebody that the defense has to key on
• 30:29
  that take another guy off of somewhere else.
• 30:31
  Not losing sleep at night.
• 30:32
  It's not the same. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the same.
• 30:35
  Not a passing threat as much.
• 30:36
  Sorry. They did have a lot of injuries, right?
• 30:38
  They're running back.
• 30:39
  Some of their receivers.
• 30:40
  So right now, their defense is the reason they've won those games.
• 30:44
  And they were very they could have easily won against the Broncos
• 30:48
  last week or the week before.
• 30:49
  And, you know, they're going to face the RAM or the yeah.
• 30:54
  No, the Chargers and the Broncos in their division.
• 30:56
  So they could drop some games.
• 30:59
  They're beatable. They're beatable.
• 31:01
  OK, that was going to be my question.
• 31:03
  So obviously they were undefeated coming into this game and now they got a loss.
• 31:05
  So right now we know they're beatable.
• 31:06
  But like, are you that scared of the chiefs?
• 31:09
  You know what I mean?
• 31:09
  The Vikings had to play the chiefs for the Super Bowl.
• 31:11
  We'll just keep using the Vikings in the Super Bowl as an example.
• 31:15
  Might as well.
• 31:16
  But if they did have to play them, are you that scared of them?
• 31:18
  Like, I'm scared of Patrick Mahomes, right?
• 31:20
  Well, of course.
• 31:21
  I mean, don't get mad chiefs fans.
• 31:23
  I know a lot. You're awesome.
• 31:24
  But I mean, I think if right now this is the best team that anyone could be.
• 31:29
  Right. I mean, like that's almost the draw you want in the playoffs.
• 31:35
  Like if when in there, you know, once you're down to like the last four, right?
• 31:38
  You're you're going into the divisional matchups now.
• 31:40
  You're not that scared to play the chiefs if you're say the Ravens or.
• 31:45
  Well, I think the Bills, I think that's the matchup, right?
• 31:48
  The Bills, I hope they get there for their fans.
• 31:51
  Ravens, I just their defense is just not is going to be their demise, probably.
• 31:56
  There it is. Calling it out, Rachel.
• 31:57
  Mark that down. Ravens fans.
• 31:59
  Ravens defense will be the demise.
• 32:01
  Or Twitter on the bottom of this so you can.
• 32:02
  Sorry, Ravens fans.
• 32:04
  You can throw some comments or.
• 32:06
  Sorry, Jake.
• 32:07
  Jake, if you're not, if you're watching, Jake, I know you are.
• 32:09
  I do have a Ravens helmet for you this week.
• 32:11
  So for you, I brought that in, you know, represent the teams that we've been.
• 32:15
  I got some clinics.
• 32:16
  I don't own a packer one yet, so that's not that hasn't made it.
• 32:19
  And we might have a Detroit fan that might make their debut in a couple of weeks.
• 32:23
  And I don't know if I I do not have a Detroit helmet yet.
• 32:26
  I don't know if I can buy that one either.
• 32:27
  So we'll get there.
• 32:29
  But anyway, with that, Kev, that kind of wraps our week 11 game
• 32:32
  recap, so head right into our tent top.
• 32:38
  Nine one one. What's your emergency?
• 32:50
  And of course, like we've been doing this season,
• 32:52
  we're going to rip right through our tent talk.
• 32:55
  Oh, that's a swim move.
• 32:56
  We're going to swim.
• 32:57
  We're moving right through our talk.
• 32:59
  Ha ha. Now I just said temp talk, so I ruined it anyway.
• 33:03
  Injuries, JJ McCarthy, rookie quarterback for the Vikings, undergoes
• 33:07
  surgery on an already repaired knee.
• 33:09
  I think they're just taking out some swelling, something going on, whatever.
• 33:13
  That sucks.
• 33:14
  Will record to I.R. for the Vikings, our kicker.
• 33:17
  So what's something Parker Romo?
• 33:20
  What's his name?
• 33:21
  Sounds like it. Last name, Romo.
• 33:23
  Last name, Romo. That's all I got here, too.
• 33:25
  He came to the game all all swagged up.
• 33:27
  Did he? Yeah.
• 33:28
  He had the cowboy hat on. I liked it.
• 33:30
  Good for him. Yeah.
• 33:32
  So Romo, it is for the Vikes going forward at kicker.
• 33:35
  The only other big injury news I could find is that Nick Chubb
• 33:39
  is set to return for the Browns also against the Steelers,
• 33:44
  which I believe is when he went down last season.
• 33:46
  So that should be I mean, Browns need to have them.
• 33:49
  I don't think they're going to be making much noise the rest of the season.
• 33:52
  But you lost faith in Jamis.
• 33:54
  No, Jamis is my guy.
• 33:56
  But I don't think with with the Ravens and the Steelers in their way.
• 34:01
  Not this year.
• 34:02
  They need to get that going.
• 34:03
  Jamis need to be starting at the beginning of the season.
• 34:05
  OK, come on. OK.
• 34:07
  Anyway, Nick Chubb played the last four weeks.
• 34:10
  Did he? Where did that? Why is that just come?
• 34:13
  Oh, you know what?
• 34:14
  It's a big deal because he's returning to this to play the.
• 34:16
  Oh, that's what it is.
• 34:18
  That's why I got my bad.
• 34:19
  I was confused. He did return.
• 34:22
  There's a lot of fantasy people freaking out right now, like,
• 34:25
  well, I've been using them going on.
• 34:27
  Yeah, for sure. Good call, though.
• 34:28
  Good call. Yeah.
• 34:29
  I was sweating. I was like, wait till we get to this.
• 34:32
  I know this later.
• 34:34
  I'm on three teams. Calm down.
• 34:36
  We're going to double check. I got to double check.
• 34:37
  Not to say we did. All right.
• 34:39
  Yeah. Danny Dimes to the bench in favor in favor of Danny Dorito.
• 34:44
  I mean, Tommy Devito this week.
• 34:46
  So that's interesting.
• 34:49
  We can talk about that in a minute.
• 34:49
  I'm not a Giants fan. Huh?
• 34:51
  Now I'm a Giants fan this week.
• 34:53
  Well, just because we're starting Tommy.
• 34:54
  Yeah, why not? All right. All right.
• 34:56
  Joe Douglas, Jets GM fired after five years.
• 34:59
  That was bound to happen.
• 35:00
  A lot of people were kind of waiting for that.
• 35:02
  I don't think it was a fault, but I don't either.
• 35:04
  And I don't think it's going to change anything for the Jets.
• 35:06
  No, currently, Dion Sanders came out and kind of said that
• 35:11
  there's a lot of rumors of him making the jump, leaving Colorado to maybe
• 35:16
  take a look at that potential Dallas job that doesn't even exist yet.
• 35:19
  Michael Irvin said something.
• 35:20
  And yeah, yeah.
