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  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: partnership with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to Game Debut, Patrick Clave, I'm back here
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  Speaker 2: with my dear friends Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland picking
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  Speaker 2: all the games of the week. One slate. To borrow
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  Speaker 2: a turn of phrase from a dear friend and a
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  Speaker 2: football savant.
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  Speaker 3: Football's let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Look, you know everything changes every season, but this show,
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  Speaker 4: we're back.
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  Speaker 3: This is seven seasons. Game debut, You and I Cynthia,
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  Speaker 3: let's go.
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  Speaker 5: I can believe it's already seven. That feels very special.
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  Speaker 5: That's almost ten.
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  Speaker 3: And then you get in there which is like the
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  Speaker 3: part of the show where Cynthia gets.
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  Speaker 6: The brag the music. I'm just happy to be back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations to the institution that is this show, which
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  Speaker 2: is now I think in second grade. So a lot
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  Speaker 2: has happened on Game Debut. Let's take a look at
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  Speaker 2: our final pickstandings from last year. Go ahead and put
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  Speaker 2: that digital crown atop Cynthia Freeland's head, winning a triple crown,
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  Speaker 2: ghetting the Super Bowl pick, winning the regular season and
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  Speaker 2: the postseason. And now we hear from our ruler and
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  Speaker 2: leader after twenty twenty four. Cynthia Freeland.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I get to wear the crown here. It's
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  Speaker 5: really fun. I've been to a lot of therapy where
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  Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be like, oh, I'm really proud of myself,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm actually ready to move on to the next season.
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  Speaker 6: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just it makes me a little uncomfortable to be
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  Speaker 6: in that position, but I just gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, more impressive than that record is that you
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  Speaker 4: nailed the exact super Bowl prediction in winner the Eagles
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  Speaker 4: before last season over the Chiefs. That's more impressive than
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  Speaker 4: any record.
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  Speaker 2: A spectacular season, easily, Cynthia is the favorite. If we're picking,
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  Speaker 2: we're to talk about us picking who's gonna win this year,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna take Cynthia Freeland.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I did win two years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Anyway, I had to mention it had
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  Speaker 2: so speaking of therapy and wanting to do better, this
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  Speaker 2: is how this season ended for the Baltimore Ravens. They
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  Speaker 2: squared off against the Bills in the Divisional round. Of
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  Speaker 2: less than two minutes to go, Mark Andrew dropped the
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  Speaker 2: would be game time two point conversion. The Bills won
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  Speaker 2: by those two points, advancing to the AFC Championship, and
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  Speaker 2: now it's an opportunity for Revans a monster rematch Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night in Buffalo, Josh Allen against Lamar Jackson, the league's
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  Speaker 2: last two MVPs going at it on Sunday night football.
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  Speaker 2: How do you see this one going great?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be similar in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 4: including the score twenty seven to twenty five, except this
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  Speaker 4: time the Ravens come out on top for a reason
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  Speaker 4: that really was consistent in both Ravens Bills games last year.
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  Speaker 4: It's the running attack of Derrick Henry and Justice Hill.
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  Speaker 4: The Bills in the first game had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: light boxes, not a lot of defenders up near the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, and Derrick Henry had one of the
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  Speaker 4: best games of his entire career. So in the playoff game,
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  Speaker 4: they actually loaded the box more than they did almost
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  Speaker 4: all season, tripled the amount of defenders in the box,
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  Speaker 4: and you know what, they still ended up with one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and seventy six yards on the ground. Can we
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  Speaker 4: over five yards for carry? Justice Hill was very effective.
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  Speaker 4: This is a great one to two punch in the
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  Speaker 4: first game. By the way, Justice Hill through the air
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  Speaker 4: goes for seventy eight yards as a receiver, So I
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  Speaker 4: just love that. Whether you want to play with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of defenders to try to stop the run, or
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  Speaker 4: you play back in a little more conservative either way,
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  Speaker 4: the Ravens are going to get theirs. I think they
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  Speaker 4: are more consistent because of that running game, and they
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  Speaker 4: win twenty seven to twenty five, not really revenge.
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  Speaker 2: That it's not really revenge because you can't wipe away
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  Speaker 2: what happened. Obviously, the way that the game end was
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  Speaker 2: exceedingly disappointed for Ravens fans as well as Mark Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: But I really think the run game decides a lot
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  Speaker 2: in the way that Buffalo approached the things. But the
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  Speaker 2: pass rush is what forced Buffalo to change things and
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  Speaker 2: run the ball more in the playoff game because you
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  Speaker 2: go back. The pass rush really bothered Josh Allen in
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  Speaker 2: the regular season game, pressured in forty four percent of
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  Speaker 2: his dropbacks. That's the second highest in the game against
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen the last two seasons. So they come out
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs pound the rock with six or more
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen in the playoffs twenty two percent of the time.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the Ravens are prepared for both circumstances
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  Speaker 2: this time around, and not turning the ball over a
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  Speaker 2: multitude of times also helps. I've got the Baltimore Ravens
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  Speaker 2: twenty six to twenty four speak.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I have twenty six to twenty four as well.
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  Speaker 5: But for the other team, when I'm looking at what
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  Speaker 5: goes on with the Bills, you actually brought it up.
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  Speaker 6: You said that they adapt.
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  Speaker 5: Oh it's a prime number, guys, our Famaek prime number.
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  Speaker 6: We like this.
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  Speaker 5: But here's the thing you talked about it they adapted.
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  Speaker 5: They added an extra offensive lineman. You know why, because
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  Speaker 5: they wanted that man, Josh Allen, to have the game
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  Speaker 5: that he is going to have every single time. He's
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  Speaker 5: super consistent. When you're talking about an O line that
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  Speaker 5: can help out. Watching the preseason games, o Cyrus Torrence
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  Speaker 5: might even have gotten better, which is wild because he
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  Speaker 5: was already very good. So I'm looking at the opportunity here.
