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NFL 2025 | Week 16 "Tent Talk" | Updates, News & Injuries | Banter with the Boys - Gridiron Updates · Banter with the Boys

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  laced up let's go what's going on welcome back
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  to our week 16 tent talk There it is. Oh, that
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  was perfect. Yes. All right. Good. Good. Sorry.
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  You probably have no idea. Let's cut that part
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  out. Just put a blurb over that or, you know,
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  whatever. Anyway. All right. Tent talk. Yes.
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  We got injuries first. ACLs, unfortunately. A
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  couple of them. Patrick Mahoney. Obviously, he
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  went down. Mahoney. Not good. Done for the season.
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  Chiefs aren't playing for anything. As were the
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  Chiefs anyways. Right. Yeah, right. Micah Parsons,
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  big one for the Packers. Huge. Also done for
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  the season. Do we know how much damage is there?
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  Not yet. I don't think they announced. They did
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  do the MRI, though. It is presumed the ACL is
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  fully torn as well, but not anything past that.
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  It's kind of like the Teddy Bridgewater feel
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  to it, non -contact. Well, it was still non -contact,
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  but it wasn't like Teddy Bridgewater, like, oh,
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  my gosh, he's going to die. Yeah, people were
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  like, players are throwing up when Teddy did
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  this, I guess, at the Vikings practice, you know?
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  Oh, gross. Yeah, I guess they're, like, throwing
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  up. It was so disgusting. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Okay, okay. Let's see. Christian Watson also
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  left due to a chest injury. Let's see. There's
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  a slight update here somewhere. Thanks, love,
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  for underthrowing him. He'll be back. I'm sure
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  he'll be back. It's a possibility he could play
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  against the Bears. The Bears. And with what he's
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  been doing lately, you got to have him in there.
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  Yeah, he's their number one. He's reestablished
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  himself a bit this season. That Packers wide
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  receiver. group is still so good and so deep,
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  they're fine without Watson. Do you want him?
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  Yes. Who doesn't? You don't have to rush him
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  back. I want Randy Moss back. That's not going
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  to happen. Oh, okay. You got Justin Jefferson.
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  For right now, all them rumors for this offseason,
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  I'm not liking. of him leaving. Let's see. We're
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  getting traded. Anyway, sorry. Roma Dunze, he
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  was scratched due to a foot injury after just
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  becoming active. So he did not play last week.
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  You'd reckon if he was a scratch a day of that
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  he would probably play against the Packers this
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  week. So look for that. Devonta Adams, we mentioned
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  that in our Week 15 recap episode. So if you
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  missed that, go check that out. But Devonta Adams
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  left the game with a hamstring injury. Rams are
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  also on a short week. The hamstring injuries
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  suck, so I don't know if we'll see him this week
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  or, like you were stating in the last episode,
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  maybe the rest of the regular season to hopefully
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  have him for the playoffs. They need that one
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  seed. For sure. Carlton Davis, the corner for
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  New England, he left the game, but he did return,
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  but he does have a groin injury, so probably
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  something to keep an eye on here week to week
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  for him. Keep an eye on the groin injury. Yeah,
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  got to keep an eye on the groin. Good visuals.
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  Yeah. The one time Kev chimes in this week, it's
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  about the groin. Unbelievable. Anyway, Brandon
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  Cooks. Let's see. Let's see. He was supposed
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  to see some imaging after the game. That was
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  TBD. I didn't get an update for Brandon Cooks.
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  I was going to try. He could be back this week.
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  It looks like possibly came out of luck. He's
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  in the x -ray room. Yep, blah, blah, blah. I
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  don't know. Sorry. It turns out I don't know.
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  He doesn't know. So anyway, Darnell Washington,
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  big tight end for Pittsburgh. He clears, jeez,
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  concussion protocol and should return for the
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  Steelers. Darnell Washington, he's a big dude,
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  right? Like gigantic, right? Yeah, yeah. 6 '8".
