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Speaker 3: All Right, our guys, Sean Sayed from the Stats and

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Speaker 3: He's typically with us at five twenty. But our show's

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Speaker 3: done early today at five o'clock. Really quick. Before we

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Speaker 3: get to Sean. This had been talked about in high

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Speaker 3: at ten o'clock. They're going to make an incremental twenty

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Speaker 3: So the elder say, next game, which students really didn't

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Speaker 3: and again, get tickets at OHSAA dot org. Our guy,

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Speaker 3: you and I. But it's good to have you. How

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's great, you know, it was fun to hear

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Speaker 1: you talk about that high school football game. I obviously

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Speaker 1: hope that all those people that end up going to

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Speaker 1: that see some better tackling than what we have to

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Speaker 3: Better tackling and better effort. Like that's I think for

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Speaker 3: a lot of us the big takeaway from Pittsburgh. You

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Speaker 3: can come up with whatever schemes you want. When you

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Speaker 1: I think you know, you see some effort, good effort

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Speaker 1: of in the long haul, but absolutely, like I would

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Speaker 1: the cool scheme that would work in this situation. But

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Speaker 1: really on the defensive end, there were some fun things

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about some of the things that Pittsburgh did

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Speaker 3: do because the first time these two teams played, the

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Speaker 3: Higgins burned them. This time around, totally different game plan,

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Speaker 3: and it felt like the Bengals had no answer.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it felt like you get to some of those smarter,

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Speaker 1: I remember the Chargers trying it against them, and then

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Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, not an offensive line that we're

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Speaker 1: I mean next week, obviously we know that Jamar Chase

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Speaker 1: And I think Burrow could also say, Hey, look, I'm

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Speaker 3: Uh. The Patriots on one of the more fun stories

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Speaker 1: So this is a great example because I think that

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow can do absolutely everything. So I would be

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Speaker 3: How does a bad defense combat what they're doing? Uh?

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Speaker 1: No, The a question It's like it's I just want

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Speaker 1: we've actually seen the Patriots have some success with their receivers.

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Speaker 1: I'm at Ezelek with track