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Speaker 1: Bring on our NFL network Insider Ian Rapaport powered by Chevron.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Ian, appreciate the time as always. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm good. What's happening guys?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean a lot the NFL. What a weird

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Speaker 2: kind of weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was first time we've had one game decided by

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Speaker 1: one score since nineteen seventy I mean, what does that

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Speaker 1: mean to you?

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Speaker 2: I mean, eighteen point twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five was the average margin of victory and that's the

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Speaker 1: eighth most all time.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of that weekend?

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Speaker 3: It feels like it's sort of like, uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: what are they call revision to the meme works? Like

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Speaker 3: we've had so many, so many games that have been closed,

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Speaker 3: so many games that have gone down to the wire,

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Speaker 3: every game that seems has been a one score game.

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Speaker 3: When I was at the NFL owners meetings in New

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Speaker 3: York about a week ago, you know, that was one

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Speaker 3: of the things the league table was, every game has

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Speaker 3: been close. Well, you know you watch enough you watch

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Speaker 3: of NFL, you know that that is unfortunately not always reality,

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Speaker 3: so I think, you know, we sort of got to

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Speaker 3: the other side of this weekend. The other thing I

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Speaker 3: would say is like, as we get on in this season,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of slowly becoming a little clear, like who

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Speaker 3: are the haves and who they have nots? Like who

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Speaker 3: are kind of the good teams basically, And it just

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Speaker 3: so happened to have a matchup of a bunch of

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Speaker 3: good versus a bunch of not good and you know,

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Speaker 3: this was sort of the outcome now, you know. The

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Speaker 3: other thing is like the one of the best games

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Speaker 3: is against two of the worst team with two of

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Speaker 3: the worst teams Bengals and Jets. But you know this,

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Speaker 3: these things can happen unfortunately well.

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Speaker 4: And speaking of haves and have nots, after watching the

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Speaker 4: different Broncos over the past couple of weeks, I mean,

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Speaker 4: how do you look at them? Are they part of

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Speaker 4: the haves or the high have knots that can actually

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Speaker 4: make people from a national standpoint really stand up and

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Speaker 4: recognize them?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think they are. They're definitely one of

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Speaker 3: the haves. I'm just not one hundred percent sure they

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Speaker 3: are yet, you know, like because they've had some really

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Speaker 3: good moments and then they've had some moments where the

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Speaker 3: offense is struggling and the defense hasn't struggled at all.

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Speaker 3: I think that's pretty clear. Event shows that these guys

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Speaker 3: are doing a great job. But they've had some times

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Speaker 3: when the offense is struggled and kind of make me

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Speaker 3: go like how real is any of this? But then

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Speaker 3: the other part is I think because they're a well

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Speaker 3: coached team and because Sean Payton does a really good job,

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Speaker 3: when they had to have it, they do. You know,

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Speaker 3: they do. I just you know, I think eventually the

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Speaker 3: offense isn't kick in the gear. You know, you're not

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Speaker 3: gonna play the Cowboys defense every week, so I think

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Speaker 3: at some point they're going to have to bring it.

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Speaker 3: I think they will. But you know, like there's going

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Speaker 3: to be playing games every season where you don't play

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Speaker 3: your best and you win. I feel like the Broncos

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Speaker 3: have won almost all of those this season.

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Speaker 1: We heard from coach Harbaugh a little bit ago that

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Speaker 1: it looks like Lamar Jackson's going to be available for

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Speaker 1: Thursday night's game. What was your takeaway from this weekend

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Speaker 1: sort of shenanigans.

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Speaker 2: I guess you will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was actually really interesting. I was sort of

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Speaker 3: in the middle of it because I was the one

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Speaker 3: who reported that it was Lamar taking scout team reps,

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Speaker 3: and you know, to be totally honest, like I didn't.

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Speaker 3: I knew what I reported was true, but I didn't

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Speaker 3: fully grasp kind of like what it meant. And basically,

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Speaker 3: how like, you know, if he's taking scout team reps,

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Speaker 3: they have to say that he's not a full participant

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Speaker 3: because you need to be taking your regular reps to

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Speaker 3: be a full participant. So that came out. I started

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Speaker 3: getting some texts like hang on, hang on, how is

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Speaker 3: he full? And I was like, oh, how is he? Fall?

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Speaker 3: And you know, then they went back and changed it,

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Speaker 3: and you know, I think it's very possible they're facing

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Speaker 3: a fine. I would say maybe likely they're facing a fine. Now.

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Speaker 3: They said they did nothing wrong. You know, I can

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Speaker 3: certainly understand and take the word for it, but it

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Speaker 3: does seem to be wrong considering they changed it. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: the NFL's reviewing, and you know, I would expect some discipline.

