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Aaron Rodgers Plans for Sunday, Week 13 Fantasy Football, & Dan Hanzus has The Power Rankings · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. All Right, Week twelve is over.
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  Speaker 1: Time to turn the page two. Week thirteen. We have
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  Speaker 1: some great games, have a couple of playoff clinching scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of news coming up this hour
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  Speaker 1: and a preview momentarily of another Bangals playoff rematch last
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  Speaker 1: week Tennessee. This week Kansas City, NFL Now, NFL Network.
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  Speaker 1: We're here every day. Thank you for being here. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Andrew Ceciliano. Let's open up with Aaron Rodgers news.
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  Speaker 1: The injury news. Is he gonna be able to go
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  Speaker 1: this week with rib and thumb injuries. He's battled through
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  Speaker 1: the thumb injury. Now the rib thing, Tom Hello, Sero,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gara, Folo with me, Mike. Aaron Rodgers had something
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  Speaker 1: to say today. What was it? He did on the
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  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show. I'm gonna get that plug right away.
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  Speaker 1: One time I was on the McAfee show was when
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  Speaker 1: I was looking over Rappaport shoulder, Ian was doing the
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  Speaker 1: show and I said, you know, hey, I'm finally on
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  Speaker 1: the McAfee show, and he said, no, no, you made
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  Speaker 1: a comment. One time on the air, But I said
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  Speaker 1: made a comment about what Tuesday's a black hole for
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  Speaker 1: NFL news, and you provide news with an Aaron Rodgers interview.
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  Speaker 1: So Pat McAfee show than just talk about Rogers saying
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  Speaker 1: on the air that he got good news on his
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  Speaker 1: scans regarding his ribs and he plans to play this
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  Speaker 1: weekend against the Bears. Uh. He said he knew it
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  Speaker 1: halftime when he was trying to stretch things out he
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  Speaker 1: got hit earlier in the game. He said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: realized it wasn't a muscle injury, and he had remembered
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  Speaker 1: Randall Cobb amongst other players who suffered a punctured lung
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes you can get that c J. Gardner Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: whom Tom is going to talk about in a second here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm stealing his thunder as well. Um. So, Roger said
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  Speaker 1: he just wanted to make sure nothing serious was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: so he plans to play through it as long as
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  Speaker 1: the team is mathematically still alive, which Andrew you noted
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  Speaker 1: they are not in the division, but they are for
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. That hit was a journey right there. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about Aaron Rodgers and Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: loved who replaced him in that game when Rodgers had
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  Speaker 1: to do something that he said in that Pat McAfee
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  Speaker 1: show interview. He does not like to do which has
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  Speaker 1: come out of the game. And that's a mentality that
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  Speaker 1: Rogers learned at least or watched from Brett Farve when
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  Speaker 1: he was the quarterback in front of Rodgers for several years.
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  Speaker 1: Farv never wanted to come out of any game. He
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  Speaker 1: started two d seventy plus games in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: a big driving force behind that was Farv, who had
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  Speaker 1: taken over for an injured Don Mikowski way back in
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  Speaker 1: thought well, if I ever come out of a game,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing could happened to me. So what happens
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand seven Farv gets hurt in a game
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday night in Dallas. Rodgers comes in and
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  Speaker 1: Rogers had not played well when he got to play
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand five. In OH six, he played and
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  Speaker 1: he immediately broke his ankle, gets out there at OH
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  Speaker 1: seven and lit it up and showed why. After that
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  Speaker 1: season they pressed Brett far for an answer and they
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  Speaker 1: ended up moving forward with Aaron Rodgers. Well. Almost fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years to the day, Aaron Rodgers had to come out
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  Speaker 1: of a game because of what he feared was a
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  Speaker 1: punctured lung ends up being a rib injury, he says,
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  Speaker 1: And the Packers say that they want him to play.
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  Speaker 1: Roger says that he intends to play this week. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta look at Jordan's Love in that game, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a much more calm, confident, comfortable Jordan's Love than
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  Speaker 1: we've seen. They obviously were productive. It helps when he
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  Speaker 1: got Christian Watson just running past everybody out there. But
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  Speaker 1: the way Love operated that offense really impressed people. With
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  Speaker 1: the Packers. That's something you file away andrew in the
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  Speaker 1: back of your head, even though back in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: eight Brett Favre wasn't due a sixty million dollars fully
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed the following year. No, I'm I'm connecting the dots here.
