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Speaker 2: all the small ones too, So appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: I have.

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Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about the Vikings winning this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and I have my reasons. What about you, Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I love what you put on, what you you told us,

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Speaker 2: and you kind of broke it down on Tuesday, just

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Speaker 2: how we bounce back from some of our losses, you know,

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Speaker 2: our tough losses when we don't.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I certainly think that that is that

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Speaker 2: is the nature of where we're at, where our team

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Speaker 2: and it may just sort of end up like this

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Speaker 2: as the season goes along, a little ups, little downs

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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. Not playing super consistent but the

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Speaker 2: thing that gives me a lot of optimism is that

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Speaker 2: we didn't get beat by Baltimore. We didn't run find

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Speaker 2: ourselves in a situation like we did with the Chargers

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Speaker 2: where it's like, man, I know that we are off,

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Speaker 2: but that was just a better team than us, and

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Speaker 3: The Ravens were not the better team.

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Speaker 2: And knowing that we can correct those mistakes during the

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Speaker 2: course of the week, we should be able to correct

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Speaker 2: those those prestat penalties, We should be able to correct

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Speaker 2: those things as far as getting the ball down the field,

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Speaker 2: maybe making the wrong decision, throwing a double coverage, stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. I don't think we're going to make those

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Speaker 2: same mistakes now. I know this is a different team.

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Speaker 2: They have some different challenges, but we have a really

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Speaker 3: I think we can win this game.

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Speaker 1: I was asked this morning on a Mike Florio PFT

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Speaker 2: Well, the one that's the most telling to me is

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, he's the one that's getting the call

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Speaker 2: You heard Wes talk about it. He was embarrassed by it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, let's all just hope that that was the

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Speaker 3: So I don't think that's gonna happen. It's not going

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Speaker 1: I would qualify Ben Leeber and his relationship with Harrison

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Speaker 1: just you know, I've seen you guys together before, and

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Speaker 2: If you came in and you prepared, and you worked

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Speaker 3: I love I loved playing with those guys. I mean it.

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Speaker 2: It did sort of chat me a little bit when

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Speaker 2: Well interesting you said that, and with respect. First thing

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I know Adrian pretty well

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Speaker 2: and have over the years likewise for you, you know,

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Speaker 3: Was cooked like I couldn't. I didn't have that. I

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Speaker 1: And see in watching back the Vikings and Ravens, and

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Speaker 3: On where everybody should be you know.

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Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me that he he knows. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: this because this is the route combination whatever, and I

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Speaker 2: you got to tell your guys around you, like, this

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Speaker 2: My guess is used probably telling Josh cheat. I know

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Speaker 2: that you're in your landmark. I understand that this is where.

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Speaker 3: You're supposed to be Bengo, but this is.

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Speaker 2: The time where you can cheat the defense to give

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Speaker 2: I couldn't figure yet that's perfectly explained.

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Speaker 5: How would you sum up Harry's twenty twenty five this far?

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Speaker 5: I mean, he misses the games on the front end,

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Speaker 5: and you see him and you have those moments like that.

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Speaker 5: This kind of plays in maybe to an opinion that

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Speaker 5: I have that could be right or wrong on Mittellus

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Speaker 5: and the year that he's had. But what do you

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Speaker 3: You know it's been okay. I wouldn't say it's been amazing.

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Speaker 2: I know that that it's been a strugg to get

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Speaker 2: we saw I think his playmaking ability really shine in

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Speaker 2: that Lions game. The way that he's able to dictate

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Speaker 2: Made some plays in the backfield. I think he's taken

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Speaker 5: So as a safety group in general, whether it's THEO

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Speaker 5: But I'm starting to see more and more moments where

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Speaker 5: Mittelis is kind of late to the scene where Mittelis

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Speaker 5: Am I reading it the right way? Any any opinions

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Speaker 3: No, it certainly does.

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Speaker 2: It was with as much movement as we do and

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think.

