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Week 17 Predictions, Player Props and Playoff Scenarios: Ravens vs. Dolphins AFC Showdown & CJ Stroud Returns · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to Game Deviet for Cinnaba Mercedes Vince Patrick
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  Speaker 2: Claiband is static to be here with my dear friends
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  Speaker 2: Greg Rosenthal and Cynthia Freeland. I am excited to pick
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  Speaker 2: some football games and not talk about the games that
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  Speaker 2: I picked because last week, no, it didn't go get
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  Speaker 2: any other it went great for Cynthia Freeland.
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  Speaker 3: Who's cup?
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  Speaker 2: Greg concern level as Cynthia is now just two games behind.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, highly concerned.
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  Speaker 5: This feels like terminator to the objects in my mirror
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  Speaker 5: are closer than they appear. You can't beat the model.
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  Speaker 5: I've learned this over years of the show. The model
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  Speaker 5: always comes for you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm currently like the healthcare professionals in the start of
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  Speaker 3: the movie. I mean very close, all going close. It
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  Speaker 3: is going well for some teams.
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  Speaker 2: The Baltimore Ravens got that big win in Santa Clara
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  Speaker 2: last week. They are the odds on favorite to win
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  Speaker 2: the AFC Championship this season, the regular season championship as
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  Speaker 2: things go forward, because if they win against the Miami Dolphins,
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  Speaker 2: it's over.
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  Speaker 3: They will have that one seed in the af seed.
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  Speaker 2: So the two top teams in the AFC square off
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  Speaker 2: Sunday in Baltimore, the Dolphins and the Ravens. Last week,
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  Speaker 2: they got that huge win in Santa Clara. Miami's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be missing Jalen Waddle for this one. Who walks away victorious?
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  Speaker 5: That Wattle injury helped make me feel better about the
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  Speaker 5: Ravens winning twenty six to twenty one. I do worry
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  Speaker 5: short week coming back home the emotional high of beating
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  Speaker 5: the forty nine ers, but the Ravens have passed every
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  Speaker 5: test because they have the best quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: In the league right now.
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  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson against the forty nine Ers, to me, was
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  Speaker 5: special because it wasn't a special performance. This is the
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  Speaker 5: weekly Lamar that you're getting, and by that I mean
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  Speaker 5: he's doing whatever needs to be done. I actually thought
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  Speaker 5: there was more improvising in this game, more second reaction
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  Speaker 5: plays like the one you see here. He's rushed the
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  Speaker 5: ball thirty times over the last three weeks. Definitely picked
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  Speaker 5: up that rate as you've gotten to the end of
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  Speaker 5: the season, and I'd like to see more in rhythm
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  Speaker 5: throws against this zone defense. I think that you will
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  Speaker 5: make him do that, but he's shown he can do
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  Speaker 5: that when asked. So whatever the defense is showing Lamar,
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  Speaker 5: he has answers for them.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's funny I have the same scores I
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  Speaker 6: have twenty six to twenty one Baltimore in this matchup.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk about the safeties, as in Kyle
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  Speaker 6: Hamilton and Brandon Stevens, who, by the way, they rank
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  Speaker 6: number two and number three in terms of EPA allowed
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  Speaker 6: to opposing teams. That's ridiculous. That's like two and three
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  Speaker 6: in the league. And they're both on the same team.
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  Speaker 6: They play with each other. Obviously, you need to watch
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  Speaker 6: the injury report because Kyle Hamilton dig it bangs up
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  Speaker 6: in the last matchup. But I do want to point
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  Speaker 6: out that this is part of the major reason why
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  Speaker 6: we saw those intermediate passes not really work against the
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  Speaker 6: forty nine ers. And do you know what this Miami
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  Speaker 6: Dolphins offense looks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Like forty nine.
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell if that's good or bad for the Ravens, Like,
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  Speaker 5: is it good that Mike McDaniel just saw a very
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  Speaker 5: similar offense and now he can adjust.
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  Speaker 6: Oh with that, Jalen, it makes it a lot more
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  Speaker 6: difficult I think they're going to lean on the run
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  Speaker 6: a lot more, but I still think that the safeties
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  Speaker 6: and the middle of the spine of that defense is
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  Speaker 6: going to.
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  Speaker 4: Make a big difference.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of things looking similar, you guys know what my
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  Speaker 2: score for this game is. It's twenty six to twenty
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  Speaker 2: one Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing Wow. But you guys don't have to just cheat.
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  Speaker 2: In full disclosure, we had no idea. Let just make
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  Speaker 2: these score picks. We all came up with the same pick.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to Celebratejdevian Clowning not only having one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest high school mixtapes of all time, but
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  Speaker 2: he's having his best post microfracture knee surgery season ever,
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  Speaker 2: his highest pressure rate since twenty eighteen. He leads the
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  Speaker 2: team in pressures, won every single possible revenge game this
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  Speaker 2: season over the Texans, the Browns, the Seahawks, and the Titans.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the ultimate revenge run. And I just want
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate how great of the season the former twenty
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  Speaker 2: fourteen number.
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  Speaker 3: One overall pick is having this season.
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  Speaker 2: Let's stay on this game, though, Let's talk more or
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  Speaker 2: less player props for the Dolphins and the Ravens greg
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  Speaker 2: more or less than one and a half passing touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: for Tua Tungo Viola.
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  Speaker 4: I am going less.
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  Speaker 5: Cynthia mentioned what a great secondary it is with Baltimore. Look,
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  Speaker 5: Marlon Humphrey hasn't been Marlon Humphrey for most this year
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  Speaker 5: until the last couple of weeks. You can tell he's healthier,
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  Speaker 5: he's playing better, and I just think the way you
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  Speaker 5: beat this Ravens defense. They're very difficult, but in the
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  Speaker 5: red zone, I think you can run on them occasionally.
