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Speaker 1: The cricket Rickett Man.

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Speaker 2: Come here. Hey everybody, welcome into another episode of The Tailgate,

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Speaker 2: brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm your host, Siaminson across

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Speaker 2: from me, your co host, the great Chad Daniels and

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Speaker 2: Chatty Daddy. Uh not an awesome time to be a

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Speaker 2: Viking fan?

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Speaker 1: Disagree?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's always a good time, but it's

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Speaker 2: it is. So I think having this show the last

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Speaker 2: few years, and I don't mind this at all. I

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Speaker 2: like this, but a lot of fans who listen to

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Speaker 2: our other show and this show, who are also Viking fans,

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Speaker 2: you just wind up in a lot of conversations. Sure,

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Speaker 2: you become a bouncing point for people's thoughts and ideas.

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Speaker 2: And when the team scores zero points for the first

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Speaker 2: time since two thousand seven and people start throwing stuff

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Speaker 2: your direction, yep, they start going, this is what's happening.

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Speaker 2: This is what's happening. And so I don't think anybody

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Speaker 2: thought we would be here right right. But what I

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Speaker 2: told a bunch of people in the DMS, as the

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Speaker 2: kids say, and I'm not trying to be sunny side up,

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Speaker 2: is I just here's the thing. Sports are an escape

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Speaker 2: for me. They're a place for joy, and when they

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Speaker 2: become not joy filled from a winning standpoint, I still

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Speaker 2: have to frame them that way because I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to be somebody who walks around miserable because a sports

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Speaker 2: team is losing. I'm not going to do that.

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Speaker 1: That's not wow. Then I'd like to know what is

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Speaker 1: making you miserable?

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Speaker 2: But so much other stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there must be. There must be.

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Speaker 3: I think, listen, everybody ups the annie, everybody makes it

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Speaker 3: more crazy than it needs to be. And I still

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Speaker 3: think this team has a lot of positives.

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Speaker 2: Well and to me, you know, and I don't even

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Speaker 2: need to be mister positive guy. I just like, here's

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Speaker 2: big takeaway because I've been lucky enough to be a

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Speaker 2: part of the organization for a while now. Like and

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Speaker 2: I told people this in the DMS, when you at

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Speaker 2: the end of the season, they release these organizational grades

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Speaker 2: and and there, how do you do from a player

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Speaker 2: rehabilitation standpoint? What's your food like like? And the vikings,

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Speaker 2: every aspect of the organization, all these things you never

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Speaker 2: think about as a fan. The vikings are always right

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Speaker 2: at the top. They're one or two in all the grades.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's why they attract high end coaches

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Speaker 2: like Flores Josh McCown. I think that's why, you know,

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Speaker 2: assistant coaches. I think that's why it was such a

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Speaker 2: coveted head coaching position. It's just a really well run group.

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Speaker 2: And so to me, when you get in a moment

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Speaker 2: like and other sports like, sometimes it can feel destitute,

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Speaker 2: right or hopeless if I used words I don't understand correctly.

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Speaker 1: Uh, and you always do.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not going to stop me from trying, right,

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Speaker 2: But I continue to believe that the number one thing

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Speaker 2: in sports is ownership and organizational structure. Especially in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: where it's a true salary cap sport, there is real parody.

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Speaker 2: Look at what's happening in the NFL right now. Like

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Speaker 2: jur producer said this before the show, there's a real

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Speaker 2: scenario where the Ravens, the Bills, and the Chiefs all

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Speaker 2: missed the playoffs. Yeah, the the Bears are that tied

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Speaker 3: I know they are, and we gave them hell both games. Dude,

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Speaker 3: think of how we were so close on the second game.