• 35:22
  And Dion was like, no,
• 35:23
  Dion pretty much said my quote unquote kickstand is down.
• 35:26
  I'm happy where I'm at.
• 35:27
  Well, he has to say that now.
• 35:29
  Sure. Sure.
• 35:31
  So I thought that was funny enough.
• 35:32
  I always says he will not coach professionals.
• 35:36
  He does. He says that.
• 35:39
  Yes. So well, I don't do you think he's telling the truth.
• 35:42
  I believe like he always had on his headband back in the day.
• 35:45
  I believe that he's telling the truth.
• 35:48
  Fair enough. All right.
• 35:50
  All right. It'll be so fun to have him in the NFL.
• 35:53
  Oh, for sure. I think it would just there be so many good headlines.
• 35:56
  I'm going to have conferences would be awesome.
• 35:58
  Exactly. Postgame interviews would just be there.
• 36:01
  Be sweet. But reality conversation, if him go to Dallas, they just signed
• 36:05
  Prescott, so his son's not going to come play for him.
• 36:08
  Right. Or they're going to have an opportunity, probably even get him.
• 36:11
  But they could. Well, well, the way it's going, they might.
• 36:15
  Is it like a situation where he really wants to play coach his son?
• 36:20
  And yeah, I mean, that's the I feel like if you get a X world
• 36:23
  who wants to tell you us that.
• 36:24
  But who knows what if you get the shot?
• 36:27
  We've got to take it.
• 36:28
  If you get a shot to coach the Dallas Cowboys, you're not going to jump at it.
• 36:33
  Oh, I don't know. Depends on the money, right?
• 36:35
  Can he make that much more? He's getting paid right now.
• 36:38
  But is Deon a money guy now?
• 36:40
  I probably don't need it.
• 36:41
  I don't think he does.
• 36:42
  Yeah, he's probably more of a legacy guy, which all the more reason
• 36:46
  to take the Cowboys job, I feel like.
• 36:48
  But so anyway, last bit of news, I got to mention Netflix.
• 36:52
  I don't know if you guys saw the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight.
• 36:56
  I don't want to talk about the fight so much because we could talk about that.
• 36:58
  And it's boring. Not great.
• 37:01
  But it was more about the Netflix stream.
• 37:03
  OK, Netflix is streaming two games on Christmas Day for the NFL.
• 37:06
  They're super proud of that fact.
• 37:08
  Are they going to get that fixed in time?
• 37:10
  Are they going to have streaming issues on Christmas Day
• 37:13
  when everybody's trying to watch these games?
• 37:15
  Maybe family time like Rachel. Rachel was talking about, you know.
• 37:20
  Yeah, that was going to be on.
• 37:21
  Are they going to be watchable?
• 37:22
  You know what I mean?
• 37:23
  So something to pay attention to as we as we get closer to Christmas, honestly.
• 37:28
  Why can't we just watch them on the regular places?
• 37:30
  We've always been watching these games.
• 37:32
  I can't keep up with this.
• 37:34
  I get it. I don't like it.
• 37:36
  I don't have to like it.
• 37:37
  I don't like it.
• 37:39
  He's right. But yeah, unbelievable.
• 37:42
  They're going to have to figure that out.
• 37:43
  Yeah, there's going to be a lot of people watching those games, too.
• 37:46
  Yeah, I can't remember the slate, but it's not bad.
• 37:48
  I'm going to assume, though, the boxing match.
• 37:51
  Sixty thousand people tried to tune in at once.
• 37:53
  And I don't think the NFL games and be that volume.
• 37:56
  Oh, I don't know. On Christmas Day, though,
• 37:58
  and that's the only game in that time.
• 38:00
  So I got to say, so I'm not going to disclose the name of the show
• 38:05
  because it's kind of like a guilty pleasure show.
• 38:08
  But Netflix came out with a live show.
• 38:10
  They figure this out.
• 38:11
  Six to eight months ago, it's Love is Blind.
• 38:13
  Oh, wow. They came.
• 38:15
  They came over the live show. I cannot unhear.
• 38:17
  It was supposed to air at seven.
• 38:20
  They didn't even release like the they just released the footage
• 38:23
  because they had so many technical difficulties.
• 38:26
  And it came out at like two in the morning or like 1130 p.m.
• 38:30
  So they already stay up to make sure my wife did.
• 38:33
  I may have his wife.
• 38:34
  But all I'm saying is, is they had issues in the past
• 38:38
  with probably a lot smaller audience than the boxing match
• 38:41
  and the NFL match.
• 38:43
  And then they so they knew about that in a big event
• 38:46
  and then it still didn't get corrected.
• 38:48
  And that's a hard one to swallow for as big of a company.
• 38:51
  Maybe all the money they made out the fight.
• 38:53
  They'll just buy some more servers.
• 38:54
  Well, thanks, Cody.
• 38:56
  Now now Banter, the boys will never be sponsored.
• 38:59
  Way to be. Yeah.
• 39:01
  So any sponsor by Love is Blind.
• 39:05
  All right.
• 39:06
  With that, let's add the bonehead move of the week.
• 39:20
  And the bonehead move of the week, nobody knows up here
• 39:23
  what I'm about to say.
• 39:24
  Honorable mention, though,
• 39:26
  AT&T Stadium with the piece of metal falling from their ceiling.
• 39:29
  That's pretty wild.
• 39:30
  Apparently, it was just a cover for a cable tray, you know,
• 39:33
  up in the rafters that got blown off from by the wind
• 39:37
  since the roof was open.
• 39:38
  But they haven't opened in two years, I heard.
• 39:40
  Well, maybe we know why now.
• 39:44
  But no real bonehead move of the week.
• 39:47
  It's probably a combination for me of the NFL and the refs.
• 39:51
  Let's get this stuff figured out.
• 39:52
  Let's get this figured out.
• 39:53
  There's way too many questionable calls every single week.
• 39:56
  Right. And that's a human element of the game.
• 39:58
  Yeah, there's going to be close calls.
• 39:59
  There's going to be mistakes. Right.
• 40:01
  Now you see, like example, the MLB kind of going away
• 40:04
  from the umpires as much.
• 40:05
  Now they got the automatic strike zone that they can check the calls. Right.
• 40:08
  But not to go on an MLB tangent all of a sudden.
• 40:12
  My point is, is like JJ was getting a lot of calls this week.
• 40:15
  And don't get me wrong, right now, he's garnered as the best receiver
• 40:18
  in the NFL, arguably, not arguably here in Minnesota.
• 40:21
  We know that.
• 40:22
  But like he was getting a lot of calls, you know what I mean?
• 40:24
  And some of them for me were questionable and soft
• 40:28
  for lack of better terms. Right.
• 40:29
  So I think the refs, man, the refs are truly bonehead.
• 40:33
  Move of the week this week.
• 40:34
  It's not just the Viking team. It's all over.
• 40:36
  There's too many soft calls to me.
