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  Speaker 1: NFL Game day View is a production of the NFL
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to NFL Game day View, percented by Season Sportsbook,
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Playbomb Back here with Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland.
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  Speaker 3: We have made it to the postseason. We're finally here. Gus.
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  Speaker 4: Divisional Round weekend no longer the best weekend in football.
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  Speaker 5: Actually this weekend, I agree, because you still have the
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  Speaker 5: Divisional Round to look forward to. It's kind of like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you still have your dessert that's there for you.
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  Speaker 5: And also, Greg and I are wearing opposite outfits. I
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  Speaker 5: just realized this. I'm black on top, green on bottom.
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  Speaker 5: You're a green on top black.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime I can coordinate with you, we're just turning into
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  Speaker 4: each other.
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  Speaker 3: We're all kinds of coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of coordination, one thing about a broken clock two
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  Speaker 2: times a day is going to be right fourteen times
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  Speaker 2: a week. We're just over seven hundred and thirty times
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the average year. It's also right
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  Speaker 2: and a lot like that metaphorical clock.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very broken person house stoff.
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  Speaker 3: But also occasionally right.
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  Speaker 2: As we look at our standings and we have finished
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, and I have a crown atop of
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  Speaker 2: the head.
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  Speaker 3: At one seventy five and ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time in my illustrious, very proud opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to be on this program, I have won the picks.
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  Speaker 3: Greg sent your holding weapon.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how to use this thing.
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  Speaker 3: No you twist at the base.
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  Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no no no no, no, no, sir, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this was actually broken. That's what it's getting warm.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna slight grats Patrick. The playoffs are anti climax.
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  Speaker 4: Now this is the real champion. Good job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know it's uh, it's all because I get
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  Speaker 2: to be in proximity with you guys, and we get
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  Speaker 2: to have fun on this incredible program.
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  Speaker 3: And we all get to zero it out. I'm abdicating.
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  Speaker 3: I've always wanted a crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, a crown, for a chance to say no,
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  Speaker 2: the monarchy is abolished. Let's take a look at the
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  Speaker 2: game schedule for this weekend. It all starts with the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers playing host of the Los Angeles Rams, great rivalry
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  Speaker 2: Bear and Packers on Saturday. All wraps up on Monday
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  Speaker 2: with the Houston Texans traveling to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams and Panthers played back in week thirteen. Carolina
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  Speaker 2: got one of the biggest upsets of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Stafford shotgun snap, poor Man rush.
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  Speaker 2: They're creating pressure every strip the ball by Carolina dj Watam,
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  Speaker 2: which covers the football, takes it to midfield for Young.
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  Speaker 2: There's a strike over the fiddle to Jalen Coker first out.
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  Speaker 6: The Rams cannot stop the clock anymore with these overcast guys. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: there is a silver tear hanging on the horizon and
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  Speaker 6: some sunlight somewhere because the Panthers are sending a shockwave
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  Speaker 6: through the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: No one saw that Panthers upside of the Rams coming
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  Speaker 2: back in week thirteen. Now we got a high stakes rematch.
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  Speaker 2: It's Greg versus the party popper. No, it is Rams
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  Speaker 2: against the Panthers in Charlotte. Los Angeles expected to have
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  Speaker 2: DeVante Adams back for this one. So how does it
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  Speaker 2: go in round two?
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  Speaker 5: Cynthia, I actually usually have a conservative model. This one
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  Speaker 5: picked an eleven point win, twenty eight to seventeen. You know,
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  Speaker 5: obviously we saw some things in that first matchup that
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  Speaker 5: included Matthew Stafford turning the ball over three times and
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  Speaker 5: some really aggressive play calling by the Panthers. But DeVante
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  Speaker 5: Adams being back after three weeks off is really a
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  Speaker 5: huge difference maker, especially in the red area. His presence,
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  Speaker 5: it's so important for the run game, even for all
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  Speaker 5: of the other aspects.
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  Speaker 7: For the different looks.
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  Speaker 5: We always say Sean Avay likes to use the same
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  Speaker 5: pre snap picture and then after the snap everything looks
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  Speaker 5: a little different. It just looks the same, and we
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  Speaker 5: trick people. But in this case, now you can use
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  Speaker 5: anything other than thirteen, so you can use eleven personnel again,
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  Speaker 5: So now you have mess up the picture and mess
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  Speaker 5: up what happens post snap. A lot of different variables here,
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  Speaker 5: but Davonta Adams is a huge factor.
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  Speaker 4: My model, which doesn't exist, is not as conservative. I
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  Speaker 4: like blots. I think this will be a blow. Rams
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  Speaker 4: win thirty seven to twenty usually at Cynthia doing the math.
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  Speaker 4: But here's seventeen games YEP times thirty two teams, actually
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and seventy two games total, forty four offensive
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  Speaker 4: performances in the entire season. Number one of those five
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  Speaker 4: hundred and forty four. In terms of success rate on
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  Speaker 4: the ground, the Rams versus the Panthers in the first matchup.
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  Speaker 4: And I know they didn't win the game, but there
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  Speaker 4: were three turnovers in that game, and when you watch
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  Speaker 4: the push forget about the numbers, it almost felt cruel
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  Speaker 4: how far down the line of scrimmage that Blake Korum
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  Speaker 4: and Kyra and Williams were meeting the first defender. The
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  Speaker 4: offensive line for the Rams just dominated this matchup the
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  Speaker 4: first time. And then when you're pass protecting, Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 4: isn't getting bothered either. So it's a complimentary offense, except
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  Speaker 4: the run is setting up the pass for Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 4: and when he doesn't get pressured, he is the most
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  Speaker 4: efficient quarterback in the league. I do not think it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be close.
