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  Speaker 3: Here, let's talk about some picks.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to go eleven and five last week
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  Speaker 2: in the Picks, while Greg Rosendal Sydney Freeland both went
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  Speaker 2: ten and six, maintaining my lead and that reluctant extending
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  Speaker 2: your lead, Crown, that's.
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  Speaker 6: A big lead.
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  Speaker 4: This would be his first championship. This is we're getting
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  Speaker 4: close here.
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  Speaker 2: On Yes, I will have to try extra hard to
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  Speaker 2: figure things out, you know, taking between favorite TV shows
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  Speaker 2: and children.
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  Speaker 3: It's always tough to make decision.
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  Speaker 2: It's always tough to decide which game we should talk
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  Speaker 2: about first in the show.
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  Speaker 3: But this week it was easy.
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  Speaker 2: Chicago fans who officially have our attention, CATU.
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  Speaker 7: Play faint, look at the throw, going deep searching for
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  Speaker 7: DJ Moore over the shoulder, catch me touchdowns, hits over
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  Speaker 7: at Soldier Field, the Iceman, come it, the Iceman take it.
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  Speaker 7: Top forty six yard spirals to the end zone to
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  Speaker 7: Dj Moore, twenty two to sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Bears a while to come back by the Cardiac Bears
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  Speaker 2: last week. Now they've got the Niners Sunday night in
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  Speaker 2: Santa Clair. The number one seed still a possibility for
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  Speaker 2: both teams. So who gets a little closer in that aspect, Grig.
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  Speaker 4: I think the San Francisco forty nine ers do, setting
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  Speaker 4: up the battle with the Seahawks potentially for the one seed,
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  Speaker 4: and it's because of rock Party. Brock Purty, since he
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  Speaker 4: came back from injury, has put up production that matches
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  Speaker 4: any quarterback in the entire NFL. But what I've really
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  Speaker 4: liked out of him is his decision making. Sometimes He's
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  Speaker 4: a guy who has a little too much dip on
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  Speaker 4: his chip. He tries throws that he can't really make,
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  Speaker 4: that his body can't cash. And yet lately I don't
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  Speaker 4: think he's been making those decisions. He's just finding open
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  Speaker 4: receivers because of his play caller, because of the healthy,
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  Speaker 4: skilled position players around and hopefully George Kittle is close
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  Speaker 4: to one hundred percent for this game.
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  Speaker 6: And if you give.
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  Speaker 4: Rock Purdy good pass protection, he is going to dice
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  Speaker 4: you up. This is a mature offense with Trent Williams
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  Speaker 4: playing his best ball, and I think against a Bears
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  Speaker 4: team that does not rush the passer, well, I think
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  Speaker 4: they win. And I think Kyle Shanahan gets a little
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  Speaker 4: closer to Coach of the Year who Well, extra take
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  Speaker 4: there for you.
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  Speaker 8: I like that extra take.
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  Speaker 5: You have six points, I think is your differential. I
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  Speaker 5: have a four point win for the forty nine.
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  Speaker 8: Ers in this one. Let's just talk about.
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  Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey, and let's just talk about the fact that
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  Speaker 5: not enough people are at least speaking into existence for him.
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  Speaker 8: To be the MVP.
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  Speaker 5: What's the guy gotta do? What's he got to do?
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  Speaker 5: He has the most touches in the league batch like
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  Speaker 5: more than thirty. He's doing on the ground through the year.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. Why is brock Purty and his chip
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  Speaker 5: dipping ways get to succeed the way they do because
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  Speaker 5: you've got Christian McCaffrey to back clean up for you
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  Speaker 5: or do whatever you need to make it happen.
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  Speaker 8: Defenses all season long.
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  Speaker 5: Have been well aware that Christian McCaffrey is going to
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  Speaker 5: be the focal point of the offense, and look at
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  Speaker 5: his results, you can't stop him. So I'm looking at
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  Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey and I'm saying, whoever's voting for these things,
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  Speaker 5: don't settle for Comeback Player of the Year, don't even
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  Speaker 5: settle for offensive player.
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  Speaker 8: He should be the MVP. They wouldn't be in this
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  Speaker 8: but for CMC. They wouldn't be in this position.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like many times, the best receiver on the field
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  Speaker 2: for either team a big part of the game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still taking the Bears, then, Yeah, I'm taking the Bears.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty three to twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: It's very difficult to project turnovers, but these Bears make
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  Speaker 2: them and take the ball away at the highest rate
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. Jalen Johnson giving up a passer rating
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  Speaker 2: of sixty five. So teams are like, okay, let's throw
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  Speaker 2: over here at this who is this Nashan?
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  Speaker 3: Right, he's wearing number twenty six. They need to stop
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  Speaker 3: doing that.
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  Speaker 8: Right, it's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, right is the wrong option.
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  Speaker 2: He leads to the league in interceptions brought takes risks,
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  Speaker 2: the team invites those risks to be taken. I think they,
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  Speaker 2: of course are going to give up some yards, as
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  Speaker 2: the Bears do, but they get a couple of balls
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  Speaker 2: that they shouldn't perhaps, and they lean on DeAndre Swift
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  Speaker 2: and that explosive run game and get a win and
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  Speaker 2: oddly enough an inside track at the number one overall seed.
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  Speaker 2: Those Chicago Bears. The Bears and Niners could be an
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  Speaker 2: instant classic on Sunday night. The Bears have played a
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  Speaker 2: couple over the last few weeks. We also got some
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  Speaker 2: Saturday games this week, including.
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  Speaker 3: A mega matchup in the AFC.
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  Speaker 2: This Saturday, the playoff Pitcher coming into focus on NFL Network.