• 40:39
  We got to let these guys play at some point.
• 40:41
  We the refs are dictating the game too much.
• 40:43
  And you script writers will go crazy with this like, well, it's scripted.
• 40:46
  That's why. You know what I mean?
• 40:47
  But I don't think so.
• 40:49
  But we know you're watching.
• 40:50
  What do you guys think of the refs performance this season?
• 40:52
  That's a weird question to ask, because most people are going to be like, well,
• 40:55
  they're the crap every season. But.
• 40:57
  Well, the officials for the Viking game are the notorious
• 41:00
  for calling the most penalties in every game.
• 41:03
  I don't know where I heard that, but I heard it.
• 41:05
  And there were 14 penalties, right?
• 41:07
  I mean, that's a lot.
• 41:09
  So maybe it depends on the officiating crew.
• 41:12
  And then sometimes, yeah, you don't see things, but there's a lot of face masks
• 41:16
  that are sometimes things are so obvious and they're not catching them.
• 41:19
  Yeah. And don't get me wrong.
• 41:20
  Right. The speed of NFL is insane.
• 41:22
  You watch a close up replay of call the
• 41:25
  replay of college division one, even if it's Alabama, I don't care.
• 41:29
  And then you go look at the speed of an NFL game.
• 41:32
  It is fast. It is seriously faster.
• 41:34
  They do everything so hard.
• 41:35
  You could argue there's holding on every play.
• 41:37
  You know, we've heard that probably our whole lives.
• 41:39
  We're always holding on every play.
• 41:41
  But it just seems worse this year, you know, by some of the weak calls
• 41:45
  dictating at key moments in the game.
• 41:48
  I mean, I think in general, there's been a bunch of weak calls.
• 41:50
  I think that's just the NFL.
• 41:52
  They want more offense.
• 41:53
  Offense is more exciting to watch.
• 41:55
  You know, arguably.
• 41:57
  I agree with that.
• 41:58
  But so they tend to lean on that side.
• 42:01
  My biggest issue is they have this replay assist.
• 42:04
  Sometimes they use it.
• 42:06
  Sometimes they don't.
• 42:07
  They pick and choose.
• 42:08
  And then when the replays, they actually replay the thing like that
• 42:12
  touchdown or interception with the Vikings last week.
• 42:15
  It was like, that's definitely incomplete.
• 42:17
  I don't like how do you guys know against the Jaguars in the end zone?
• 42:20
  Yeah. You know, and it's not even just the Vikings play in general.
• 42:23
  Throughout the league, I've seen plays where I'm just like,
• 42:26
  obviously, that's not a catch, but, you know, they still call.
• 42:29
  Yeah. Why are you going to have the replay check?
• 42:32
  We're not even.
• 42:33
  I mean, just the inconsistency on the calls of the replay is bothering me.
• 42:38
  I know those plays are happening at crazy speeds,
• 42:41
  so they're going to get missed.
• 42:43
  The angle you might be blocked.
• 42:44
  You know, it's easy to look at the TV broadcast.
• 42:47
  100 percent. We're sitting on our couch, you know, sitting in the Eagles nest, going,
• 42:50
  Oh, yeah, I can see that. So but yeah, just got to be consistent,
• 42:54
  especially on the replay. You have it.
• 42:56
  I don't I don't understand it.
• 42:58
  Yeah, I think I think we're experiencing some of the effects
• 43:02
  of just having it for the first year.
• 43:04
  So like some of these refs are going to adapt to it really fast.
• 43:07
  And they're going to and I think in the future, we're going to see a ton of
• 43:10
  questionable calls go in the way of letting it play out and then
• 43:15
  relying on the replay.
• 43:17
  And I think that's where some of the inconsistency is going to come.
• 43:19
  Should happen, though.
• 43:21
  Right. 100 percent.
• 43:22
  And I think some refs have just adapted to that.
• 43:24
  And maybe some of the like the, you know, refs that haven't been in the league
• 43:28
  as long or maybe the ones that have been there for longer
• 43:31
  and are used to it being the old way are still going to call it,
• 43:34
  you know, the old way and not so lenient on certain things like that.
• 43:38
  So and yeah, some old guys still running out there.
• 43:42
  You see some of those routes.
• 43:44
  I'm like, what are you 65? Right.
• 43:46
  I think the hardest part for the players and the fans to fall
• 43:50
  to swallow to is like the inconsistency between crews.
• 43:53
  Like Rachel said, I mean, some crews call so much
• 43:57
  and you really have to adapt the way you play. So yeah.
• 44:01
  No, for sure.
• 44:02
  So Kev actually has a question.
• 44:04
  What is our solution to this?
• 44:05
  You know, NFL does have a football officiating academy, right?
• 44:10
  I know MLB does something similar, but there's like multiple days.
• 44:14
  This is three to four hour clinics. OK.
• 44:16
  Well, I don't know.
• 44:17
  That might just be for like if you want to officiate at a lower level
• 44:20
  as well, it might be.
• 44:21
  But I just don't think there's as many refs that want to be refs anymore either.
• 44:25
  So even three from the high school to the most hated person on the field,
• 44:28
  you know, like you just there's not that development.
• 44:30
  And who really wants to be yelled at by rich parents?
• 44:33
  So I'll tell you, there's a good commercial out there showing
• 44:35
  like a ref getting yelled at walking off the field and he goes home to his dog
• 44:39
  and everything's fine or whatever.
• 44:40
  And I can't remember what you know, who that is, whose commercial that is.
• 44:43
  But that was pretty good. But like, that's how it is.
• 44:45
  They live they live every game like that.
• 44:47
  Probably getting booed out of the same.
• 44:48
  So like, yeah, well, it gets old, probably gets old unless you're getting
• 44:52
  a bunch of money and I can't imagine to make too much money until you put your
• 44:55
  years of service.
• 44:56
  I'd rather yell that on the Internet for a bad take.
• 44:58
  Yeah, well, that's going to be not hard to do.
• 45:02
  It'll be easy.
• 45:04
  And with that, let's move on to our week 12 preview and picks.
• 45:20
  And as we head into week 12, of course,
• 45:22
  Skull to the Bull Vikings, but before we do that, Rob, using the Cappy again,
• 45:28
  don't forget this episode is sponsored by the Cappy.
• 45:31
  Get your four pack on Amazon.
• 45:33
  Vikings, eight and two traveling to Chicago, who is four and six.
• 45:38
  Rachel, I know you're going to pick the Bears,
• 45:39
  but why don't you take us away here?
• 45:41
  What is your pick for this week?
• 45:44
  Vikings, hi. Yeah.
• 45:47
  I mean, like you said, Vikings defense against a rookie quarterback.
• 45:51
  Yeah, I mean, but it's at Soldier Field.
• 45:56
  It could be cold.
• 45:56
  So those are some factors to think about.