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  Speaker 5: Which of the pass catchers.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. I can tell you what my
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  Speaker 6: math forecast.
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  Speaker 5: It's not spectacular in terms of top five receiving numbers
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  Speaker 5: for any single one of them. But I will say
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  Speaker 5: that that kind of we don't know who what's going
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  Speaker 5: to be also translates to what the Ravens have to
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  Speaker 5: deal with, who's it going to be. We do know
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  Speaker 5: that Josh Allen has twenty seven rushing touchdowns over the
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  Speaker 5: past few seasons, so so I don't expect that to change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, expecting both of these games to be as long
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  Speaker 2: as eight and seventeen are on the field, the Ravens
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  Speaker 2: and the Bills will be pretty good. Time for Who's
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  Speaker 2: Eating Good presented by Applebee's here on Game Dayview, Greg
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  Speaker 2: Who in terms of these star quarterbacks has more total touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: Lamar and Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: I will go Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: I think he has the easier matchup on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at what the Bills did in that
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  Speaker 4: second one, and we're going back to because it was
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  Speaker 4: the last game, they were extremely creative. It was a
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  Speaker 4: team that had gotten better and better all throughout the season.
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  Speaker 4: I think right now is the time to play this
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  Speaker 4: Bills defense, not totally healthy in the preseason, figuring out
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  Speaker 4: what's going on at cornerback and safety.
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  Speaker 3: Usually that's the bedrock.
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  Speaker 4: Of these Bills defense, and there's a lot of question marks,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't think they'll be ready to be as
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  Speaker 4: multi pull as they were in that playoff.
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  Speaker 5: Bobby Babbage, he's calling you out looking.
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Babbage, who runs the Bills defense, did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Good job, Bobby. I just think he's got a harder
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  Speaker 3: job this time.
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  Speaker 2: Yere, he's got Bullton board material? Does Bobby Babbage? Back
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  Speaker 2: in June, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers made a flash
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  Speaker 2: signing future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers at forty one
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  Speaker 2: years young, he's the oldest player in the NFL. Says
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  Speaker 2: he's pretty sure this is gonna be it for him
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  Speaker 2: playing football Pittsburgh hoping Aaron can lead them to their
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  Speaker 2: first playoff win since the twenty sixteen season. It is
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  Speaker 2: Rogers and the Steelers kicking things off against his former team,
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  Speaker 2: the Jets, and Aaron Rodgers looking for revenge after the
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  Speaker 2: Jets wanted Justin Fields more than him. So does he
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  Speaker 2: get it? Great?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love how you pointed that out.
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  Speaker 4: Justin Fields is making more American money this year playing
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  Speaker 4: quarterback than Aaron Rodgers. Both these teams wanted Justin Fields
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  Speaker 4: more than Aaron Rodgers. That's one reason why I'm going
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  Speaker 4: with the Jets twenty to seventeen. Aaron Glenn said in
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  Speaker 4: one of his press conferences, we don't want celebrity quarterbacks here.
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  Speaker 4: Like the more you watch football, the more it stays
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  Speaker 4: the same. That's what Bill Parcells used to say, the
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  Speaker 4: exact same quote. Justin Fields might not be a celebrity quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: but he's effective. He had his best season as a
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  Speaker 4: passer a year ago. I think they're going to focus
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  Speaker 4: on his strength. It's going to be all about the
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  Speaker 4: running game. And ultimately, I don't think either one of
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  Speaker 4: these offenses is really going to get that much going.
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  Speaker 4: But the run game that I trust more is with
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  Speaker 4: the Jets in Bresaw, Braylen Allen and Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe Aaron Rodgers getting paid in rubles or reals or.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying it's kind of wild. It's twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: Justin Fields out here. Is the market's telling you he's better?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Rodgers still one of the best quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 2: the league, getting the ball out of his hands very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is he had the fourth lowest completion percentage
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  Speaker 2: in passes that were thrown under two and a half seconds.
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  Speaker 2: He joins a Steelers offense that actually had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of high scoring games last year. One of those was
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  Speaker 2: against the Jets because the field position was very good
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  Speaker 2: because Aaron Rodgers was playing quarterback for the Jets. In
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  Speaker 2: the union of the Steelers and the Jets is not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily something that I'm going to believe in sight unseen
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  Speaker 2: because we haven't really seen it. I've got the Jets
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  Speaker 2: getting there revnch against Aaron Rodgers twenty to sixteen s
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  Speaker 2: in the other well.
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  Speaker 5: I guess we're just gonna sign up for two. Is
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  Speaker 5: this whole show gonna be prime numbers?
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  Speaker 3: We'll see pay blo pleap, plea, blu pleap.
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  Speaker 5: Steelers fans, please back me up on this one.
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  Speaker 6: I took a two point win.
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  Speaker 5: Four Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. It's twenty one to nineteen.
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  Speaker 6: Let's just talk about Aaron Rodgers for a second.
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  Speaker 5: But did you guys also forget Elijah Arrah. Tucker's not
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  Speaker 5: going to keep.
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  Speaker 6: That could be a problem for the Jets.
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  Speaker 5: But in this particular matchup and watching Aaron Rodgers, I'm
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  Speaker 5: thinking about Okay, Johnny Smith, there, you know what those
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  Speaker 5: tight ends do for Aaron Rodgers, The answer is a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is a situation where Aaron Rodgers is
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  Speaker 5: going to have what I'm gonna call a mid season,
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  Speaker 5: meaning his stats are gonna look mid They're not going
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  Speaker 5: to look anything like they look to those MVP seasons
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  Speaker 5: when he was a Green Bay Packer, but they're not
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  Speaker 5: going to also look kind of like what you were
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  Speaker 5: talking about with those quick passes not working.
