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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Buddy, I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right aside from my fractured noes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing all right, man. But I gotta tell you it's
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  Speaker 1: first off, it's great seeing you. Secondly, our teams that
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  Speaker 1: we cover Philadelphia Eagles for myself, the Los Angeles Rams
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  Speaker 1: for you. My gosh, what a what a time in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL right now, And we're certainly going to dive
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  Speaker 1: into the top of the NFC in a bit in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the Eagles and the Rams. But man, after
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  Speaker 1: this past weekend here, Brett, there's just this prevalent in
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  Speaker 1: this ongoing theme after week thirteen here that NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: that there's no NFL teams that are really all that good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams lose to the Panthers, for the
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  Speaker 1: love of god, I don't know how that happened. And
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  Speaker 1: then the Eagles lose to the Bears at home on
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  Speaker 1: Bret Black Friday, for the love of god, I thought
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  Speaker 1: they were going to actually win that game. The Colts,
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  Speaker 1: who are having a really good first half of the season,
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  Speaker 1: they have been faltering as well. It seems like we're
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  Speaker 1: really seeing some dare I say, parody in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: this year in terms of talent from team to team
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  Speaker 1: and how teams are able to perform week after weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So in terms of this whole narrative, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: this theme that you know that there really aren't any
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  Speaker 1: good or dominant teams. I should say here this year
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, what are your thoughts on this particular
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  Speaker 1: narrative here as we're just the exiting Week thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that one of the challenges we have
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  Speaker 2: is that we're always looking at the most recent games
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  Speaker 2: as that defines a team for its season, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that we can do that. Unfortunately, it's a
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  Speaker 2: very myopic fan base now in the NFL, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we tend to overreact. We can blame the NFL and
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  Speaker 2: all of its parody maneuvers on why good teams are
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  Speaker 2: losing on Week thirteen. Yeah, it's a seventeen game season.
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  Speaker 2: Every team has the same salary cap. The draft is loaded,
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  Speaker 2: but it's loaded for inverting teams, so four teams get
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  Speaker 2: the best prospects, and good teams have to play other
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  Speaker 2: good teams. So interim, I guess assessments are tough to
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  Speaker 2: make because you know, in all honesty, the best teams
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  Speaker 2: are playing the best teams, yes, and you don't really
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  Speaker 2: get to see it until at the final four or
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  Speaker 2: five weeks where the division really starts to take shape
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  Speaker 2: because you've got division rivals beating up on one another.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a really good assessment too. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was so bizarre last night watching that Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: game as we're recording this on Monday to December one,
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  Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos against the Washington Commanders, and how close
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders kept that game. The Commander is not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: the best team in the world, but they were getting
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  Speaker 1: some really great quarterback play, you know, during certain parts
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  Speaker 1: of the game from Marcus Mariota. And it's just really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see in terms of the parody where the
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  Speaker 1: league is really at rate now as we're heading into
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  Speaker 1: Week fourteen. But you know, to move along with the
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  Speaker 1: conversation here, Brett, I want to talk about the top
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  Speaker 1: of the NFC here. I mean, this has been an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing theme on this podcast platform over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the past few weeks. We've talked about this again, kind
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  Speaker 1: of going back to that parody that we were just mentioning.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams that you cover, the Eagles that we cover
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  Speaker 1: are still I would believe, considered to be a top
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  Speaker 1: five NFC team. But the Bears, I mean, the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears are now sitting at the number one seed if
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs actually started today. It's astonishing. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody during the preseason thought that this would actually happen
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  Speaker 1: here as we're leaving Week thirteen, but I'm wondering, do
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  Speaker 1: you think the Eagles and the Rams are still for
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  Speaker 1: real and are truly top teams in the NFC?
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  Speaker 2: In a word, absolutely, Okay. I don't want to react
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  Speaker 2: to any losses that happened interim, because, as the Rams
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  Speaker 2: head coach Sean McVay once said, who was in the
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  Speaker 2: lead after Week thirteen? That's right, nobody knows, yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I think that the Bears have a
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  Speaker 2: great win, and of course there's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hyperbole associated because emotions drive us and drive clicks,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's a lot of temptation to overreact. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be that overreactive. I guess voice
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  Speaker 2: in the background. We're always going to have good teams
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  Speaker 2: that ultimately have to fall back upon great coaching, and
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  Speaker 2: right now, I think the Eagles and the Rams have
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  Speaker 2: some of the best coaching. I think that the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots, Broncos have great coaching. Forty nine Ers have
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  Speaker 2: great coaching. They're playing a last play schedule, so I
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  Speaker 2: think that there are a lot of teams out there
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  Speaker 2: that will rise to the surface because they've got better coaching. Overall.