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Speaker 2: Do you think of how like how short of a

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Speaker 2: distance it is between right now and when that debacle

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Speaker 2: and so in these moments like I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: You can see it on their faces.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're they're upset. So I like to remind

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Speaker 2: people that I think we do have a really strong organization,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think they're gonna go a long direction

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Speaker 3: And I also want to say here regarding the quarterback situation,

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Speaker 3: Sam Darnold was a great quarterback before he got here, right,

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Speaker 3: He gets here, he's got a great offense, and he

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Speaker 3: performs right. It's not like the air in Mi, Minnesota

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Speaker 3: pumped his right arm up. I mean We have to

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Speaker 3: remember that the two people were talking about here, JJ

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Speaker 3: I've said this before on the show. They're gonna struggle,

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be growing pains, and there's gonna be problems.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think giving up on him. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, I wonder if if all the all the

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Speaker 3: people having trouble with this listening right now, when they're

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Speaker 3: when their children weren't walking by the time they were

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Speaker 3: four months old, they thought, well, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I guess we just buy him a chair.

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Speaker 2: I guess we drag him for twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess we just give him a lazy boy.

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Speaker 2: Well, the other question I've gotten a lot from people

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Speaker 2: is how you know, Oh no, Justin. Justin Jefferson is

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Speaker 2: the guy I'm the least concerned about in the history

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Speaker 2: of you know this, This is a fan base like

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Speaker 2: fairness to this city. They have lost sports loves right.

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Speaker 2: KG goes to Boston wins titles or Ties, goes to

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Speaker 2: Bustin wins titles. Randy Moss gone like Steph Marberry breaks

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Speaker 2: up the original Power duo.

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Speaker 3: They're like, you know who never left I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: throw out, you know who never left Joe Mauer. Even

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Speaker 3: when Alex Rodriguez was knocking his championship ring on a table.

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Speaker 1: When they were all together, he still said, no chance.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story.

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Speaker 2: I always forget about that. You know. One thing I

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Speaker 2: wish that we could change is Minnesota fans that I'm

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Speaker 2: back in. We're actually not that special. We act like

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Speaker 2: we're like we have a really long championship drought. That

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Speaker 2: is true for the four major sports. It's absurd. But

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Speaker 2: we like, we're not the only organization to miss a kick.

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Speaker 2: We're not the only like, go look at all we

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Speaker 2: talked about the Browns earlier year. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: like almost every organization has a series of plays where

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Speaker 2: they go the interception, the kick, like things that have

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Speaker 2: screwed them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's the the something. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think you need to sit around. And

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Speaker 2: I think Justin Jefferson is this high team character related

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Speaker 2: of a guy, and I like that he's upset. You know,

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Speaker 2: you want your or he appears upset I would say frustrated,

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Speaker 2: it's the better word.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like you want that?

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Speaker 2: Now, what I will tell you, Chad is did I

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Speaker 2: am I in Paul Charchion's official Guillotine League league like

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Speaker 2: the one with the Paul with the Paul himself? And

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Speaker 2: did I play it so exceptionally this year where I

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Speaker 2: had the most money? And did I get a chance

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Speaker 2: at Justin Jefferson oh before the Lions game or so,

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Speaker 2: and take a swing and spend a lot of my

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Speaker 2: free agency dollars?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And am I worried as I head into the playoffs

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Speaker 2: with my first chance ever at a title that that decision?

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Speaker 1: So do it?

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Speaker 2: Do I have? Listen, I'm heavily invested sure in Justin

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Speaker 2: Jefferson's performance, and even I not worried about the dude

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Speaker 3: Two things, I'm in a different league with you, and

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Speaker 3: I see where your standings are, and I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: And secondly, you.

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Speaker 3: Get you get so many people talking about we haven't

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Speaker 3: had a title in forever, and you go, what about

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Speaker 3: eighty seven?

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Speaker 1: What about ninety one? With the twins?

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Speaker 3: And then you get kids going like, oh I wasn't born.

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Speaker 3: Then it's like, well you should have tried harder to

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Speaker 2: I've said that for years? Is it time I've thought

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Speaker 2: about like, do we have enough the Guillotine Leagues? Have

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Speaker 2: you played Guillotine League before?

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Speaker 1: I have? Yet?

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Speaker 2: Are you still in the Are you still in the

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Speaker 2: Tim Harmsten absolutely, friend of the show. I can't do

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Speaker 2: regular fantasy because.