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  Speaker 1: I think what you're saying, Tom, is that in this
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  Speaker 1: coming off season Aaron Rodgers verge of getting traded to
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  Speaker 1: the Bucket Ears will all of a sudden be traded
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  Speaker 1: to the Jets. But I was the filibuster right now,
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  Speaker 1: Tom has Gardner Johnson, which I assume you did not
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  Speaker 1: get from the Kelsey Brothers podcast. No, I got it
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  Speaker 1: from Mike a minute ago when he stole my thunder
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  Speaker 1: on that. But yes, Johnson Gardner Johnson suffered what I
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  Speaker 1: have told it's a lacerated kidney. Is a lacerated kidney.
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  Speaker 1: Kidneys certainly no laughing matter for Johnson. Gardner Johnson had
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  Speaker 1: to drop out of that game on Sunday Night against
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  Speaker 1: the Packers. He leads the NFL in interceptions right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a surgical injury. I'm told he's still
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  Speaker 1: undergoing more tests, so timetable to be determined as of now,
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  Speaker 1: sidelined indefinitely. The Eagles believe though, this is not a
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  Speaker 1: season ending injury, so hope that by the playoff run
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  Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson will be back. For now, it's Marcus Epps
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  Speaker 1: who has played every snap on defense this season. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys who helps everybody get lined up
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  Speaker 1: on the field, a really important role. And then re
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  Speaker 1: blanket Ship. We took over for Gardner Johnson and walked
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  Speaker 1: right into his first career interception, and yep he did,
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  Speaker 1: and he picked off Aaron Rodgers. You guys actually do
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  Speaker 1: that we're like, we're yucking our way through a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of serious injuries here, so let's let's play straight. Eddie Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: In Kansas City, they went three and one. Actually, they
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  Speaker 1: Bengals are not going to give up. It will continue
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  Speaker 1: runner David Long got a stiff arm maybe the first
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  Speaker 1: now in Isaiah Pacheco, and Andy Reid is starting to
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  Speaker 1: excited about Pacheco, a seventh round pick throughout this season,
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  Speaker 1: his way into the lineup, but they love what he
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  Speaker 1: brings to this offense because, as you said, he's a
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  Speaker 1: very physical, violent runner. He moves the pile, he has
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  Speaker 1: a ton of energy, and he really gives a different
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  Speaker 1: dimension to this offense. And head coach Andy re talked
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  Speaker 1: about just the importance that we finds mean that running
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  Speaker 1: game as they go down to the stretch here, because
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't happy with how they played the second half
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  Speaker 1: of this game, and he wants that offense, that running
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  Speaker 1: game really be clicking because he knows teams are going
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  Speaker 1: to force Patrick Mahomes to sit back and hand the
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  Speaker 1: ball off. Uh, see a lot of coverage and they
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to capitalize with those opportunities. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: and this one's gonna be good. Love it in the
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  Speaker 1: late window. A lot of America watching coming up Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at Arrow and thank you Jeff Shia Bengals and the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: and a f C championship game or rematch in Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. Can Mike White do it again? Can
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  Speaker 1: Mike White keep the job? Vikings are a lot different
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  Speaker 1: than the Bears. Straight ahead all Mike White did when
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  Speaker 1: handed the keys to the jet This past week was
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  Speaker 1: do what he did last year in his first game
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  Speaker 1: back Light it up. He threw for three yards, He
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  Speaker 1: threw for three touchdowns. Mike White's getting another shot this
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  Speaker 1: week against the Vikings. Everyone loves Mike. Um, I think
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the locker room really has a genuine appreciation
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  Speaker 1: for each other. But I think when you're having success
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  Speaker 1: and the and it's rolling, and it's it's crap weather
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  Speaker 1: and it's raining, and it's it's fun football, it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Has Mike's performance caused you to perhaps reconsider the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: plan that you outlined for us on Wednesday, the one
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  Speaker 1: where you said you know you fully intend to get
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  Speaker 1: Zack back on the field this year. No, it's like
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  Speaker 1: I said, We're gonna go week to week. There's there's
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  Speaker 1: things that we'd love to see Zach accomplish over the
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  Speaker 1: course of h We'll call it a reset. But and
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  Speaker 1: this is Mike White's opportunity. That doesn't change. So Mike's
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  Speaker 1: got an opportunity to go stack another great day up
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  Speaker 1: this week, and um, when when we feel like Zack
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  Speaker 1: is ready to roll, he's gonna roll. Much different challenge though,
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  Speaker 1: facing the Vikings with division clinching scenario than the Bears
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  Speaker 1: in the rain at the backup quarter back. Anyway, Tom
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  Speaker 1: Hellisara is gonna be at the game this coming Sunday, Balda,
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  Speaker 1: you were there. You saw it in person in the
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  Speaker 1: rain this past week. What do you make of this
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  Speaker 1: new offense now with Mike White at the helm. It's
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  Speaker 1: a new offense. I mean, first time all year. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets took the opening kickoff and went down the field
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  Speaker 1: and scored. And it was Mike White making quick, accurate decisions.