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  Speaker 2: We can add some names to the list, but in
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  Speaker 2: all honesty, a lot of the teams that have first
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  Speaker 2: year head coaches that has to be proven. To me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of a doubting Thomas that way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to be getting into one of those teams.
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  Speaker 1: I think in a little bit that's a kind of
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  Speaker 1: a first year coach with one of the teams that's
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  Speaker 1: the top of the AFC. But I really quit, Brent.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, Eagles fans that are going to be
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  Speaker 1: listening to this when you said that Eagles, see, this
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  Speaker 1: is the bizarre situation being an Eagles fan. They're defending
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, this Philadelphia Eagles team, and you just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the Eagles have great coaching at this point in time.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Nation will say, Brett, what are you talking about? No,
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  Speaker 1: they do not. They are floundering. I mean, I'm that's
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  Speaker 1: what a lot of Eagles Nation is saying. And quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I think when it comes to Nick Sirianni and Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Patulo the offensive coordinator, there has been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: inconsistency there's been a lot of just bizarre stuff happening
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  Speaker 1: from an offensive standpoint this season.
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  Speaker 2: And I will give you that. But on the on
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  Speaker 2: the flip side, you know, stepping back, Sirianni has been
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  Speaker 2: a very successful coach for the Eagles, and very true. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: you know there were years and years upon years where
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles had Andy Reid or a number of great
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  Speaker 2: coaching that never got over the top. Yes, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: in comparison, you know, I I love how East Coast
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  Speaker 2: and and Eagles fans particularly take stock and and really
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  Speaker 2: get immersed in the team. And I'll give you that,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think that the problem is as easy
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  Speaker 2: as fire the head coach, because then you always have
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  Speaker 2: the who comes in afterwards, right, is better? And and
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  Speaker 2: I think that the problem with our kind of disposable
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  Speaker 2: mindset is we just toss somebody and that's all we
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  Speaker 2: have to say about it. I really think that Siriani
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of coach who will pull it together.
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  Speaker 2: He was a guy that that orchestrated, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl win last year. Yeah, So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I would say that he's you know, hot garbage.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he's got some struggles, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I suspect that he will find a way to pull
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  Speaker 2: over the team through.
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  Speaker 1: I I think. I think that is a really good
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  Speaker 1: perspective to have, and at times for Eagles fans and
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Nation, it is so tough for them to actually
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  Speaker 1: see that. But let's move on to the AFC. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because the AFC is also so very interesting. Is the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos and the Patriots. They each have only two losses
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  Speaker 1: this season. I'm amazed by this one particular team. And
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  Speaker 1: I know many of us had the Broncos as being
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  Speaker 1: a sleeper team heading into this season, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anybody thought the Patriots Brett would have been this
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  Speaker 1: successful after thirteen weeks of play. So as we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about top NFC teams with Eagles and the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: do you think the Broncos and the Patriots are truly
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  Speaker 1: top teams in the AFC.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Patriots are getting the benefit of a
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  Speaker 2: bad teams schedule this year. Okay, I think they're good.
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  Speaker 2: They have beaten some incredibly talented teams, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that I would necessarily consider them where their current
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  Speaker 2: playoff birth pass. Though Broncos have done a better job
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  Speaker 2: of fighting a tougher schedule, but they have to get
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the season, you know, in seventeen games.
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  Speaker 2: We've just finished Week thirteen. We've got five more weeks
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  Speaker 2: to go. You know, it's hard. I think that both
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots and the Broncos are very good teams, but
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  Speaker 2: just how good I'm going to hold off on judging, okay,
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  Speaker 2: until I see how they finish the season They've got.
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  Speaker 2: Both teams have some very tough games ahead of them.
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  Speaker 1: They have very tough games ahead of them, and I
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  Speaker 1: think the Broncos if I had to, like put, if
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  Speaker 1: I had to pick or choose one of these two teams, Brett,
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  Speaker 1: I would say the Broncos are probably a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more real than the Patriots. And it goes to that
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  Speaker 1: Broncos defense. I think that you see so much dominance
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  Speaker 1: from them. And you know, I think that Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: like them or not, And there are times, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been the biggest fan of On Peyton during
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  Speaker 1: the course of his tenure as an NFL head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I think he has this Broncos team in general pointed
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. So if I had to pick
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  Speaker 1: either between the Broncos or the Patriots. Which team is
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  Speaker 1: more for real? I would have to say the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts there?