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  Speaker 6: CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud and the Houston Texans take on Justin Herbert and
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers. Rich and Kurt will be on the call
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  Speaker 2: with kickoff at four.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty pm Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Game day kickoffs starts at two pm this Saturday only
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  Speaker 2: on NFL Network. So let's discuss this game a touch
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  Speaker 2: more in the AFC between the Texans and the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: Both squads have clinch spots in the playoffs. Houston has
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  Speaker 2: won seven straight. Do they go into Sofar and make
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  Speaker 2: it eight in a row?
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  Speaker 8: Sin they go into Sofi. It's very dramatic.
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  Speaker 5: It's Saturday, people are very full, and they're done opening
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  Speaker 5: presence the whole day, and they take over the game.
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  Speaker 8: Twenty one to twenty. A low scoring matchup.
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  Speaker 5: Both defenses very formidable in this one, but I think
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  Speaker 5: it comes down to the duo of Will Anderson Junior
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  Speaker 5: and Daniel Hunter. Why because, as the broken record Cynthia
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  Speaker 5: Frieland says and everyone else, did you know Justin Herbert
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  Speaker 5: has taken the most pressures and quarterback hits of any
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  Speaker 5: quarterback this season?
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, we get it. When he's under pressure, he
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  Speaker 8: throws interceptions.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, okay, But ultimately this is a different kind
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  Speaker 5: of pressure.
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  Speaker 8: It's coming from multiple directions. They don't need to bliss.
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  Speaker 5: They can use their great secondary to back up what
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  Speaker 5: happens upfront.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm looking at this, oh this defensive front and that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and I'm thinking advantage Houston in this matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I have a Texans win three points twenty two to nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's teams that have great pass rushers, there's teams
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  Speaker 2: that have great players in the secondary, but there's no
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  Speaker 2: team that melds both of them together quite.
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  Speaker 3: Like the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 2: I will take Damiko Ryans over Greg Roman in this
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  Speaker 2: matchup every single day, and three times this Saturday night
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  Speaker 2: on the NFL Network. Herbert has thrown nine picks against
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  Speaker 2: zone this season between Stingley and Lasseter and the way
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  Speaker 2: that these guys rush the pass. Because the pressure numbers
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  Speaker 2: show one thing with the Houston Texans, but pressures, especially
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  Speaker 2: on next ten stats are kind of a proximity alert alert.
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  Speaker 2: But when it's Danil Hunter and lill Anderson Junior moving
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  Speaker 2: at the speed they do, their proximity.
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  Speaker 3: A little different than everybody else's. Greg.
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  Speaker 4: I thought this was the toughest game to pick of
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  Speaker 4: the year, especially because a year in the platt Or
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  Speaker 4: of the Week at the very time. Okay, I love
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  Speaker 4: these two teams. I think they can each go to
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  Speaker 4: the super Bowl. But you think about that playoff matchup
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  Speaker 4: a year ago, and you think about how Justin Hurtert
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  Speaker 4: was embarrassed and now he's ready for revenge. The Chargers
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  Speaker 4: win a close, low scoring game twenty to seventeen. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna just greg it up. On Saturday, NFL Network, Herbert
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  Speaker 4: put him in the MVP voting conversation. He's at least
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  Speaker 4: in my top five, maybe in my top three. And
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  Speaker 4: what was the takeaway from that playoff game a year ago?
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  Speaker 6: Said, Oh, all we.
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  Speaker 4: Got to do We just got to fix this protection
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  Speaker 4: and then we'll be fine.
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  Speaker 6: Everything's caving in on the inside. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna do. Hey, they didn't fix any of it.
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  Speaker 6: They're worse this year.
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  Speaker 4: And you know who's rising above it all. As much
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  Speaker 4: as I love CJ. Stroud, Justin Herbert is at a
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  Speaker 4: similar level in terms of his talent, but.
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  Speaker 6: He's further along in his maturity, his experience.
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  Speaker 4: He is playing outstanding, he's overcoming his teammate, and he
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  Speaker 4: has a great defense backing him up this year. That's
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  Speaker 4: one difference to Chargers get the victory.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Texans and Chargers jockeying for better playoff seating.
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  Speaker 2: Another team in the mix, the Buffalo Bills, and you
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  Speaker 2: know Josh Allen always ready to cape up.
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  Speaker 3: Has to put on the cape every single week. That's
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  Speaker 3: a lot to put on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Just play the game, don't go into it and feel
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  Speaker 2: like you've got to be Superman, Superman.
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  Speaker 5: Superhuman for his powerful throw on the cape and see
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  Speaker 5: that the work puts out Buffalo Alan looking for.
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  Speaker 7: The end z Oe in how is he not your
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  Speaker 7: MVP in the coat Shamas he can send I.
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  Speaker 3: Mentioned true, he's an alien, isn't he?
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  Speaker 6: Josh Allen is Superman. Nobody contests jumped on his.
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  Speaker 3: Back like he was Superman.
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  Speaker 6: No good snow Glory, double.
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  Speaker 2: Break, Josh Allen does it again.
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  Speaker 3: Superman, Superhuman, most powerful, powerful.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen Superman mean some dangerous things for his hometown
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  Speaker 2: of Fireball, California. Everybody's safe there but his bills play
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  Speaker 2: host of the Eagles on Sunday, the matchup Cynthia's preseason
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl prediction. Wow, it could still happen.
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  Speaker 4: So what happens on Sunday look at a lot better
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  Speaker 4: than my preseason prediction.
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  Speaker 6: Ravens Lion.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Eagles win this game because they've started
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  Speaker 4: to look over the last couple of weeks like they
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  Speaker 4: did late last season because of Saquon Barkley. I just
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  Speaker 4: love what I saw in that game against the Commanders,
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  Speaker 4: especially him breaking tackles, him closing the game out with
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  Speaker 4: some explosive runs.
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  Speaker 6: It was the Saquon we got used to scene for
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  Speaker 6: a while.