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  Speaker 3: It is unanimous.
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  Speaker 2: I also have a Rams win here twenty six to
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. Let's go back over some of what it
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  Speaker 2: took the Los Angeles Rams to lose in Bank of
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  Speaker 2: America Stadium that day. This is a red zone Tipps
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  Speaker 2: interception off of a helmet. Then Stafford gets strip sacked
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  Speaker 2: as well. There's big return on that play, and then
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  Speaker 2: you know you had a Mike Jackson interception that comes.
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  Speaker 3: All the way back. Stafford gets pressured sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: But not necessarily all the time, just a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of weird stuff that had to happen. I like this
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  Speaker 2: Panthers team. I believe in them. I think Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 2: is not going to have a game like that Rams
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  Speaker 2: run game will be as good. As Greg mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: second time around, mem us away Panthers fans, I'd be fine.
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  Speaker 2: A little more respect, that's you know, Dave Canalis noting
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  Speaker 2: that folks might not necessarily believe.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's get some math. Ry Song had three.
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  Speaker 2: Touchdowns in the first matchup at the Rams, as you
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  Speaker 2: go over under one and a half.
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  Speaker 5: This time around, say I do have him with two touchdowns?
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  Speaker 5: Why because I think the aggressive play calling. When I
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  Speaker 5: talk about aggressive play calling, I mean what they did
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  Speaker 5: on fourth down. He threw two of those touchdown passes
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  Speaker 5: last time on fourth down, so it was EPA. So
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  Speaker 5: his expected points added on fourth down was like the
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  Speaker 5: third highest in a game this season or maybe in
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  Speaker 5: the next gen stats era, something crazy like that.
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  Speaker 7: Point being in order.
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  Speaker 5: To beat this Rams team that outmatches them in terms
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  Speaker 5: of talent, they're going to have to be aggressive. So
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  Speaker 5: throwing more touchdowns in a game script that I forecast
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  Speaker 5: to be more passing heavy means more likelihood of a
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  Speaker 5: passing touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: There's one hundred percent likelihood of enjoying football this week.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of our favorite weeks of the entire year.
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  Speaker 2: We'll move from an early Saturday wildcard game to the
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  Speaker 2: late one, which features one of the oldest rivalries in
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  Speaker 2: our league, yefl's oldest rivalry. Those two cities don't like
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  Speaker 2: each other, he said, Vince, I just want you to
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  Speaker 2: know you better have your team ready because we're going
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  Speaker 2: to kick your ass.
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  Speaker 3: Winning isn't everything, but it's the only thing in the
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  Speaker 3: approach to lad We're gonna be I like that.
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  Speaker 8: Down at it again, hand off the urry quick, very
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  Speaker 8: clock our pao over the middle of the end zone.
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  Speaker 8: You could have a complete losing season, but if you
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  Speaker 8: made the Bears Matt Wayzier season.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna separate the men from the boys.
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  Speaker 5: Who're gonna find out who really wants to play this
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  Speaker 5: game and who does not.
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  Speaker 2: Some historical notes on the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: This is two hundred and thirteenth time that they've gone
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  Speaker 2: head to head to two teams one in one against
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  Speaker 2: each other in the postseason. It doesn't happen that much.
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  Speaker 2: That's two out of two hundred and thirteen times. The
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  Speaker 2: last postseason meeting was the twenty ten NFC Championship, and
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  Speaker 2: who can forget the team's most recent matchup and epic overtime.
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  Speaker 9: Throw snap catub play pink, look at a throw going
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  Speaker 9: deep searching for Dj more over the shoulder, catch me
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  Speaker 9: touchdowns hits over at Soldier Field, Smith, come it Leon Smith,
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  Speaker 9: take it hop forty six yard spiral to the end
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  Speaker 9: zone to DJ Moore.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty two to sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Bears Packers Bears meeting up for the third time in
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  Speaker 2: six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: The pack will get Jordan Love back for this game.
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  Speaker 3: They can also get.
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  Speaker 2: Roma Dunze on the other side of the field coming
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  Speaker 2: back for the Bears in this one.
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  Speaker 3: Glad to see them both back. What happens in the
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  Speaker 3: football games a year.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Packers win this one on the road.
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  Speaker 5: The rubber match twenty five to twenty three is my
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  Speaker 5: final score. I want to talk about Jordan Love because
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  Speaker 5: Malik Willis played really well in that last matchup. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: it took an on side kick. Like some of the
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  Speaker 5: things that are missing there, some low probability events. But
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  Speaker 5: when I'm looking at Jordan Love and what he's been
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  Speaker 5: able to do, and by the way, his playoff experience,
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  Speaker 5: his playoff experience as a seven seed, which means going
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  Speaker 5: on the road, all of these things matter a ton.
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  Speaker 5: I give I tip the scales and give a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more of the advantage to Jordan Love with like
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  Speaker 5: a lot of his metrics rank him no lower than
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  Speaker 5: top five in the league, and all of the things
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  Speaker 5: that matter. So when you're looking at what kind of
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  Speaker 5: quarterback he is, even against this defense that throws, that
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  Speaker 5: causes lots of interceptions and has the most interceptions and
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  Speaker 5: takeaways in the league, it's okay because Jordan Love has
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  Speaker 5: the ability to out maneuver it. So I just think
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  Speaker 5: between the experience and having Jordan Love being back for
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  Speaker 5: this one, it tips the scales in favor of the Packers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking one point off and going with a twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to twenty three win for the Green Bay Packers because, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson as well as this union with Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Has worked out, It's worked out great Mount Lafleur and
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Love has been at this for quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: I think they can be aggressive against a defense that
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  Speaker 2: aggressive that needs to make turnovers in the postseason, much
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  Speaker 2: like it reminds me of the dan Quinn matchup against
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  Speaker 2: those Dallas Cowboys that had all those interceptions the turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: and the Packers came in ran them out of their
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  Speaker 2: own stadium. I think this game is closer, but a
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  Speaker 2: big part of why I think the Packers will win
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  Speaker 2: is Christian Watson and Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 3: Since he came back from that foreign.