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  Speaker 5: So to me, it's just more of what we've seen
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the year. When you get near the
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  Speaker 5: goal line, it's raheem most your time. Even if they
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  Speaker 5: score twenty one, which is exactly what they're gonna score,
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  Speaker 5: as all three of us told you, that's two for
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  Speaker 5: moster one for Tua.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he's less, all right, So.
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  Speaker 2: They will Lamar have more or less than two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety passing and rushing yards combined.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I have two hundred and ninety nine, and you
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  Speaker 6: know my models are quite conservative, so this would be
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  Speaker 6: a big more for me, in large part because there's.
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  Speaker 7: No Jalen Phillips.
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  Speaker 6: I know we've talked about it, and we haven't really
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  Speaker 6: seen that come to bear out yet.
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  Speaker 3: Been great.
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  Speaker 6: I think that this is going to be the game
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  Speaker 6: where you're like, yeah, well we missed that guy.
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  Speaker 7: That was pretty elite. They have a lot of good
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  Speaker 7: pass rushers.
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  Speaker 6: Their pass rush isn't quite the same as what we
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  Speaker 6: saw for the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 2: Last one, Tyreek Hill over ninety two receiving your Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take more for Tyreek Hill, especially considering there's
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  Speaker 2: no Jaalen Waddle.
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  Speaker 3: Tyreek was kind of hobbling.
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  Speaker 2: They needed a first down and Tua walks over. It's like, OK,
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  Speaker 2: this ball's coming to you. Everybody in the world already
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  Speaker 2: knew to it. They were trying to keep it a secret,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, the Dolphins are gonna get the ball to
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  Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill in twenty twenty three, I think more than
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  Speaker 2: ninety two and a half. And speaking of that forty
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  Speaker 2: nine Ers lost last week, the Lion's still in the
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  Speaker 2: running for the one seed in the NFC. They took
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  Speaker 2: care of business last week against the Vikings Detroit, clinching
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  Speaker 2: their first division title since the nineties.
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  Speaker 3: Emotions were high in the locker room after the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's you dude, something like what we just did.
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  Speaker 8: It's special. It don't matter, man, and it don't matter
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  Speaker 8: how many you win in a role. They're special.
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  Speaker 3: But I can tell you this, when you're part of
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  Speaker 3: the organization.
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  Speaker 8: And it's been thirty years, it's special, man. And these
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  Speaker 8: guys been fucking dying Fort and White fort minutes for you,
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  Speaker 8: the first one for you.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to the old Dart of the Lions.
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  Speaker 2: Also, things got a little missy in the nfl LA newsroom,
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia Frillin. The waterworks kind of got going on live TV.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back there. I'm like, I want to go and
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  Speaker 2: give Cynthia hug, but they were doing a they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Game Bay Live.
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  Speaker 6: I started crying and I started laughing because I was
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  Speaker 6: crying because a lot of it motion just for TV.
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  Speaker 7: But it was it was awesome.
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  Speaker 6: It was I was so I got to capture that
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  Speaker 6: moment thirty years in the making.
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  Speaker 2: A culmination of a day that was thirty years of
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia here at NFL Media on that particular day.
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  Speaker 3: Cynthia's line is a huge.
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  Speaker 2: Matchup with the Cowboys Saturday night in Dallas. The Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: haven't lost at home since Week one of last season.
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  Speaker 3: Does the streak stay alive, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the streak stays alive in this one. I have
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  Speaker 6: thirty to twenty six in this matchup. A poor point
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  Speaker 6: win for Dallas. Why they don't really have a great
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  Speaker 6: answer for CD Lamb.
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  Speaker 7: His production from the.
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  Speaker 6: Slot is ridiculous if you look over the past two seasons.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, he's been the most productive receiver out of
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  Speaker 6: the slot. Some numbers for this year seven hundred and
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  Speaker 6: ninety six yards in the slot. There's all vertical routes,
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  Speaker 6: that's how he does it. We saw CJGJ not coming
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  Speaker 6: back necessarily this week. He's not going to play yet.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're holding off on that one. I just
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  Speaker 6: don't think that they're going to have an answer on
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  Speaker 6: those deep plays for seed Lamb. And by the way,
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  Speaker 6: he has six hundred and one yards when aligned out
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  Speaker 6: wide too, so it's not like he's a slouch there either.
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  Speaker 6: They do have an answer for him the slot, they'll
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  Speaker 6: just pull them out wide and you know whatever, see
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  Speaker 6: what happens.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like se these numbers this year he's over
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  Speaker 5: fourteen hundred yards have gotten overshadowed a little just because
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  Speaker 5: there's so much other time to receivers, but he is amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking the Cowboys in this game too. I have
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  Speaker 5: at thirty to twenty eight. I really like more in
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  Speaker 5: terms of the points. I really like the Lions to
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  Speaker 5: keep it closer. This was a neutral field and a
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  Speaker 5: normal week, I would take the lines. I think they're
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  Speaker 5: a little better. But the Cowboys got great news when
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  Speaker 5: they got Tyron Smith back. At practice this week, Jerry
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  Speaker 5: Jones said he feels good about Tyron Smith being able
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  Speaker 5: to play in this game, and to me, that makes
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  Speaker 5: all the difference in the world. This is a really
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  Speaker 5: strong offensive line, but they're not deep, and we saw.
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  Speaker 4: That a week ago. They couldn't adjust.
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  Speaker 5: Tyron Smith playing like an All Pro this year, and
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  Speaker 5: it's going against a Lion's pass rush that just isn't
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  Speaker 5: really very good.
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  Speaker 4: Outside of Shaiden Hutchinson.
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  Speaker 7: The rushing's not rushing.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's like they need to blitz and they're good
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  Speaker 5: at doing that. But I think they're twenty sixth in
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  Speaker 5: pass rush win rate this year. I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: game up front. The Cowboys need it more. Lions coming
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  Speaker 5: off the emotional high. I hate getting all vague and.
