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Speaker 1: for listening today. I got really good news for you

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Speaker 1: if you're a Red stan and we will get to

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Speaker 1: the smartest decision they've made. I don't think they get

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Speaker 1: up in just a few minutes, but first it's got

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Speaker 1: to San France super Bowl. You may have heard is Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to do this because he's a cornerstone of

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Speaker 1: the second consecutive here I think he has been crowned

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Speaker 1: King of Radio Row. He's with Sumer Sports, which is

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Speaker 1: an invaluable resource and one of the authors of these

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Speaker 1: stats and scheme newsletter. Our guy Sean sayed, how many

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Speaker 1: shows have you been on this week? O?

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Speaker 2: Look, my voice, it's struggling a little bit. Be a lot,

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Speaker 3: Lot of different things, of course, saving the best step

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Speaker 2: Beyond that, what is the best show you've been on

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Speaker 2: so far? Are good question? I mean the Super Sport show.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's actually been It's been.

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Speaker 3: Really fun to talk to some of the players, have

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Speaker 3: them come on. I actually really like no I'll tell

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Speaker 3: you the Irish NFL show. Yes, a ton of fun.

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Speaker 3: They were really well prepared. They asked some great questions.

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Speaker 3: We had a really good conversation about some stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to be a guest on their show.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they asked, but those guys, as

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Speaker 1: I've seen that they're at radio rows, so so good

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Speaker 1: for them. What about let's talk about both these teams

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Speaker 1: from a Bengals perspective, which you're kind enough to do

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Speaker 1: with me every single week during the season.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with New England.

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Speaker 1: Schematically, as a Bengals fan, what can I learn from

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Speaker 1: what the Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Do to me? Their safeties I think are pretty flexible

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Speaker 2: That's been a really good way to do it.

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Speaker 3: And I think they change things up overall just so

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Speaker 3: to to see offering. The pitchers are a little bit

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Speaker 3: more aggressive. It feels like when you bring in that

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Speaker 2: Now from a Seattle perspective, Now, the.

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Speaker 3: to where their defensive line less than it unlocks everything.

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Speaker 3: They're happy to just have four defensive linemen on the field.

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Speaker 3: They can stop the run that way, they can rush

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Speaker 3: Even though of course we're gonna have situations like that

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Speaker 3: It just always feels like that's kind of a safe

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Speaker 1: Can I run a couple of takes past, you'll fly though.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I love most about the Patriots this season.

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Speaker 1: All eleven of their draft choices wore a uniform this year.

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Speaker 1: All eleven played Mister irrelevant has played in a playoff game. Now,

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Speaker 2: That's a goal.

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Speaker 1: And I know folks are going to say, well, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, all the Bengals draft choices at some point

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Speaker 3: It's such a good thing to have where look, we

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Speaker 1: Right with Seattle, I see a team that did something

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Speaker 2: Not quite apples to apples, but still difficult.

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Speaker 1: New England moves on from a coach who's like a

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Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, is Zach Taylor one of

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Speaker 3: just got to break that bank. You got to make

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for one more? Absolutely? I wish I

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Speaker 1: I wish I had a time machine for a lot

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Speaker 1: Our guys, Sean said, is with us from suomer Sports.

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Speaker 1: Suomer Sports Live is a big part of suomer sports

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Speaker 1: and scheme newsletter. Have you started to dive into the

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Speaker 3: No, so I have not done. I will say sumer

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Speaker 2: I believe it's.

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Speaker 3: all the advanced data for all of the top however

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Speaker 2: I'm excited.

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