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Speaker 2: When when you're losing THEO and now Josh has to

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Speaker 2: But you look at that Aj Brown situation. That's a

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Speaker 3: That's a tough draw.

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Speaker 2: I understand that they won that one, but I also

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Speaker 2: I think that because of injury, he's been out of

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of excited to see him back on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the best routes to confusing Caleb

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it really comes down to.

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Speaker 2: We just have to capitalize every time we get our

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Speaker 2: I think it confused him. I think that it did

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Speaker 2: it messed with his coverage. In his progression. Now, he's

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Speaker 2: But to me is we still were able to get

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Speaker 2: We were still able to do some of those things

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Speaker 2: have to capitalize them bringing him down. That's a lot

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Speaker 2: easier said than done, because he's he is a Hoodini

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think that we stay true

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Speaker 2: he does scramble in certain key situations, we have more

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Speaker 2: but especially if Gernard is back and it sounds like

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Speaker 1: We need Grenard to practice today, even limited. It was

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Speaker 1: a d NP yesterday. But anyway, Yeah, very true.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think that our defensive front is

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Speaker 2: I don't think that we have to change up a ton.

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Speaker 3: Just win your battles and get the dude on the ground.

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Speaker 5: What has impressed you most about the Bears in this

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Speaker 5: six and three? I chronicled it on Tuesday. They're fifteen

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Speaker 5: forty one and one the opponents that they've beaten. Okay,

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Speaker 5: so it's like you're beating up on bad teams. But

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Speaker 3: Today is just this team believes.

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Speaker 5: But anything that's just popped out, whether it's the running game,

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Speaker 2: The Bears to me get better as the game goes on.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's proven in some of the stats.

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Speaker 2: They're not a fast starting team. Caleb crushes the last

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Speaker 2: it is the first half, and so I think nailing it,

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Speaker 5: The whole thing's insane. Plus fourteen in the take gif. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: On third down, they they will put you in those

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Speaker 2: really uncomfortable situations. And Dennis Allen, he comes in every week.

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Speaker 2: I've read articles where these players talk about how excited

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Speaker 2: they are to come in on Thursdays. They know that

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Speaker 2: Thursdays is our third down blitz day. They know that

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Speaker 2: third day, Thursday is the third down you know, creative

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Speaker 2: day where they find out something new that Dennis Allen

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Speaker 2: and staff has put together that they may not have

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Speaker 2: even seen. And they're like, he does such a good

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Speaker 2: job of pulling things out from five games ago where

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Speaker 2: we thought that that defense was put to bed or

447
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Speaker 2: that technique was put to bed, and he'll bring it back,

448
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Speaker 2: but then he'll have a different nuance to it. And

449
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Speaker 2: so that excitement level for these guys to get your

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Speaker 2: team into third and long, it's it's contagious with them

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Speaker 2: and they look forward to it and it brings fear

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Speaker 2: into the offense. And that's that is one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest key points that we have to go into this game.

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Speaker 2: We cannot be in third and eight plus, like cannot.

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Speaker 2: Everything that we can do to be third and three

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Speaker 2: or less is going to help us out because this

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Speaker 2: is where these guys feast. They do such a good

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Speaker 2: job with their disguised packages, they do such a good

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Speaker 2: job with their blitz packages, and they will take the

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Speaker 2: ball away when it's in the air.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears have held opponents to seven of forty

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Speaker 1: six on third and long situations. Third and long would

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Speaker 1: be qualified here as six yards or more, second best

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. They're getting first downs, giving up first

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Speaker 1: downs fifteen percent of the time, narrowly behind the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay at thirteen.

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Speaker 3: That's an elite point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and I'll even take that a step further.

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Speaker 2: The stat I have is when they're third and eight plus,

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Speaker 2: they're holding offenses to a thirty nine point three passer rating,

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Speaker 2: which is the best in the NFL. Oh jeez, and

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Speaker 2: you look at us conversely on all third downs and

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Speaker 2: we're thirty first in the NFL. So our offense is

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Speaker 2: not good on third down regardless of the down of distance,

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Speaker 2: and they're elite at third and long.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir KIDQB Game five, what do you think? Look,

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Speaker 5: I am dramatic pause. Well, it's calculated today.