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  Speaker 4: Weird with stuff like that. But I do think that matters.
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  Speaker 4: It's a home game for the catch.
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  Speaker 3: It is a home and Dallas has been very, very
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  Speaker 3: good at home.
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  Speaker 2: It allows Dak to make the changes that he needs
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  Speaker 2: to make to get them in the right play. And
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  Speaker 2: we're all thread needles here. Me and Cynthia have the
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  Speaker 2: exact same needle thread I got thirty two to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking Dallasca's. Dak is a better quarterback than Nick Mullens.
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  Speaker 2: The Lions can win with this defense, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: never going to be easy, and it's not easy this
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  Speaker 2: season for Brandon Cook. He's one of the league leaders,
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  Speaker 2: and receptions over expected.
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  Speaker 3: When Dak's targeting Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: Cook, it's always seemingly a high difficulty completion, both.
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  Speaker 3: For Dak and for Brandon Cooks.
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  Speaker 4: That go ahead one last week, Yeah, incredible.
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  Speaker 3: They've been able to make it work.
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  Speaker 2: And let's say the Lions are able to focus a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of attention on Ceedee Lamb. I just think
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  Speaker 2: that makes things a little more easy for Brandon.
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  Speaker 3: Cooks as well.
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  Speaker 2: So we're all on the Dallas Cowboys meme away Lions fans,
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  Speaker 2: But you guys watch us, Okay, you know how.
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  Speaker 6: You feel it's okay, We're going good here wait for
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Two teams that have already locked down playoff spots.
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  Speaker 2: To a Chiefs team that folks are struggling our Kansas
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  Speaker 2: City has lost three of the last four games. The
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  Speaker 2: most recent gut punch came on Christmas Day. The Raiders
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  Speaker 2: went into Arrowhead and shocked KC twenty to fourteen despite
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  Speaker 2: zero completions.
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  Speaker 3: After the first quarter. Frustrating for KC.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Travis Kelce on the New Heights podcast earlier this week.
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  Speaker 9: It's a frustrating experience right now, and every single day
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  Speaker 9: we're going in here fixing it, I promise you guys.
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  Speaker 9: And it's not just one guy. It's not just me
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  Speaker 9: playing like it's not just us not being able to
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  Speaker 9: get the run game going. It's not just us not
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  Speaker 9: being on the same page passing wise. It's everybody's in
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  Speaker 9: this thing together. Everybody at some point isn't being accountable,
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  Speaker 9: and we all just got to bring it together.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the Bengals and the Chiefs in this game together.
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  Speaker 2: These two teams have met in the past two AFC
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  Speaker 2: Championship games, both squads fighting to make the postseason who
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  Speaker 2: gets it done on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like the Chiefs will find a way to
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  Speaker 5: win this game twenty three to twenty. I don't feel
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  Speaker 5: great about that. I feel greater that the Bengals keep
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  Speaker 5: it closer than seven, if you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: And that's because Jamar Chase is going to be back
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  Speaker 5: on the field this week. And I love the fact
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  Speaker 5: that he just threw out some trash talk that the
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  Speaker 5: Chiefs don't have any elite, you know, players on their defense.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a big reason why he's wrong about that.
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  Speaker 5: Lagarius Snead is one of the best quarterbacks in league.
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  Speaker 5: But oh, by the way, Ladarius Snead does it look
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  Speaker 5: like he's going to be playing in this game. And
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  Speaker 5: that's great news for t Higgins and Jamar Chase. Sometimes
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  Speaker 5: I feel you, Jamar, you just want to talk a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of your stuff to feel alive, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean. Like you're just in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: speaking and you're just like, this is boring.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to provoke some people. I'm with you. That's
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  Speaker 4: going to lead to a great performance by the Bengals.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I love Jamar Chase and I like a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of crap talk, but I think this is
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  Speaker 6: a pretty significant.
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  Speaker 7: Win for the Chiefs. I have a big one here.
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  Speaker 6: I have what twenty six to eighteen in this matchup,
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  Speaker 6: so eight points, And I want to talk about that
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  Speaker 6: elite defense because Chris Jones got something to say about
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  Speaker 6: what Jamar Chase is going to say. First of all,
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  Speaker 6: his number one get off time of point eight two seconds,
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  Speaker 6: that's a thing. Also, this entire defense there have the
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  Speaker 6: most unblocked pressure sixty seven, most unblocked sacks fourteen, So
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying that that's a pretty elite.
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  Speaker 7: Set of numbers and statistics there.
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  Speaker 6: I also want to point out that when they blitz,
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  Speaker 6: they have the second best passing EPA allowed, which is
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  Speaker 6: meaning's lowest, means their second best only to the Browns.
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  Speaker 6: So I would say, like, let's just like pump the
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  Speaker 6: brakes here and like just wait and see what happens.
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  Speaker 6: Trent McDuffie may have a little something to say, Age March.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying I love Jamar Chase, but if I
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  Speaker 6: were that defense, I'd probably.
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  Speaker 2: Be like, ah, we're all on the same page regarding
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  Speaker 2: Jamar Chase. And it's probably if Jamar Chase was to say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you can't cover me about the planet.
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  Speaker 3: He's right, But the problem is there's ten.
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  Speaker 2: Other people on the football field at one time, and
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  Speaker 2: there's so many good Chiefs defenders.
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  Speaker 3: If it was a team that plays a lot.
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  Speaker 2: His own, we'd say, yeah, Jake Browning the Chiefs can
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  Speaker 2: man up and Trim McDuffie can play on the outside,
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  Speaker 2: but when he comes inside, he's like a created player
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  Speaker 2: for Steve Spagnolo, the dude he does line up wide
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we never think about him out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's good in coverage, he comes into the slot. He's
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  Speaker 3: got nine.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback hits this season, so he's got three sacks this season.
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  Speaker 3: He's forced five fumbles this season.