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  Speaker 2: Acl, he led the entire league with two ninety four
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  Speaker 2: deep receiving yards and time for the most touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: I think he gets a deep shot and a score
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  Speaker 3: of this one, right.
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  Speaker 4: I feel bad We've been doubting the Bears quite a
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  Speaker 4: bit this season. Show I'm not. I'm picking the Packers,
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  Speaker 4: which you mean you can meme us away Bears fans
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  Speaker 4: probably the most likely fans in the league to meme
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  Speaker 4: us and come on, Bears fans, but just listen to
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  Speaker 4: my analysis. I think Caleb Williams shows up in this game.
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  Speaker 4: But one thing I want everyone to watch is how
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  Speaker 4: much the Packers blitzed in the first two meetings. They
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  Speaker 4: blitzed more against Caleb Williams than they really did almost
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the season, and certainly more than Caleb
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  Speaker 4: Williams was blitzed all season. So it's making him make
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  Speaker 4: really quick, smart decisions. It's make making Ben Johnson have
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  Speaker 4: answers for him. I think Roma Dunsee being back is
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  Speaker 4: big because now you have Luther Burden Colston Love. Look
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  Speaker 4: at my score. That is way over the number of
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  Speaker 4: forty five, which is the over under. I feel strong.
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  Speaker 4: It's thirty to twenty seven there, and yeah, you know
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  Speaker 4: you gotta be wear those fake glasses that you now
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  Speaker 4: times wear on the show. I feel way better about
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  Speaker 4: this going over the number and it being a great
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  Speaker 4: showcase of terrific quarterback play and offenses. Then I really
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  Speaker 4: go over who wins this game. I was just flipping
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  Speaker 4: a coin. You guys, well I have a.
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  Speaker 7: One point went so for that you have the biggest margin.
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  Speaker 4: Well it's one, two three. I just didn't know. I'm
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  Speaker 4: just saying points.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I really Cynthia, and I believe in you
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  Speaker 3: more than Greg does. Bears fans, Let's.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look at some notable player props according to
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  Speaker 2: our friends at Caesar Sportsbook. Jordan Love going two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty one and a half passing yards, Josh Jacobs seventy
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  Speaker 2: five and a half rushing yards ask for Bears, Caleb
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and forty and a half totally yards, forty
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  Speaker 2: six and a half receiving yard for the star rookie
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  Speaker 2: tight in Colston Loveland, and DeAndre Swift getting thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: a half carries. It's time for us to play this
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  Speaker 2: guy or that guy here on game debut and put
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  Speaker 2: some head to hand matchup, starting with Caleb Williams versus
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Love, who goes for over two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: total yards.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right after I just talked up Caleb, Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's Jordan Love. Look, Jordan Love is at a point
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  Speaker 4: in his career where I think he is going to
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  Speaker 4: light up almost any opposing defense that you throw at
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  Speaker 4: him unless they can get quick pressure or any pressure.
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  Speaker 4: And that's just not the Chicago Bears. They're one of
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  Speaker 4: the higher blitz rates team of the league in the
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  Speaker 4: league over the last month or two, and yet they
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  Speaker 4: really don't create much pressure. It's a good defense that
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  Speaker 4: might create a turnover or too, but this is about yards,
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  Speaker 4: and I kind of like Jordan Love getting over three
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  Speaker 4: hundred in this game. If you can find a number
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  Speaker 4: out there like that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go for sixty five or more rushing yards.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs with Deandres Swift.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Jacobs is my answer for this one, because DeAndre
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  Speaker 5: Swift faces a team that has the highest, the lowest
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  Speaker 5: misstack rate, the highest amount of times that they're accurate
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  Speaker 5: with their tackles, and the Packers do not let you
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  Speaker 5: get explosive runs. On the other side, the two things
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  Speaker 5: are exactly opposite. The Bears are going to let you
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  Speaker 5: get explosive runs and they're also not going to tackle.
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  Speaker 5: They could miss a tackle there. That misstack rate is
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  Speaker 5: much higher. So, which is my only hesitation here in
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  Speaker 5: my voice. What you're hearing is sometimes the lying liar
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  Speaker 5: who lies syndrome has now gone over to the Green
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  Speaker 5: Bay Packers with how healthy Josh Jacobs is because he's
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  Speaker 5: been playing these games, but.
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  Speaker 7: He hasn't really been playing, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So I assume he's healthy for this one though, because
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  Speaker 5: it's the playoffs and they need to.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like commentary on the tree.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps the Shanahan Tree are the lying liar who lies
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  Speaker 5: with they all know.
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  Speaker 7: I've told them to their faces. It's fine.
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  Speaker 5: It just means that they're we don't know if we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna be here Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: We get it.
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  Speaker 2: The tree is watered with lies. Last one more likely
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  Speaker 2: to have four or more receptions. Romerdons or Luthor Burden.
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  Speaker 2: I like both, but I'm going with Burdon here because
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  Speaker 2: I like the dynamic of Caleb checking the screens in
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  Speaker 2: some of those blitzes. I know that the Halfley defense
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  Speaker 2: was coming after Caleb Williams, and so you get a
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  Speaker 2: couple of more catches there. The numbers and the odds
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  Speaker 2: may favor one guy a little bit more so, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the numbers a little bit.