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Speaker 1: I know he's gonna be calculated three to four thirty

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Speaker 1: on TV and then they're gonna have to cut a segment.

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Speaker 3: We got a big day to day on Twinsday. It's

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Speaker 3: our Thanksgiving show. This's a lot of food wine today. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow. I'm going in basically not eating lunch.

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Speaker 1: Can you make anything and bring it in or is

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Speaker 1: it all made?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: It's all being made.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we have we have different people coming in

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Speaker 2: for every segment, different food item.

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Speaker 3: Yep, are you going to gobble up the gizzard?

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Speaker 2: I won't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'll take part in the gizzard.

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Speaker 1: No gizard no, no, no, no, gonna get your hand up

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Speaker 1: in there to get the gizzard.

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Speaker 3: I like that dark meat though.

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Speaker 1: And you answer the question Finchy's we have Finchy in

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Speaker 1: seven minutes. We're messing around with getting up in there

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Speaker 1: looking for dark meat and gizzards.

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Speaker 5: You just got an extra forty five seconds to late

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Speaker 5: to put it all together.

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Speaker 2: Mentally smart move tap dancing a little bit. I'm very

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Speaker 2: excited to see what he can do. I really truly

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Speaker 2: believe that he takes every single snap and every as

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Speaker 2: a learning moment. And you you heard Kaos talk about it.

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Speaker 2: He was with you Pa when he talked about, you know,

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Speaker 2: looking at some of these these plays when they're watching

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Speaker 2: film together and he's answering the question before the questions

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Speaker 2: even posed to chaos.

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Speaker 3: He's like, Yeah, if.

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Speaker 2: I had that play over again, I'd probably you know,

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Speaker 2: I'd not take that second hitch there. He's like, that's

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. That's what we're going to work on

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Speaker 2: this week. Like, I think that his his cerebral great game.

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Speaker 2: Is this going to continue to help accelerate his development,

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Speaker 2: not just like get better, you know, from one off

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Speaker 2: season to another. Like I think that we're bound to

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Speaker 2: see dramatic improvements in his game week in and week out,

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Speaker 2: and I think he's going to learn, Hey, when it's

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Speaker 2: third and six and you're stepping up in the pocket

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Speaker 2: because you feel in pressure, do you need to force

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Speaker 2: a ball into double coverage? How about you tuck that

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Speaker 2: ball down and you run for six or seven yards

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Speaker 2: and pick up a first down. That's that's as good

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Speaker 2: as anything else. So I think learning for him learning

524
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Speaker 2: to play the game a little safer, control the game,

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Speaker 2: game management part, stuff like that. Don't always look for

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Speaker 2: the big shot in the explosive play. Sometimes it's just

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Speaker 2: nice to move the chains and live to play another down.

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Speaker 2: And so I look forward to for him to play

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Speaker 2: cleaner football, better decision making in some of those critical moments.

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Speaker 1: You late, don't forget. Three to four thirty today, Channel five,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch see you this weekend. Thank

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Speaker 1: Chris Bench, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, is set to

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Speaker 1: join us square shortly Bikings and Bears over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's at noon on Sunday on KFA N That'll be

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Speaker 1: a day after Chris Finch's team plays the Denver Nuggets,

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Speaker 1: second part of a back to back and lo and behold,

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Speaker 1: here comes the head coach. Now, Chris Finch, coach of

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Speaker 1: two harvest dot org. And here's Chris Finch, Chris Paul Allen,

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Speaker 1: good morning, How are you?

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Paul? I'm good. How about yourself?