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  Speaker 2: It's just there's so many guys on the field that
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  Speaker 2: can make plays, and they need to when the offense
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  Speaker 2: is struggling like they are. But I think they make
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  Speaker 2: enough plays against Jake brown and playing enough man.
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  Speaker 7: It's husky and husky crime.
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  Speaker 5: Is this the first time we ever did at Chiefs
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  Speaker 5: winning along across the board and yet no mention of
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  Speaker 5: their offense.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: It's why I think the Bengals will keep it close.
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  Speaker 5: Lou always has.
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  Speaker 4: A good point.
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  Speaker 6: We love Lou Huge Huge us We're lou show off
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  Speaker 6: record Still the.
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  Speaker 2: Come justin Jefferson of the Vikings playoff folks hanging by
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  Speaker 2: a thread? Is that thread cut this week by Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Love and the Packers.
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  Speaker 3: Loser leaves town or stays in town? But it's sad
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  Speaker 3: picks coming up that the NFL Playoffs are almost here.
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  Speaker 2: Witnessed the most exciting part of the season live in person.
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  Speaker 3: Fourteen teams, twelve games, three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Don't miss your chance to be a part of your
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  Speaker 2: team's journey to Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty eight tickets.
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  Speaker 2: it's time from the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Fins.
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  Speaker 2: The Packers and Vikings both teams clawing for that final
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  Speaker 2: wildcard spot. Jaren Hall is going to do the clawing
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  Speaker 2: for Minnesota a quarterback. Do you believe Greg and Jaren
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  Speaker 2: Hall for Minnesota?
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  Speaker 4: The I do believe in Jaren Hall.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: I don't believe in the Vikings defense slowing down this
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: Packers offense.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: So I think the Packers winning.
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: A score fest thirty three oh to twenty seven, and
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: it's because of these Packers wide receivers, like one or
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: two goes down, Christian Watson's out. D'antavian Wicks might not
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: play in this game. And they just got guys coming
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: out of the woodworks Bo Melton making plays. It doesn't
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: matter who they throw out there. Jayden Reid is awesome.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: They lose one tight end in Luke Musgrave and Craft
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: steps up and is great. Right now their offense is
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: ranked higher their top ten across the board. Then the
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers Packers offense was a year ago with all
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: of Aaron Rodgers' friends. So I really just believe that
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: this is a playoff team. Well that's he brought them
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: all with him to the tests, right, Hey, guys, let's go.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: Tim Boyle come with me. Sorry, we're talking Packers. They're
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: gonna win.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Get I also agree that Packers are gonna win.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: What a career opportunity though it has been to go
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: up against Joe Berry's defense in the past few weeks,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: if you're.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: A quarterback and Jaren Hall has that opportunity.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: But I do think it's Green Bay twenty four to
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: twenty one because Jordan Love is playing better. You go
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: back to the matchup in Week eight, Jordan Love was
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: one of eight when the Vikings dropped eight or more
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: players into coverage. And I think Jordan Love has seen
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of things since then. He's gonna take advantage
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: of that time in the pocket that didn't go so well.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: He's a better quarterback now, not taking jaredon.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Hall over him.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Despite what Joe Berry's defense has done the past few weeks,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I got green back.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: You know, I feel like the last few times you've
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: mentioned a coordinator's name the next week they have sused
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: to be just.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Say, my Jared's didham listen?
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: Maybe you are.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but I actually have the Vikings in
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: this one.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I do. Why because they've.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: Got Justin Jefferson and you talk, Yeah the prime number.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: There we go, prime number. I'm doing it. Yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Look, when I'm looking at the opportunity, it's all about
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: where is the defense gonna go. Be it in Justin
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Jefferson actually catching the ball, or the subject of the past,
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: or if he's just distracting any of the defenders to
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: create space for other guys like ty Chandler for whoever else.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: It doesn't even matter. But the reality is here. This
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: team absolutely needs to pull off this thing they're trying
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to do, which is rebuild but not rebuild but not
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: I don't know what that strategy is, but I do
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: actually think that they pull off the upset by just
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: one point. I think that the defense for Brian Flores,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: We've mentioned him, and he's done a great job with
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: this defense, Jordan Love, They're just missing too many pieces.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Interesting to see how the second time around goes.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: One catch for Justin Jefferson last time gonna be.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: A big game.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Tampa currently in first place in the NFC South, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: New Orleans is just one game out.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: They're not out of it. Will they be after this
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: one though, Cynthia.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah they will.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: I have twenty three to twenty one in this matchup
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: for the home team, the Tampa Bay and Begger's been great.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: But you know why, It's because Rashad White has been
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: there to catch those shorter passes for him. I don't
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: care what you say they've been I've been watching Todd
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Bowles at.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Those press are saying we need to get a run game.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: But here's the thing.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: He also should be like asterisks, it can be also
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: a short passing game. To my running back, which is
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: what the case is because the two internight receiving yards
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: over expected that. Rashad White has branks number one amongst
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: running backs. That includes Christian McCaffrey, who was also running back.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: The catches passes he has more.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: He's a great receiving yard if he was a receiver.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, in ninety one point five catch rate. Hello, that's
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: very good.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I agree with you. I've been riding the Bucks.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: They've kept me in first place really through this winning streak.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: I got the winning twenty seven to twenty because they're
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: going to get pressure on Derek Carr. I was there
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: in Sofi Stadium across the street watching the Rams defensive
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: line dominate this Saints group up front, and when all
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: else fails, just look at line play. The same means
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: d line not getting any pressure, their offensive line giving
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: up a lot of pressure.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: That is a bad combination.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: The only time this season the Bucks defense has looked
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: like the twenty twenty Bucks defense with Todd Bowles was
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: the first time they played the Saints. I don't think
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: they had a touchdown in that game New Orleans. They
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: embarrassed them in the Superdome, and they're gonna be a
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: NFC South Champions and the Misery get it done this
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Sunday Buccing years.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben in the Misery.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I also think Tampa Bay wins this win twenty three
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to seventeen because there's one thing you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Need to do when you play the Bucks. You need
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to stop Mike Evans.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: One force on this planet could stop Mike Evans by
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: having him leave the game, and that's Marshawn Lattimore. Let's
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: let's go through some fight history. So Jamis is trolling
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Marshaun Latimore.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: He hits Jamis, Mike.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Evans like, oh I can Gettimore takes a shot. Of course,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: he gets run from that game. That was back in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. There's been multiple altercations since then. Here's Week one,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty. They just finished training camp and they're like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: all right, we gotta go at it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: And so they both get run here too. Oh my goodness.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: We haven't seen Marshall Lattimore since November. If there's no
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Marshall Lattimore, nobody's dealing with Mike Evans on or off
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the field. I've got the Bucks winning this one.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: As well, to go together in like ten more years,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: they'll be like, like, we'll have them on here and
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: we'll be there.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have five chairs and we'll be we'll be
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: in the middle. I don't think any Saints fans are
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: gonna be mad about this issue.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: It still they come.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: The Steelers and the Seahawks both need to win to
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: stay in the wildcard race.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: They're squaring off in Seattle. Does Rudolph's magic run out
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: our picks?
