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Speaker 1: Human dye to big boys back.

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Speaker 2: Now what what what did I do wrong? Just listen,

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Speaker 2: just listen, Time for two more.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Brad Sham is NFL play by play immortality er.

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Speaker 4: Nate Prescott back slant cad my pickt spins away from

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Speaker 4: the defender first down, heads to the right side, sprints

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Speaker 4: down the sideline.

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Speaker 5: Hurdles a man, Oh the way down.

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Speaker 4: Inside the ten to the six. There you are, George,

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Speaker 4: you were hiding and you come out to play.

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Speaker 3: Brad Sham has called Dallas Cowboys games on the radio

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Speaker 3: for forty seven years, which is the longest run for

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Speaker 3: any of us describing games.

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Speaker 1: Does the landry shift up and down?

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Speaker 4: Prescott takes the ball, takes the knee, and this crowd

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Speaker 4: is Tobae Rothenberg one month ago. If I told you

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Speaker 4: one month ago the Cowboys are going to beat both

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Speaker 4: the Eagles and the Chiefs, you would have said to me.

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Speaker 2: I would have said that Brat Sham says it, then

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Speaker 2: it is sold. You would have said what you would

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Speaker 2: have said to us. I'm very comfortable with you say that.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I would have said.

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Speaker 3: Wow, all of that is so excellent. Walks and Brad

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Speaker 3: sham joins nine to noon. Now, Hey there, Brad, looking

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Speaker 3: forward to seeing you Sunday night and hoping we get

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Speaker 3: a really good game to call.

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Speaker 6: How are things, Paul, I'm good, thank you? Things are

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Speaker 6: things are just fine. I'm delighted to be with you.

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Speaker 6: Could not echo more strenuously your hope that we get

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Speaker 6: a good game to call. And I do want to

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Speaker 6: just full disclosure, point out that Meryl Reese and Philadelphia

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Speaker 6: has actually got two years of seniority on me. Oh jeez,

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Speaker 6: this is a this is well, this is a an

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Speaker 6: anomaly of the calendar. I started a year before Meryll,

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Speaker 6: but in the middle nineties I left the Cowboys broadcast

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Speaker 6: for three years to do Texas Rangers baseball, and Meryl

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Speaker 6: never went anywhere. So I started a year before him.

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Speaker 6: But he has years seniority on me, and as you

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Speaker 6: well know, he just won't stop, right, bro. I'm happy

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Speaker 6: to be in his on his coattails, Okay, well, and

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Speaker 6: I'm happy to be on yours and his And just

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Speaker 6: give me a second here so I can pull that

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Speaker 6: fifty dollars I sent to Wikipedia yesterday. Oh yeah, no,

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Speaker 6: they're yeah right, I understand.

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Speaker 3: But the home broadcast booth at AT and T Stadium

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Speaker 3: is named after Brad Sham. It's named after you, and

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Speaker 3: you're still very much alive. I mean, that's that's unique,

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Speaker 3: but awesome. Was it weird when they asked you if

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Speaker 6: Oh? They didn't ask me. They just surprised me with it.

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Speaker 6: They did it on the occasion of the first home

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Speaker 6: game of my fortieth season, and I had no idea

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Speaker 6: they were going to do anything. And you're You're quite right.

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Speaker 6: In our business, you usually have to be dead to

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Speaker 6: get an honor like that, or at the very least

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Speaker 6: retired and in your dotage. And I remember saying to

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Speaker 6: Jerry Jones that night, as I think he had a ceremony,

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Speaker 6: he had everybody in my life was there. Everybody who

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Speaker 6: an incredible gesture. And I remember saying to him, this

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Speaker 6: but I'm really curious to know what you're gonna do

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Speaker 6: when I hit my fiftieth and everybody laughed and I

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Speaker 6: hadn't really I don't know about you, Paul. I never

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Speaker 6: That doesn't mean I'll stop at fifty. Depends how I feel,

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Speaker 3: And I'm really glad you said that, Brad about Jerry Jones,

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Speaker 3: you know, because I've heard similar stories involving former coaches

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Speaker 3: is polarizing. And whether it's here in the Cornfields or

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Speaker 1: Things like that.