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  Speaker 1: He threw it to ten different receivers, guys like Elijah More,
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to be traded a month ago. Called his
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown pass. He looked like Christmas Day to Elijah
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  Speaker 1: More in the end zone. Garrett Wilson two touchdown performance. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He got the ball to to his playmakers and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and he did it in a way that made it
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  Speaker 1: look easy, and everybody felt it in the stadium, everybody
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  Speaker 1: felt it on the locker room. I can clean us
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  Speaker 1: up for coach Solo, real easy. If Mike White goes
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  Speaker 1: out does anything near this against Buffalo Minnesota in the
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  Speaker 1: next two weeks, Uh, he'll be the starting quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the remainder of the season. Wow, that's a lot Mike
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  Speaker 1: White beating the Vikings and then he gets the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it going. And I said the same thing. If
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  Speaker 1: he does well, there's no way Zack Wilson gets back in. Now. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: the defense has to do well as well, and they
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  Speaker 1: have to fight away. Tom Pallisery, you're gonna be there
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  Speaker 1: to try to slow down Justin Jefferson, who in front
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  Speaker 1: of a national TV audience on Thanksgiving put on yet
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  Speaker 1: another show not just on the national TV in front
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  Speaker 1: of that huge audience, but also against Bill Belichick, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the greatest defensive coach who's ever lived in watching that
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  Speaker 1: game and Justin Jefferson once again going up against double
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  Speaker 1: and triple coverage making contested catches. I was thinking back
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  Speaker 1: to a game plan that Bill Belichick put together against
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings in two thousand ten when Randy Moss willbe
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  Speaker 1: it later in his career went into New England. Belichick
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  Speaker 1: basically said, we're just gonna put a safety over top
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  Speaker 1: of you the entire game. You're not gonna get the
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  Speaker 1: ball your way. Moss had one catch, one in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, yelled at some people, didn't make the flight
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  Speaker 1: home and was cut the next day. With Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 1: it was similar if you watch the safeties over the
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  Speaker 1: top and I'm sure ball he's broken down all the
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  Speaker 1: tape they were challenging him. He was catching balls in
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  Speaker 1: double and triple coverage. But this has become the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and O'Connell has given Kirk Cousins the free reign
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  Speaker 1: here to say, hey, this is our best player. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think you've got an opportunity throw the ball up
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  Speaker 1: and let him go make a catch. More often than not,
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson is coming down with those balls. So even beyond
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, the most receiving yards by any players for
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  Speaker 1: three seasons in NFL history, tied with Davante Adams for
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  Speaker 1: the most hundred yard games to the start of season.
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  Speaker 1: Just use your eyes and watch Justin Jefferson weekend and
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  Speaker 1: week out. I know the Cowboys shut him down. It
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  Speaker 1: was a different type of a game, but he just
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  Speaker 1: finds ways to make plays when it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: there's really a play to be made. Well, his hidden
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  Speaker 1: skill in all of this time, and I have looked
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  Speaker 1: at all of it is really is his ability to
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  Speaker 1: recognize what a team is doing to him, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: bracket coverage, whether it's you know, trail technique, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: He's seen it all and now he sees it so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So once he sees it, whether it's a bracket coverage,
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  Speaker 1: he runs right through it or whether he sits down
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  Speaker 1: in his own His ability to recognize what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: to him, which is difficult for anybody at any level,
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  Speaker 1: that's really his hidden skill. He he hasn't planned to
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  Speaker 1: get open Tom. Then he hasn't plan once he catches
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  Speaker 1: the ball to like really burn you once the balls
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  Speaker 1: in his hands, but also to recognize the coverage and
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  Speaker 1: how you're trying to take him away and what he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do to counter it. It's really something to see.