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: Right after this quick break.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: In Pittsburgh territory?
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Mason RUDOLPHI and the guy the empties, the set, pass
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: over the middle.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: List cat five Pickens. He's on his way. He's hit
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: the forty, the fifty, the forty five to forty. Here
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: comes George Pickens all the way.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Huh uh Pitchburg Steelers touchdown baby six yards. Don't you
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: know what that's sweeter that Nelly's Blue Giry playing Baby?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: What a Christmas tree? Now? Sure what that is?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I'm back.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Twenty seven percent of George Pickens yards this season have
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: come on five total catches. His Steelers got the Seahawks,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: both teams eight and seven fighting to make the playoffs.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Mason Rudolph is the.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Reason I picked against Pittsburgh last week and I was wrong.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I'm picking against Pittsburgh this week twenty four to fourteen
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: because did you see on the road Geno Smith with
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a need of a game winning drive and Geno Smith delivers.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, some of these players come on third. There
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: was a third and fourteen, Gina right here firing us
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: fire into defenders fourth first down, had the game winning touchdown.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: It's just I'm not gonna pick against the Seahawks late
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: needing this run in the playoffs.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I got Geno in company winning this one, so get
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: ten points.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: That's a big win. I have four points in this one.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I have twenty two to eighteen my final score. Seahawks
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: take it for me as well. I want to talk
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: about boy A Mafe, who kind of quietly has nine
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: sacks this season. He's got fifteen quarterback hits, nine tackles
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: for loss. Do you want me to keep going? He
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: has two tumble recoveries, Like I feel like when we
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: think about Seattle, we think about their offense, and then
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: maybe we think about a few of their like secondary players.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Devin Witherspoon had an amazing start to the season as well.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: As a rookie. But we haven't talked about the pass
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: rush very much.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: And boy Mafe, which is a very fun name to
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: say as well, like boy yay Mafe, right, Like that's
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: how you learn it, That's how I learned it. But
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: I'm really impressed with what he's doing. And I think,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: especially when you have an O line that looks a
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: lot like the Steelers, you have the opportunity there for
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: boy A Mafe to maybe get like another sack or
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: maybe even two.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: And I believe they used a pick and from the
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson trade to get boy A Mafe. That one
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: worked out pretty well for Seattle.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: Or Russell hate no too far.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Trade on too far Red Gino Patrick stole Gino from me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I couldn't talk about it, So I'm going to talk
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: about the dear Howlers defense and why they've struggled over
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: the middle of the field this season. It's because they're
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: slow at linebacker and they're at cornerback. What is my score?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: It's twenty three to seventeen. I think they get over
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: three and a half. And when you watch Pittsburgh this year,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: they just haven't known what to do with Patrick Peterson.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: They moved him inside outside, he gets picked on a lot.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Their linebackers have been injured and slow, and as a
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Seahawks enthusiast, the Gino enthusiasts, I want to see him
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: use the middle of the field more. They throw it
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: to the outside more than any team in the league.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: They never throw to the middle, even though they have
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jigba Lockett can catch pass in the
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: middle of the field. They have some good tight ends.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I've seen Gino do it before. They were good at
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: it last year. He was good at it with the Jets.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: So let's start using the whole field Seahawks as we
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: get ready for the playoffs, because they're going.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, coach them up, Greg and again Mimus Away Steelers
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: fans were all on the Seattle Seahawks. Let's take a
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: look at some notable player props for this game. We
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: got Gino going two hundred and forty eight and a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: half passing yards, Mason Rudolph one and a half passing touchdowns,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker over sixty one and a half rushing yards,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Najie Harris fifty three and a half, DK sixty three
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and a half receiving ours. Player props for the Steelers
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: at the Seahawks elsewhere as we get to some quick
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: picks presented by Zillow, a battle of the Birds, Cardinals
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and Eagles in Philly.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: What do you see happening, Cynthia, Well, Jonathan Gannon is
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: going to be looking for revenge, but he doesn't get
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: because Deandres Swift runs all over his team. Now I
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: have thirty to twenty right now. Kyler Murray has been
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: on the injury report with an illness. If he doesn't play,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: just take that whole thing down a little bit, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: keep the same difference between the two, just fewer points
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: just in general. But DeAndre Swift is going to make
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: his old DC really well.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: I guess it wasn't really his he was in Detroit,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: but whatever, the.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Eagles are going to use DeAndre Swift to run all
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: over their old DC turned head coach. There's some weird
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: shade there, but I think we start to see what
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: we need to see from the Eagles.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: People are questioning what's going on there?