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Speaker 3: But when things like this like you described transpired, Jerry

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Speaker 3: does it ten of ten, doesn't he?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Jerry is You're one hundred percent right about being polarizing.

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Speaker 6: He's a walking lightning rod. He's got some personality traits

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Speaker 6: He'll stir things up because I and I told him

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Speaker 6: And he Vec says to Goodell, look, I want you

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Speaker 6: the order. So he would not have done that, of course,

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Speaker 6: He doesn't mind if you hate him. People called him arrogant,

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Speaker 6: it's I think it's a fair criticism to say that

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Speaker 6: What gets completely obscured and This is what you're talking about,

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Speaker 6: because that's not why he does them. Dale Hellistra was

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful down memory lane.

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Speaker 3: We go some more. We'll go down memory lane again

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Speaker 3: in a second. But Vikings and Cowboys Sunday Evening on

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Speaker 3: For you guys, what has the season been like? At

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Speaker 6: So this is one of the most unusual seasons I've

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Speaker 6: not a locker room cancer. He's just not a leader.

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Speaker 6: And you're talking about giving eighteen percent of your payroll

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Speaker 6: and they failed, really let him down. In other areas

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Speaker 6: the third year in a row, they just didn't do

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Speaker 3: Redskins was everything. I mean, it was phenomenal. Is that

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Speaker 6: No, But it's because it's excuse me, rivalries, as you

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Speaker 6: minds of Cowboy fans than one or two of the

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Speaker 6: Division teams. But again it's because of the stakes that

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Speaker 6: they've usually been playing for. But Dallas Washington will always

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Speaker 6: be a unique and special rivalry, and part of it

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Speaker 6: has to do with going all the way back to

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Speaker 6: when the Cowboys came in the league in the in

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Speaker 6: nineteen sixties. There were just great stories about things that

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Speaker 6: happened when they were getting their franchise, and it built

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Speaker 6: into what it was, especially in the seventies and eighties.

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Speaker 6: All it'll take is for both teams to be good again,

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Speaker 6: for the spark to like and the thing to explode.

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Speaker 3: Lastly, Brad and to Sunday Night. Is is Dak Prescott

444
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Speaker 3: maybe having the best season of his career?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe he was really good two years ago. And

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Speaker 6: I think that they're better now because I really think

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Speaker 6: that Schottenheimer and his staff are a little more inventive

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Speaker 6: than McCarthy was that year at putting together an offense

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Speaker 6: that relies on the running game as well as on

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Speaker 6: what the quarterback sees. And yeah, he's yes, he's he's good.

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Speaker 6: He'll never be viewed, in my opinion, commensurate with his

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Speaker 6: ability until he wins. And if you know, we both

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Speaker 6: know everybody knows, coaches and quarterbacks are viewed judged in

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Speaker 6: the court of public opinion by what happens when the

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Speaker 6: regular season's over. And so if they don't, if they

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Speaker 6: don't ever get there, then you know, he'll be now

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Speaker 6: if you want to, if he has a career that

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Speaker 6: has people talking about him, and he won't buy the numbers.

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Speaker 6: But in terms of the impact of you know, there's

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Speaker 6: guys like Marino and Fouts and some pretty good quarterbacks

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Speaker 6: who never won a Super Bowl. Kelly, there's some pretty

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Speaker 6: good quarterbacks who never won a Super Bowl. I'm not

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Speaker 6: saying he's those guys. But your question was, is it's

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Speaker 6: this the best year of his career. I think it is,

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Speaker 6: and I really think the reason that it is is

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Speaker 6: his command of the game of the field. All the

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Speaker 6: quarterbacks in the league have physical abilities. Most of them

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Speaker 6: can make most of the throws. What separates them, as

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Speaker 6: you know, is what they see and what they can

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Speaker 6: change on the fly. And he's ten years in and

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Speaker 6: not not much has been thrown at him that he

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Speaker 6: hasn't seen, and he's he's really pretty good at handling

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Speaker 6: all of it.