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  Any other injuries for you guys? Well, we're
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  recording this on Monday, so TJ Watt's not playing
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  because he got that collapsed lung. Oh, yeah,
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  that's right. So no TJ Watson. Was there any
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  update with that for longevity the rest of the
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  season? Hard to say. It's not the first time
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  he's actually had a collapsed lung in his career,
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  too. Really? Yeah. So I think he'll be back next
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  week. How common is that supposed to be? Ask
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  Tyrod Taylor. Well, that doesn't count. That
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  was an accident, so it was TJ's. Don't get me
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  wrong, he's playing football, but according to
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  the AI overview of Google, it says that collapsed
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  lungs happen in one in about 5 ,000 people overall,
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  but are more frequent in tall, thin young men
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  and smokers. Okay, now just giving me a ton of
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  stats I'm not going to read. But one in 5 ,000
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  is what I'm telling you. So you're telling me
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  there's a chance. There's a chance, yeah. There
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  was another one. Now I can't think of it. Anthony
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  Richardson's coming back to practice this week.
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  Does that matter for the Colts at all? No. No,
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  Phillip Rivers is going to finish it off for
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  him, I think. He didn't look bad. He didn't look
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  that bad. Especially against a tough Seattle
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  defense. For sure. And that's just it. I was
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  like, man, what a game to come back to. That
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  sucks. But, yeah, hey, he threw a touchdown.
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  They were in the game. He fell over once. That
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  was rough, dude. That was rough. You were more
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  athletic than that, Rob. I don't know. You are.
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  Okay. All right. Take the compliment. I will.
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  God. See. I guess they put him in Madden, and
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  they put his body frame in Madden as well. He's
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  very large in Madden, I guess, right now. So
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  I got to go check that out. Jaden Daniels has
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  been officially benched for the rest of the year.
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  Wow. That's fine. That makes sense. Protect him.
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  Yeah, protect his elbow. Heal him up. Don't,
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  yeah. It's all good. So who's starting there
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  then? Why don't you put the IR then? Marcus Mariota.
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  Sweet. He's playing for a new backup gig then,
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  probably. I'd assume he's on a one -year deal
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  right now. Probably. So he'll be in purple. Great.
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  Backing up. Actually, I would take that. Backing
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  up old JJ. Oh, you'd rather have Jameis Winston
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  anyway, so. I would. Oh. Jameis Winston. I would,
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  of course, have Jameis Winston in purple. Are
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  you kidding me? Throwing the Cheddars? But that's
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  only if JJ McCarthy goes down or isn't elite.
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  We need him to be elite next year. Anyway, we're
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  going off topic here. What are we talking about?
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  All right, we talked about Phillip Rivers returning.
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  Chiefs officially out of the playoffs. I felt
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  like that was news. So we just had to say that.
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  It is. First time in seven years. Since 2014,
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  right? That's crazy. It's the second longest
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  compared to the Patriots. So, I mean, that's
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  definitely. Which is starting again. So, awesome.
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  Which was weird, like, because the Patriots game
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  this week kind of had just not crazy fog, but
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  just slight fog. And it was dark, you know. And
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  I don't know. It just started feeling. like the
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  vibe of the old Patriot not old not even that
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  old but you know the Tom Brady Patriot games
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  that are all foggy and I'm like oh god it's happening
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  again anyway uh let's see Bears first double
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  digit in you know in the win column since 2018
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  figured that was worth mentioning for the Chicago
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  fans um so Caleb Williams is working so far see
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  what they do in the playoffs this year Uh, yeah.
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  What else you guys got? I was just looking at,
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  I'm looking at the playoff standings, kind of
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  the old dolphins we talked about. Still, still,
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  still, but I'm just looking at there. I mean,
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  I think they need, they need a lot of help. They're
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  probably one of those, uh, one percenters, huh?