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think that Sean Payton is
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  Speaker 2: the same head coach who came in and told the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos we don't want Russell Wilson anymore. Now it seems
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  Speaker 2: like a stroke of genius. Those are tough calls and
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  Speaker 2: only confident coaches can make them. So the Broncos, in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, are ahead of the game because they kind
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  Speaker 2: of passed some of those tough litmus tests already. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: The Pats have to make those tough decisions ahead of them.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm with you. I think the Broncos are
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  Speaker 2: a tougher team. We'll see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Very good again, folks. We are talking to
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  Speaker 1: Brett Stouter from Ramblin Fan over A Fans. You can
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  Speaker 1: Great great follow and we love having him on. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to take a quick break here up. But actually,
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  Speaker 1: before we go to break, Brett, aside from Twitter x,
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  Speaker 1: is there any other social sites that you're on that
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  Speaker 2: Well. Ramblin Fan, which is part of the Minute Media
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  Speaker 2: rams blog site, yep, we cover a number of topics
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  Speaker 2: and I think that it's we do try to be
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  Speaker 1: Awesome again, folks, Ramblin Fan, fantastic website out there where
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  Speaker 1: you are going to go to break for just a
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  Speaker 1: quick bit. We'll be back in just a bit with
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  Speaker 1: some more NFL talk. All right, and we are back
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  Speaker 1: with our buddy Brett from Ramblin Fan. Brett, I really
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  Speaker 1: want to dive into a specific team that I don't
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  Speaker 1: think is getting a lot of How can I say,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're due and maybe they shouldn't be getting their due.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they're a team that's just getting lucky. But I
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  Speaker 1: think a team that is shocked many of us here
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  Speaker 1: in Week thirteen are the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: have won three straight games that are now sitting atop
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  Speaker 1: of the AFC South. Yes, they're still tied with the
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, who have who seem to be trending downward here.
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  Speaker 1: As they had mentioned earlier, I just think this Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: team is pretty interesting to watch. Quite frankly, do you
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  Speaker 1: see the Jacksonville Jaguars making a run over these next
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  Speaker 1: few weeks of the season, or again, have they just
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  Speaker 1: been a lucky team in your opinion? What are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the whole AFC South Division is a
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  Speaker 2: very interesting group of teams. Yeah, of course a Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: Titan are out of it, but the other three teams,
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  Speaker 2: the Colts, the Jaguars, and now the Texans, they're all
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  Speaker 2: looking like they're making a run. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I love about the Jaguars is their synergy. They
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  Speaker 2: poached personal executive James Gladstone from the Rams. Then they
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  Speaker 2: hired former Rams offensive coordinator Liam Cohne to run the team,
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  Speaker 2: so they have kind of on that they're on the
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  Speaker 2: same page of how to build a cohesive and successful team.
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  Speaker 2: They've been winning, and in all honesty, that doesn't surprise
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  Speaker 2: me in the least. But are they a playoff team?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the question that has to be answered
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  Speaker 2: through the final games of the season.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at this division too, Like, do you
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, do you think the Colts really are the
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  Speaker 1: team for these other teams in the division to beat
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  Speaker 1: at this point? Because you know, I was looking at this.
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  Speaker 1: You look at this Colts team throughout this season, you say,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones really had a pulse on what this offense
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  Speaker 1: should become, how he was operating the offense. And again
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  Speaker 1: now that this team is kind of sputtering here for
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  Speaker 1: very for various reasons here, I do wonder if the
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  Speaker 1: Colts are going to be the real deal here when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Colts, you know, you look, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Texans, you look at the Jaguars, like,
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  Speaker 1: what are your what are your thoughts on how it
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  Speaker 1: may all take shape? You know, what is your gut
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  Speaker 1: telling you at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that in all lost, I was never
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  Speaker 2: a believer in Daniel Jones, and despite his early season success, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still skeptical. Okay, Jones had every chance with the
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  Speaker 2: New York Giants. Giants are a tough team. New York's
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  Speaker 2: a tough town, yes, but I didn't see what he
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  Speaker 2: flashed with the Colts, and I think that that may
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  Speaker 2: have been, you know, kind of that bulk that you
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  Speaker 2: get whenever you're out with a new team and you
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  Speaker 2: get a fresh start to kind of redefine who you are.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that Jones is starting to settle in.