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  Speaker 4: If you were looking at the next gen stats after
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  Speaker 4: these games, it's a lot of rush yards under expected,
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of negative last week, way over expected.
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  Speaker 4: I think the line is going to be better because
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  Speaker 4: Lane Johnson expected to return this week.
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  Speaker 6: But maybe it's something about this time of year.
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  Speaker 4: It's when Jalen Hurts plays his best, and it's starting
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  Speaker 4: to look like it's when Saquon Barkley plays his best
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  Speaker 4: like he did late last season.
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  Speaker 2: I am right there with you, Greg, I've got a
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  Speaker 2: big win by the Eagles thirty one to twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Because even in scenarios where Superman was facing great odds.
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  Speaker 3: There was a need for a Justice League.
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  Speaker 2: You needed the Green Lantern Batman, everybody to be involved.
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  Speaker 2: You look around on the Buffalo Bills, there's not always
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  Speaker 2: anywhere to be found, and he was limited in practice
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  Speaker 2: this week, got X rays at halftime, and then the
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  Speaker 2: Bill's defense has to go out there and contend with
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  Speaker 2: not just say Kwan Barkley, but AJ Brown, who's been
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  Speaker 2: targeted at a very high rate when the opposing team
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  Speaker 2: lines up in single high coverage thirty percent for Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Hurts looking in AJ Brown's direction. He's had over four
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  Speaker 2: hundred yards and two touchdowns against zone coverage since Week nine.
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  Speaker 2: Things have picked up late this season. I think he
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  Speaker 2: gives the Bills secondary problems again in this one.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess Bills fans please come help me out
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  Speaker 5: because I'm gonna pick you guys to win. So sorry,
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  Speaker 5: Eagles fans, I'm going prime number here a three point
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  Speaker 5: win for Buffalo at home. So I understand it's very
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  Speaker 5: unlikely that the Bills could get the one seed, but
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  Speaker 5: that could mean that they're playing with a nice level
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  Speaker 5: of ease and fun and looking at their tight ends.
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  Speaker 5: This is where the past catching needs to step up.
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  Speaker 5: With Josh Allen's foot being maybe not one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 5: maybe they're rushing won't be as reliable.
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  Speaker 8: What does Joe Brady do?
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  Speaker 5: He goes into the little you know area of like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'd like Josh Allen to do this with his Superman stats.
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  Speaker 5: Let's just throw two our tight ends. Dalton Kinka last
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  Speaker 5: week Fantasy Owners is not so great for them. He
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  Speaker 5: had exactly zero catches on one target. But we've seen
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  Speaker 5: some really fun, dynamic things from all.
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  Speaker 8: Of their tight ends.
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  Speaker 5: Dawson Knox, Jackson Hawes like really fun names too to say,
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  Speaker 5: But ultimately it's that level of the defense that they're
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  Speaker 5: going to try to target. I'm not suggesting that it's
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  Speaker 5: good to pass against the Eagles evens. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 5: that Josh Allen is a kind of one of those
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  Speaker 5: matchup proof people, and the tight ends will be.
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  Speaker 8: The way that he goes up against them.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Sam for Ru's even Good presented by Applebee's.
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  Speaker 2: Is Josh Allen limited to just one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: passing yards last week against the Cleveland Browns? Does he
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  Speaker 2: throw for over or under one ninety five against the Eagles.
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  Speaker 5: We're going over baby. With that hurt foot, there's less
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  Speaker 5: reliance on the run. I'm not suggesting he's not going
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  Speaker 5: to run, but I don't think it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: as no fewer designed rushes per se. But I'm also
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  Speaker 5: looking at trying to target different areas, different levels of
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  Speaker 5: the defense to get quick completions, so it might not
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  Speaker 5: be like some crazy dpass.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's going to be a series of shorter
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  Speaker 8: passes to keep his foot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, two man rush coming here for this.
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  Speaker 6: Shut his golf guns towards the end.
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  Speaker 8: Zion caught tackled short of the end, Zil.
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  Speaker 9: There is a flag as I'm on ross seat praps,
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  Speaker 9: Oh did they called the whistle? There was a nateral
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  Speaker 9: ruling on the field. Is a touchdown? However halfway three
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  Speaker 9: hunder fourteen on the offense. By rule that penalty is
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  Speaker 9: not enforced and there is no replay. The game is over.
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  Speaker 3: There is no touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Very clear explanation as we get to seize the season
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  Speaker 2: presented by a Caesar or sportsbook. As we look at
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  Speaker 2: the first touchdown score odds between those Detroit Lions and
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings, Jumier Gibbs, I'm on the ros Saint Brown,
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  Speaker 2: David Montgomery leading the way, also with some belief in
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones. And then it's back to the Lions again
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  Speaker 2: with Jamis and Williams at plus nine hundred, Detroit almost
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  Speaker 2: eking out that when last week, pending a couple of
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  Speaker 2: offensive pass interference calls. Now they need to win out
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  Speaker 2: and have the Packers lose out for a shot at
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. They've got the Vikings and Max Brozmer On
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Day, Cynthia, does your team keep hope alive here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I mean is hope is hopeful?
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  Speaker 1: Lot?
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  Speaker 5: Anyways, I have them winning twenty seven to twenty seven
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  Speaker 5: point win.
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  Speaker 6: Do I love it? Yes? Yes I do.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care. It's still Christmas. I love the Lions.
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  Speaker 8: It's totally fine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at this situation and you know, look, Jared Goff,
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  Speaker 5: we haven't given him enough. He didn't make the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 6: That seems ridiculous, not a ridiculous at all. Who you
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  Speaker 6: taking off? You back?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 8: But I don't know, at least I don't know. I
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  Speaker 8: feel like it was a slight.
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  Speaker 5: The man's been playing very well, considering everyone on the
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  Speaker 5: defense has been I don't know, watching from the sidelines
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  Speaker 5: or their hospital.