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  Yeah. Yeah. Go back to talking about the Micah
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  Parson injury. I think that that's, uh, I think
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  that's very damaging for the Packers and their
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  playoff chances. Oh, for sure. Or at least they're,
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  they're. how far they're going to be able to
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  go in the postseason because Micah did a lot
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  for that defense. Just his presence, it made
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  all of the other players around him better. Well,
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  for sure, and it gives them opportunities when
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  they're focusing on Micah Parsons. Yeah, like
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  Denver was like triple teaming him the entire
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  game. That's insane. Yeah. That's like what they
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  had to do to Khalil Mack in his prime, you know,
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  getting triple T and just unbelievable. Aaron
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  Darnold, another one. Unbelievable. So, yeah,
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  no, I mean, massive loss. Opens the door for
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  the likes of the Detroit Lions. Heck, the Carolina
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  Panthers or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whoever
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  doesn't win the division could still maybe. you
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  know make a wild card here so uh who do the packers
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  got the rest of their way here i mean the packers
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  are not even really officially in chicago obviously
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  especially the seahawks and the 49ers sitting
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  over in the west is chicago baltimore and then
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  obviously and this is a season uh in minnesota
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  Minnesota could continue to play upset. So it's
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  either it's going to be the Packers or the Lions.
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  It looks like they're going to be the third wildcard
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  team, unless Carolina gets crazy or something
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  drastically happens between the Lions and the
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  Packers. But, yeah, that's kind of looking at
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  how that's going to shape up. And then I was
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  looking at the Houston Texans would have to lose
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  out for the Miami to get in, and they're kind
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  of on a heater right now. And they're one of
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  the teams you don't want to play. Colts are kind
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  of coming to fruition. They might lose out. Yeah,
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  obviously not even taking the Daniel Dimes getting
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  hurt, but just their schedule is still the rest
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  of it. San Fran, Jacksonville is hot right now
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  in Houston. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah, and all those
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  teams are fighting for playoff. San Fran's a
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  10 -win team right now. Yeah, and Jaguars are
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  one of the hottest teams in the NFL right now.
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  And then you have the Texans are probably the
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  second hottest team in the NFL right now. Good
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  luck, Colts, to sliding. But if they win some
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  of these games. Yeah. Hey, I'm trying to help
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  them keep hope, man. All right. You don't think
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  they can even make a wild card? No, I think they're
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  done. I called it like two weeks ago. No, you
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  did. As soon as Danny Dimes was done, you're
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  like, they're done. No, even before that. Yeah,
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  before he got hurt. All right. Yeah, because
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  they started sliding two weeks before he got
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  hurt. So you're saying the Texans will probably
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  make that spot then? How it sits right now, possibly?
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  Yeah. You don't think the Ravens can climb in
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  there? I'm trying to be optimistic, but Ravens
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  have to win out, and the Ravens' schedule is
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  not an easy task. Because you got Patriots this
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  week, you have Packers next week, and then you
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  close with the Steelers on the road. But that
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  might be for the division. That's your chip in
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  the chair right there is to have it come down
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  to the division last week. Yeah, true. Very true.
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  Versus the wild cards. The wild card looks almost
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  out of reach. There's a chance there. There's
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  a chance there for the Ravens. And who do the
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  Steelers got other than the Ravens coming back?
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  Well, they got the Ravens. Other than the Ravens.
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  I added in there. Detroit, Cleveland. Yeah. At
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  Detroit, at Cleveland. Yeah. And that Cleveland
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  team, you never know. Garrett's going to be playing.
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  He's hunting for 23. Well, he wants 25. That's
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  his goal. He could probably get it because he's
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  one and a half away from. Yeah. So with three
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  games left. So I think Garrett, he's going to
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  play all the way to the very end. Just time for
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  him to get traded away from Cleveland. Yeah,
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  but who can take that contract? Nobody. I'm out.
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  Here's some money. All right. I guess I'm cool.
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  Yeah. All right. Well, that's it for the old
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  news on the tent talk episode. Yeah. Don't forget
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  to like, comment, subscribe. Oh, wait a minute.
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  Jake, obviously, thanks for being here. Oh, thanks
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  for having me. No problem. I had to get you guys
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  out of here. Thanks, Coach, for putting me in.
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  No problem. No problem. Kev, obviously, for being
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