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  Speaker 6: He also threw the five interceptions on those fast passes
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  Speaker 6: last season. It's not gonna look like that either.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be somewhere in between, and that will be
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  Speaker 5: just good enough in this matchup to best the Giant
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  Speaker 5: or the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Right. The Steelers signing Rogers was one of the most
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  Speaker 2: newsworthy stories of the offseason. I'd say was because a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months later, the Packers and the Cowboys made
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  Speaker 2: the biggest trade I can remember. The pride is still
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  Speaker 2: let this league. The protest still up right out. The
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  Speaker 2: pride is still let this a.
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  Speaker 3: Person person punch him down. It bus he's sacked again.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, We're gona never turned over.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna come due.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we had loved it and Bryce young never
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  Speaker 5: had a chance, so he gets going like that.
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  Speaker 3: It is literally like he is hunting.
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  Speaker 2: You wrote about vera players. Mom, I'll look at the
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  Speaker 2: odds to win the NFC nor according to our friends
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  Speaker 2: over at Caesar Sportsbook that note at the bottom odds
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  Speaker 2: subject to change. That's because they did when Michael park
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  Speaker 2: Since got traded to the Green Bay Packers. Now right
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  Speaker 2: there at plus one eighty, right behind the Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 2: to win the NFC North and the two favorites in
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  Speaker 2: the North s wearing off Sunday in Lambeau. Cynthia, your
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  Speaker 2: Lions looking for their four straight win in Green Bay?
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  Speaker 2: Do they get it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, by the narrowest of margins. Twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 5: three is what my math says. Don't be tricked by
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  Speaker 5: recency bias.
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  Speaker 6: You know what that means.
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  Speaker 5: It means that Micah Parsons being traded is a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: But sometimes so too is Aiden Hutchinson returning for the Lions.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at this defense, I don't know, they
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  Speaker 5: get like three hundred and fifty people back from injury
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  Speaker 5: lasses approximately, I think that was the number. I think
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  Speaker 5: they had to spend like their entire cap on just
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  Speaker 5: injury replacements.
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  Speaker 6: But the pace that Aiden.
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  Speaker 5: Hutchinson was working on last season prior to getting hurt
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  Speaker 5: was an MVP level pace. It was possibly defensive or
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  Speaker 5: Defensive Player of the Year at least, if not even more. Right,
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  Speaker 5: So you're watching what happens there and you're thinking about, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: who has the defense with the back end to support
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  Speaker 5: it and Branch, Yeah, he's still there. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: at how the back in the front works together, and
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  Speaker 5: I think that gives the Lions an edge.
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  Speaker 6: I'm also hoping for it.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, as Lions fans, we all get like
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  Speaker 5: the better nails and we get very worried. But I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad the math kind of match my heart.
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  Speaker 4: I hear you on the recency bias. I'm amazed that
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  Speaker 4: the Packers are favored in this game because the Lions
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  Speaker 4: have absolutely owned Matt Lafleur's Packers during Dan Campbell's tenure.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that changes.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Lions win by a touchdown here, thirty
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  Speaker 4: two to twenty five, a nice high scoring game, in
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  Speaker 4: part because the Lions are adding players like Isaac to Slaw.
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  Speaker 4: This is what the preseason and training camp is all about.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Jones walked so that Isaac Slow can fly. Let's
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  Speaker 4: go from Arkansas. I mean, look at these plays as
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  Speaker 4: if they needed to get any deeper in terms of
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  Speaker 4: their weapons. You not only have to Slaw, but you
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  Speaker 4: have Sam Laporta of course, Jameson Williams in a contract year.
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  Speaker 4: And you look at the Packers meanwhile, I think they're
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  Speaker 4: getting them the Lions at the right time of year.
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  Speaker 4: Because the Packers all their weapons were hurt in training camp,
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  Speaker 4: they haven't practiced much together. I think the Lions take
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  Speaker 4: training camp in the preseason more seriously.
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  Speaker 3: They come out flying, usually in Week one.
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  Speaker 4: Think back to last year when they beat the defending
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  Speaker 4: champion Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: I think they get the win.
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  Speaker 2: I will take a tendency breaker and have our first
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  Speaker 2: stray bond of the twenty twenty five season and go
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  Speaker 2: with a narrow margin as well. But for the home
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  Speaker 2: team twenty nine to twenty eight Green Bay Packers, another
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  Speaker 2: year for Jordan Love in the Lafleor offense. But there's
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  Speaker 2: an unsung hero somehow, and Josh Jacobs, who very very
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  Speaker 2: quietly had a good year, forced ninety six misstackles one
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  Speaker 2: of the places he in Green Bay. Excelled was running
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  Speaker 2: the ball out of the shot gun, number five in
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  Speaker 2: the league, where Detroit was number twenty six on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Albeit that includes the three hundred and fifty players and
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  Speaker 2: staff personnel, everybody, folks working in the Ford field. They
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  Speaker 2: got hurt last year. But it's a place where the
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  Speaker 2: Packers can have success, and I think they will finally
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  Speaker 2: have success at home against the d Troit Lions. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be all alone here. We'll just getting started. On game debut.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, CJ. Stroud heading to La to take on
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  Speaker 2: Matt Stafford and the Rams. There's so much star power
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  Speaker 2: in this one. We're expecting from fireworks. We'll get picks
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  Speaker 2: As we look at the first touchdown score odds, Kyron
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  Speaker 2: Williams far and away leading the game in so far,
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  Speaker 2: ahead of Nicocollins, Pukinakua, Davante Adams, and Nick Chubb at
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  Speaker 2: plus nine hundred, all those names stars in action, Texans
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  Speaker 2: and Rams Sunday at so far. Stroud versus Stafford, the
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  Speaker 2: youngster versus the savvy Bett and Champion. What do you
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  Speaker 2: see taking place? Correct?