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Speaker 3: Good? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: I haven't so I know you get Sacramento in Denver

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if you got somebody on Monday

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Speaker 1: that requires travel. But here's the point, is the media

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Speaker 1: relations con do it. Aaron Freeman, one of our favorites,

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Speaker 1: big time Chicago Bears fan bears, are at Viking this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Timberwolves have tickets that happened to be super sweet behind

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Speaker 1: behind a visitor's bench. So, yeah, you're you're an Eagles guy,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Vikings guy. I mean, Freeman's team is six

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Speaker 1: and three. Is he getting loud over there?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, he's getting real loud. He's getting real loud.

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Speaker 4: You know, wasn't wasn't so loud after week three? But

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Speaker 4: he's getting real loud.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, And well just remind him before we move on,

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Speaker 1: it was the summer of free, not the winter of free. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So hopefully I heard all that. Now, you you didn't

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Speaker 1: let that Nick's loss ruin your birthday the next day?

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Speaker 3: Did you.

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Speaker 4: Tried not to, but you know, guys did a Guys

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Speaker 4: delivered with a resounding victory on the day after that.

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Speaker 4: So all is forgotten and we moved forward.

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Speaker 1: But what were you doing at first have last night?

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Speaker 1: Was there like a big Prince cover band or something.

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Speaker 4: There was a Zach Zach low was in town with

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Speaker 4: his podcast and it was his first ever live podcast,

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Speaker 4: and it was great Pat Cows, full of really passionate

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Speaker 4: Wolves fans and good energy in there, and myself and

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Speaker 4: John Krazinski from the Athletic as we all know, covers

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Speaker 4: us and then Dante DiVincenzo. It was just good, good time,

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Speaker 4: good vibes, lots of fun, fun laughs.

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Speaker 1: Now, now for those who don't exactly know who Zach

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Speaker 1: Lowe is or what he does, I mean, he has

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Speaker 1: like close to a million Twitter followers, uh, and and

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Speaker 1: I've and I've never met him and and I haven't

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Speaker 1: listened to any podcasts, but his presence is quite prominent

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Speaker 1: on social media and then the podcasting world. But like,

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Speaker 1: was Zach what what makes him so well respected around

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Speaker 1: the league?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question. Like, so Zach was formerly

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Speaker 4: at ESPN and now he's you know, with the Ringer

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Speaker 4: and he's started out as a writer, uh with with

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Speaker 4: the with Grant Land, and he's just an in depth

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Speaker 4: guy like he you know, he's a I would consider

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Speaker 4: an MBA expert. You know, he gets in the weeds,

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Speaker 4: he gets in the numbers. He used to have one

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Speaker 4: of my favorite columns, which was his weekly list of

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Speaker 4: ten things that he would make notice notice about the league.

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Speaker 4: A lot of it would be analytics driven or just

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Speaker 4: kind of crazy little trends or things that he found interesting.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I love about him. Like, you know,

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Speaker 4: in a world where a lot of times we're talking

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Speaker 4: about anything but the game and what's going on in

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Speaker 4: the game. You know, he he always found a way

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Speaker 4: to bring his you know, articles back to like what's

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Speaker 4: happening in the game, not about you know, crushing players

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Speaker 4: or coaching decisions or organizational failures and all these other

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Speaker 4: things that seem to get clicks. Now. He wrote about

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Speaker 4: the game, and he writes about the game. Super smart guy,

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Speaker 4: you know, Dartford Ivy League educated, has a you know,

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Speaker 4: typical Northeastern kind of sense of humor. So I kind

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Speaker 4: of connect with that. And but yeah, I just found

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Speaker 4: him extremely you know entertaining and and also you know.

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Speaker 1: Intelligent, but's fantastic. Zach Lows the guy's name. He was

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Speaker 1: at First Avenue last night doing an on site podcast

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, and benchi and and Johnny Athletic and Dante

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Speaker 1: DiVincenzo and others were there. That's that's really really cool man.