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: The you wrang get whatever? We see more explosive plays
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: from Swift.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the forty nine Ers and Commanders.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett expected to start for Washington he's now questionable
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: with a hamstring injury that came in practice. Is Jake
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Briskett with a bad wheel enough?
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Grek, No, it is not enough, because Jake Brisket with
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: any wheels doesn't play defense. So I'm going fifty to
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: twenty one.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Fry up the fifty burger in uh, Washington? Is that
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: where it is?
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I'm looking for big planes out of this San.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Francis Seventy one points.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's totally reasonable.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: The Commanders are one of the worst defenses we've seen
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: a long time.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Zero pass rush. They made the Jets.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Offensive line last week look like the nineties Cowboys, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: then their cornerbacks give up a bunch of huge plays.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: You know who they're missing this week both they're starting
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: cornerbacks for Washington. So we got backups on backups against
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: one of the best offenses that we've ever seen. Just
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: because they had one off week with some turnovers, it doesn't
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: mean they've changed. Fifty it up and if Jacobe is out,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: make it fifty to fourteen because Brissett's worth a touchdown
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: right at least?
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But I guess not defense either.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: Seventy points.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: The Patriots.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: The Patriots and the Bills. The Pats shocked the Bills
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: back in Week seven. They just got a prime time
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: win on.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Christmas Eve because the zapp was dealing.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: The zapp I got the Bills winning twenty two twenty
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: three to thirteen.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Gabe Davis, glad to have you back in our lives.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: The Cardio King of twenty twenty three went over one
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: hundred yards last week.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: In fact, his last.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Two games that he's had catches in he's gone over
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: one hundred yards. He's been the ultimate boomer Bus play
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: contract year for Gabe. I would like to see Gabe
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: get some catchable balls, not all just deep shots, so
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: we can get Gab Davis some money because he's been
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: very good in the playoffs, especially for the Buffalo Bills.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: It's time for pizza. Pizza.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Pregame predictions delivered by Little Caesars Raiders Colts, both teams
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: fighting for that last wild card spot in the AFC.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Who gets a dun Cynthia.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: The Raider twenty one twenty a one point win for
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: the Raiders because of their defense, a defense that we
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: knew about. Max Crosby right, he already has sixty stops,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: which is the most among edge players. We saw the
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Jack Jones intercept, we saw the two pick sixes.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: In fact, last week. We know about Nate Hops, but
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: we maybe don't talk about splayne very much.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Roberts Splaine has a thirty seven point seven pressure rate
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: that is the highest among linebackers. I'm looking at the
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: opportunity here and the confusion that sometimes is the Colts offense,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: especially now know Zach Moss. We've got a lot of injuries.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: We're still not sure as the time we're taping this.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: If we're one hundred percent, can to have Michael Pittman junior, probably,
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: but even so that's gonna be difficult because they're always
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: a little bit.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: We would talk about it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Gardner Minshew can be like one play away from maybe
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: turning the ball over.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It happens a lot, and frequently the ball can be
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: put in danger by Gardner Minshew.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I think Max Crosby will be a.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Big part of putting that football in danger and as well,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: because so many times we talk about Max Crosby, and
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: due to the nature of sports discussion, people talk about
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: his motor. He's an incredible athlete. He's not just out
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: there trying hard. But there have been eight games this
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: season where Max Crosby has played every single defensive snap.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: The rest of the league the Edges have four such games.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: He has been incredible. He's always been on the field.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Which perhaps speaks to some roster issues, maybe get some
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: guys to get Max a break, But still I think
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: he's a big part of why the Raiders went at
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: twenty to seventeen.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: They have given him one extra great edg rusher this year, and.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That is the man by the name of Malcolm Koontz.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: And our producer Heitha was like, who is Malcolm koons
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Do we really need to feature Malcolm kok The fact
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: that you don't know is why we got to feature him.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: He's one of the best secondary edg rushers.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: In the league.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: And I'm picking the Colts anyways, it's seventeen sixteen, but
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: you look at that number in the corner, it's three
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: and a half. I feel better that it'll be closer
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: than three and a half than either team. But it's
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: a just greg here with the Colts and Colts fans.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: If you're out there, you're wondering how come we didn't
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: show any Colts players. I don't know what to say
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: about this Colts team. They are the number one ranked
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: team of like, I don't know what to say about them,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: but I'm giving you a just Greg. That might be
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: a curse because I haven't picked the Colts game correctly since,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: like Jim Sorgie was the quarterback.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: A lot to be a positive about Greg as the
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Colts winning seventeen to sixteen. Let's take a look, speaking
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: at lowst of our games.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: At some of the lowest over unders for the week.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Right there at the top the Chargers and the Broncos
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: with thirty six and a half Todd with the Panthers
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Not a lot of points expected either.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Between the Falcons and the Bears, both squads remaining alive
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: in the wild card race? Greg, which team is even
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: more alive after this week?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I love the Bears in this game. I have been
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: winning by a touchdown twenty three to I think when
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Arthur Smith looks in the mirror, maybe the monitor when
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: he's on the Pat mcafe show, he's got to look
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: at himself and say, like.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Who am I? What is my team? Aren't we supposed
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: to be a good running attack?