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  Speaker 4: I see a lot of defense on both sides, especially
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  Speaker 4: the Texans. I have them winning seventeen to fourteen, Like
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it takes the offense to get a little bit going.
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  Speaker 4: And there's so much talk about the Rams young pass rush.
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  Speaker 4: The best edge rush duo in the entire NFL is
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  Speaker 4: with the Houston Texans, Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter like
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  Speaker 4: Jared vers like they're.
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  Speaker 3: Great, But the Texans sack artist.
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  Speaker 4: They finished plays more consistently, And I am a little
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  Speaker 4: worried about the matchup, not just with Matthew Stafford's back injury,
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  Speaker 4: but with Alric Jackson coming off these blood clots. We'll
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  Speaker 4: see if he plays in this game, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been able to practice too often. And then on the
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  Speaker 4: other side, it's Rob Havenstein, who's getting up there in years,
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  Speaker 4: has had his injury concerns. I think that is a mismatch,
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  Speaker 4: and if Stafford is having to get rid of the
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  Speaker 4: ball quickly, I ultimately think that this Texans defense is
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  Speaker 4: the single most special group in this game, and they
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  Speaker 4: get the road win.
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  Speaker 2: I'm right there with you, Greg, I've got a Texans
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  Speaker 2: win twenty five to twenty as well. The Stafford question,
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  Speaker 2: obviously is one of the most important questions in the
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  Speaker 2: entire NFL. But I have no questions about this Houston
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  Speaker 2: Texans defense. Greg talked about the pass rush. Let's discuss
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  Speaker 2: the cornerbacks and Derek Stingley and Lassiter as well. They
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  Speaker 2: allowed the lowest, the second lowest completion percentages, and first
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: lowest completion percentages as the nearest defender at corner according
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: to Next Gen Stats. That's every corner in the NFL.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: The number one and number two both play for the
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Houston Texans. Obviously, all right, d'aneil Hunter and Will Anderson Jr.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Have a lot to do with that, But yeah, all
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: four of these guys are on the same team. I'm
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: taking them to beat the Rams this weekend.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Cythe well, fire up that prime number grad another long
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: like heavy favorite for Cynthia.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: This is how you win.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: I am don't you. I don't pick for you. I
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: pick for me.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Twenty three to twenty two is what I have for
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: the home team here in the Rams, I will say
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: my gut to say a little bit more Houston, but
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: we go by math. I wrote my own code, so
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: it's my own math that we're talking about here. And
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about what happens when you add
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: Devonte Adams to a Puka nakoul offense with the Matthew
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Stafford and a side of Kayle Williams and all of
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: these other number one it does help figure things out
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: with an O line with some questions. I've got questions for.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: O lines on both sides of this matchup.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: I don't trust the Texans O line necessarily yet either
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: I have to believe if.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: Sean McVay says he's ready to go, that he's ready
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: to go. I've also seen him play with like I
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: think his shoulder was actually you know, off his body,
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: maybe his arm like a mannequins or else when he
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: played for the Lions like this, is a really tough player.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Maybe that's later in the season it's more of an issue.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But I think in this matchup, even against that horribly
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: difficult defense, I have the home team pulling it out, and.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I'm starting to get nervous that Cynthia's lead will expand.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Or it could be terrible.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: It could go terrible.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: You can go a couple of different ways.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams was the face of college football and this
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: kid is something else.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Ri They bird pick, Chicago Bears collect Caleb william changing
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: a culture and an identity of an offensively challenged football team.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Man down goes Candleb Williams, Canada Troubles, Williams wrapped up
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: drop whos have.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Rained down on the Bear?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Kevin Owen. Ben Johnson is the Chicago Bears head coach.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: There hasn't been a four thousand yeard asser here in
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: this franchise.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And I think Caleb is gonna be the first one.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Maybe when this starts the sea touchdown, the Bears are back, Baby.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Calb Williams and the Bears playing host of the Vikings
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Monday Night. J J. McCarthy making his first career start.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: How does the Ben Johnson era begin? In Chicago synth
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: with that.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Crazy old scream of william Anyways, Caleb Williams takes this one.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: It's a narrow upset home win for the Bears. I
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: have twenty two to twenty one in this matchup.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, let's talk about Kayleb Williams.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: We talked about the interier of the old line all
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: offseason for some reason. Is that going to be different
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: against the Vikings. I know that defense is good and
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Brian Flores is gonna bring the heat.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: You know he's gonna blitz.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: But you know, we else knows that Ben Johnson and
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: he had a lot of answers for Jared goffin company
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: against this blitz. Go look at what happens with Minnesota
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: versus Detroit when Ben Johnson.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Was the architect.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: And I think we're gonna get that little scream that
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: you know, I thought it was safe for the draft,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: but apparently he screams like that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: I'm learning things on our show too. He screams like
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: that all the.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Time, and that's how I'm screaming in the fact that
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: we're actually on the same page in this one. I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: have the Bears winning at home by one twenty one.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: To twenty. It was a league high fifty seven unblocked
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pressures for Kayleb Williams and his rookie season. That's a
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: record in the Next Gen Stats era for rookie quarterbacks.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The time in obviously was all messed up both on
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the field and on the sideline for the Chicago Bears.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But when things did work out, Caleb Williams was fonding
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Romo Dunsay. The two rookies connected in several spots. But
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: watch some of these throws. The timing is still off,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: even on the successful plays to Romodonsay where he's slowing
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: down coming back to the ball. Just an increase, as
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Cynthia mentioned, adjusting and having the timing being on point
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: against the blitz, not against the blitz. That's what I
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: have to hope for because we haven't seen it yet.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I think we see it London.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the timing, it'll all be figured out by
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: week one against Brian Flores in this master's level defense
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: that his safety Josh Mattela said, they were undergraduates before
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: their masters.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Now, who's an undergraduate? Like the starter for the Vikings
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: were who you're taking?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I am taking the Minnesota Vikings in this game, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: it's something for just Greg Nation to get excited about
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: it because.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: They're winning this game.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is year three of Brian Flores, right,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: That's why you're in the Masters program. They expedited, that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: studying over the last couple of years. This is positionless football.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: It'll scramble your brain. Their first day of school over