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Speaker 1: All right to your team yesterday, I saw clip I

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Speaker 1: wasn't at the press conference or like the the post

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Speaker 1: or pre shoot around talk, and and you said, quote,

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Speaker 1: your team's defense is off the mat and now needs

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Speaker 1: to start swinging. Has that Has that coincided with the

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Speaker 1: return of Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 4: A little bit? But I think it's you know, it

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Speaker 4: gives us another point of attack defender. Uh, But you know,

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Speaker 4: I think it's really going started with Rudy. You know,

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Speaker 4: kind of Rudy's awakening here. He's been extremely active, challenging

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Speaker 4: everything in his area, you know, Jade in his back

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Speaker 4: to you know, his normal self on and off the ball.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think those guys, you know, a couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks ago, we kind of called him out and

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Speaker 4: asked him that they had to be better, they had

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Speaker 4: to get back to who they were, and they've they've

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Speaker 4: delivered there.

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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is off that defensive question I

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Speaker 1: formulated Zach low would have started with Gobert and I

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Speaker 1: started with Edwards.

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Speaker 3: No, not at all.

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Speaker 4: Well, the timing is, you know, I mean, listen, Anthony

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Speaker 4: gives us so much personality. The other thing that's happened

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Speaker 4: that you know, at the same time Anthony came back,

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Speaker 4: Jalen Clark came back. Jalen Clark gives us some defensive

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Speaker 4: personality he makes things happen out enough, and another really

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Speaker 4: really good on ball defender. He's the possessions guy. He

655
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Speaker 4: gets gets your steals, he gets your fifty to fifty

656
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Speaker 4: balls and rebounds. You know, these things like kind of

657
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Speaker 4: go under the under the radar at times, but they're

658
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Speaker 4: always kind of going on no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And I think at the thirteen minute mark two podcasts

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Speaker 1: to go for Zach Lowe, he compared Jalen Clark's defense

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Speaker 1: as a new age fat leaver and t are done

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Speaker 1: specifically when it comes to on the ball. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's just beautifully laid out. I'm just learning so much

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 4: That's where that's where you have it over, Zach, Like,

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Speaker 4: that's not going back to the eighties references.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's ay. Gotta have something, man,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got three chins. Haven't felt my ribs

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Speaker 1: in thirty years. But I know who tr done is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't leave home without it. Go bear Rudy

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Speaker 1: Gobert ten blocks the last three all wins.

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Speaker 3: I mean, shot blocking.

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Speaker 1: There's more to it, I know, but shot blocking Rudy

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Speaker 1: is the best kind of Rudy, right.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean, if he can, if he can block shots,

676
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Speaker 4: particularly early in the game, set the tone, create some deterrence.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's that's when we see him at his best,

678
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Speaker 4: and then you know it kind of pumps a lot

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Speaker 4: of energy into our defense as well.

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Speaker 1: And eleven into it. For you guys, Chris, you're at

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Speaker 1: forty one rebounds a game. Does does that number need

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Speaker 1: to increase? Forty one rebounds a game on average?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. You know we're always looking at things

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Speaker 4: that on the horizon. Well, we don't have to look

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Speaker 4: at the horizon. We have looked in the rear room mirror.

686
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Speaker 4: I mean, the Nicks crushed us on the on the glass,

687
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Speaker 4: you know, and you know even you thought, I mean

688
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Speaker 4: they're rebounding percentage was a little higher than expected. We

689
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Speaker 4: made a miss a ton of shots, but the volume

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Speaker 4: was they got sixteen offensive rebounds against us, So, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's it's something that we're trying to zero in on here.

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Speaker 4: Everybody expects big guys to rebound, and they have to.

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Speaker 4: But I'm a firm believer, like, you're not really going

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Speaker 4: to be a good rebounding team until you're small. You know,

695
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Speaker 4: your guards really rebound at a high level, and we

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Speaker 4: got to get more from you know, from them right

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Speaker 4: now on.