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  Speaker 1: In only a second season, he bounced back from a
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  Speaker 1: three catch day and they're bad loss to the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: for a nine catch night. For one thirty night, he's
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  Speaker 1: must see TV and he will be against Robert Sala's defense,
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  Speaker 1: Sauce Gardener, whoever is on him coming up on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Tom, Thank you Baldy. Ready for t n
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  Speaker 1: F as you get ready to set your line up
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  Speaker 1: all twenty he's off to the races parents. I don't know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: but he's gonna catch him. Ten ball game. But by
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  Speaker 1: Josh eighties six yards and over time touchdown runners Victory
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Josh Jacobs not only had that walk off touchdown,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: he ran off, but he had forty eight point three
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  Speaker 1: Fantasy points. If you had Josh Jacobs and didn't win,
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  Speaker 1: that's your fault if that's the case, But you might
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  Speaker 1: need some help. Here's Patrick Clayboy the Fantasy Live crew
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  Speaker 1: with some help. Week twelve, in real life and in
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: fantasy football is in the books. But looking ahead to
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  Speaker 1: week thirteen, there are some Week twelve storylines that we
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: think might not involve the top scores, but you should
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: pay attention to what you've got. Mike Tee Higgins, he
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: has just absolutely been bawling out as of late. He's
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: playing great football with Joe Burrow. We know the connection there,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and now he's gonna get Jamar Chase back opposite of him.
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  Speaker 1: In a game against the Chiefs next week. That could
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  Speaker 1: be super high scoring, especially considering the Chiefs have struggled
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  Speaker 1: allowing a lot of fantasy points and deep balls to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: watch seniors this year. Well, it took a while for
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Christian Watson to sort of come online in that Packers offense,
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  Speaker 1: but since he has, he has been like gang busters
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  Speaker 1: over the last three games, the space of fourteen days,
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  Speaker 1: twelve jutches for the two and fifty yards and six
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in that stretch. He's also become the big play
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  Speaker 1: guy in the Packers offense, with more than of the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: team's air yards during that stretch, and look that seems
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  Speaker 1: spanned the six touchdowns there. Dj More's never had more
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  Speaker 1: than four touchdowns in an entire season. And right now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it matters whether it's Aaron Rodgers or
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Jordan's Love. Christian Watson really is the guy that's getting
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of the attention. Has become the focal point
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of the Packers passing game. The Chicago Airs were hit
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: with a host of injuries on Sunday. Perhaps the most
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: significant to fantasy enthusiasts is that ankle injury to Guardnell Mooney,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: which is expected to keep him out for the entirety
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: of the season, and so as you're looking at the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: waiver wire right now, I'm not necessarily suggesting you go
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: out and pick up one of the available Bears wide receivers.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: But Richie James has played very well over his last
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: two games. He's averaging four receptions somewhere around fifty yards
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and a touchdown, which you know most of the time
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: is pretty good in fantasy football. So right now, at
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: this part of the season, there's not a lot available
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  Speaker 1: to you. Like most of Thanksgiving leftovers, they're gone, so
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot to pick from. But if you
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: got to pick a guy, Richard James is a pretty
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: good option. And one guy that you picked pretty early
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and a lot of your drafts was Lamar Jackson. And
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: we've been getting questions on the previous two weeks, like
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with from Marsha? Should I bench Lamar Jackson? Well,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: he's back in the top ten quarterbacks this week, And
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of the takeaways from the game in Jacksonville
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: was what could have been. There was a miss of
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson early on from Lamar, then DeMarcus Robinson had
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a drop touchdown, Then Lamar had a touchdown called back.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: They said his knee was down. The potential for more
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: points was there. I think you'll be just fine breaking
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: news with Lamar Jackson as your fantasy quarterback. Also, we'll
• 18:42
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• 18:45
  Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live Badlands. Landy bade true story. That music
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  Speaker 1: is right off Dan hand Zeus's playlist tole it off
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  Speaker 1: his phone. Dan is here. What happened? We got soccer
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  Speaker 1: fans screaming behind me. Dan is here because to do.