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Speaker 1: Regular fantasy can't do you.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't I don't need that. I don't feel like

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of skill in it. It's just whoever,

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Speaker 2: because nobody thought he was gonna be good. Guess what,

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Speaker 2: that's who's probably gonna win your league.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't play one guy.

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Speaker 3: You play two running backs or quarterback, two receivers, a

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Speaker 3: tight end, a defense, a kicker, and a swing.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm right. It's called the flex i like

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Speaker 2: the Guillotine League for those who aren't familiar, because everybody

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Speaker 3: I took to DeVante Adams and you're gonna tell me that's lucky,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I washed him in receiver.

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Speaker 3: I like his adages and I love that he has

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Speaker 3: thinking like that nutrition plus the new Rams offense boo yeah,

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Speaker 3: and guess what I am winning?

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Speaker 1: Winning, winning.

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Speaker 2: Do you like the Guillotine League?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So for those who aren't familiar, everybody you get like

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Speaker 2: week is kicked out. You have a certain amount of

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Speaker 2: free agency dollars all year to spend, and you blindly

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Speaker 2: bid on the players of the guy who got kicked

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Speaker 2: out each week. It is if everybody is heavily invested

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Speaker 2: in the way the game is played, it's the most

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Speaker 2: fun fantasy game I've ever played. If not everybody is,

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Speaker 2: somebody gets like Saquon Barkley for a dollar and the

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Speaker 2: whole league is pointless. But if everybody's invested, I'm obsessed

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Speaker 2: with it. Do you think I've been I've been waiting

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Speaker 2: on this because you don't like to get involved. You

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Speaker 2: and I are two tangled, right. I think I think

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Speaker 2: we're involved in too many things together.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's no question your son or other podcast.

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Speaker 2: Dude, our other other podcasts that hasn't come out yet.

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Speaker 2: Size Gray's Anatomy, a Gray's Anatomy review podcast where I

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Speaker 1: It, and then I just reply that your son is

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Speaker 1: my son.

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Speaker 2: The But I do think we should intertwine deeper, and

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Speaker 2: I think we should start a comedian's guillotine league.

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Speaker 1: Nobody will take it serious.

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Speaker 2: Here's the problem with But then do we do a

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Speaker 3: We have to we have to find some people that

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Speaker 3: Well, look, let me throw this out. Let me throw

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Speaker 1: Anyways, I feel great, that hurt. What were you saying.

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Speaker 2: You look like somebody who just got all their pain erase,

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Speaker 2: Is nailed it. All three underdogs win on Thanksgiving. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: You had their shoes you weren't you in your you

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Speaker 2: On the bubble, Detroit, Dallas, and Carolina. I didn't see

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Speaker 2: If there's a universe where Detroit, Buffalo, the Bengals, which

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's gonna be good. And I love

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Speaker 3: And I think when you get fresh blood, it's like

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Speaker 3: I like, Man, if my team's not in it, teach

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Speaker 2: Well, And and then you look at the games going

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Speaker 2: They both need it, and they're both so good offensively

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Speaker 2: But the most insane take in the NFL right now

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right.

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Speaker 3: I know people are booing, they're saying, fire Tomlin, get

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Speaker 1: What are you even?

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Speaker 2: I love our coach, but let's let's make me the

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Speaker 2: the Packers have owned green Bay forever, and you have

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Speaker 2: Yeah what like again, I'm not rooting for the Bears.

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Speaker 2: I don't want success for the Bears, but I can

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: This is like watching the two kids that used to

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Speaker 1: You go. I don't want any of them to win somehow.

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Speaker 2: But I certainly don't want big market.

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Speaker 3: I don't want Yeah, I don't want there to even

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Speaker 3: I want each team to get penali so severely that

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Speaker 2: That's all we can help for. Let's let that be

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Speaker 2: Instead of doing a game prediction. Chad and I's prediction

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Speaker 3: You know what I think is interesting is green Bay

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Speaker 2: I don't get it, but they need wins right now,

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Speaker 2: and so let's give them. Let's give them each a

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Speaker 2: half loss. That's gonna do it for us on the tailgate, Chad,

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Speaker 2: I care about you. I hope, I hope deeply that

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Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait. I listen.

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