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  Speaker 8: Rooms, unfortunate.
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  Speaker 6: It's been play great. I do want to put that
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  Speaker 6: on the record.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he has to pay, but I will I will
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  Speaker 5: say in this one he's gonna look better against the Blitz.
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  Speaker 5: Last week against the Pittsburgh Blitz, we saw something weird.
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  Speaker 5: He was like four for twelve or like thirty three
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  Speaker 5: yards something crazy. That is not normal for him. This
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  Speaker 5: is a guy who usually top two, top three in
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  Speaker 5: the league against the Blitz in almost every single metric.
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  Speaker 8: They're used to the Minnesota Blitz.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it looks very good, and yes, I
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  Speaker 5: still love my lines, even though the only thing worse.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you, the only thing worse than
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  Speaker 5: watching that play was the fact that my neighbors whatever
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  Speaker 5: they're watching on is ten seconds.
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  Speaker 8: Ahead of me.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you can imagine party foul.
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  Speaker 8: I I what it was awful. So somebody get me
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  Speaker 8: better Internet for Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: You're mad Jared Goff didn't make the Pro Bowl. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: want Sam Darnold off or something.
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  Speaker 7: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I just want him on. I'm not trying to take
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  Speaker 8: someone off.
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  Speaker 4: That's how it works when people you know, you got
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  Speaker 4: to take someone off to put someone on. You're just
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  Speaker 4: lucky that Max Brozmer hasn't been starting all year, or
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  Speaker 4: he might have gotten one of those Pro Bowls spots.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be a holiday miracle. Max Brosberg covers on
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: the Big Day.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Look at that seventeen to Justin Jefferson, not a lot
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: of other big highlights.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: Last week screens really.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Doled it up.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: We should just be replaying the third and seventeen opposite
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: hash to JJ. Look, Justin Jefferson made about four or
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: five plays in that game that only Justin Jefferson can make.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: I think Max Brozemer can run the offense, and most
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: importantly here, and I know I'm talking about Broemer even
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: though I.
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: Have the Lions winning. Uh, he's playing a defense which
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: is that been at the very bottom of the league.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of talk about Dan Campbell in the
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: running game and Jared Goff when the defense has been
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: really their problem lately.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: If your a Lions fan has a problem with Dan
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Campbell or anyone in the offense, see me, see me
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: in my office.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Oh no, oh, something's ready to fight. I am.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: I'm liquid rolling off and becaps.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Especially after Greg gives the false choice that's imposed on everybody, Well,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: we can't we can't give this person what he deserves,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: because then we can't.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Get there's literally a leader on the promo.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: It's a choice to facilitate that particular circumstance.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: I hate when people are like, oh, you got to
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: put him on the probo without saying who you're gonna
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: take off?
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: There's only three spots we are.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Critique is of something else. We're we're critiquing something else.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: My model also indicates the Lions win here because Aiden
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Hutchinson and this Lion's titt. Unfortunately, they couldn't close it
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: out against the Steelers. But Aiden Hutchinson in the fourth
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: quarter has more pressures than anybody else in the NFL
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: thirty nine pressures in the fourth quarter, seven more than
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: any other player. The lines are getting it up and
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: unfortunately for twenty twenty five NFL League MVP Max Brozmer,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: according to NFL Networks Greg Rosenthal in, Hutchinson.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: Is gonna make that diff Hope they gets picked up.
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  Speaker 2: some quick picks for the two other Christmas Day games.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: We will start with the Cowboys and Commanders. Dallas was
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: officially eliminated from playoff contention last week. But they're playing
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: for pride, Greg, It's Christmas and this is America's team.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: They're also playing for numbers. You know who made the
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Pro Bowl. George Pickens. What a season, what a story.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: They put up thirty one points and I think they
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: entertain the masses with an offensive shootout.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: I love Pickens's.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Catches he had last week where there was a late
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: back shoulder. Look at his late speed here where he
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: separates right as the ball gets there and makes it
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: look like it was an easy throw. All along, every
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: target to George Pickens is entertaining. You never know what's
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: going to happen. And between him and Ceedee Lamb, I
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: just think you see a lot of points against a
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: vulnerable Commanders defense.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Christmas Night, the Broncos and the Chiefs.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Denver had their eleven game wins streaks snapped last week
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: against Trevor Lawrence and the Jags.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Do they bounce back some field, Yes, they bounced back,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: and they bounced back big. They still want a shot
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: at that number one seed, so that the Super Bowl
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: would have to go through Denver. So bo Nicks, what
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: we've seen from him is improve it now. The first
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: two the first beginning of the end is the first
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: two go passes looked incredible last week. Then things got
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: a little bit left. Now we need to see them
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: get back in rhythm because if this team wants to
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: have those Super Bowl aspirations that Sean Payton talked about
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: ahead of the season, then they're going to need to
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: keep him in rhythm. And I think this is a
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: good opportunity against the Chiefs team that's you know, this
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: is not the Chiefs team we're usually used to.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Talking about, but they still have They also have pride,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: you know. Pride is that's the thing. So I'm looking
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: at them and even though it's not the same game
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: we were thought, it's still be one.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: How do they get to eight points? Patcher?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think they're going to go for two.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: They get a touchdown, they go for two. It's late.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Andy Reid has a lot of pride about it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Travis Kelsey octopus in his last game.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Yes ahead, statum, Wow, congratulations. Not a great career.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: I know not that pill sare, but it could be.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Probably It's Ravens Packers Saturday night in Lambeau. Baltimore needs