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Shouldn't we be able to run the ball on anyone
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: like the great Bears run defense.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: No, you can't do it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: You are twenty fourth in the league and rushing success,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: right and they got it go in a week ago
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: and they did it against Indianapolis. I don't think they're
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: going to do it because this Bears defense is playing fantastic.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: They've been great against the run all year. Now they're
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: playing really well against the past. One of the best
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: defense in the league. They kind of remind me of
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: the Lions from a year ago, because if it's their
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: defense not their offense, they're finishing the season playing as
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: well or better than some of the teams that will
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: make the playoffs.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Love this Bears team right now, Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Very very good.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I've got them winning on the power of that defense
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: as well, twenty one to seventeen. But I'd like to
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: talk about the offense because after this game and after
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the Bears win, there's going to be more discussion.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: On what to do with Justin Fields.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Well, you know one place where that wouldn't be a discussion, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: As we look back at Justin Fields behind Jake from
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: remember that starting a playing backup quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs. Yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: he transferred to Ohio State, he finished his career and
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: win the National Championship game. But before all that, Justin
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Fields was right there in Georgia. And I think ultimately
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons made a mistake by not making an
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: offer to Lamar Jackson.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: They made a mistake.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Perhaps when they didn't draft Justin Fields, they'll have a
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: chance to get and look at him up close and
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: personal and maybe have a conversation with one of Cynthia's
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: friends about making a trait.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest with you. He looks great in red, right,
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: he does look great red, but he's not going to
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: win this game. This is actually quite surprising for me
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: that the model picked the upset here, just a one
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: point upset though, twenty two to twenty one.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Yep, there it is. There is yet there's smoke.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: That came out.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: It was crazy.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: But I want to show you something about what happened
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: with this Falcons offense last week.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: We saw them use their playmakers. What really crazy, I'm sorry,
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: is that Kyle Pitts. That's Kyle Pitts. Did you even
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: remember who he was?
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: No, Drake London got in on the action, but Jehan
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Robinson had a number of kind of explosive situations, not
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: just like making it out of nothing, but actually being
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: set up for explosive situations.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: And when I'm looking at the parts of.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: This Bear's defense, I think we got a little too
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: high on the fact that they started off being not
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: so great of a defense and then they got monteswent
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and it looked like they were like, huh, all.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: The problems are fixed. Everyone's best.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: That's how I feel.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you Unfortunately, they still have allowed two hundred
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: and twenty six passes to be caught on open targets.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: And Drake London he has actually done a really nice job.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: In earning receiving yards over expected.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: So that is where the model is, Like, well, Taylor, Heineke,
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: He's going to be a little bit of a risk
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: it kind of guy and this could pay off with
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: some spaces in the way that.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: In their defense.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Though, they had to play against Joe Flacco one week,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: and he's the greatest quarterback that's ever played.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Clearly in recently.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: I just like that he says the F word.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: I never thought Joe Flacco would would curse, and turns
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: out he does.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: He's cool.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: None of us do the Titans Texans in Houston? This
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: week's Shroud off the injury report.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: He's going to start.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Will Levis is also back for the Titans battle rookie quarterbacks.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Who's supreme? Greg?
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: I like the Texans in this game. They're a little
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: banged up on defense, but offensively. Getting the stroudback will
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: be another off against the Titan. See, they beat a
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago with Case Ketum. Let's watch some
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: of that footage because in that game, the Texans gained
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: about three hundred and seventy yards. The Titans gained two
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: hundred and once again, the quarterback was Case Ketum. I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: showing your case because if the Texans with Case can
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: win in Tennessee, oh, the Texans with CJ can win
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: in Houston. Sometimes it's as simple as that. That's my model.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: A little ab test, c J. Stroud better than Case
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Keenum Texas shade right there.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: That's my model.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Okay, whatever, Just so you know, I have the absolute
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: market cornered on saying the words, that's my model on
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: tele I have Houston in this matchup twenty three to nineteen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: I want to talk about Dalton Schultz for a little bit.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Because when you think about this offense with CJ. Stroud,
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: you think about his best pal. I don't know if
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: they're actually best friends, but they've done a lot of
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: damage together with Dalton Schultz. If you are in your
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: fantasy finals, you need a tight end that you can
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: rely on. This is one that feels good as gold
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: against this Tennessee secondary that is very sus So I'm
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: looking at this opportunity here.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: And I'm thinking CJ.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Stroud He's going to be my oh roy, and of
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: course Dalton Schultz, his bestie, is going to get an
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: the end zone.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I much like Greg, don't adhere precisely to the transitive
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: properties in football, but I do think Houston Texans winning
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: this game.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I'm glad to have CJ. Stroud.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Twenty to fourteen is the game. But they've had a
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: lot of injuries on the defense, a lot. But let's
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: just discuss that defensive line and just how good they
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: have been. Jonathan Garnward is going to be out for
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: this game. They do get Sheldon Rankins back. Will Anderson's
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: still dealing with the ankle injury, but this was them
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: taking on the type it was not that long ago.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Will Levis struggled.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Derek Henry could do absolutely nothing against this front seven,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: and I think the Texans defense is enough. Whether it
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: was case Keenum or c J. Stroud, I think that
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: makes it even more likely. But I've got them winning
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: twenty to fourteen. Let's go to the Rams and Giants
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: at MetLife. Tyrod Taylor is going to get the start
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: for the g Man. As we get to our quick picks,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: does New York pull off the upset Cynthia?
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: They don't. I mean they always could, right, There's always
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: a chance.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: But I have twenty five to eighteen in this matchup.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: Let's just talk about Matthew Stafford. I'm gonna go on
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: official hiatus not talking about him because it's very likely
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: that he ends up playing in Detroit against my Lions
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: in their first home.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I don't want that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: But I really want to talk about how good he is,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: especially off platform, out of structure, like anything.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: That could go wrong, no problem.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: You got number nine and you know what, Puka Nukua,
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: that's gonna be.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: The key to your fantasy playoffs too.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: I keep talking about this because it is important to
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: pick the right ones, to pick the right guys in
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: this particular week, but I'm thinking, Matthew Stafford, this guy's
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: really special. What he can do when everything else breaks
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: down is ridiculous and from any arm angle right, and.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: He's been doing it and this somehow.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: This ties back He was a Georgia bulldog, like doesn't.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: There we go? So I don't know.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: Something about that seems to resonate with me, but I'm
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: not talking about him again until hiatus.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: No more Cynthia on Matthew Stafford can't do it crazy,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but he kind of reminds me of Lamar on some
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: of those sorts.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: As much credit as Sean McVay deserves, sometimes when it's
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: just Matthew Stafford, like sprinting left and throwing side out right,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: that's just Matthew Stafford.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Doing There's no amount of coaching.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: In fact, if you tried to coach guys to do
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Stafford stuff, a lot of times things wouldn't.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: They'll get drafted work out the Panthers and the Jags.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence has been ruled out. CJ. Bethard will start
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: at quarterback for the Jags. Can c J. Bether do it?