• 45:59
  But, you know, we're going to bring it like we've always brought in it.
• 46:02
  For sure.
• 46:03
  We're pretty balanced on both sides of the ball.
• 46:05
  I mean, really, I have confidence in everyone, just like KOC does.
• 46:09
  So you got to predict a score. What are you feeling?
• 46:13
  Oh, I think it might be like kind of low, like 20 to 17 or something.
• 46:18
  Oh, that's close.
• 46:20
  I know. I think it's going to be close.
• 46:21
  Yeah, it could very well be that close.
• 46:24
  So that's that's why.
• 46:25
  Well, the Vikings are giving 17 points up a week and the Bears are giving up 18.
• 46:29
  So it makes a lot of sense.
• 46:30
  And that's right in the numbers where I was kind of thinking,
• 46:33
  I like baseball scores a little off more, like a 15, 13 score or something like that.
• 46:37
  But I'm thinking the Bears get 10 this week.
• 46:40
  You think in 10? Yeah, I'll give the Vikings 17.
• 46:42
  So why do you think the Bears are going to?
• 46:44
  What are they going to do successfully against the Vikings?
• 46:48
  Well, I think Caleb Williams is just showing flashes of being a good quarterback.
• 46:53
  I think just moving throughout the season, he looks a little bit better and better.
• 46:57
  Looks a little bit more comfortable.
• 46:58
  But you're looking you see that number one overall talent there.
• 47:02
  Oh, that I don't know about, but he looks pretty good.
• 47:05
  I mean, number one overall is a tough, tough ceiling to touch. Right. It is.
• 47:09
  But yeah, I mean, he he looks like he's using his legs well.
• 47:14
  We know that's his strength.
• 47:15
  And like when he's had to scramble out of the pocket in the last few weeks,
• 47:19
  he still does go back for like 10 yards and then gets sacked right away,
• 47:22
  which is a tough one to swallow, I'm sure, as a Bears fan.
• 47:25
  But there's a lot of times when you see him come out into the open
• 47:28
  and like last week, he did that on third down in like 12.
• 47:32
  And then he nailed the pass to Odunze. So yeah.
• 47:34
  He looks like a little like Kyler.
• 47:37
  I see a lot of Kyler.
• 47:38
  He's just a little bit out of that pocket. A little bit bigger bone. Yes.
• 47:41
  I think we're going to make him run like three miles back laterally.
• 47:45
  Yeah. But I think he'll make, you know, at least one drive work
• 47:49
  where they can get it into the end zone.
• 47:51
  Or it could be a defensive touchdown, you know, with the Bears defense.
• 47:54
  So you're going Vikes. I'm going like 1710.
• 47:57
  All right, Tyler, you have an opinion on how badly the Vikings
• 48:01
  are going to win this one.
• 48:03
  Oh, yeah, no, just like just like straight up. I like it.
• 48:05
  Yep. No, I don't got to explain nothing.
• 48:08
  There is. I got to explain nothing. Rob, you're going bears.
• 48:10
  No, I'm going Vikings.
• 48:11
  I think the Vikings definitely are going to give the Bears
• 48:14
  some fits and establish in a running game.
• 48:16
  We struggle typically in Chicago.
• 48:20
  That longer grass slows us down.
• 48:22
  We're kind of a turf team typically.
• 48:24
  We're definitely in India established the running game,
• 48:27
  but the Bears got a decent defense.
• 48:28
  It's going to be a tight battle.
• 48:30
  But I think if we can show give Caleb some looks,
• 48:35
  especially in defense, the flows defense that will confuse him,
• 48:38
  maybe get a couple of turnovers going.
• 48:41
  I don't know exactly how the weather is going to be,
• 48:43
  but I think it's going to be in the 30s.
• 48:45
  So it's going to be chilly.
• 48:47
  So that's a different different football when you're playing in cold temperatures.
• 48:51
  You can't chuck the ball as much.
• 48:53
  It's hurt more to Jefferson and the Sasquatch, Hawkinson.
• 48:57
  You can't. So but I think we have enough firepower
• 49:00
  offensively, especially up the middle.
• 49:02
  I think we can give their linebacker some fits with TJ
• 49:05
  and then maybe a little Powell.
• 49:07
  I have a feeling Powell's going to have a nice game this week.
• 49:10
  So it's been a nice lot receiver against because they got
• 49:13
  pretty good corners on the side, too.
• 49:14
  So I'm going vikes on like score pretty confident.
• 49:18
  Yeah. What's your yeah. What's your score then?
• 49:21
  Oh, I'm going 1513.
• 49:23
  1513. Just a cold weather.
• 49:26
  Awesome. Wow.
• 49:27
  Yeah.
• 49:28
  Powell's going to catch a touchdown and then we're going to get
• 49:31
  Aaron Jones is now a little screen pass for a touchdown
• 49:35
  and then one two point conversion.
• 49:36
  Oh, OK. We stick one in when the Bears aren't looking.
• 49:39
  So you think we're going to come back then?
• 49:41
  We got to go for two to make it.
• 49:43
  Now we'll be up the whole time. OK.
• 49:46
  I'm going to control the game the whole time, like we all know
• 49:48
  and expect from the Vikings.
• 49:50
  Bears will score a late touchdown, but we'll still be up by two.
• 49:53
  And then that's how the game's going to end.
• 49:56
  Fair enough.
• 49:57
  It is our third road game in a road.
• 49:59
  You can go three and oh, in this road.
• 50:02
  Yep. Road.
• 50:04
  Whatever this is. Roadie series.
• 50:07
  Thank you. Yeah.
• 50:08
  No, absolutely.
• 50:09
  I think the Vikings absolutely will.
• 50:11
  We'll get the dub and then come back.
• 50:14
  But that is a true concern.
• 50:15
  Road games are tough.
• 50:16
  And if we come out three and all and Chicago's going to be tough,
• 50:19
  you know. So yeah, that's a good point, Rachel.
• 50:22
  The three and oh road series.
• 50:24
  You don't get that very often.
• 50:27
  Did you guys know?
• 50:28
  Do they go right from the last game to this coming game?
• 50:31
  I would reckon. Yeah.
• 50:32
  Well, honestly, I think they've been gone from their own home
• 50:35
  for the three weeks is that start to wear on you a little bit.
• 50:37
  Like if you get homesick at all, I know they're professionals,
• 50:40
  but they're also human beings, right? Right.
• 50:42
  I kind of want to sleep in my own bed.
• 50:43
  No, they're here. They don't do they come back?
• 50:45
  Yeah, they got to practice and then they go back and rest.
• 50:48
  Yeah, they had Monday off.
• 50:50
  They come home right after the.
• 50:51
  Yeah, there you go. So I don't think they do it.
• 50:53
  They're sleeping all day.
• 50:54
  I know it's just like a 55 minute flight.
• 50:57
  It's a lot of travel.
• 50:58
  Yes, that's true. Chicago's literally like on their own plane.