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to win out for a shot at the playoffs. Green
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Bay trying to hold on to that seventh seed in
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the NFC. Both team star quarterbacks questionable?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: How's this one go? Considering what we do know right now, Cynthia.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: We know that at least Jordan Loves been practicing, same
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: with Josh Jegob. So that helps me feel better about
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: my model picking Green Bay to win twenty four to
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: twenty in this matchup.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: But one thing I kind of know is what.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: This defense looks like now though Micah Parss isn't there, right,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: we saw a change that we have to figure some
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: things out. Of course, the Bears mount of this massive
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: comeback last week, what did we see? Well, I think
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: that they got I mean they're seeing that's a pretty
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: good guy who's they missed. But ultimately Jeff Hafley will
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: have some answers. Be they simulated pressures, which is something
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: we saw a lot of last season. But I do
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: think that one game adjustment or two game adjustment that
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: needed to happen. So that now going forward against the Ravens,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: and we know Derek Henry is going to run for
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: hopefully be on the field for more of it if
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: you're a Ravens fan. But ultimately I think that the
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: defense will get right in this situation.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: The ideal matchup in terms of the quarterbacks would obviously
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: be Jordan Love versus Lamar Jackson. Yes, but you can
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: shake up any matchup in terms of the quarterbacks that
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: you want. And I am still picking the Packers in
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: this game. I have it twenty seven to twenty three,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: but it ends up being Tyler Huntley starting. You know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I make it over seven and whatever the number is.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: It's partly because the Packers are just a more balanced
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: team overall. I trust their defense, even without Michael Parsons,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to make it difficult, and I trust this guy Emmanuel
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Wilson to contribute in the running game. Josh Jacobs is practicing.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: It's probably gonna be a one to two punch, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: he is a really good downhill tough runner. Ultimately, I
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: think the Packers are a Super Bowl contending type of team,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: whereas the Ravens have the look of a team that
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: they're just not going to get it done this season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: And sometimes at the end of a season like that,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: it goes sideways in a big way when you're playing
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: another competitive team. So I like the Packers no matter
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: what happens at quarterback.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have also taken the Green Bay Packers here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The twenty four to nineteen For me, the Ravens up
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the four flowest pressure rate in the entire league going
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: into Week seventeen.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Considering that everything.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: This defense has been able to do as good as
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the numbers have looked, they had that streak of keeping
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: teams under twenty points, it was a huge anomaly to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: accomplish the things that they have been able to accomplish.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: That Drake may kind of exposed that lack of a
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: pass rush last week. If it is Jordan Love, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: more power to the Green Bay Packers in their passing game.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And I think if we were to expect again having
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: this conversation before we know anything if Lamar was going
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to be able to play in this game, and he
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: probably would have come back in against the New England Patriots.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: So perhaps a season an offseason of new beginnings for
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens. We go from the Ravens to the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: team they're chasing in the AFC North, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh went into Detroit last week and made magic.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Happen for Rodgers back and he's gonna throw right and
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: deep again.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: A lot of contact downfield.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Did Gagwell catch that?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: He did? Holy mackerel. He was laying down on the ground.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Soup Pine caught it, picked it up, ran it into
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the end zone.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: It oh, I think the cat caught it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: It hit his right elbow, bounced up into his body.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: He's spun up. This is incredible.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: The Steelers held on to be the Lions twenty nine
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to twenty four last week. They're in the driver's seat
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in the AFC North. They've got a big one with
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the Browns on Sunday, but they will not have dk
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Metcalf due to his two game suspension that was upheld
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the week.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: So what happens in this clash, Greg.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: I think DK's absence hurts them.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It's a man to man defense for the Browns, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: ultimately it's the Steelers defense that keeps the score low.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: It's twenty three to thirteen for the Pittsburgh Steelers in
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: this game because Aaron Rodgers is playing his best ball
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: of the year.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: A pairaphrase a very famous tweet back in the day.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I unfortunately, I think you do have to hand it
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: to him, you know, yeah, drill getting it done. I'm
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: not putting Aaron Rodgers at the same you know, level
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: of a public enemy as what was referred to in
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: that tweet.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: But look at these long passes. It's been a different offense.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Everyone's been killing him for his average depth of target
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: all season and how quickly he's getting rid of the ball.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: If you look at the numbers over.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: The last three weeks, they're back way up in terms
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: of where he's throwing the ball.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: They're hitting some third and tens.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: They've been more aggressive, he's been more willing to hold
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: the ball, and I think that's really important as they
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: go down the stretch.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Run how many times this year has my score been
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: lower than yours for any anyway. So I have twelve
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: points for Cleveland, I have twenty for Pittsburgh. A very
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: low scoring game is what I project. Looking at Jalen
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Warren his ability to catch, especially.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: Shorter passes you talked about, You've seen the numbers for
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: Aaron Rodgers. I also believe that they're sitting there being like,
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: do you really want the.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Miles Garrett highlight of breaking the sack record to be
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: on you Aaron Rodgers?