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Speaker 1: The glass Chris Finch Weekly nine to noon, courtesy of

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Speaker 1: country to harvest dot org. Now, the three point game,

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Speaker 1: you guys are top eight and makes at fourteen a game,

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Speaker 1: but a little below midpack in attempts. So are you

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Speaker 1: looking for them to chuck up obviously responsibly, but shoot

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Speaker 1: more threes?

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Speaker 3: Are you looking for that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I think you know, if we we've been creating

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Speaker 4: a lot of really good looks. I think there's a

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Speaker 4: few more to be had out there. Some of that volume,

712
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Speaker 4: quite honestly, is a little noisy when you look at

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Speaker 4: it statistically, just because you know, Anthony missed those four

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Speaker 4: games and that's probably forty three point attempts that we

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Speaker 4: didn't really replace, you know, maybe we replaced some version

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Speaker 4: of them. So there's some of that volume is a

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Speaker 4: little a little inaccurate. But you know, I think overall

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Speaker 4: we're doing some pretty efficient things. We have the number

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Speaker 4: one effective field goal percentage in the league, and that,

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Speaker 4: you know, points to the fact that we, you know,

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Speaker 4: are getting fouled, getting to the rim and finishing at

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Speaker 4: a high level. Rudy's eighty eight percent at the rim

723
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Speaker 4: in the last five games, which is pretty impressive, and

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Speaker 4: that's been another key to our offense. You know, we

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Speaker 4: came into the season wanting to try to unlock Rudy

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Speaker 4: a little bit more and find him a little bit

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Speaker 4: more when he's open, and guys have done that, and

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Speaker 4: you know, when you make four out of every five

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Speaker 4: down there, it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: So if teams are high with ineffective field goal or

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Speaker 1: ineffective whatever you just said, does that mean they're shooting

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Speaker 1: a bunch of mid rangers and not get into the line.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, generally, yeah, generally, it's it's effective field goal percentage

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Speaker 4: PA is literally just the it's the percentage you shoot.

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Speaker 3: If you count threes.

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Speaker 4: You know, you give an extra half a point to

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Speaker 4: a three point shot made, so or an extra fifty

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Speaker 4: percent rather not half a point, so it just counts.

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Speaker 4: It just takes in the account three point percentage yep,

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Speaker 4: where you're actually getting the extra point per shot made.

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Speaker 4: And then it also takes into account the points you're

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Speaker 4: getting from the free throw line, which aren't normally taken

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Speaker 4: into account into shot attempts. Like if you just look

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Speaker 4: at regular field goal percentage, if you get fouled, it

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Speaker 4: doesn't count as a shot attempt, but it certainly does

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Speaker 4: count into your overall offensive production. So it's just it's

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Speaker 4: they're kind of like bonus points when it looks at

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Speaker 4: effective field goal percentage.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Sacramento's here Friday than Denver Saturday. You

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Speaker 1: keep getting those nuggets second half of back to backs?

751
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Speaker 1: What what challenge does that pose especially against them when

752
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Speaker 1: no travel this time, but second part.

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Speaker 4: Of a back to back, well, you know that there

754
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Speaker 4: they're challenge no matter how and when and where you're

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Speaker 4: playing them. So, you know, I think we try to

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Speaker 4: focus on on on them and the things that we

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Speaker 4: can do and things we've tried to have success with

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Speaker 4: them in the past. We have a few different kind

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Speaker 4: of game plans, if you will. When you're on a

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Speaker 4: back to back, of course, you know you you you,

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Speaker 4: you know, you want to have to get off to

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Speaker 4: as best start as you possibly can you generally, you know,

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Speaker 4: sometimes I'm back to back, the start can be a

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Speaker 4: little a little sluggish because just because the energy until

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Speaker 4: guys find their legs. But I mean said that, we've

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Speaker 4: been a pretty good second night of back to back

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Speaker 4: teams over the last few years. Uh, And it's not

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Speaker 4: something that we really talk about with our players, like

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Speaker 4: we you know, big believer that I like try to

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Speaker 4: remove all the obstacles and all the excuses of too

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Speaker 4: you know, along the way and then just go out

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Speaker 4: and play the game as it should be played. And

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Speaker 4: then you know, guys can't really lock in on something

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Speaker 4: like hey, I was tired.