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: there in Chicago, they're struggling to get plays off in
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: the preseason at different points. This is the last team
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: you want to play in Week one. I just think
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: you're four of Kevin O'Connell and three of Brian Flores.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: They are ready for this type of division game. It's
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: like I talked about with the Lions Packers earlier. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: think they're catching the Bears at the right time. You
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: want to play this road game in Week one before
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the Bears are who they're going to be Later in.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: This saw Christian Dearrisoz on the injury report, right, well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: He's coming off a big injury, but they're hoping you
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: get him back.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, and also some pretty positive thoughts about the future
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: aspirations of the Chicago Bears.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, in a few weeks get better, They'll get better.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: What if they're good now, the Bears and the Vikings
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: hoping that their quarterbacks someday. In the MVP talk, let's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: look at the current odds to win league MVP, Lamar
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Jackson and Josh Allen leading the way there. I'll throw
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a cavey on it in because apparently the worst thing
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you could do to win the MVP is win the
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: MVP of the year before. So what do you think
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: greg happens in terms of being the MVP.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons why I like Patrick Mahomes
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: to win the award this year, not only because he's
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: the best player I've seen enter the league in my
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: twenty years of covering it, but because the narrative feels
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: right for him this year. First of all, I think
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: there will be more big plays because of the weapons
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: around him and the offensive line. But I also think
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: it's a season where the voters will look at oh
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Mahomes is reminding everyone who he is, like the old
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: boring Mahomes is gone and we're back. And I can
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: just see like a coalition of writers getting behind that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: And the numbers really aren't that different between him, Lamar
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: and Josh Allen. They're basically all favorites. But basically I
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: would take Mahomes every year for the next five years
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and think that's a good game.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, we should let the voters know Patrick Mahomes exists.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: It gets silly, So Cynthia, give us a dark horse
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: MVP candidate.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Finally we're talking no chalk here, Let's talk about Bonix.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: You know who is really good at throwing on the
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: run other than Patrick Mahone.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: B Nicks, Yeah, Kirk Cousins. Yeah.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Phonicks had the most passing yards on the run last season.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: You know what one of the formulas is for winning MVP,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: winning a lot of games, and he's got a great defense. Sure,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: he plays in the AFC West, which is difficult, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Is still there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: But if you're talking about a quarterback, which is typically
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: who wins the position, who could be finding himself at
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Honors on the stage. Dark horse candidate Phonix not a
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: lot of letters, but lots and lots of yards.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: If this happens. If this happens, that's it. I'm retiring,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: hiring any it's over.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You're gonna give you a million dollars, all right, So
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: if you like the stray that Greg fired at Kirk Cousins.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: We've got direct shots coming up. Michael Pennick Junior is
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: rocking arm ready to put the league unnoticed the season
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: according to the way they finished the season last year.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Playing host to Baker in the box Sunday, who has
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the edge our answers coming.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: It really does throw pretty well going to his left.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: It's underrated thirty four.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: We should be the best in the league. You know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: with the guys who got around us. You know we
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: got a great officer line as well. You know, those
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: guys we're assuming hard in the trenches, you know, with
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: coach Leffer out out there leading those guys, doing a
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: great job with those guys, you know, we should be unstoppable.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: So that's our goal. We want to be number one
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: in all the categories on the office side the balls.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Lofty expectations for second year quarterback Michael Pennix. And you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the Falcons playing host of the Bucks. Tampa's won the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: division four straight years, they lost a couple times to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: this Falcons team. What happens this time? Greg?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I believe the Bucks get some revenge for losing twice
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: to the Falcons a year ago. To Kirk cuz no
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Kirk this time. It's because the offense of the Buccaneers
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: it's just a factory at this point. You can roll
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: out whatever offensive coordinator you want and it works. You
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: can put any wide receiver into the mix like a
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Mecca Abuka and it's going to work. Like you use
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: j You lose Jalen McMillan for half a season, who
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: was a really good third receiver scoring a lot of touchdowns.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: And you don't have Chris Godwin available for this game,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: and yet you have a first round pick because Jason Light,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: their general manager, is always building depth and they're really
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: good at developing players. I love the Bucks offense to
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: put them over the top.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Here, Well, I also have the Bucks twenty six to
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: twenty three. I'm gonna talk about their defense since specifically
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Hassan Reddick. Obviously you've got some guys other we love. Well,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: this is a vidavea show of record. We love videvea
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: on the show.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: But when we're.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Talking about figuring out how to navigate the O line
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: for the Falcons, one of the things Michael Pennix was
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: talking about was the guys in the trenches in front
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: of it. Well, you got Cala McGary's not there anymore,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: so that's going to be quite difficult to stop what Todd.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Bowles is going to throw out there this season.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I think that's gonna be a point of emphasis making
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: sure this Bucks defense is one that is built in
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: the vision of Todd Bowles, which maybe last season it
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: wasn't as much, but tons of pressure this year.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you guys had some a moderate amount
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of points. I've got way more points. I got thirty
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: one to twenty eight because these two teams played absolute
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: calculator games this Susan Ago and yes, Kirk Cousins played
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: well in those games, but the Falcons actually scored more points,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: almost twelve more points a game when Michael Pennock Junior
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: was the starting quarterback. And you know what else got better?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: It was Drake London in terms of his opportunity. His
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: target rate shot up from twenty seven percent to forty
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: one percent with Michael Pennock Junior playing quarterback, and he
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: averaged a full two more air yards per target. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: think the reason that Michael Pennock Junior is confident about
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: what they can do in year two is because of
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: how good they were when he was the starting quarterback
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: thirty two points per game with a rookie in the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: middle of a playoff race, albeit one that they did
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: not win. I've got the Falcons in this one, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I'll be all alone. Tom Forrest to make some quick
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: picks here on Game Deview. The Panthers and the Jacksonville
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Jaguars down in Dubaal. What do is you se happening here?