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  Speaker 1: Week thirteen power rankings are out atfl dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: Power Rankings, and Dan has a change at the top.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Last week we sat here hand Zeus and said, oh,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so now you're finally finally buying the Chiefs. Well, the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Chiefs went out and beat the defending Super Bowl champions.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I know they're banged up. I know they're banged up,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and you dropped them and put the Eagles back at one?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: What because they beat Aaron Rodgers and the four wind Packer. Well,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: let's start here like this is the America's Power rankings.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: America scores as soon as I get on the air,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so do the man. Anyway, Yes, the Chiefs and what
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: we have with the Eagles is a fun race that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I think is gonna go back and forth, back and
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  Speaker 1: forth for the balance of the regular season. And don't
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: read too much into it, because when there's this clothing,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Chiefs fans know when it's this close, and it is
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: very close. That the Eagles rush for three hundred and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: sixty three yards in an Island game. We talked about
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that last week, Andrew. I put a little extra into
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: those primetime games, and then the Chiefs kind of just
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: just get through a game against the downtrodden Rams. It
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was enough to do a swap, but it doesn't mean
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, I feel like the Chiefs
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: are in trouble. It's just gonna be very tight all season,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and watch out for teams right beneath them. It's fluid, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna plan ahead. If the Chiefs are
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to beat the Bengals in Cincinnati, are the Chiefs back
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: at number one, Well, because that game is merely on
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: for PM, I believe a regional audience this week. Well
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: let's you know, I see where's you're going. It might
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: be let's see how many what percentage of homes the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: game is in? Okay, if it's above six, then I'll
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: give it. No, I'm just joking, yea, let's get the Titans.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I mean they have a good game. It's that's a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: big game, and yes that those games matter. I know
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: what we have in the Chiefs. The Chiefs are a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: team that have the best quarterback on the planet and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: their their defense is getting the job done. I like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that the running game is finding its way. Even though
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you lose Clyde Edwards Hilaire, and of course you get
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you do someth Schuster back now from injury. The Chiefs
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: are absolutely going to be in a dog fight for
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: number one for the rest of the season and then
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: through the playoffs. Dan has the Niners up to to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: number three. Cowboys and Bills round out the top five, Dolphins, Vikings, Benggles, Titans,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and then oh what do you know? Mike Whites New
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: York Jets check in up four after beating Trevor Simeon
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  Speaker 1: at home into the top ten. Why why are you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the way you are? Andrew? Because they were Come on,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just poking that they were four last week down
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: for after that dreadful Patriots lost, And I know what
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you're saying. Should we put too much into beating. There's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: not a lot of meat on the bonus. Do you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: think they're top ten team? I mean, here's the end.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I think they are. They absolutely are now number ten
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  Speaker 1: of ten. So I think beating the Vikings this weekend
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: that would be a major statement. So yes, I think
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: any Jets van you're holding your breath a little bit
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: because you want to see this offense stack games the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: way they look against Chicago. But it was a huge
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: revelation to see Mike White able to run this offense
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in the way that Mike la Floor imagined. And you
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: see the receivers getting in the mix. There is a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: lot of talent on this roster, and let's face it,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Zach Wilson was holding them back. Now we see what
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: happens if a quarterback that's capable and confident can take
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: this team to a higher place. It's very exciting times now,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I get it, and I'm not trying to damper your enthusiasm.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Here we have the Vikings and the Bears. I'm sorry,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the Vikings and the Bills. After beating the Bears coming
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: up next from Mike White joking aside, here the biggest
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: stunner for me and I say this without sarcasm, North
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: snark is the fact that you have the Raiders. They're
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: only seventeen, no big deal, but they're up nine spots
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: nine after beating the Seahawks. Yeah, they moved up ahead
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: of a bunch of teams that are just floating away.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So that factors in. But back to back overtime wins,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the manner in which they won the games, plus the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: matter in which they lost their games earlier in the season,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: this feels like a team. And I'm not gonna get
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: too ahead of my skis here because the Raiders have
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: killed their fan base all year with just dreadful losses.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But the schedule sets up well for them to get
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: on a run here and put themselves back into the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: A f C race. Now they're gonna have to stack wins.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: They're gonna actually, conceivably gonna have to stack six straight
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: wins to really set themselves up going into the last
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: two weeks. That feels strong, Andrew, I understand that. But
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to continue to be in every game, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I could see them building off these o t games,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: uh and really separating themselves from the bad teams. Of course,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that's why they're ahead of them now, but getting into
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that mix and the teams that thirteen to seventeen mixed,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Raiders are better than the record. I think we all
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: know that. I think we do all know that Chargers
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and the Raiders. This week, by the way, Raiders and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the Chargers game is in Vegas, hopefully we get another classic.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: You say the Raiders are better than that, Um, the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Raiders you have is better than Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You have them down seven and you know eleven. Sometimes
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you gotta take an l as Power Rankings guy. The
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Bucks should have been in this territory already. But I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: think you've got a little bit of paying attention to
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the name and not the game. I kept on trying
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to talk myself into them as a fringe E top
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: ten team, but now I've just seen too many. It
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: was something about that game against Cleveland and the six
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: three and outs and the overtime in which they just
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: they just looked like they didn't have anything going on.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: This offense is hasn't figured it out. And now the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: calendars turned into December, and I just think this is
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: who they are. This is a eight and nine, nine
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and eight team which may win the division, which probably
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: will win the division, but that doesn't mean I need
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to have them hovering at ten, eleven, twelve. At this point,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm accepting an L and saying they are the middle
• 25:11
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