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  Speaker 9: Better for Luther burd Do you see Josh Allen is
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  Speaker 9: an alien.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the stuff that he can do and the
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  Speaker 3: things that he can.
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  Speaker 9: Create starts with Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: He is a big play wake to happen. This is
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  Speaker 3: something different.
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  Speaker 2: This is an alien that we didn't know anything about.
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  Speaker 3: My dad. He's an alien. Specimen man.
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  Speaker 4: Spectacular touchdown. Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 8: Name Rachid for the pimelon the alien.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Allen. He's an alien. They do shreak type things.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it to have the disclaimer for Josh Allen
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  Speaker 2: actually human time forst sees the season presented by Caesars Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 2: As we look at the first touchdown score odds according
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  Speaker 2: to our friends at Caesars, and Travis Etn takes the lead.
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  Speaker 3: There, ahead of James Cook and then Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Allen at plus six seventy five, Trevor Lawrence and Jacobi
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  Speaker 2: Myers rounding out this scrap. Let's break down this matchup
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  Speaker 2: featuring yes, twenty two humans on the field at one time,
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  Speaker 2: including Josh Allen and the Bills going to duvall to
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  Speaker 2: take on the AFC South champions Jacksonville's They've won eight
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  Speaker 2: straight games?
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  Speaker 3: Do they make it nine straight?
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  Speaker 4: Break they do? This was the toughest game for me
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  Speaker 4: to pick all week, but I ended up settling on
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  Speaker 4: The Jaguars are the most complete team in the AFC,
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  Speaker 4: partly because of their running game. When they can get
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  Speaker 4: their running game going, they are unstoppable. And this Bill's
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  Speaker 4: rush defense not great, not gonna be great at stopping
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  Speaker 4: the guy you see on the field right here, Travis Etn.
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  Speaker 4: You know why he led the odds for first touchdown score.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he does. It could be on the ground
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  Speaker 4: or it could be through the air. He actually led
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  Speaker 4: the Jaguars in receiving touchdowns this year. I just love
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  Speaker 4: a player that steadily improves at his craft. He was
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  Speaker 4: one yard away from fourteen hundred yards from scrimmage this season.
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  Speaker 4: That would have been the third time in his career.
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  Speaker 4: And yet I just think he's a tougher inside runner.
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  Speaker 4: Liam Cohen is great at designing the run game, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: they're a boomer bust run game, really, and I just
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: feel like this is gonna be one of those boom
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: type of games because it's a slow Bills defense, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: I think the speed of Travis Etn could be a problem.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the defense.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: In terms of looking at the balance of the Buffalo Bills,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: it becomes tough to make the choice here.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I've got the Jacksonville Jaguars as well.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: It's odd that they're a home dog because I think
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: there may be, you know, some folks doing some helmet scouting.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Which is weird in a league where most teams are
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: playing everybody.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And I know that Jacksonville has a star quarterback who
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: played great down the stretch. He's got a grill, They've
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: got a new head coach who's lighting the world on fire.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: But can we talk about a guy who was there
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: in the Doug Maroon era, in the Urban Meyer mistake era,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: through Doug Peterson, there's been one constant, and it's been
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Josh Hans Allen. Didn't even go by that name the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: whole time, and who by Josh Allen? Back when he
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: sacked Josh Allen five consecutive excuse me five times in
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: one game? You have the second most pass rush reps. Yeah,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: he had a lot of pass rush reps. He had
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the fourth most pressures. He had those reps because he's
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: on the field the Jags and need him at all
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: times to provide pressure against the pass.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: When he does it, shout out to Josh Hans Allen.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I think it's JAG's gonna win.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: Cynthia.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: You guys are allowing me to be on my own
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: island with a favored Buffalo team.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: Fine, prime number.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: I will take it twenty seven to twenty five Buffalo.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: That is what the model says.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I think they're not supposed to say alien anymore. Watch
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: this UFO documentary and now it's really bothering me.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: They can't think of it. So he's an et.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about Josh Allen's ability to do so many
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: different things.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Through the air, on the ground.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: He has over three hundred career playoff yards per game,
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: which is bananas. I understand that you're looking at this
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: team and Jacksonville the recency bias of how well they've
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: been playing, and they absolutely have taking nothing away, but
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen's ability to.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: Overcome all of this.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Just watch second halves of things and watch figure out
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: how this run game works.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: You think that, look at you.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Correct, I mean recency bias. It's been two months. Let's
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: see if we can do that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: And now this, please do not put it out my
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: face dis busted.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I wanted to celebrate the prime number, but it's not happening.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Okay, here's how we're going to celebrate it. Put our
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: finger here and shake us not going to it is?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Ready? Shake it there it is. You're gonna be working
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: as well as you're woo.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: All right, we did it, folks.