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Speaker 1: What so so off Malone into Adaman now with a

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Speaker 1: lot of film, what what's different with the Nuggets with

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Speaker 1: David Adelman leading the charge?

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know, their offense is probably a little maybe

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Speaker 4: a little more fluid, you know, maybe less play calls,

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Speaker 4: a little bit more concept based. Uh. You know, their

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Speaker 4: defense is really kind of what's driving them a bit

782
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Speaker 4: more at the moment. They they've got you know, they

783
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Speaker 4: went out and they they added a couple uh, you know,

784
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Speaker 4: plus defenders in in the off season, which is really

785
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Speaker 4: helping their defense. You know, their offenses, when you look

786
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Speaker 4: at the numbers and everything, it's largely the same. You know.

787
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Speaker 4: Of course, Joki is at the heart of everything and

788
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Speaker 4: driving at Murray's off to a super hot start. They have,

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Speaker 4: they have kind of consistent shooting. They've done a really

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Speaker 4: good job of adding complementary skill sets to their roster

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Speaker 4: field a little bit like their their championship team, you

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Speaker 4: know when you look at the things that they have

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Speaker 4: and the things that complement their best players. But it's

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Speaker 4: really where their defense has kind of grown and they're

795
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Speaker 4: doing a good job there of you know, mixing in

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Speaker 4: zone man. Of course, they rebounded at a really really

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Speaker 4: high level. Uh, and you know, they just they just

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Speaker 4: got better, better defenders, you know.

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Speaker 1: Lastly here, so that's Denver Saturday Target Center and Friday

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Speaker 1: Sacramento you beat Sacramento by twenty seven out there a

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Speaker 1: couple of games ago within the week that they are

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Speaker 1: three and eight. What what did you notice about them

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Speaker 1: that night? But because they seem to be in quite

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Speaker 1: the rough patch right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're you know, they're going through it. You know,

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Speaker 4: every team at some point in the season goes through

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Speaker 4: it to some level. You know, they're obviously not off

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Speaker 4: to the start they want. They've they've been challenged a

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Speaker 4: number of times by their coach. You know, at some

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Speaker 4: point they're going to put it all together. They have

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Speaker 4: a lot of talented players. They have a lot of

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Speaker 4: guys who can really get going and you know, get

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Speaker 4: on a roll and almost beat you all by themselves. So,

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Speaker 4: you know, they've struggled through some early season kind of

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Speaker 4: of the way that they play. Uh So, it just

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Speaker 4: doesn't feel like they've settled into who that they're gonna

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Speaker 4: be at. You know, and when you're playing teams like that,

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Speaker 4: it's really important that you kind of jump on them

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Speaker 4: early so you can continue to kind of maybe increase

821
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Speaker 4: some doubt in their mind rather than allow them to

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Speaker 4: find the confidence and who they are, because they are

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Speaker 4: a lot of really good and proven players, and those

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Speaker 4: mojo back from doing their things.

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Speaker 1: Go Vikes, beat the Bears, Go Eagles, beat the Lions,

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Speaker 1: after you beat the Green Bay Packers, and we will

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Speaker 1: chat next week.

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Speaker 4: All right, that'd be a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: BA.

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Speaker 1: Thanks yep, see you, but thank you Chris. Chris Finch,

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Speaker 5: Patriots hosting the Jets. The Patriots a chance to go

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Speaker 5: nine and two and they're catching the Jets. Post mini

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Speaker 5: improve to nine and two this evening in Foxborough.

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Speaker 3: He's fake. Yeah, you said that early in the week,

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Speaker 3: didn't you. He has favored to win the MVP.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: As of yesterday he was todd with Matt Stafford at

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Speaker 5: three to one to be the MVP.

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Speaker 1: Drake May, what do you think you could have gotten

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Speaker 1: that into the season fifty to one.