• 51:00
  It's it's luxury travel.
• 51:03
  I don't know how maybe one extra night.
• 51:04
  I asked them a little.
• 51:05
  Yeah, exactly.
• 51:07
  I don't. Yeah, I like the I like the thought.
• 51:10
  But from the outside, looking into or before the season, even
• 51:13
  this is probably our easiest three game away stand.
• 51:17
  Oh, totally agree.
• 51:18
  I mean, the schedule, the Jigs, definitely nice.
• 51:20
  Their bears are solid for us. So, yeah.
• 51:23
  All right. Moving along to our second game.
• 51:27
  By the way, everybody else
• 51:29
  in our standings here picked the Vikings to win this game as well.
• 51:32
  Before we close out the show, we'll give you an update
• 51:34
  on what those standings look like.
• 51:37
  The next game, though, 49ers five and five traveling to Green Bay, who seven
• 51:40
  and three Green Bay trying to stay afloat at seven and three, if you believe it.
• 51:44
  But trying to stay afloat in the NFC north.
• 51:47
  Let's see. Did I start with you last time, Cody?
• 51:49
  No, no, I did start with Rachel. So, Cody, yeah, you start, buddy.
• 51:52
  I'll take the Niners. Taking the Niners in Green Bay. Why?
• 51:57
  I think the Niners, while McCaffrey came back,
• 52:00
  I think that adds a big piece of their offense.
• 52:03
  It's not the last two weeks. What's that?
• 52:05
  He just hasn't done anything in the last two. I know. I know.
• 52:07
  But he's going to get better and better.
• 52:09
  They're going to figure out.
• 52:10
  They said he added a bunch to the offense, but he hasn't.
• 52:13
  I know. Yeah, no.
• 52:15
  Yeah, no. Well, he's trying to be one of the best offensive players.
• 52:18
  I got to ride you a little bit. No, I told I love it.
• 52:22
  No, I think as one of the best offensive players in the NFL,
• 52:25
  he can be a huge addition to their offense.
• 52:29
  And as a Vikings fan, I would love to see that come out against the Packers.
• 52:33
  Yeah, yeah, it's about time that Niners really need this game, actually.
• 52:36
  You know, believe it or not, they need to get this going.
• 52:39
  This is a game I would normally have picked 49ers all day,
• 52:42
  you know, coming into the season.
• 52:45
  I guess I'm talking now. I'll just go with that.
• 52:48
  I'm going with the Niner. I'm sorry. Sorry.
• 52:50
  No, actually, I'm going with the Packers at home.
• 52:52
  I think they showed me enough last week.
• 52:55
  I'm a little bit scared of their past defense.
• 52:58
  Jair did go down.
• 52:59
  I don't know if he's going to be healthy for this week or not.
• 53:02
  But also the San Francisco offense isn't scaring me right now.
• 53:06
  Now, if CMC goes off, you know, that's what that's what they need.
• 53:09
  They need that to happen this week because Debo is not doing it.
• 53:11
  So he's up and down, but he's he's more up and down, I'd say.
• 53:15
  He's not horrible right now.
• 53:18
  But I just the Niners look lost right now.
• 53:21
  And again, traveling to Green Bay, the Packers have had some good games this year.
• 53:25
  And it's I don't know.
• 53:26
  Again, I think they're motivated to stay afloat in the really tough
• 53:30
  contested NFC North right now.
• 53:31
  So I'm going Packers and I'm only right now.
• 53:34
  I'm only one of four other people to go Packers at the moment.
• 53:38
  Everybody really everybody else is going Niners.
• 53:39
  I mean, our two Packer fans, right?
• 53:41
  Avi and then Graham also went Packers and Jake went Packers.
• 53:46
  Everybody else has gone Niners, including Cody over here.
• 53:49
  That's interesting.
• 53:50
  Rachel, you have a feeling on what direction you want to go with this?
• 53:53
  I think it's tough because Kittle was out last week.
• 53:56
  He was he's a baller, right?
• 53:59
  He's also like the hype man.
• 54:01
  He's just, you know, he wants to be a wrestler one day, but he's got the vibes.
• 54:06
  Yeah. So I think it depends on injuries, right?
• 54:09
  Who's who's going to be playing who's not playing for sure.
• 54:12
  I like their defense a little better than Purdy's pretty boy, and he's going to play.
• 54:17
  I like the San Francisco defense a little better, but
• 54:20
  I think Jordan Love is playing well and they find ways to finish the games, right?
• 54:25
  They have seven or seven and three right now.
• 54:26
  Packers, they are. Yep.
• 54:28
  So they're finishing games or finding ways to win.
• 54:30
  And San Francisco does not really play well in Green Bay.
• 54:34
  That is true. You're taking the Packers.
• 54:35
  I'm taking the pack.
• 54:36
  It's OK if you need to throw up after you said that.
• 54:37
  I usually I usually I'm fine if I got that one round.
• 54:42
  This is the first time I've not thrown up after saying their name.
• 54:44
  Rob, I know. Clean it up for us.
• 54:46
  I know. Sadly, like you said at the beginning this year,
• 54:49
  I would have picked 49ers to go pretty did hurt.
• 54:51
  It's throwing shoulder this last week.
• 54:53
  He was wrapped on ice.
• 54:54
  And that right there is going to make me pick the Packers.
• 54:59
  Just the cold weather.
• 55:00
  I I don't think the 49ers are flown.
• 55:03
  I think it's still going to be a good game.
• 55:04
  It could go either way, but I'm just going to pick the Packers because it's at home.
• 55:07
  And like Rachel said, they typically don't play well at Lambo.
• 55:11
  And I feel like this can actually be a Josh Jacobs game.
• 55:15
  If they can get him 20 touches, I definitely think they're going to win this game.
• 55:19
  This is a pretty even split on our on our first time.
• 55:23
  Probably in a while.
• 55:24
  For the first time for a Packer game, I think usually at Vikings game.
• 55:27
  We pretty much often Vikings, obviously, either to
• 55:31
  but like Packer game as well as usually been we've been leading Packers.
• 55:35
  But this is a split right here.
• 55:36
  So this will be interesting to see.
• 55:39
  Yeah, we'll see.
• 55:41
  I think Purdy's regressed a little bit is a little what I'm kind of looking at.
• 55:44
  I watched a little bit of film.
• 55:46
  Well, I just feel like he's not pushing the ball down the field as much anymore.
• 55:49
  I think he's lost a little confidence in that aspect.
• 55:52
  Losing IEU for the year.
• 55:55
  And I don't know if he has enough trust yet in Jennings on the one side, on the outside.
• 55:59
  And then the rookie Pursall.
• 56:02
  Yeah, Pierce, Pierce, all being a consistent and Debo's
• 56:05
  this hasn't really shown up in the slot.
• 56:07
  He's been kind of scary, you know, unavailable.