• 18:10
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• 18:13
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• 18:21
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• 18:24
  Speaker 2: full urn. Plenty of history between the Niners and the Eagles.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: The last time they met up in the playoffs, with
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two NFC Championship game, Brock perty injured
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the elbow on his throwing arm early in the game.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Josh Johnson came in for party but then got hurt,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: so Brock went back on the game. He's practicing throwing
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: left handed on the sidelines, he could only really.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Hand off due to that elbow injury.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Philly went on to win thirty one to seven on
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: their way to Super Bowl fifty seven, where they lost
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a nail binder to the Kansas City Sheets, and the
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Niners and Birds meeting up Sunday at the Link. San
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Francisco's high powered offense shut down last week by the Seahawks,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Philly chose to rest their guys to San Francisco knock
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: off the champs.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Here they do not, and I think that rest was
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: really important for a Philadelphia Eagles team that should be
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: getting Lane Johnson back this week and should also be
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: getting back one of the best players in the league
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: that's right, it's playoff Jalen Hurts. Playoff Jalen Hurts is
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: different than regular season Jalen Hurts. They let him run
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: the ball a little more, and in this year he
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: ran it less than any time in his career. He's
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: had some of his very best performances as a pro
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs, certainly in the Super Bowl, but sometimes
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: earlier too, and I think this is the perfect matchup
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: for him to get comfortable. It's one of the worst
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: pass rushes in the league. And you think about the
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: linebackers that are going to be on the field for
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the forty nine Ers. They were on the street a
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: couple weeks ago. Eric Kendricks they just signed. They're probably
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: gonna have to play him because of injuries, and Kisier
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: White's another guy they just brought up off the street.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: And I really do believe there is something to a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: championship type of team like Philadelphia. They've been through a
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: lot this season, but you play a forty nine ers
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: defense that's vulnerable, and I think this is going to
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: make them feel a little more alive having a playoff
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: match up. Philadelphia scores a lot and they end up
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: winning comfortably.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I have Philadelphia winning, but I don't have it very
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: comfortably at all. Just twenty four to twenty three, a
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: one point win for the Birds at home, something dramatic.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Basically do their defense.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about Dallas Goddard here because you
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: talk about playoff Jalen Hurts, and then you have to
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: remember that Kyle Shanahan has like this formula for defending
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts that really shuts him down.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: If you look at all of Jalen Hurts results against
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Kyle shannon had.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Led defenses, then you will see it actually looks pretty different.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: He has this.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Really good way of defending. Now, the difference maker here
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: would be the middle.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Of the field.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Given those linebackers that you met Fred Warner still watching
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: from the stands possible if they make it later into
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: the playoffs that he could come back, but he's not
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: there now, meaning Dallas Goddard has an opportunity here to
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: really break open the middle of the field and really
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: help out his quarterback. Given the way that Kyle Shannan
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: has shown that the principles and strategies especially they use
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: that you know the for anyway, the way that they
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: play Cover four is really about the different principles, and
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: it's not good matchup wise against how Jalen Hurts likes
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: to play, but Dallascott it will be the difference maker there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: The capacity of the coaches to generate the matchups that
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: they want might help, also motivating them to try extra
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: hard because we have Unanauley.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Picked the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I have it twenty three to twenty a three point
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: win at home by the Birds, because I'd like to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: talk about that.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Defense and how great they are.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Remember Zach Bond down the stretch, but fuddling every single quarterback,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: especially Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Well he's going to.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Be right there in a key spot where Rock Perdy
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: threw nine of his ten interceptions when targeting in breaking
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: routes this season.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: That's the second most in.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: The NFL, only trailing the league leader, sorry Greg in interceptions,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Eugene Cyril Smith. And so if you're gonna get Brock Purdy,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think the Philadelphia Eagles have the players to do so.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: The notable props according to our friends at Caesars, Brock
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Perdy a two hundred and twenty eight and a half
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: passing yards, Jalen Hurts two hundred and fifty one and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a half totally yards, George Kittle.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: At fifty nine and a half for saving yards, and.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Saquon at eighty one and a half rushing yards. I'd
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: be a solid performist for Saquon relative to the rest
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of the season. Time four more or less. Lots of
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: superstars in this game. So let's get our poam fingers
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and discuss some player props. Brock Perdy had just one
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven passing yards against the Seahawks last week.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Is the number here too?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Twenty eight? How do you feel in relation to two
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: twenty eight?
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I feel like more is coming. I wanted to say
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: something and work in something about Cooper to gen dating
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: someone for twenty years his senior, which I kind of love,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: but I'm just gonna focus on Rock Curdy and instead
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: say that I think those intermediate passes that Kyle Shanahan
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: can scheme open and finding any sort of space to
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: work with, that's going to be the difference maker. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: maybe a little bit of Juwan Johnson talking trash because
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: somebody needs to tell me what he says.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: For gonna say, let's go to the running game.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Saquon shining in the playoffs last season, averaging one hundred
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and twenty seven yards per game on the ground in
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: his career. In the postseason, well, we have more or
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: less than eighty against the Nighbers.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I am gonna go more, say one Barkley finished off
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the season, I think running with a little more explosion,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and he's gonna have his offensive line healthier again. I
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: think that rest was really important and the thing that
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: gets slept on with this forty nine Ers defense. Yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: it's not a great pass rush. They were actually dead
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: last in the NFL in terms of success rate allowed
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: against teams on the ground, and you saw that in
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the biggest of matchups last week against Seattle. They just
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: could not get stopped. So I think Saquon Barkley, with
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: a week of rest, this is gonna be a heavy
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: run game for him, So volume wise, I like him
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: over eight.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this plays and justifies the decision to rest everybody
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: in that final game as well. Last one, Christian McCaffrey
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: more or less than one hundred and three scrimmage yards.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go more here because it's Kristian McCaffery, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be more possessions than they had
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: last week against the Seattle Seahawks. More possessions meaning more
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: opportunity for CMC seventy rushing excuse me receiving yards?
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: How you're gonna say seventy rushes?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, Yang, I'm.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Gonna get seventy carriers. You thought he got a lot
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: of volume. Feer of the season.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Wait and see what Kyle's special plan is for kristinmccaffery.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: That's more or less here on game debut.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Do anybody know what they mean when they'd be like great, great.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Night struggles, Now fucking made it in you'd fighting name?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: What do you call Drake Drake Mayman.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Perfect throw by Drake Drake on the stall.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Patriots had once hen executive game.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Now fucking made it in fight Drake Drake may May
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I just unbelievable performance. Are you kidding me? What hell
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: of the throw?