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  Speaker 2: I still love the Texans there because they are just
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  Speaker 2: tough as nails, and I think that the Jaguars are
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  Speaker 2: going to prove to be very pesky coming down to
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  Speaker 2: the stretch right here. You know, it's it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a kind of a carnage in my mind, in
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  Speaker 2: that whichever team beats the rest of them as the
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  Speaker 2: final games play out, I think they're the ones that
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  Speaker 2: are going to take the division. The thing that I'm
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  Speaker 2: most concerned about is that if the winning team for
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  Speaker 2: that division is beat up, comes out of it with
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  Speaker 2: less health than they would like, that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a tough position for them to be in to go
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  Speaker 2: into the postseason. There's a lot of parody there, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just afraid that they're going to beat the snot
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  Speaker 2: out of one another, you know, in the way to
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  Speaker 2: get there, as opposed to you know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: other teams, like say, for example, the Eagles. I think
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  Speaker 2: that the Eagles have a much smoother course. They've got
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  Speaker 2: two games against the Commanders and you know, and then
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  Speaker 2: three AFC teams, so by rights, unless the Cowboys win
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  Speaker 2: everything that they've got, you know, I think that the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles are almost a shoe in for the playoffs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think that any of the AFC South
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  Speaker 2: teams have that kind of a path. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be tough going slug it through the whole way from
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  Speaker 2: here on out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. It's going to be a knockdown,
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  Speaker 1: just drag out affair with some of these teams for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you use that word parody again, and
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing so much of it as again as we're
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  Speaker 1: exiting Week thirteen, heading into Week fourteen of this NFL season,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess to close us out here, Brett, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are always teams that come on strong towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of the regular season. We see it every single year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about some of those teams right
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  Speaker 1: now in specific divisions. I'm wondering which teams really should
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  Speaker 1: we be keeping our eyes on that may actually shock
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  Speaker 1: us as we head into the last few weeks of
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  Speaker 1: this NFL regular season. Do you have a couple or
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  Speaker 1: a few teams in mind that you're really keeping your
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  Speaker 1: eyes on here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just for you, I dusted out by Crystal Ball.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks Bretton.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to give a drop some names, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how much of a kind of a shock
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  Speaker 2: they are. Okay, just pesky teams that won't go away,
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  Speaker 2: like you know the holiday fruitcake. Yes, top of the
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  Speaker 2: line is the dreaded Dallas Cowboys. Well, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they can overtake the Eagles. They have won three games
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  Speaker 2: consecutive games against very good teams, and if they keep
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  Speaker 2: winning they can knock off another team or two. They
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to slide in as a wild part team.
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  Speaker 2: I know that that upsets me as much as you,
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  Speaker 2: but the way it is right, I think the San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers, while they still have some tough
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  Speaker 2: teams to play, I think that they have benefited from
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  Speaker 2: a last place team schedule, so they didn't really face
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of tough teams, and so they're getting healthy.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the year, they could be a team.
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  Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions. Although they lost two very important coordinators,
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  Speaker 2: they are starting to show a pulse again, so they
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  Speaker 2: could be in there. I think the Baltimore Ravens, although
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  Speaker 2: they just lost a humiliating game against the Cincinnati Bengals,
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  Speaker 2: are still in there. They play two against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: which I think determines the fate there. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jamiico Ryans Houston Texans just because they are a tough
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  Speaker 2: team and they do not surrender, and they are now
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  Speaker 2: setting their sights on the Colts and the Jaguars, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that they may be just turbed enough to
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  Speaker 2: take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta tell them, I absolutely love your five.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll say this as well. I'm absolutely shocked at
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  Speaker 1: what has happened with the Detroit Lions, but there's something
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  Speaker 1: in the back of my mind that says that the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff there, the veterans on the team there are somehow,
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  Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, going to be getting
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  Speaker 1: it together over these next few weeks and really could
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  Speaker 1: make a push toward the top of the NFC North
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  Speaker 1: that is, overtaking the Green Bay Packers, overtaking the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, Chicago Bears now number one seed
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC, which is absolutely crazy. But I think
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  Speaker 1: there is enough talent on that Lion's team, especially from
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  Speaker 1: an offensive perspective, where they could actually, I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: want to say shock us, but they could really really
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  Speaker 1: give the Packers and the Bears a run for their
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  Speaker 1: money at the end of this season here, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts with the Lions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, the thing that I like about the Lions
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  Speaker 2: is that they have the right teams on their schedule
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  Speaker 2: to do some damn it right. You know, if one
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  Speaker 2: of the toughest parts of being a you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the hunt is having a schedule where you have to
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  Speaker 2: rely upon other teams to beat the guys that you
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  Speaker 2: need to overcome to get into the playoffs. The Lions
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  Speaker 2: have their teams on the schedule. They're playing one more
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  Speaker 2: against the Bears. I think they have at least one
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: more against the Packers. They certainly have their own destiny
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  Speaker 2: in their hands if they can win out right, so
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  Speaker 2: they're not out of it. They have some tough teams though,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: but they have to face the Rams still as well.
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  Speaker 2: But they are pesky and they're not going away easily.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if they can beat tough teams on
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  Speaker 2: their schedule, they deserve to get in. So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: if Dan Campbell can keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely again, folks, here is Brett Stuter from Ramblinfan. Check
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  Speaker 1: out what they have going on over there. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: great RAMS content also at NFL content in general. Again,
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  Speaker 1: search out Ramblinfan and Brett. It was great talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Always a good time, my friend. Always enjoy our conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Come back again down the road. I'd love to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the show again, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and thanks Jeff. I always look forward to having
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a football talk with you. You are one of the
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: best out.
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