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Rams keep playoff hopes alive with win over San Francisco 49ers · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: on this Friday afternoon. National Football League as Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of a nah kind of football game
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  Speaker 1: last night. I suppose that if I was watching the
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  Speaker 1: game at home as a Rams fan. If I was
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  Speaker 1: sitting at home watching I probably would have been a
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  Speaker 1: lot more bunged up about it. Then it turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be because you know, there wasn't they weren't capitalizing
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  Speaker 1: Stafford Gets stopped on that run toward the goal line
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  Speaker 1: and got flattened on that. Williams would have taken it in,
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  Speaker 1: but he did hit Pooka the coop with a fifty
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  Speaker 1: one yard pass that set up the field goal to
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  Speaker 1: go up nine to six. H Nikua had a good game.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup didn't catch pass in the game, and then
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers were just awful on offense. Brock
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  Speaker 1: Perty made some terrible decisions the one that was picked
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  Speaker 1: off in the end zone. He made some poor decisions
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  Speaker 1: even in the last play of the game. The one
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  Speaker 1: thing you cannot do when you need a hell maryage
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  Speaker 1: to take a sack and didn't get it off in time,
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  Speaker 1: and the Rams were able to sack them and that
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  Speaker 1: did it. So it was it was a huge win
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams. I mentioned this yesterday. If LA had
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  Speaker 1: won the game, I said, if they win the game,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be in the thick of the fight
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  Speaker 1: for the NFC West. They're not leading. Seattle was eight
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  Speaker 1: and five, the Rams are six and eight and six.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks host the Packers on Sunday. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the big games in the NFL. If the Seahawks win
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  Speaker 1: that game, they maintained a one game lead on Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: But of course they still have games left to be completed,
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  Speaker 1: and they conclude the regular season at Sofi Stadium in La.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle plays at LA and the Rams already had beaten
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks once, so they're they're they're still in control
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  Speaker 1: their own destiny. Both of those teams are even the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals that think are all butt in control of their
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  Speaker 1: own destiny because they got swept by the Seahawks. They're
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  Speaker 1: still in the think of the fight. But they're six
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  Speaker 1: and seven. One would imagine to beat the Patriots this Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: that puts them still within hopefully for them striking distance.
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  Speaker 1: I think the forty nine Ers are dead and gone.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this yesterday if they lost, because their division
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  Speaker 1: record is taking the beating now and they got swept
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  Speaker 1: by the Rams and they're six and eight, and at
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  Speaker 1: the very least they'll still be two games back with
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  Speaker 1: three to go. So I think they're done. I think,
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  Speaker 1: what was it a zero point two percent chance to
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  Speaker 1: get kind of like the Cowboys, that's zero point two
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  Speaker 1: percent chance to get in into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I ran through the playoffs machine earlier the day and
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  Speaker 2: did what it would take for the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 2: to get there, and it's just impossible. I mean, basically,
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  Speaker 2: you need Washington to lose out, you need Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 2: to lose out. You need who's the other team you need?
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  Speaker 2: You need the Seahawks to lose some games.
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  Speaker 3: You need the Rams. Basically the into the division. It's done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got players quitting on your on the
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  Speaker 2: team halfway through a game. It's over. With McCaffrey. Just
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  Speaker 2: let him take a year off from football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't bring him back for this. Deebo Samuel, he looked anful.
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  Speaker 2: He's injured, of course, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He said there winding and complaining about not being targeted enough.
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  Speaker 3: So what happens last night?
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  Speaker 1: They targeted me drops the ball twice, including one where
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  Speaker 1: he was running the slant over the middle. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have called it even it would have been a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown touchdown for sure, and he dropped that. He also
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  Speaker 1: ran into Grindo and knocked him down his own teammate once.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the year from Hell for San Francisco. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's always that one year from Hell team. And when
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  Speaker 2: we went over the playoff predictions beginning to season, and
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  Speaker 2: I gave you my seven teams, you know, I went
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  Speaker 2: through the NFC AFC and it's like, okay, usually at
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  Speaker 2: least three teams from last year's playoffs do not make
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  Speaker 2: it this year. And I couldn't really figured it out
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC, but there's always that one team that
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  Speaker 2: has that that year from Hell aspect and we'll miss
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Who you didn't think would happen before the season,
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  Speaker 2: It was San Francisco. I think if you asked, if
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  Speaker 2: you survey ten people NFL fans, a nogele NFL fans, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: who wins the NFC Probably half for seeing San Francisco,
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  Speaker 2: maybe more maybe more in the other half, probably Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: No one had, you know, Philadelphia or even Minnesota. But
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  Speaker 2: it's caught up to him. And you know, with San Francisco, crack.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious because you know, remember when Harball made the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and then a few years later things didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out and they let him go. I wonder what
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna do with Shanahan, if that will get stealed
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  Speaker 2: because I think he's a fantastic play caller and a
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  Speaker 2: good head coach. But you know, well, will the ownership
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  Speaker 2: group in San Francisco maybe get a little impatient.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, he's gotten to the super Bowl twice, he's got
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get over the hump.
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  Speaker 2: And they have some very big contract decisions of him coming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: especially with Brock Brady.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying the Season from Hell belongs to the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers and not the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because don't think the Cowbys are a good team.