• 56:11
  But he's just not healthy.
• 56:12
  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 56:13
  He's been struggling with shoulder issues, hip issues, sick.
• 56:17
  He was the flu.
• 56:18
  I mean, he was bonehead move of the week last week.
• 56:20
  Yeah, he got a wrap.
• 56:21
  He's not healthy.
• 56:22
  Yeah, for sure.
• 56:23
  So sadly, I'm going Packers.
• 56:26
  I wish I could say something else.
• 56:28
  But we got a split, though.
• 56:29
  Well, for the most part, Mike didn't get us our picks.
• 56:32
  Mike, get us your picks on me.
• 56:33
  Yeah, Mike.
• 56:34
  We haven't had your picks for like five weeks.
• 56:36
  So we're calling you out in a nice way.
• 56:38
  Oh, actually, in a passive aggressive way, because we're from Minnesota.
• 56:40
  So that's how it works here.
• 56:42
  OK, next game.
• 56:44
  Arizona Cardinals traveling to the sea chicken of the sea hawks.
• 56:46
  Sea chickens.
• 56:48
  Sea chickens are back at home against Arizona,
• 56:52
  which we haven't talked about all year.
• 56:54
  So this is kind of we talked about the sea chickens early.
• 56:56
  Yeah, but not Arizona recently.
• 56:59
  They've been kind of going.
• 57:00
  Yeah. Well, you went to Mexico, so true.
• 57:02
  Sorry. You don't know.
• 57:03
  But yeah, so did Rachel.
• 57:04
  I know we don't know.
• 57:05
  So they don't know.
• 57:08
  This is a tough one.
• 57:09
  This is tougher than people think.
• 57:11
  I know. I know.
• 57:12
  Division game.
• 57:13
  I know the Seahawks haven't been doing as good as of late,
• 57:17
  but they won last weekend for 49ers.
• 57:19
  They did win the division game last week and get the Niners.
• 57:22
  They're kind of looking to get back on track here after starting.
• 57:25
  What for? No, they started.
• 57:27
  So real high.
• 57:28
  I've been on the Cardinals bandwagon.
• 57:30
  I think they're I don't know.
• 57:32
  I like them a little bit, probably just because I saw their stadium last year.
• 57:35
  And that was fun. It's a cool, cool place.
• 57:37
  You're skewed. I am skewed.
• 57:38
  You like Marvin
• 57:39
  Harrison, Jr. I do. I like seeing him.
• 57:42
  I like kind of Murray.
• 57:43
  They got some nice pieces. Yeah.
• 57:45
  I think the cards come back down to earth a little bit this week.
• 57:48
  I think this is close, though.
• 57:49
  I'm taking the sea chickens and it kind of hurts because I do think the cards.
• 57:54
  My head's getting in the way.
• 57:55
  My heart's telling me the Cardinals, but my head's telling me the sea chickens.
• 57:58
  So I'm going with. Sorry, Ox fans.
• 58:00
  I'm going to see you're going to the Seahawks.
• 58:02
  I'm going to the Seahawks.
• 58:03
  And that's that's a tough Seahawks right now.
• 58:05
  I'm one of two people to also go with the Seahawks.
• 58:09
  And it's at home.
• 58:10
  So it's at home in Seattle, which is an extremely tough place to play.
• 58:13
  Don't care who you are.
• 58:14
  I don't care how bad the Seahawks are.
• 58:16
  They love showing out for their team.
• 58:18
  But Rob, who you got Arizona traveling to Seattle?
• 58:22
  I am going with Rachel's Sexiest Men Alive.
• 58:27
  Harrison's.
• 58:28
  To Marvin Harrison, Jr. and the Cardinals.
• 58:33
  They're they're flowing right now.
• 58:34
  I think that I think Murphy's playing some nice ball.
• 58:38
  Connors, the running being him and Benson
• 58:42
  have been a nice little combo to keep the little play action going.
• 58:45
  And their defense has kind of surprised me this year.
• 58:48
  So I'm going Cardinals this game.
• 58:50
  Going Cardinals this game. OK, fair enough.
• 58:52
  Rob, but the cards.
• 58:54
  I'd have to agree, man.
• 58:55
  Cody going cards.
• 58:56
  Exactly what he said, and you and I are going to have to bring boxing gloves.
• 58:59
  We're disagreeing on our picks here.
• 59:02
  Are we?
• 59:03
  And the season podcast boxing match.
• 59:05
  Here we go. Besides the bikes.
• 59:07
  Besides the bikes.
• 59:08
  No, yeah, I think I said it a couple of weeks ago.
• 59:11
  The cards still look like a good high school football team.
• 59:13
  And they just they run the ball really well.
• 59:15
  They pass when they kind of have to and need to.
• 59:17
  But yeah, their passing game looks good.
• 59:20
  So I'm taking the Cardinals taking the Cardinals.
• 59:23
  It's going to be a good game, though.
• 59:25
  I agree. I think I think it's going to be another one of those games.
• 59:28
  I could go either way.
• 59:30
  Within a field goal.
• 59:31
  So, yeah, I'll be fine.
• 59:32
  I mean, they both have mediocre records, so we'll see if one
• 59:36
  one team is going to excel more than the other, but we'll see
• 59:38
  whose mediocre is better to on Sunday. Right. Fair enough.
• 59:42
  Yeah, I'm going to pick the cards too, because I think they have some momentum
• 59:46
  and I do know they're just maybe a little younger squad.
• 59:49
  I don't know if that's really true, but that's in my mind.
• 59:51
  What I think. Yeah, so I'm just going to roll with that. Yeah.
• 59:54
  Maybe a little better defense, but it's going to depend on the day.
• 59:57
  And being in Seattle, sometimes you get that home field advantage.
• 1:00:01
  I don't know if Geno Smith has a good day, their toast. So.
• 1:00:05
  Well, food for thought.
• 1:00:06
  Coin flip. Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  Food for thought. It's a coin flip in Vegas.
• 1:00:09
  You know, it's at it's at one for Seattle, but they're at home.
• 1:00:14
  So, you know, Vegas says this will be a tight game.
• 1:00:17
  There we go.
• 1:00:19
  According to Vegas. So.
• 1:00:21
  And to me, I think it's going to be a tight game.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah, I mean, I think we all agree up here that it could be a tight game.
• 1:00:26
  The more mediocre team will win, though.
• 1:00:28
  The more or the better.
• 1:00:29
  Less mediocre. The less mediocre.
• 1:00:31
  There we go. Yes.
• 1:00:33
  So Philadelphia Eagles traveling to the L.A. Rams this week.
• 1:00:38
  Rob, I'm going to start with you.
• 1:00:40
  Every single person so far than the four of us sitting up here
• 1:00:44
  because we haven't picked yet have chosen the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 1:00:47
  Well, so am I.
• 1:00:49
  I think they're just they're on a hot train right now.