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Speaker 4: We saw Carson Wentz return back, I mean return to Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: and things didn't really look well this last game. And

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Speaker 4: we can see him grim saying because of that that arm.

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Speaker 4: Now he's been ruled out, he's gonna have surgery on

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Speaker 4: his shoulder. So I'll ask this question, is this the

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Speaker 4: last that we've seen of one Carson Wentz?

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Speaker 3: How old do you think Carson Wentz is?

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Speaker 4: It's probably what maybe thirty one, thirty two?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see he is, he's thirty two. But it's because

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Speaker 3: we've it's weird, like I kind of wondered the same thing.

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Speaker 3: It's like, well, he's obviously like thirty six, thirty seven.

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Speaker 3: He's not. He's only thirty two. That's young, especially because

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Speaker 3: I'm old. You know, here's where it stands for Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 3: He was able to play through a torn labor hman

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Speaker 3: his left shoulder and a fractured socket. That is a

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Speaker 3: significant injury. Now he's gonna have his fourth baby girl,

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Speaker 3: so I guess his wife is gonna Yeah, his wife's

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Speaker 3: definitely gonna be otherwise that would be a real story

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Speaker 3: and this is why people tune into the show. And

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Speaker 3: afterward he's going to have surgery to repair the labem

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Speaker 3: and I think he'll be back. I mean he went

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Speaker 3: two and three, which like, look, you know, we talked

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Speaker 3: Andy Dalton Kirk Cousins a lot. Both played this week

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Speaker 3: and were terrible, like like Wentz played well. So my

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Speaker 3: guess is he's not done, and I don't think he

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Speaker 3: should be. I think he's earned the chance to keep playing.

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Speaker 1: Chatting with you and rap report, we're all anxiously awaiting

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Speaker 1: any kind of news on Pastor Tan who left the

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Speaker 1: game at halftime yesterday and talking a little bit of

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury.

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Speaker 2: That's the least what's being reported.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard any rumblings at all,

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Speaker 1: but anything to pass along there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm waiting like everyone else. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm hopeful that it's not major. But the longer it

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Speaker 3: goes without news, the longer you sort of wonder. And

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, the initial thought was that it

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Speaker 3: wasn't major. But you know, this is why you get

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Speaker 3: the MRI, and this is why you do all the

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Speaker 3: test and sometimes you know, you want multiple tests, and

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Speaker 3: sometimes it's not clean, and sometimes you need a bunch

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Speaker 3: of different opinions. So to be totally honest, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm hopeful for Denver that it's not that bad, because

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Speaker 3: he is an excellent player, but we wait.

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Speaker 4: So there's a lot of excitement in New York City

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Speaker 4: with her to find new rookie pieces Jackson Dart and Campsctibule.

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Speaker 4: But Scatibul left the game and Eric has and it

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Speaker 4: seems as though his season is over. What does this

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Speaker 4: do for the momentum and more portly, for the confidence

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Speaker 4: that Brian David was building with the New York Giants.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so tough because, you know, I think everyone

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Speaker 3: knows this is year where Dave All is going to

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Speaker 3: be judged, and they've had moments where they've looked really good.

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Speaker 3: At me beat the Eagles in a nationally televised game.

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Speaker 3: You know, Jackson Dart has looked like a franchise quarterback

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Speaker 3: at times, really has for a rookie, especially you know,

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Speaker 3: you don't have neighbors, you don't have Scataboo like everyone

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Speaker 3: has injuries, but that's those are two of your best players.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's I think the challenge gets harder

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Speaker 3: and I'm you know, I'll be interested to see what

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Speaker 3: the Giants end up doing because like you could easily

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Speaker 3: I know the record is bad, you know, but you

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Speaker 3: could look at the record and be like they've made

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Speaker 3: progress as a team and they have the pieces to

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Speaker 3: get better. So you know, if they stay, then you know,

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Speaker 3: I think it sets up a make or break year

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Speaker 3: next year. But it's sort of always a make or

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Speaker 3: break year in the NFL, so I'm not sure how

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Speaker 3: that fully changed anything, you know.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm one hundred percent with you.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Lamar Jackson listed as a full participant

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Speaker 1: on the Ravens Projected Injury Report today, And I love

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Speaker 1: what your colleague Mike Garafalo said for real this time.

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Speaker 3: That's annoying. I was going to say that, I really was.

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Speaker 3: That was gonna be my tweet.

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Speaker 2: He's stolen. You know you're on the phone with us.

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Speaker 1: I apologize as doubts, but yeah, that was my moments ago.

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Speaker 1: Pretty funny stuff. We'll look forward to your tweets.

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Speaker 2: In matter of moments, looking forward to seeing what you

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Speaker 2: can do to top that.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, God help me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you guys, appreciate you, and thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. We'll check in with you next week. That

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Speaker 1: is Ian Rappaport, our NFL Network insider