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  Speaker 3: Like, but people thought they were going to be a
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  Speaker 3: good team. They won what twelve ball games last year
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  Speaker 3: and they lost in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but they won't now, but they were still expected
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  Speaker 1: to be a playoff team by most and maybe you
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick them. I did not pick them, and I
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  Speaker 1: picked them to be a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to say this year from Hell, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but I think in the offseason. There was things that
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  Speaker 2: were leading up to the season that made you think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably not gonna work out for them, and it
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  Speaker 2: turned out that way. I mean, even without Dak Prescott's injury,
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys are probably in the same spot. Maybe they have
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  Speaker 2: one or two more wins, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: they're still trilling Washington in the NFC East for that
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  Speaker 2: final playoff spot. I don't think they would have gotten
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  Speaker 2: there with or without Dakh. With San Francisco, every week
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  Speaker 2: someone else is getting injured. For me, that streams streams
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  Speaker 2: year from health, especially because they were you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: one defensive stop last year from winning a six Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl championship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they all they do have enough.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys gave up eighty points in the first half againt
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  Speaker 2: screen Bay in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, the the forty nine ers do have enough
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  Speaker 1: weapons on offense to be better than one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety one yards of total offense last night.
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  Speaker 3: True, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, brock Perdy was hailed as a second coming
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  Speaker 1: after getting to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: How does that work. He's having an awful season, up.
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  Speaker 2: And down, up and down. You know, people you know
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  Speaker 2: giving him praise and then tear him down.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's and I know I know that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the wide receivers have sustained some injuries, but Juwan
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  Speaker 1: Jennings had done well when Deebo was out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they when they had other injuries as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the loss of McCaffrey is huge because it just
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  Speaker 1: the key to.
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  Speaker 3: The whole offense.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Jordan Mason before he got injured and as
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  Speaker 1: a Grendo have had moments for them.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, your unry has been huge as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because the key for Shnahan's offense is you need those
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  Speaker 2: multiple playmakers for the defense. Isn't honing in on just
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  Speaker 2: one guy, because when you when you take away a
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  Speaker 2: UK and McCaffrey and you're just left with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a fifty healthy Deebo Samuel, it's easier for defenses to
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  Speaker 2: stop you. And it's why San Francisco has a negative
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  Speaker 2: point differential this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, losers are for their last five. You know.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Kenneth Walker, the third who's been binged
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  Speaker 1: up running the ball well for Seattle, is doubtful with
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  Speaker 1: that calf injury to play against the Packers. So the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are won four in a row, but they may
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  Speaker 1: well have to do without Kenneth Walker. The third listed
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  Speaker 1: is doubtful for the Sunday night game there in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: possibility could miss a second straight game.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald said.
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  Speaker 1: The injury is not a long term concern, but that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, as it said. But Zach Charbonay has played well,
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  Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and thirty four yards two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: when they beat the Cardinals last week.
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  Speaker 3: So when getting McIntosh has added some things as well.
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  Speaker 2: So four straight wins, you know, the defense is getting healthy,
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  Speaker 2: physical football team. You know, Mike Donald's a good football coach.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's they got that that tough nosed defensive
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  Speaker 2: mentality that you need to have in in January to
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  Speaker 2: make a deep run the playoffs. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's always you know, label teams who aren't favorites, teams
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  Speaker 2: that oh you just don't want to face him, you
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  Speaker 2: know in January. You know, I think San Francisco, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Seattle is one of those teams. They're frisky, they play
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  Speaker 2: good defense. And now you know, I'm not the like
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  Speaker 2: you know Smith, I'm not really concerned with him. But
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  Speaker 2: on the right day, right day, you know, can you
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  Speaker 2: know he'll throw that one stupid interception, But he also
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  Speaker 2: can throw four touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he does throw those funny ones, those inexplicable like
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and three yard return one that the
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  Speaker 1: Rams had.
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  Speaker 2: He's like Jameis wins He's like the Kirkland version of
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  Speaker 2: Jamis Winston Kirkland, because Jamis is going to throw these
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  Speaker 2: three game He's also going to make that You're like, Holy.
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  Speaker 3: Look who's back from injury? Hollywood Brown? There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown practiced today for the first time with the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs since that injury in August knocked him out of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup. That was the first play of the preseason
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  Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. Remember that it was a stern oclavicular injury.
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  Speaker 1: He had surgery placed on IR so they have a
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  Speaker 1: three week window in which he can be activated from
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  Speaker 1: injured reserve. He's not going to play this Sunday against Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: but he has back on the practice so that he
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  Speaker 1: could return as soon as the following week. Next weekend
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  Speaker 1: against the Texans, they play him at Arrowhead, So he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to play this weekend, but he might be
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  Speaker 1: going forward, so's it really has been a star crossed
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  Speaker 1: existence for those two former Oklahoma receivers, you know, Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Brown and Cede Lamb.
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  Speaker 3: The CD's had some marvelous moments and then he said
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  Speaker 3: some moments this.
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  Speaker 1: Year when like Trey Aiightman was viscerating him in this
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  Speaker 1: commentary about him saying he's dropping balls he shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: dropping and you know, effort being questioned and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of receivers, I guess you saw the Dolphins release
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  Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior.
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  Speaker 3: It was a mutual decision.
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  Speaker 1: He had a one year, three million dollar deal that
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  Speaker 1: he signed back and made with the Dolphins worth up
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  Speaker 1: to eight million, two hundred and fifty thousand with incentives.
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  Speaker 1: But he had knee surgery earlier in the offseason, started
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  Speaker 1: on the pup list, made his practice debut in October.
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  Speaker 1: In nine games, he has nine catches for fifty five yards.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the third receiving option behind Tyreek Hill and
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  Speaker 1: Jaln Waddle. So that's that's where he is, and he's
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  Speaker 1: out razer hand. If you knew Opj's and the Dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: anybody he did sign with him in the offseason, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we've got some more college football notes to
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