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: Just like the Bills said it last week, I think
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Aaron Rodgers is kind of thinking the same thing, like,
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: please don't have me be the guy in the low light.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I don't want to be on the other the wrong
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: side of the highlight. He's likes to be on the
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: right side of highlight. Did you not see his postgame interviews. Yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: he likes to let you know. But ultimately I'm looking
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: at Jalen warrensville in the ability to be so multiple.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Both of these running backs really run game pass game.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: That's gonna be a difference maker, especially in time of possession.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Now that poor quinch On Judkins, best wishes for him
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: a speedy recovery for next season.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: He was so fun to watch.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: It's gonna make it all the sweeter though, when Miles
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Garrett just like rips around their fourth string left tackle
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and sacks Aaron Rodgers without him even knowing it's coming.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Because that's how good Miles Garrett is. It's gonna be
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: a big one.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Well, well, Aaron Rodgers, I had a pretty good game
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: here ten years ago.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, because if there's anything that Aaron Rodgers likes, it's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a titch An opportunity to talk about all things Aaron Rodgers,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and I think to Greg's point, Aaron Rodgers been playing
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: good football because the rest of the team around him
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: has been barely going, especially in the second I've got
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the Steelers by seven. Going back, let's go to the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks in the second half day to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: run a ball, great go back four weeks. The Steelers
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: are averaging six point two yards per carry in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: second half of these games, and Kenny G is not
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: just doing it well shout out to Kenny G's Holiday album,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: but this is another Kenny G during the holiday season
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: is going off right now in the run and the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: pass game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, you know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately for Alexandeloni and Lions fancy he made that play,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: but all around he's been one of the more consistent
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: parts of this offense. Yes, like the luxury is DK Metcalf,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: but the meat and potatoes is Jalen Warren and Kenny.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: G Here comes their best two point play, Darnald throws
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: cod but the two points Eric sober.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: What a game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: What a group, man, What a freaking football team you
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: guys are. What a football team, man, That's what we do, man.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: We see also with that remarkable comeback winning overtime against
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the Rams last week at home.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Now they're going across the country to take.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: On Carolina in the NFC South, where the Panthers have
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the lead in the division. Now, Bryce Young's team has
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: slayed some giants recently to get out the big accent
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: chop down the Seahawks.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: They do not.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Cinderella Slipper can be put back on next week against
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: the Bucks and they still win the division.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: But the Seahawks are in a different class.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: It's because of their head coach, Mike McDonald's I mentioned
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan as a potential coach of the Year. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: think Week eighteen, Seahawks forty nine ers will not only
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: decide the one seed and the NFC West, but it
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: will decide coach of the Year, and my pick right
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: now would be the guy who took a team that
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: most people did not have in the playoffs, who's built
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: up his defense of the number one defense in the
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: league over the last two seasons, who's made great hires.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: They have the best special teams in the league too,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and I think will be the type of team down
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: the stretch against a team like the Panthers who just
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: aren't as talented, who outclasses them. They see the finish line,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: they'll know how important this game is. And as great
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: as the Panthers have been, they are limited defensively. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: think the Seahawks put up a lot of points and
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: win this game comfortably.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: I'm with you on all of that, especially so sometimes
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I look at Mike McDonald and I realize he's only
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: thirty eight, but he like already looks like a wise
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: old man that you would want to be following. Anyways,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: my score, I don't remember your margin. I have an
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: eight point margin. Twenty six to eighteen is mitt years
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: is a little bit bigger, But ultimately I'm looking at
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: the run game here. I think as much as we
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: talk about Sam Donald throwing, which he is great at,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: especially when you have Jackson Smith and Jig. But what
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: they've really done is a foundation of running the football
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: with Kenneth Walker, who has had a year where he's
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: really You talk about people looking to get paid Kenneth
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Walker anyone. Yeah, that's going to be a nice contract
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: for him going forward. So I'm looking at slowing the
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: game down and kind of hitting the Panthers where it
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: hurts the most, which is in the run game.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: And I think Kenneth Walker provides the foundation yet again
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: so that there's no turnovers, there's no weird stuff, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: I get it going because there's a big one. You
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: talked about the big one for the Panthers next week.
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: There is a huge one for the Seahawks next week
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: against the Niners.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: You didn't know this, but there might be a little
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: more Kenneth Walker later in the show. Oh that's a tease.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: That's a deep tease, and in fact deep teas.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: The rare potential double trap game for both teams is
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: maybe the effort questionable for everybody. I nothing fun here
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: going on. It's unanimous. I've got the Seahawks as well.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Twenty four to nineteen. I would like to look at
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a great matchup that we're going to see in the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: secondary in this game where JC Horn has a chance
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: to go up against Jackson Smith and Jigma in all
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of the things he's accomplished through the air for the
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks. Notice one thing about these JC Horn highlights.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: None of them were from this game, this most recent
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Why they threw at
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: him zero times? He covered Chris Godwin and Mike Evans.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Zero targets for j C.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Horn.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Wow, seems like a smart strategy. Yeah, don't throw in
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: his coverage.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: We'll see if Sam makes that decision coming up. Looking
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: forward to this game, it's time for the feel good
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: story of the Week, presented by Geico Cynthia. Which team's
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: quarterback more likely to throw two touchdowns in this game?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Is it Sam or Bryce O?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: We have big scores for both of them, so I
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: think both easily could. But I'm looking at Sam Darnold
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: four two. You saw when the highlights, like you see
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: AJ Barner the barn Dog, you see him being lifted up.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: So of course, Jackson Smith.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: And Jigba has a really good opportunity to make it today.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about the barn dog here because for.
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  Speaker 6: Me, aj Barner could be How about the barnyard dog. Nope,
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  Speaker 6: just barn dog.
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  Speaker 5: I think it probably is the barnyard dog, but we're
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  Speaker 5: changing it here because I messed it up and we're
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  Speaker 5: just gonna go with that.
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  Speaker 8: The barnyard dog, I don't care.
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  Speaker 6: I like him.
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  Speaker 8: I think he gets in the enzoary dog.
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing barnstormer, but barn dog works.
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  Speaker 8: I like barn we and dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Barn dogs, se dog shout out to any dogs that
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  Speaker 2: are in any barns within earshot of our voices. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the highest totals in week seventeen according
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  Speaker 2: to our friends at Caesar Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on the Cincinnati Bengals. Once again, there you are
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  Speaker 3: three points.
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  Speaker 2: Second highest score Bears Niners looking forward to these games.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make some quick picks here on game Dabu Rams
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  Speaker 2: Falcons expecting to be high scoring as well.
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  Speaker 3: They score off Monday night in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: S Sean mcvay's team looking to bounce back from last week.
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  Speaker 4: Do they do it in the atl They absolutely do
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  Speaker 4: and usually with the Rams, it's like, let's try to
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: pick something surprising and new. How about we just talk
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: about Matthew Stafford. I haven't done that enough this season.