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite picks of the week.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: The Jaguars to win and cover this game twenty seven
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: to seventeen. I think they've been doing the okie dokee
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: with Travis Hunter. They've kept them under raps, kind of
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: like RG three when they unveiled them in twenty twelve.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter moved different, he thinks different. He is going
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: to win Offensive Rookie of the Year and Defensive Rookie
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: of the Year. I don't know if that's available at
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: see they're sportsbook, but put it on the board. He's
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: so Hayo Tani. There's never been a player like him.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: He can get it done.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the Dolphins and the Colts. Danny Dimes
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: is gonna be under center for Indy. They kept out
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: under raps but you saw it coming. What happens in
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this game since their social media team.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Gave it away.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Anyways, Indian Hatless wins this one by two points, twenty
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: six to twenty four.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: The injury report for Miami is weird. It's long. We
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: don't know what's gonna happen with it as we're sitting
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: here right now.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: But one thing I do know is that Jonathan Taylor,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: he is consistent. If you look at those ten plus
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: yard rushes, even with their O line last year that
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: had some questions, he still did it at such a
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: high rate at thirty.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: One of them last season. I think he could match
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: that or.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Best that this season, especially with Danny Dimes not kind
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: of stealing his vultering his rushing yards.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll take the last one the Cardinals and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: the Saints, and I will take the Arizona Cardinals. We
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: were all in unison in that mem us away Saints fans.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: But let's discuss Alvin Kamara because I understand the oddsmaker's
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: confidence in this game and the Cardinals being favored, but
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: for a team that was number twenty eight in rushing
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: efficiency on a defense a year ago against the Saints
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: team that I feel will lean heavily on Alvin Kamara
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: in the game. With Kelvin Banks playing in his first
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: career NFL game, Telisi Fuaga on the other side, being
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: a very good run blocker. I don't think you're gonna
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: have Banks and a whole bunch of pass protection situations
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: for Spencer Ratler, so they run it, keep it close.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: But I do have the Cardinals getting the win in
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the Superdome against the Saints.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Barring a miracle, this is gonna be a shocking loss
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: for faithful who is the game Ten seconds ago I
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: was counting out.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: All they have to do is win to get in.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: We all kid, watch me bye and feel me No.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: The game on the line.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Here comes to Hail Mary God fires in June from
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: stories JJ gonna throw a Ford Utch football for the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: one on that they went over.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Dad. We'll see you in the postseason.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: You ready for me? The Giants and Commanders Jane Daniels
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: was Must See TV made Bram wantson Must Listen Radio
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: last year Russell Wilson's starting for the g Men. Could
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the Giants shock the world here, Cynthia?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: They could?
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: I think that they will awesome, winning twenty seven to
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: twenty in this matchup.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Let's give a little love to Terry McLaurin. Yeah, get it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: We heard a lot of things.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: He's he gonna play holdout, does he win a trade,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: YadA YadA. You know how many people had more touchdowns
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: receiving touchdowns in.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Him last season?
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Seventeen one just one and it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Was actually seventeen touchdowns for Jamar Chase, but he had.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Thirteen last season.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: I think he quietly is one of those guys who
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: produces year in and year up. He's maybe not like
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: one of the more diva e wide receive that tells
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: you all the things that you need to.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Know about him, but he just produces on the field.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: This is a huge deal, especially when now you've added
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Deebo Samuel, so you're gonna have this multitude of different places.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: But maybe he'll even be open for once.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I love that and I disagree. I mean, I have
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the Commanders winning, but one thing about NFL game deviut
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: is you know, we give you the exact scores, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: so I'm having the Giants cover that line there and
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: thread the needle.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: But the Commanders win, and it's partly.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Because if they're the draft right, Abdul Carter, I never
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: knew how to make a signal for right the needle.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do it. Look, the Commanders didn't cover
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: six points in either game against the Giants last year.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: If you go and look at Danny Dimes and Brian
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Dables best games of the season offensively, it was against
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: this Commander's defense, which to me didn't really get much
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: better this offseason. I know the quarterback position is important
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: in football, breaking news like it mattered.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: It's the only reason why the Commanders are any better.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: I actually think the rest of the roster for the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Giants better than the Commander's roster.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: You can make that case. I also will make the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: case that it's twenty three to twenty in favor of
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders, and I celebrate this Giants pass rush.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I think a dual Carter can do a lot of
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: great things, but it's a lot on the shoulders of
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Javon Holland to come back and fix the secondary that
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: had a glaring issue last season. Deep passing teams competing
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: completed fifty nine percent of their deep attempts against the Giants.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: That is the worst in the history of the next
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Gen stats era, and I know the twenty twenty four Panthers.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I talked about it a lot, just how statistically they
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: were bad relative to the entire next Gen stats era.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: The Giants were the worst had deep passing, and I
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: know they played against some pretty good receivers in the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: division in aj Brown and yes, Terry McLaurin, who gave
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a great pregame speech against the Lions that eventually got
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: them to the NFC Championship game. Just I'm glad that
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Terry McLaren got paid. There's not a lot to look
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: back at positively for Cynthia, but we can celebrate to McLaurin.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Here on this show, we go from a battle in
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the NFC East to one out West San fran and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Seattle getting set to square off. Check out some player
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: props for this one brought perty at one and a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: half passing touchdown, Sam Donald two hundred and three passing yards,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: CMC seventy three point five on the ground, George Kittle
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: sixty three and a half receiving and JSN five and
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a half reception. The Giants and Commander's fun game. But
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: this game pits two division rivals with an opportunity to
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: get back at it. We get to see Kyle Shanahan
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: in the mode against the Seattle Seahawks. Where does this
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: one go? Greg Rosenthal?