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: He can't for the first time all year. Oh, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: am picking the Carolina Panthers to win a game. Now,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: they've won a couple games. I haven't picked them to
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: do it. Now they're gonna win. When I look back
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: on my title this year of getting the picks right,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: this is the pick I'm.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Gonna remember because I believe in you, Bryce Young.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: I've watched your last two games. They're the best two
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: games he's had all season. People like, oh, it's against
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Joe Burry. He was hitting some tight window throws. He
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: made some plays with his feet that were really good.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Here's one right here, throw on the move for a touchdown.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: I just think he's more comfortable, he's playing better, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: this Jaguars team they're just asking to get kicked out
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: of the playoffs. I watch him week after week. Was
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: very tempted to pick against them with Trevor Lawrence, and
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: then once I saw it's Betther, I said, give me that,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: just Greg. This is what's gonna take me home for
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: the title. The Panthers, thank you.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: That's a lot of gloating. That's a lot of gloating.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: That's not gloating. It's cock.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: You're basing.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: You're basing your entire little tiny smug crown on the Panthers.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just saying that is the one I'll remember.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: This is like the Dan Campbell's speech before the game.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: I hope you're watching DJ chart.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: The one I will remember as Greg saying that the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Patriots are going to.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Go into Dallas and viet The cows ran out of
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the stadium. That's Althose twice.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: The Chargers and the Broncos Denver bench Russell Wilson earlier
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: this week, apparently for financial concerns, Jared Stidham going in here.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I like Easton Stick and the Chargers twenty two to
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: twenty one, because if the Chargers offense does anything, there's
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: no Keenan Allen here. Might might not have the Josh
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Palmer as well. It's gonna have to be Quintin Johnston.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: And Quentin Johnson got a lot of stuff over the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: He had some bad drops. He had a game winner
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: that he dropped as well. But I think back to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: guys who have had some drops early in their careers.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Davante Adams used to struggle with drops. What matters is
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that you get open, and I think Quentin Johnsin is
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: going to catch a lot of short balls. He's gonna
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: get some yards after the catch, and he will be
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: what powers the Chargers to the win unless I change
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: this pick. It's time to write this down as we
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: get you some predictions, some bolder than others for Week seventeen.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Start us off great.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I've been slumping with write this down.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: The only way you know you should write it down
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: with me is if you throw it in the trash afterwards.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: But I did have one good one this year that
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: I wanted to throw back to.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Let's let's hear it.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: What's your production.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: I'm looking way.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Past week eleven and I'm putting the Buffalo Bills into
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. Cynthia's model says they only have a twenty
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: nine percent chance to make them. So you're telling me there,
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: I'm giving you one hundred percent because you're writing it down.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: They are the first team since the nineteen eighty one
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Falcons to have it plus seventy five scoring differential through
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: ten games and not have a winning record.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: Greg, I have to give it to you.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: This is a good one because I did the math
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: for you on this one little extra math. And if
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Miami loses this week, then not only do the Bills
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: have a chance to make the playoffs. But they win
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: the East in fifty one point one percent of simulation.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: That's my write this down. I nailed it in week eleven.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, they're not it yet, but they're gonna beat the
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Patriots and they're gonna get it, and then next week
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: they're gonna go ahead and.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Win the division.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: All we need is the Dolphins to lose this week,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: the Bills to beat the Patriots, and it's gonna happen.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: So hopefully you took my advice back then smart, they're
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: gonna make the playoffs. There are long ger odds. Now
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: take the win.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: The AFC East odds. It's Bills fever. Maybe this is
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: the year they actually make the super Bowl because they
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: just were down so low.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: Now they respond, I like it, and I'm going to
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: actually go with something that is far more working for me.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: If it works, just keep going back to it. Jamiir
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: Gibbs longest run. They would all way up to fifteen
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: and a half yards, but let's be honest with you,
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: sixteen yards for Gibbs.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: This is like a first quarter type of situation thing.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: And if you're not gonna adjust the number that I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: measuring against Hey, what you measure matters.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: I'm just gonna take easy cheese.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Might as well, Gez, you have nailed this week after
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: weeks mis Suid Walker watches the show and he's He's like,
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: didn't she choose this?
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: LUs?
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: It was a ye?
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: Walker?
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: The answer is yes, and I'm gonna keep doing it.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: The best part of it is by about ten to
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: seventeen am on the West Coast, this one's already in
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: the bag.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: It's over so early every week, the.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Thing is like, it's already.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: You already get juiced when you see Jamiir Gibbs is
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: getting the footba because he's so explosive. This has added
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: another layer. I'm like, what's he gonna do? I have
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: a much more pedestrian write this that we don't have
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: long term predictions or exciting plays. For some reason, the
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: number for Joe Mixon rushing attempts is at ten and
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: a half. He's hit that number every single game this
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: season except for one it was a loss. I think
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Joe Mixon carries the ball more than ten and a
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: half times. I think eleven carriers is easy against the
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. That's something that I feel confident that
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: you can write down, and I don't think we're gonna.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: Have the one for you.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Look back at it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: You know what, Listen, I'll give you another one because
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: that one says.
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: For free island, so generous, free, lun free. Pick. Here's
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: we're gonna tell you. Travis Kelcey, he gets in the
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: end zone. It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Yes or no, No or yes, Travis Kelcey end zone.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Book it there it is. Travis Kelcey gets into the
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: end zone.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: The Bills are gonna win the AFC East and ten
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: US thanks to watch to give few.
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: We'll see you next week.
• 40:42
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