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  Speaker 4: Coming off a ridiculous performance against the Seattle Seahawks.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: It is truly stupid that people think QB.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Wins should hurt him in the MVP conversation after that performance.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I mean he had some moments that shot against against
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Tapuka Nakua, he had the one in overtime and then
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: this no look at the start of the fourth quarter.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Obviously the game went sideways, but he knows what Raheem
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  Speaker 4: Morris's defense is.
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  Speaker 6: What kind of want to do. It's gonna blitz a lot.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: You can't really outsmart Matthew Stafford and blitz them. I
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  Speaker 4: think he'll find some major problems in the top and secondary.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go elsewhere in that division of the Tampa Bay
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Buccaneers and the Dolphins. Tampa's lost six of the last seven.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: There must win mode. Do they get that need that
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  Speaker 2: they must get?
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  Speaker 6: They do?
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  Speaker 8: Twenty six to twenty one is the win for Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to talk Mike Evans for a minute,
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  Speaker 5: because when you're thinking about the things that were different
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  Speaker 5: and what's gotten better and his return has made a
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  Speaker 5: huge difference.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he's caught a touchdown last week.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: I know it wasn't in a win, but you're just
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: looking at the opportunity on the field to pass and
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: what Baker Mayfield's contending with, and it just is so
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  Speaker 5: much better when you have Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 8: Plus thing's a little messy maybe in Miami, so I
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  Speaker 8: think they take advantage of this and kind of figure
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  Speaker 8: out a way to get Mike Evans going.
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  Speaker 4: I got a bad feeling about this. I might have
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  Speaker 4: to flip my pick all right in Miami. Wine, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: just got a bad sor bad feelings.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned to all your social channels. The Cardinals and
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals in the Natty. Joe Burrow carved up the
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  Speaker 2: Fins last week. I think they win again here with
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  Speaker 2: they score of thirty two to twenty eight, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, a high score game as is projected.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about this Arizona Cardinals defense. It has
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: been a rough go down the stretch weeks thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and sixteen, the opponent has got seven yards per carry.
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  Speaker 2: They've run for six hundred and three yards six touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Pass defense hasn't been great either. I think the Bengals
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  Speaker 2: put a huge number still to come.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence and the Jags the hottest team in the league,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: so hot right now.
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  Speaker 2: They won sixth straight and a win against the Colts
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  Speaker 2: Sunday would clinch the AFC South.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: But old man Rivers might have something to say about that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Who wins Jagged Colts are thoughts coming up next on
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  Speaker 2: game debut.
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  Speaker 9: Dropping looking close another back from the CTN talking about me,
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  Speaker 9: mass out to the five.
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  Speaker 7: God put it all that touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, a ten
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  Speaker 7: yard touchdown past the tame as ets to Jadge that
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  Speaker 7: extended the.
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  Speaker 3: Lad holse good is that.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for the Reid presented by Microsoft co Pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Microsoft Copilot, your AI companion for NFL Game Day and
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  Speaker 3: The red hot Jags going to Indy.
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  Speaker 2: We ask Copilot which matchup will decide who wins the game?
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: And Copoland says Jacksonville's passing attack versus.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: The Colts banged up secondary.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Indy's d has been shred in the past few weeks,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and Trevor Lawrence is on one of the best stretches
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: of his entire career. All us humans to discuss this
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: matchup between those Jags and the Colts. The Jacksonville putting
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the league on notice going into Denver getting.
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  Speaker 3: A huge win.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: The Philip Rivers experiment has been going fairly well in Indy.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think takes place in here?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: I think a close game, but I think that the
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Jags win this one twenty six to twenty four. When
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at Trevor Lawrence, me and Microsoft Copilot agree
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: that the opportunity to find areas of the defense to
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: exploit is what's going to matter. But I'm not so
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: much weird because we could get saft guard in your back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not really looking at the pass and looking at
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  Speaker 5: the circumstance right now.
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: There are other pieces.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: But I think that Jakobe Myers and I think that
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Breton Strange, Yes you heard me, bretton Strange. I think
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: that all of the different pass catchers they have now
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: gotten into sync with Trevor Lawrence. So even in harder
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: to navigate situations like the Broncos defense, they've been connecting
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: on what i'd call like tougher level of effort passes.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Right you know how gymnastics score like, you know, like
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: the routine can be harder. They're now doing the more
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: difficult routines. So I'm looking at this and even though
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I think it'd be great to see Sauce Gardner back,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: especially if you're a Colts fan, I still think advantage
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: to what Trevor Lawrence has got going on in this
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: pass game.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: You know who's been hitting some high degree of difficulty throws,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 6: Because you don't know how tough it is.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: He doesn't have the arm strength, he doesn't necessarily have
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: the athleticism. He's doing all with canny timing and rhythmic
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: line games and smart and accuracy and a funky throwing
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: motion that's looked the same since he was nineteen years
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: old playing.
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  Speaker 6: At NC State getting it done. I have a high
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: scoring game.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: If you made the list of reasons why the Colts
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: did not win on Monday night, Philip Rivers was not
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: even on it as far as I'm concerned. They were
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: averaging four and a half points per possession deep into
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  Speaker 4: the fourth quarter, and.
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  Speaker 6: Then it caved in a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I think I see a similar type of game here
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  Speaker 4: where the Colts defense just can't match up against a
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Jaguars team that I believe Patrick Clavon told me was
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: averaging how.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: Many points since the buy was it? Was it thirty three?
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: How many points did I give him today? That's Larry
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Bird's number.