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I am going with the Seattle Seahawks as I say it,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: and I see that, like Sam Donald in his first start,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I'm suddenly not feeling as good.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: But it's about the defense.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: The Seattle Seahawks and Mike McDonald in year two of
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: this system, to me, are an underrated choice to be
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the best defense in the entire NFL. They have depth
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: and they have playmakers at all three level of their defense.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I love their defensive line Leonard Williams, they move him
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: around everywhere. Byron Murphy is going to get better and better.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I think DeMarcus Lawrence was one of the most underrated
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: defensive line pickups in the entire NFL. And then you
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: look at their secondary with Tarik Wollen and of course
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Devin Weatherspoon, and I just try to look at units
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: that I trust in week one that I feel like
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I know the most about.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: There's so many.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Questions about the forty nine ers right now that I
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: trust the Seahawks defense at home.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: My gut is almost exactly the same as yours, as
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: any one point win for the Seahawks, and this one,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: the lovely number twenty two strikes again. Twenty two to
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: twenty one is my final projected score. People love twenty two,
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: people get mess She really love twenty two.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, all you need is three touchdowns in a
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: two point conversion with those extra points whatever.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Man, But I do want to talk about Sam Donald.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Because this will be interesting to see if the O
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: line is going to keep the man clean. Sam Donald
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: had an expert He had an expert season last year
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: until the end when Christian so I went down and
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: then we saw what happened with a lot of pressure. Okay,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: moving on, let's figure it out. And I think that
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: this offense is primed to put him in a good
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: situation to be better along that front.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Just better enough.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: It doesn't need to be the best do line ever,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: just needs to be better enough than it was last
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: season and.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Put Gino under a lot of pressure.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: So Sam Darnold, to me, this will be a really
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: interesting test. Obviously, we got a Bosa coming for his life,
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: but other than that, I'm.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Very curious to see who we're going to me the West,
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: the NFC West. It's very very close.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: And one of those teams is going to sneak into
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: the playoffs that we aren't expecting.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm echoing your very very close sentiments, including the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: one point game, except I have the forty nine Russ
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: in this game twenty two nineteen on the string out there,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: quarterback brock Perty who has never lost playing in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: division against the Seattle Seahawks. In fact, he is five
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and one total against the Seahawks through his career. And
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I know the lot's changed over the years, but George
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Kittle playing in this game, Christian Diccaffery, which chameses everything
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: for the forty nine ers healthy in this game, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Cynthia mentioned that pressure on Gino Smith last year, there
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: would have to be a vast improvement in the interior
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: offensive line for the Seattle Seahawks because imagining Sam Darnold
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: under that level of pressure is very, very concerning to me.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So I'm completely fine taking a stray bahn on this
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: one time to check out the odds for the defensive
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: player of the year, speaking of getting pressure, Mikah Parsons
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: plus five fifty ahead of TJ. Watt, Aiden Hudginson, Miles Garrett,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: and Max Crosby Greg who wins the Defensive Player of the.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Year for this is no fun.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that he was the favorite, but it
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: makes sense that he's the favorite, not just because he's
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: on a new team and getting a lot of attention,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: because he's the best pure pass rusher I think to
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: enter the league in the last twenty years, like he
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: is that good. He is the most pressure since the
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: date he walked into the league. He was a Defensive
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Player of the Year runner up two times, including his
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: rookie season, and he came in third place another time.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: So he is at that level where I just pick
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: him every year. He is the closest thing I think
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: we have to Mahomes on the defensive side. And I
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: do like the fact that he hasn't won the award before.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: He's been so close time after time after time, and
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I think they'll want to give it to him if
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: he has a great season.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Let's discuss the Rookie of the Year odds. According to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: our friends at Caesar Sportsbook, Ashton Genti leading the way
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: at plus three hundred, just ahead of cam Ward Lamari
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: and Hampton, Travis Hunter, and Traveon Henderson. We enjoy rookies
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: considerably more than other sports entertainment program SODIA. Who is
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: your offensive Rookie of the Year pick?