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: He was running around?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: He was making plaid?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: That's Drake may.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Stress.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Now I fucking made it in you fighting on my name.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Sunday Night, Drake may and the number two seeded Patriots
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: playing host to Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Greg, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: know it's like choosing between your your two favorite children.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: We're not gonna have Greg have that discussion because that's preposterous. Uh,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: but does does New England beat your your other home team?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I don't feel confident about and so what I'm gonna
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: do here is what we like to call threading the needle.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: The Chargers keep it closer than three and a half points,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: but the Patriots do win by a point because of
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: their running game. I feel more confident that this offense
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: isn't all about drink made because at the end of
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the season, especially Treveon Henderson and Ramandre Stevenson were getting
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: it done. And I think that's how you beat Jesse
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Minter's defense, which is gonna make you run the ball
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: against their kind of light defense where they have a
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: lot of defensive backs on the field, a lot of
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: explosive plays from Treyvon Henderson. You know, it's really Romandre
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Stevenson to me, who is getting it done as a
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: runner and as a receiver. A lot of deep routes
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: for vermondre Stevenson. These are the number three and number
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: four running backs in the entire NFL and yards per
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: carry on inside run. So get just some running backs
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: who can do it all inside outside big plays, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: then Remandre is fantastic as a receiver. I love how
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: everyone wanted to bench them. Everyone wanted to get rid
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: of them early in the season because of the fumbles
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: and down the stretch. He actually led the NFL in
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: yards per carry in December and January.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So a slim margin.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Interesting turner Fray as to thread the needle where the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: needle was designed for the thread like it's synonymous with
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the difficult thing to do, but it's the only thing.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: That you do. I will take a twenty six to
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: twenty win for the New England Patriots.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: The most explosive offense in the NFL, and as Greg
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: pointed out.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: They do it through the run game but also through
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the air.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Sixty one percent of Drake May's downfield passes this season
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: he completed. It's the highest rate in the NFL, the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: seventh highest mark in the entire Next Gen Stats era,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: which goes all the way back to twenty sixteen. This
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: team constantly gets buckets everywhere on the field, and I
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: don't know that in the event the game devolves into
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a scorefest, Cynthia, that the Chargers offense will be able
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to keep up.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: I'm with you.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I have twenty four to twenty so I'm not threading
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: anything here. You can mimess the way Chargers. We deserve it. Absolutely.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: This is the one actually am second most confident on
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: other week in terms of who will win the game.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: So I'm looking at the Patriots and remembering that they
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: get back both Milton Williams and of course.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: They get back Will Campbell.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: The trenches are so important here because what have we
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: seen from Justin.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Herbert nothing but being under pressure.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, going back all the way to last year's
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: game against the Texans, I mean I think it was
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: pressured on eighteen of thirty six drop backs. Actually I
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: know that I don't think that is kind of being
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: cheeky there, but ultimately it's been a problem.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: They haven't solved it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: And Milton Williams plays on the inside, so what does
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: that mean. Well, now they'll have to devote some of
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: the resources on the interior O line to stop him,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: which leaves more of an island for the outside guys,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: and the tackles have been a problem. I just don't
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: think that they have enough on both sides on the
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: trenches to be able to handle what this Patriots team
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: is going to be able to bring to them on
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: both sides. Again, this is my second most confident pick
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: wow ever.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: All aboard the New England Patriots. Let's go do some math.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Get the calculators out, Cynthia will justin Herbert pass for
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: more or less than two hundred and twenty five yards
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: in this match.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: That number is way too low.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I know that that you're looking at the Chargers defense
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: and you're saying, this is a really good pass defense,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: and that is true, But then you also have to
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: look at all the different ways that Drake May has
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: found success kind of inexplicably. Right ahead of the season,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: the biggest knock on this team was, well do they
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: really have an elite set of pass catchers. Turns out
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Keishawan Boody can become a thing, right. He has the
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: what tied for the second most deep passing touchdowns in
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: the week with six. He's got twenty completions of over
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: twenty air yards Like that's These are the types of
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: things where it doesn't even really matter what's going on, and.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I think this can be a game where both quarterbacks
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: go off. Now, the only thing with Herbert's number here
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: is are they in a catch up type of situation.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: The Patriots defense is healthier this week. Robert Splaine could
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: be coming back.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Yet, Robert Blaine's coming back.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I love her. I mentioned Milton Williams. Harold Landry at
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: defensive end has been out for a while, so they
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: are healthier right now than they've been in a while.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Rogers gets a snap, Lofting has been wide open.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Touchdown. Second, here's the snap, here's the hole, here's the
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: boot by Luke and that kick.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: This Pittsburgh Steelers are North champions.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Baby Rogers and the Steelers grabbed the ac North crown
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: last week.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: They're playing host to the Texans on Monday Night.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Houston's won nine straight, but for what it's worth, Pittsburgh
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: has won twenty three straight Monday.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Night football games.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Also, the per capita consumption of margarine correlates with the
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: marriage rate ray in Maine. So there's some other correlations.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: We don't know if they're causal or not. Cynthia, what
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: happens in this football game?