• 1:00:53
  Even though the L.A. Rams, we've been talking about all this year.
• 1:00:56
  They're interesting. They're a team. They're hard to read.
• 1:00:58
  They're really hard to read with Puka and Cup back.
• 1:01:02
  God, I almost want to go Rams, but I just I just can't go against Philly's defense
• 1:01:08
  right now. I think they have the cornerbacks to line up against Puka and Cup.
• 1:01:12
  And with the defensive line, I don't think the Rams will establish
• 1:01:15
  a running game to get that play action going.
• 1:01:17
  And then I think the Rams are sussed a little bit on the defensive side
• 1:01:22
  where Philly has so much talent and I don't think they can stop Barkley.
• 1:01:26
  And right. True.
• 1:01:28
  I mean, say one's going to be a tough guy to stop. Rachel, who we got?
• 1:01:31
  I mean, I agree that defense is not going to be able to stop
• 1:01:35
  all the all the weapons they have on offense for the Eagles.
• 1:01:39
  And I know I think the Rams do play good at night.
• 1:01:42
  They like the spotlight, but I just don't think it's going to be enough to get it done.
• 1:01:47
  Not enough to get it done. No. Yeah. Sorry.
• 1:01:50
  Cody, what we got?
• 1:01:51
  Well, I know I said earlier that the Eagles have one of the best offenses
• 1:01:55
  and the Rams are one of those teams that have a pretty darn good offense.
• 1:01:59
  But I think their quarterback and their tight end are where they lack a little bit.
• 1:02:03
  And I think that's where the Eagles can, like you said, Rob,
• 1:02:07
  just open things up a little bit more in the middle and be a little bit more successful.
• 1:02:11
  So I think the Eagles as well.
• 1:02:13
  Eagles for Cody. Fly, Eagles fly.
• 1:02:16
  Man, Cooper, Cup and that's where you are dangerous.
• 1:02:19
  I know. Yeah. God. Yeah, it's disgusting.
• 1:02:23
  They're my least favorite team or the most hated team.
• 1:02:28
  But I got to pick them.
• 1:02:30
  I don't even know. It is what it is. Packers are second.
• 1:02:32
  I picked them to.
• 1:02:33
  So, you know, boo. Well,
• 1:02:37
  up to me, Philadelphia traveling to L.A.
• 1:02:40
  Ram. Well, I feel like Rams pick coming out of you.
• 1:02:45
  They struggle a little bit.
• 1:02:47
  I do. They struggle a little bit against the Patriots.
• 1:02:51
  Their defense didn't look as good, but their offense looks stunning
• 1:02:54
  again against Patriots.
• 1:02:58
  They're going to bring the Eagles back down a little bit.
• 1:02:59
  I'm going Rams again. Yes, to be different.
• 1:03:01
  But I don't know. I Rams have been tough game all year.
• 1:03:04
  That's the thing. They're not an easy.
• 1:03:06
  They're not an easy game.
• 1:03:07
  I get the Vikings played to Rams right now.
• 1:03:09
  Be like, oh, I'd be nervous.
• 1:03:10
  And didn't we? We did.
• 1:03:12
  We did. We did lose to them.
• 1:03:13
  So the game Christian Derriss got hurt.
• 1:03:15
  So weird.
• 1:03:17
  Last play this first half.
• 1:03:19
  Unreal. It sucks.
• 1:03:22
  But Cam's been great.
• 1:03:23
  Yes, actually. Yeah.
• 1:03:24
  Shout out to Cam.
• 1:03:25
  You can actually play an awesome ball for us.
• 1:03:27
  No, he's been great.
• 1:03:28
  So, yeah, going Rams. I know it's crazy.
• 1:03:30
  I'm the only one to take the Rams here
• 1:03:34
  and I will be the only one to get the win right there.
• 1:03:36
  So Baltimore also traveling to the L.A. chargers.
• 1:03:40
  So the Rams play on Sunday night or maybe it's the other way around.
• 1:03:43
  Might be the other way around. But they're Sunday.
• 1:03:45
  Rams are Sunday night.
• 1:03:47
  And then the Chargers turn around and play a home game as well on Monday night.
• 1:03:50
  That's kind of cool. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:03:52
  I wonder if New York's done that because they're the only other stadium
• 1:03:55
  that shares. Right.
• 1:03:57
  Oh, I think you're right. Yep.
• 1:03:59
  So I wonder if they've done a Sunday, Monday back to back prime time games at SoFi.
• 1:04:03
  I mean, you better for how much money that stadium costs.
• 1:04:05
  But Rachel, who do we got?
• 1:04:07
  Baltimore traveling to play the Chargers. Why me?
• 1:04:10
  You know, the Chargers are getting hot, too.
• 1:04:12
  I know I like their defense. I like.
• 1:04:14
  Oh, Harbaugh. Oh, I like him.
• 1:04:18
  He's made a difference. Right. Oh, he totally.
• 1:04:20
  Oh, man. He just knows how to win and get the most out of people.
• 1:04:24
  You know, why don't I just go ahead and pick Harbaugh's squad?
• 1:04:27
  Oh, that's ballsy.
• 1:04:29
  But, you know, Baltimore's got to show me they can do something more than just,
• 1:04:34
  you know, go toe to toe with the Bengals, right?
• 1:04:37
  Have a great offense and no defense. So let's see what they got.
• 1:04:41
  Rachel, going with the Chargers, I kind of feel that though.
• 1:04:43
  Did you just say taking Harbaugh's squad so that you can't lose this game?
• 1:04:48
  I want Harbaugh's squad.
• 1:04:50
  It's Jim versus John.
• 1:04:52
  Yeah, it's a Harbaugh bowl. Again.
• 1:04:56
  Oh, man. That's cool.
• 1:04:58
  She can't lose. She picked Harbaugh.
• 1:05:00
  Not too big of a bowl this time.
• 1:05:02
  Yeah, the lights won't turn off. Anyway.
• 1:05:05
  Yeah, so Cody. Yeah, Cody.
• 1:05:08
  I'm taking Harbaugh's squad as well. No question.
• 1:05:10
  Everyone's taking Harbaugh's.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah, no, I'm taking the Ravens.
• 1:05:15
  They let me down once this year, but it's not going to happen again.
• 1:05:18
  Well, you know, their redemption date.
• 1:05:20
  Yep. And I think they're off.
• 1:05:21
  They're hot and cold.
• 1:05:23
  And we just saw them cold.
• 1:05:24
  So I think we see him hot next.
• 1:05:26
  I don't think that you're at logic.
• 1:05:28
  Yeah, I don't think the Chargers have the same defense that the Steelers do either.
• 1:05:32
  And it takes a pretty darn good defense to shut them down.
• 1:05:34
  So fair enough. Yeah.
• 1:05:36
  Yeah. I think it's going to be tough to stop there.
• 1:05:39
  Henry, I mean, obviously, Lamar Jackson is a threat as well.