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: That's sacred, yes, or maybe you read the research packet.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Either way, Gregan is always in the materials. I am
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: right there with Cynthia and Gregg. I've got a Jacksonville
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Jaguars win. But I do want to say, if you're
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: able to come back and play football at forty four
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: years old, you're a significant athlete, as Philip Rivers has
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: always been.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: But let's discuss Monteric Brown.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know what hit you, guys confused with Buster Brown,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the comic character that debuted in nineteen oh two in
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the New York Post.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: But this is on Tariff Brown.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: He occasionally goes by Buster and he got targeted twice
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: by Bill Knicks last week allowed zero catches. Of course,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: best wishes to Pat Bryant, who Brown had a huge
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: hit on late in that game. But he just made
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: it so difficult for those Broncos to make plays through
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: the are. And I just wanted to point out another
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: good player in that Jags secondary as the Jags pretty
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: good looking team.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: In the AFC, Lawrence and Rivers is able to.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Both be top five picks in the NFL draft at
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: one point. Let's take a look at the projected draft
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: order in twenty twenty six. As we've got the Giants, Raiders,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and Browns right there at the top, the Jets and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the Titans. Three wins for the teams at the bottom,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: two for the teams at the top or the bottom,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: depending on your perspective. The Giants and Raiders facing off
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Sunday in a game that has some big implications regarding
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: the number one overall pick in the draft.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: So who wins here and misses out? Because we still
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: do this draft thing by.
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  Speaker 6: I know you're not a fan of how they ordered
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: the draft. I think he got something to maybe we.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Get a lottery going at some point, and maybe if
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: that happened, the Giants wouldn't have landed Abdull Carter, who's
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: playing well the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: He's taking it serious.
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  Speaker 4: And they asked Exter Lawrence after the game, like, as
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: it shown that he's taken some lessons from it, and
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: he's like he's got to do it more than one week.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: I was like, whoa deck dex Yes, easy on the kid.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: He's making a lot of plays. He's got to help
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  Speaker 4: your team out.
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  Speaker 6: You're giving me a ess Greg against the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I don't care who's playing them. I'm just Gregan all day,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: sight unseen. I don't care if they're playing a high
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  Speaker 4: schools team.
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  Speaker 6: I'm taking them against the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we watched the Giants last week. The Saints and
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the Titans.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Tennessee currently projected to have the fifth pick in the draft,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: but they've looked a little bit better lately. Who wins
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: this match up between two of the better rookies at
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: the quarterback position?
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Siddy, have we now from one win over the Titans,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: we're now going over the Chiefs. Now you're going to rownagize? No,
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: it's still the freaking Saints. Tyler Duck, he is sick
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: of hearing about how him worth so much better than him.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: All he's been doing is been deep passing his way
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: to wins. With Chris Olave. He's done a good job
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: of navigating a really bad circumstance without being like, hey, guys,
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: me over here. Everyone said they should have taken other people. No,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Tyler Schuck's looking great, and I think you guys are insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we knew that going yet.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this one's I should have known Patrick.
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  Speaker 4: This was a very Patrick move. He's still riding high
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  Speaker 4: after taking him again to the Chiefs though.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you're yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good one.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, things are going great over here in my
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: favorite situation, the Patriots and the Jets, Ganggreen still looking
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: for the elusive first interception of the season.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure they get it here. I like New
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: England to win thirty.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Two to sixteen, because, look, it's been a tough go
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: as we look back at some of the things that
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: have taken place against this Jets team, where everybody's getting
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: healthy in any different number of ways, whether they're running
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and passing, it's a rough go.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty two to sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: We're being generous the Jets. They have lost the last
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: three weeks by an average of twenty five.
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  Speaker 8: Look at Greg's score twenty four to six.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, again, that's generous. That's way closer than they've been
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: in three weeks.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: When we come back, it sound elect Greg have that
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: freak flag fly because he's hit his player props two
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: weeks in a row.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: One more time and he's on fire.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Boom shocka locka shout out to NBA jam our favorite
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  Speaker 2: props of the week coming up next on Game Debut.
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  Speaker 3: Tom for write this down. That's our gift to you
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  Speaker 3: as well.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Get some prop predictions for Week seventeen that leadoff Greg.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm giving out an extra pick, Oh Christmas to
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: write this downs. It's a theme here. The Rams and
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks are the two best teams in the entire NFL.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: They're both gonna win big and their rushing stars are
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: gonna have big numbers. So Kyra and Williams for the
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Rams in this game goes over sixty three and a
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: half rushing yard that's against the Falcons, and then Kenneth
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Walker the goes over fifty three rushing yards against the Panthers.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I really see scenarios where both these teams needing big
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: time wins overwhelm their opponents, who, by the way, are
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: two very poor teams against ground attacks, especially the Arizona Cardinals.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: So I feel great about that Walker pick. But Kyrin
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Williams he gets it done too.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Two and oh I got to catch up on Patrick
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Well Okay.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: But ceedee Lamb that have at least six catches against
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: the Commanders on Christmas. He got snubbed for the Pro Bowl.
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: That's right, Maybe you should have taken George Trades. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: didn't even care.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: I like See Lamb better because I think he is
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: the one who, to me in this matchup the more
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: reliable opportunity here for at least six receptions. I also
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: think there's an epic kind of historical data point here
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: that he or Justin Jefferson could at the end of
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: the season. They both have already broken a record from
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Jervis Landry for the most receptions of the players.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: For six seasons.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: Who's going to be at the end of the season,
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: See Lamb.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: That's my pick, yes, because only one, only one can
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: be good. I folks, you know Christmas, to get new presence,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: to get new consoles. Occasionally you need to remember you
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: gotta get outside.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Running outside is.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: What DeAndre Swift excels in in this Bears offense. And
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I think they go into Santa Clara and he goes
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: for over sixty yards against the number twenty five ranked defense.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: A defending the outside run.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson knows what he's doing when he's calling the
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: place he puts the guys in position to be successful,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: and I think you can put yourself in a good
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: position if you take note of the opportunity.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: For Deandre's epic Ho ho ho.
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  Speaker 8: No, No, I didn't like it.
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• 41:39
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