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Wait? When there's when? How does in what way you
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: have to tell us about the man?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Exactly?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Since twenty fourteen, the rate of margarine consumption has matched
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: almost precisely the marriage rate in Maine.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: So they're clearly.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Connected or they don't have anything to do with each other,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: and they're fun things to say when we're talking about
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: football games.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know how I can follow that. I might
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: just have to walk off. I've Houston winning this game
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: twenty two to twenty. Wow, DJ Stroud.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about his connection with Nico Collins
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: because Nico Collins was rested last week. I don't always
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: love rest Sometimes, I think it can be kind of
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: a problem for an offense that maybe hasn't looked fully
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: put together all season long. They have the best defense,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: we understand that, but I'm thinking that it was actually
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: very smart and strategic to use this rest. The Steelers
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: defense is not the Steelers defense we're used to. So
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: the connection between he and Nico Collins, to me, will
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: be a huge factor in this game, more so than
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: the connection with the other quarterback and his leading receiver
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: who's also returning, but for different reasons.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm glad that both of them are back and
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: able to play this game. Want both teams to be
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: closer to full strength, but even at full strength, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: don't think this is necessarily close. I have twenty five
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: to thirteen win by the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Foard their ability not just to generate turnovers, but to
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: get points off of those turnovers as well.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: And I know the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Rely on stant All the field a lot, dropping back
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers a lot, and he's very good at getting
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: a little ball quickly. I think he has to be.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: But also I think there's a capacity for things to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: go horribly wrong. I have a relatively easy Texas ways.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, there's so much to talk about in this game.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: You could talk about one of the greatest quarterbacks of
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: all time, maybe his last game like a heroic Stan,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe Mike Tomlin's last game in Pittsburgh, one of the
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: defining defenses of this generation in Houston. Or you could
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: talk about the kickers, Chris Boswell and Kaimi Fairband. One
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: of them is the real thing, and one of them
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: is I can't believe it's not butter. Chris Boswell looking
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: like some marger in the last couple of weeks, missing
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: big time kicks in Cleveland at missed extra point last
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: week they got away with it, had a miss in Detroit.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: He's not that dude, the football gods decided to punish
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Cameron Dicker actually in that Los Angeles game because they
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: chose Cameron Dicker over Fairbaron for the Pro Bowl. Then
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Dicker missed a couple of kicks. You know who doesn't
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: miss any big time kicks. It's one of the greatest
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: kickers out of the state of Hawaii, Kayimi Fairbarn In
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: a defensive game in hinz Field, he could be the difference.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: We've seen the kickers be the difference in a lot
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: of these texanss that may.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: Can butter then because with Margorin's he's smooth.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: There's any number of ones that I could have done
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: with because cottage cheese consumption correlates specifically with the popularity
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: of the first name, Andrea.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Let's get to more on this game.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Either Rodgers will be happy to have his top target
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: back or you know they will see frustrated Aaron Rodgers
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: like that conversation with Arthur Smith during the game. Here
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: he is with or without dk Metcalf. The on off
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: splits generally favoring having the very good wide receiver.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: On the field. Time for this guy or that guy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers has the third most passing touchdowns in playoff history?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Who's more likely to throw two? Aaron Rodgers or c J. Stroud?
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: Going with c J.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Stroud in this one, it's because the It'sburg defense is
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: far more gettable than.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: The Houston Texans defense. It's pretty simple.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: I'm also looking at Stroud fighting shorter passes to I
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: don't know, not just Nico Collins, who already talked about before,
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: but he's also got a tight end in Dalton Schultz
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: that does a very nice job for him, and a
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: bunch of guys from Iowa State who are also very
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: helpful for him as well. So I think they're starting
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: to really pull together with his offense, and the passes
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: look more shorthanded. They're trying a lot more different things.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: I just think it will be fun for them in
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: this matchup to kind of look at the tape from
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: what Lamar Jackson did on some of those busted coverages,
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: like that guy had maybe I don't know, two years
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: of space on either side of him.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: So I'm gonna do that, all.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Right, Let's go to DK Metcalf, he's back after that
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: two game suspension. Who's more likely to have fifty or
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: more receiving yards DK or team MVP.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Wow, the game will grid.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I think it's Kenny g It's crazy, but he is
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: so valuable. You know what. Aaron Rodgers is not doing
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: a lot these days holding onto the ball. That won't
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: give a chance for DK Metcalf to have a big game.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Kamari Lassiter and Derek State maybe the best cornerback duo
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: that we've seen in a long time. Now. I made
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: this choice for Gainwell over DK Metcalf before you know,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: I realized that Lasseter's status for the game is uncertain.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: That's a big factor in this game. That would help
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: DK Metcalf and the entire receiver group out a lot.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: But ultimately, these are cornerbacks that are kind of built
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: to stop DK Metcalf because they are so physical, they're
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: so sticky. They want to match up like this on
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: the outside. I think it's what really separates the Texans defense.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll go to the running back situation, which
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: back more likely to run for over fifty three yards
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Woody Marks or Jalen Warren. I will side with the
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers and Jalen Mooren in terms of what does
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: defense need to focus on the absolute most. I think
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the Steelers will be trying to force passing situations for
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: that Houston Texas front, and I think Jalen Warren could
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: break a big one and be heavily involved in the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: ground game where you would like those pass rushers to
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: be trying to stop the run and not much hitting
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers coming up. There's no fun picking the favorite,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: so we're making the case. We're a few under the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: radar teams.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Winning Super Bowl sixty in Santa Clara.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Is anyone bold enough to take a true long shot Steelers?
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Anyone find out who we pick? Yes, coach coming up next?