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Well, I was hoping you'd be a little bit further
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: down on the board, but I'm looking at cam Ward
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: for a number of reasons.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: This week could be a tough test against the Broncos defense.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, but if you're looking at trajectory going up into
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: the right as in getting better every single time a
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Callahan led improved O line with a run game that
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I actually think Tony Pard's underrated. I think this will
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: be a situation where at the end, come the end
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: of the season, we're like, cam Ward's that dude, He's
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: already a captain.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: They have to tell him not to.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Come in so early because he gets there at by
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: in the morning. They've had to tell him to sleep
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: in a little bit longer.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: So I'm going cam Ward, Yeah, I.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Love that stand at the facility. It's don for quick
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: fix here on game day you speaking to cam Ward.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: He and the Titans have a pretty tough matchup. Welcome
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: to the NFL. If here comes the Denver Broncos, does
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the rookie get his first Wayne.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Grego No way, I like the Broncos this week twenty
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: four to eleven, and I like them as my Survivor.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Pick this year or this week.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Because this Titan's offense to have to go up against
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: the Denver defense, that's tough, but hey, the Denver offense
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: also has great depth and continuity, especially at the wide
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: receiver position. Sean Payton loves to compare, you know, his
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: players to old Saints, and it's true. Yes, he compared
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Pat Bryant, his rookie, to Michael Thomas.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: He did, okay.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: How about some other wide receivers not named Courtonton. Troy
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Franklin had a big time preseason and people talking up
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: his ability. Maybe he's a little Robert meetscham how about
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Evan Ingram out there making plays. He's definitely not Jimmy
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Graham and he's not really Taysom Hill. I don't know
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: who the comp is, maybe like a smaller Marcus Colston.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: But either way, they got a lot of weapons for
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: bow Knicks to throw.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: The ball to.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, we're mimas away Titans fans. We're all
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: on the Broncos, Bengals and Browns in Cleveland. Joe Burrow
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: is one in nine in his career. In weeks one
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and two, does he get a win here, Cynthia.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: He does, he'll be two and nine. Well, I guess
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: we'd have to see what happens in the second week.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: But I'm looking at something that is very unsexy to
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: say about a team that we're hoping passes a ton,
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: myself included. But let's talk about the run game. You
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: got Chase Brown here, and one of the ways to
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: control and get away from Miles Garrett, and the pressure
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: is to what run the foot ball. You don't want
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: your defense on the field. How do you stop the
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: defense from be on the field?
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: Run the foot ball?
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: But I think all season long we'll see Chase Brown.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: If you picked him up in Phantasy, I think you
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: did yourself a massive favor. I think this whole offense
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: is going to be worth having lots of shares. But
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: I think they're going to run and try to control
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: a little bit more of the pace so they're not
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: having to be like, you know, third and we need
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: to touch down to Jamar Chase and and yes, Jamar
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Chase can do that, but like, let's not need that
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: every single time.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: And they're trying to stay on snechedules season wise, so
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: they won't have to win seven of their last saint
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: to get into the playoffs. The last one, I'll take
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the Raiders and the Patriots, and I'm actually flying solo here.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I am taking Gino Smith and what is not the
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: battle for Greg Rosenthal's heart, who has already said that
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: he is fully invested in the twenty twenty five New
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: England Patriots.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love Gino too.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Who doesn't love Gina? He still loves you, Uj, everybody
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: loves Gino.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: What Gino loves throwing the ball to Brock Bauers, who
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: had the fourth highest target rate of all tight ends
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: while getting six hundred and eleven yards last season. They
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: came after the catch. I think the entire Raiders offense
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: will be better. Yeah, I still waiting to see what
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the defense is going to do, but ultimately I think
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: they can go on the road and get a win.
• 38:54
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  Speaker 2: in Super Bowl odds. According to Caesar Sportsbook, Buffalo Bills
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: wow edging out the Baltimore Ravens, who will have edged
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: out the Kansas City Chiefs, the Eagles as well as
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: the Lions, bringing us to write this down. We're talking
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl predictions. Cynthia nailed hers last season, So Eagles
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: over Chiefs, You're going back to the world. What are
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: we doing in your I guess title defense super Bowl?
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't like picking the favorite. I didn't
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: know they were the favorite.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: But the math says Bills over Eagles, so that I mean, wow.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: I I didn't know they were favorite. I didn't know
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: there's a favorite.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I would love me a Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl. You know,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: like how crazy they would go?
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, San Francisco, my bird town, I might you know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: I don't want to too, our own horn, my own horn.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Actually, I do love doing that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I had Eagle Chiefs as the Super Bowl. I just
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: had the wrong winner a couple of years ago too.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: So we have a history on the show of getting
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: things right. And this year the Super Bowl is going
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: to be the Baltimore Ravens winning over your Detroit Lions.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Cynthia that I'm gonna break your heart at
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: the very end. I off see it there long I
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: was actually thinking Lions are going to be pick my
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: pick lines are going to be. Then I like, look
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: at it, and I'm like, am I really gonna pick
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Jared Goff and the biggest of big games against Lamar Jackson.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: I think this Ravens team is more complete, but man,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: it would be great to see the Lions in the
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: big team.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: I actually think the Ravens are still running on the
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Lions from a couple of years ago. In some alternate universe,
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: they're still running the football and perhaps.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Before that game they'll play what we just said and
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Jared Goff will be extra fire it up. I have
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: no horn to toot in picking Super Bowls, but a
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: few years ago I did pick the Baltimore Ravens to
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: beat the Green Bay Packers, so let's do it again.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I think the addition of Micah Parsons is enough because
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I said into the offseason the Green Bay Packers just
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: needed some star power. The Baltimore Ravens don't need any
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: star power. They just need to get the postseason and
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: not turn the ball over and have tragic, heartbreaking losses.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: And if they are able to do that this season,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I think they'll go to the super Bowl and beat
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers. And I think I'm gonna really
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: enjoy doing this show with you guys once again. This
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: season one is in the books for Cynthia Freeland and
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Greg Rosenthal. I'm Patrick Claybomb. Thank you for watching Game Deview.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Enjoy every single football game as much as we enjoy
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: talking about it. See next week.
• 41:55
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