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Speaker 3: After that first joint practice. I mean, yes, correct, So.

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Speaker 1: There's just with my opinion, No, there's somebody.

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Speaker 5: I think there's somebody sitting on a fat thirty to one,

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Speaker 5: forty to one type ticket something like that. I will

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Speaker 5: say next segment that we'll we'll dig a little bit

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Speaker 5: deeper into that game, maybe from a fantasy perspective, as

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Speaker 5: Paul Charchion joins us, Yeah, and I'll just kind.

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Speaker 3: Of let me let me hit you with this real quick.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Patriots minus thirteen tonight. Yeah, so I don't know,

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Speaker 1: say we're in the seven oh two, we get there

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Speaker 1: at two in the afternoon. Yeah, that's on me may

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Speaker 1: not have an opinion on it, but we're there. So

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Speaker 1: Patriots minus thirteen and the over under is forty three.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how would you do well? I would probably give

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Speaker 5: the points at this stage. I just think at Foxborough

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Speaker 5: Jets cute little performance or at least an attempt, I

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Speaker 5: should say a week ago post the moves and everything,

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Speaker 5: I just think they're a dismantled, awful operation. Got it

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Speaker 5: and I just have too much respect for Vrable at

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Speaker 5: this point, So just to have some action, I would

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Speaker 5: lean on the side of the minus twelve and a

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Speaker 5: half or thirteen, whatever it is, the Patriots winning by

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Speaker 5: two touchdowns. Looking at the injury report we will be

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Speaker 5: watching today. As Pa mentioned with Ben Lieber, Jonathan Grenard

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Speaker 5: did not participate yesterday with the shoulder injury. Chances of

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Speaker 5: him playing really depend on what you see today, so

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Speaker 5: limited in some capacity. You want number five eight on

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Speaker 5: the field in practice. You heard it during the presser

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Speaker 5: yesterday with Kevin O'Connell. JJ McCarthy hit his hand on

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Speaker 5: a helmet on a play. I believe it was where

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Speaker 5: he threw that to Jefferson in the end zone as

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Speaker 5: Jefferson was going to ground and hit his hand on

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Speaker 5: a helmet, so he has a bandage of some sort

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Speaker 5: on the top of his hand. It's been said by

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Speaker 5: all involved that that should not affect his ability to

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Speaker 5: throw the ball.

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Speaker 3: Russ Wilson, he's mister unlimited. We're mister limited.

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Speaker 5: Whether it's Will Fries, Aaron Jones, Ryan Kelly returning to practice,

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Speaker 5: twenty one day practice window open, McCarthy, Mattellus, Oliver School,

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Speaker 5: Harry the Hitman, two hundredth game ahead, Van Ginkel So,

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Speaker 5: so health wise, it looks like eventually we'll find our

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Speaker 5: way to a mostly full group. Just really watching him,

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Speaker 5: paying attention to Grenard's status through the week.

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Speaker 1: And the the Chicago Bears, their Wednesday practice report was

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Speaker 1: quite voluminous.

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Speaker 3: It was, indeed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got who didn't practice for whatever the

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Speaker 1: reason for them. Kevin Byer, the third who's the bomb, Yes, yep, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the other safety, Jakwan Brisker, Key j Edwards linebacker won't play,

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Speaker 1: Brady Jarrett, DJ Moore, Roe of Doonzay Tyreek, Stevenson day Walker,

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Speaker 1: and the tight end Cole Comet.

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Speaker 5: Holy cow, wow, busy list. So that bears mentioning. And

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Speaker 5: of course we'll have more on that tomorrow during the

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Speaker 5: Friday Feast in Lakeville. But when we return from a

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Speaker 5: fantasy perspective, I'll charge Here gives us his thoughts on

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Speaker 5: games this weekend and the NFL looking forward to the

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Speaker 5: final hour ahead.

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Speaker 1: We'll take you to charge around the corner on KFAM