• 1:05:43
  But I'm also a big Chargers fan, so I'm going to go Chargers here
• 1:05:45
  because it's the first time I've been able to talk about them.
• 1:05:47
  So I'm excited to talk about the Chargers.
• 1:05:51
  That's a second favorite.
• 1:05:52
  It is. I'm going to come in all that's why all Chargers garb next week.
• 1:05:55
  Oh, what color you got?
• 1:05:58
  Well, so that's risking it for the business.
• 1:06:00
  You go in that baby blue or what? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:03
  For sure. For sure.
• 1:06:04
  I'd like a white healthy jersey, though.
• 1:06:06
  Somebody find one for me.
• 1:06:07
  But anyway, yeah, Chargers all day for me.
• 1:06:10
  I think they're feeling a little bit better right now.
• 1:06:13
  They're kind of getting hot at the right time, kind of trending again,
• 1:06:15
  also trending in the right direction.
• 1:06:18
  Ravens. Yeah, the defense does scare me, but that offense is also really scary.
• 1:06:22
  So I don't know.
• 1:06:23
  This another game that could go either way, honestly, this whole week
• 1:06:26
  could go either way other than the bikes.
• 1:06:28
  But yeah, this I'm going blow out this game.
• 1:06:31
  I'm going 3510.
• 1:06:32
  I'm thinking the Ravens are going to dominate this game.
• 1:06:35
  Well, I don't think the Chargers definitely have anything on offense to
• 1:06:40
  to push the ball enough.
• 1:06:41
  So, yeah, I don't have the Chargers don't have anything on offense.
• 1:06:44
  Pushable. Not enough.
• 1:06:46
  I think they're going to get down big and then are asked to throw the ball.
• 1:06:49
  And I think that the Ravens defense aligns in the eat.
• 1:06:52
  J.K. Dobbins is rejuvenating his career at the moment.
• 1:06:56
  That's their only chance.
• 1:06:57
  You talk for a long time about him.
• 1:06:59
  I feel I think the ravens are just come up.
• 1:07:01
  I mean, you're right.
• 1:07:02
  The ravens have a hot, hot offense.
• 1:07:05
  They do. They have.
• 1:07:06
  But I just yeah, it's it's in the bright lights.
• 1:07:09
  I think Lamar's and he's come out 16 points.
• 1:07:12
  Yeah.
• 1:07:12
  This deal against the sealers defense.
• 1:07:14
  We're going to ignore that part.
• 1:07:15
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:07:16
  So I'm going below this game.
• 1:07:18
  That's how I'm feeling.
• 1:07:19
  I think Lamar's and come out fire in this game after last week's disappointing.
• 1:07:23
  Yeah, they're going to be fired up for and King Henry is always going to be tough
• 1:07:27
  to stop. So before we move on, before we close this thing out,
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  Kev, if you want to throw up that scoreboard for us,
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  a little update.
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  Rachel did pick pick them on.
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  I don't know what what ESPN or ESPN.
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  So we did let her be included here last week.
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  We qualified her.
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  She doesn't qualify to be officially second yet
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  until next week when she goes five and two week minimum, two week minimum,
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  two week minimum. But at the moment, she is technically second.
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  But two week minimum.
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  So Tyler takes the cake at second.
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  But Dan going five and oh for the second week in a row.
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  Dan has been perfect so far.
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  Daniel, no, no. Good for you.
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  The magic man.
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  Yes, magic man.
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  He's going to be in trouble this week.
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  I'm going to tell you that.
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  So I spoke and brings a big sword, though.
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  So I spoke and brings a big sword.
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  All right. So Dan, lean the way, followed by then Tyler at the seven twenty five.
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  Jake, our Ravens fan, taking the cake technically at third right now
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  with a 673 win percentage.
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  Trey, our
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  our fellow who watches more hockey than football, I guess, to say the least.
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  Trey Trey coming in at fourth right now to 650.
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  Good for you, Trey.
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  Then I should watch less football. I do better at picks.
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  Then coming in at six forty five, our Packer fan
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  who picked the Vikings to win this week, just so you know, tied for seventh.
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  Smelty and Rob Smelty listed first, as you see, that's me
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  as it should be at six thirty six.
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  Win percentage. Rob and I are tied.
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  We've been going at it all season.
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  I like it. We can't seem to get away from each other.
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  And here we are. Sit.
• 1:09:01
  You know, I feel like we pick different picks all the time.
• 1:09:04
  I know. It's hand.
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  You'll go up a game and then I'll go up a game.
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  It'll fluctuate. It'll fluctuate.
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  Matt, bringing in eighth place right now with a six twenty one percentage.
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  We have a tie for ninth with Graham and Cody sitting at six hundred.
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  Well, they fall in a little bit.
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  You know, I'm working to get it together.
• 1:09:22
  Get it together. Well, just keep picking the vikes.
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  That's a guaranteed win every week.
• 1:09:26
  I'm either going to surpass you this week in win percentage or I'm going to.
• 1:09:30
  It's true. Very far behind.
• 1:09:32
  We pick mostly opposite.
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  Mm hmm. I think everybody with the vikes.
• 1:09:36
  This is the separation week. I like it.
• 1:09:39
  That's why I'm going to climb.
• 1:09:40
  Dom bringing up the rear at the moment.
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  He's in 11th place, technically with a four hundred win percentage.
• 1:09:47
  Dom looking for a big week here.
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  So that that is it right now for Banter with the boys.
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  Dan, staying perfect.
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  Unbelievable job. Good for you.
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  With that, I mean, that that wraps our show.
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  Rachel, thanks for being on.
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  I was super fun.
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  Thanks for being the first female in Banter with the boys ever.
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  I appreciate being here representing the ladies,
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  representing the ladies and the vikes, obviously.
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  Obviously, yes.
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  Cody, again, thanks for being on again, brother.
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  We hope to see you again very, very soon, maybe next week.
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  I guess always a blast, man.
• 1:10:20
  Thank you guys for having me.
• 1:10:22
  And what time is love blind on?
• 1:10:24
  Yeah, you can watch it whenever it's on Netflix.
• 1:10:27
  Anytime you want.
• 1:10:29
  Anytime you want.
• 1:10:29
  Yeah, I know I'm going to be getting texts from you like on Tuesday.
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  Did you see what she did?
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  No, you won't.
• 1:10:38
  You won't. He's got to hunt.
• 1:10:40
  Rob, like always, thanks for being here again this week.
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  We're here the rest of the season.
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  It's been fun. I love it.
• 1:10:46
  We're starting to get down to crunch time and starting to play off positions
• 1:10:49
  are starting to, you know, get established.
• 1:10:51
  I'm starting to get real, you know, so yeah, it's real.
• 1:10:53
  Let's keep her going.
• 1:10:54
  Keep her going with that.
• 1:10:56
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• 1:11:09
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