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Super bowls sixty winner odds.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That's what LX stands for, is we get our annual
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: run through Roman nuberls sell high around March time.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: For make the case.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: As we see, the Seahawks are the favorite, but we're
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: gonna pick a dark horse team way way behind where
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks were with some longer odds.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Tell you why we think they can win the Super Bowl.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: So start us off.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Great, Okay, I'm starting you off, and I'm gonna take
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: the Buffalo Bills.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: You need to have them winning this week.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, But Patrick stole the Jaguars from me in this exercise,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: we all needed different ones, and my mind is understands that,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: you know, I might be wrong about this week, and
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I kind of think the winner of this Bill's Jags
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: game has a real chance. And if we're taking longer odds,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I think if they could get past this week, you
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: have a coach and Sean McDermott and a veteran defense
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: that is obviously not the strength of their team, but
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I think he can coach on a game to game
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: basis as well as any defensive coach in the league
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and adapt and just be okay. And then on the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: other side, I'm often influenced by the last thing I heard,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: And when I heard Josh Allen say that in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: off week, because he took that week eighteen up, Joe
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Brady and him went over everything and talked about just
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: all the layups that he'd been passing up and that
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: he'd been going for too much and trying to play
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: hero ball when there were a lot of like easy
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: answers and being patient. I heard that. I said, this
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: guy who right now is the all time leader in
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: success rate as a runner in the history of the NFL.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: It's literally the most effective play in NFL history is
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Josh Allen running the ball and maybe he's gonna take
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: everything he's learned and go through a really flawed AFC field.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I think the Jaguars are great. It's gonna be tough
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: to get past this weekend, but if they can watch.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Out a deal. Which team are you going with? Chris
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Gregors kind.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Of spoiled money, Well, you stole it from me, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: then she asked and it came out.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going with the Texans, a team that I
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: have winning this week, because number one, you need to
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: win your games if you're going to make the Super
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Bowl to therefore win the Super Bowl. You know, I
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: love the adage, right what is offense sells tickets and
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: defense wins championships, whatever it is. I'm looking at this
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Texans defense.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: And I'm terrified of them.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: If they're any team, that is a horrible matchup for
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: just about any situation, just about any quarterback in the league.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at, you know, all the different levels. It
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: has the Aziz Al Shair, which is kind of the
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Fred Warner of this defense, because of course they comes
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: from a Shanahan tree.
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: You have the two cornerbacks, you talked about. Now add
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: in Jalen Petrie who in the slot. Don't mess with
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: him either there because that's terrible for opposing passers up front.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: You know, Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson Junior are the
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: duo with the most pressure. There's just a problem everywhere
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: you look with this defense. So I think they should
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: at least not be fifth lowest or below fifth in
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: terms of odds that should be hired.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I like the Houston Texans in this exercise as well,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: because they were the last team actually to beat the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: team that I'm picking, and that's the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Surprise, Oh my gosh.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, what's wrong with spoiling it? Or say they've
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: already released the trailer for the Avengers, like a year
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: in advantage, good game, you know, raise the anticipation for
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: your great pick. Well, yeah, I have answered the email.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I was just having a little fun, Greg. I like
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars. I think doing helmet scouting is weird.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I think this is not your granddad's or your Jacksonville
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Jaguars that you remember from the past. Since they lost
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: to the Texans, they won every single game. They've beat
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: two playoff teams. They scored thirty five points against both
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: of them, and they both looked really.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Bad against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I think they could win the Super Bowl and there'd
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun for the folks in Duvall.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: It'd be one of the craziest results. And I gotta admit,
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: like I took you know, the Jags, and they were like, no,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Patrick took it. So then I responded, I said I'll
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: take the Texans and they're like, no, Cynthia got a ticket.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: So just the answer here is that we're all fans
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: of the AFC South and maybe one of them is
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: gonna be in the super Bowl. Okay, that's all agree.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, we'd agree. Fun division the playoffs or here this
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: winner go home. We're dropping our favorite player props for
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: wild card weekends. So many great options.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: It's the playoffs.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: We gotta check again, win or go home, unless, of course,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: you were playing at home and you're gonna go home anyway.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Hopefully everybody is involved, it's an opportunity to go home.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: You're watching game debut.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: It's time for write this down as we get to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: our prop predictions.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: As Cynthia recovers on wild card weekend. I'll just start
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: a soft cared.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: I am a big Brian Thomas and your fan. I
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: know it hasn't been his season, but I am loving
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: over forty two and a half. By the way, I'm
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: on fire with these write this downs only one loss
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: in like the last two month. Look, it's not gonna
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: be a heavy volume day for Brian Thomas Junior. But
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: they lost Maxwell Harriston Junior late in that Bills game
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: in week eighteenth. It is a slow secondary. You get
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: him one catch against Tredavius White. It's a slow group
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: at safety. He might only need one catch to get
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: over forty two and a half yards. Big play, Brian Thomas, un.
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: Somebody should have warned me.
• 40:26
  Speaker 10: Blake Korham to rush for at least forty four yards
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: against the Panthers. I feel like the Blake Korham numbers
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: are always too low. I feel like there's a few
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: things that are true in life, and that would be
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: the third one death taxes in Blake Koram's number being
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: way too low, especially against a Panthers defense that doesn't
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: want to stop the run. I'm so glad I stopped
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: laughing because I put the over under at me stopping
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: laughing at way under like what wasn't gonna happen?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: So I will take an over for Travis Etn over
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: thirteen and a half receiving.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Yards against the Buffalo Bills. He set that.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Number relatively easily three of the last four weeks. Greg
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yard discussed his viability in the past game and the
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Buffalo bill difficulty making tackles in space.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I think some of those.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Mistackles lead to Travis Etn going over thirteen and a
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: half receiving arts.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to watch all these football games?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Does I mean? I hope all the teams do better
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: than me versus the confetti canon early but it is
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: gonna be a treat six GA. It's no longer Super
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Wildcard weekend.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Oh no, there it is up as Greg tries to
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: figure it out.
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