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Speaker 3: Brad, those are some of the greatest stories ever shared

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Speaker 3: on this radio show, which is approaching three decades. We

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Speaker 3: are honored to have you on and and we thank

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Speaker 3: you for sharing the stories and opening a vame.

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Speaker 2: And I'll see you Sunday night.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, my pleasure. I'm looking forward to it. See ye.

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Speaker 3: That's Brad Sham forty nearly a half century is the

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Speaker 3: vox for the Dallas Cowboys Radio audio network.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Coming a collapse.

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Speaker 3: That's just that's one of those where you just roll

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Speaker 3: it out there and just get out of the way.

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Speaker 7: It's kind of cool when you look more into when

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Speaker 7: you said that you were having Brad on I'm on

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Speaker 7: YouTube and when he was actually he started as an

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Speaker 7: analyst and he's with Vern Lundquist. Wow, and hearing nearly

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Speaker 7: a fifty years younger Brad Sham analyzing the game and

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Speaker 7: then finding I think Vern goes to CBS or something

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Speaker 7: in the eighties, but no, just hearing hearing the old,

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Speaker 7: mixing it with the new, and hearing still the crispness

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Speaker 7: of those highlights I've played for you in the open

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Speaker 7: space time.

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Speaker 2: Pretty damn og. Mister Sham is out. He's ov original vox. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: memory Lane, we go.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Brad. He'll be calling for the Cowboys. I'll

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Speaker 3: be calling for the Vikings on Sunday Night Football and

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Speaker 3: you'll up hear the vikings portion at FM one hundred

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Speaker 3: point three kfam.

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Speaker 1: Little did we know.

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Speaker 3: First segment was going to be a Steve's Appliance's Marathon segment.

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Speaker 3: Marathon segment with the cooking portion of the cook top

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Speaker 3: equation belonging to Brad Sham. So go to Steve's Appliances

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Speaker 3: dot com and look at appliances if you are so inclined,

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Speaker 3: and if you need one at up to Mounds View

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Speaker 3: or work. First at Steve's appliances dot Com. Now on

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Speaker 3: the Timber Tech What's on Deck set list, and we

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Speaker 3: have Ben leeber Is going to be here about ten

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Speaker 3: o'clock after Vikes bites the wild of a big one

512
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Speaker 3: tonight against the Stars. Joe Smith from the Athletic will

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Speaker 3: join us in the eleven o'clock hour, and much much

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Speaker 3: more on the Horizon with Nordo producing.

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Speaker 2: I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Nordo, we have a parody song called free

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Speaker 3: Ballin and we're going to debut that around the corner

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Speaker 3: at FM one hundred point three.

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Speaker 1: K f A n Good morning.

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Speaker 3: And the end of the conversation with Brad Sham, the

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Speaker 3: play by play guy for the Dallas Cowboys. We talked

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Speaker 3: about Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, and the

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Speaker 3: type of season he's having. A key for the Vikings

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Speaker 3: to win Sunday Night clearly involves quarterback JJ McCarthy playing

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Speaker 3: like he did or maybe even better against Washington. Just

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Speaker 3: get out there and give us some free balling.

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Speaker 8: It's a long year talking about our angles, the leg

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Speaker 8: whips and the fastballs too.

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Speaker 2: He's a young kid. I hope he turns out like Elway.

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Speaker 8: I've lost count to those that he overthrew.

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Speaker 3: Party to throw it over the middle, and it's intercepted

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Speaker 3: by isamic.

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Speaker 8: Guppy neurological paths, the power of completions with pitch and catch.

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Speaker 1: Does it have to be this hard?

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Speaker 2: But he's a young kid.

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Speaker 5: Gotta keep the patience even caos like.

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Speaker 2: Just go spinning around the yard.

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Speaker 5: Now he's free, free ball man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he's free.

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Speaker 5: He's free ball man, JJ McCarthy. Now he's free free

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Speaker 5: ball then JJ McCarty, Well, yeay's pree.

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Speaker 6: I got a joy one time. It's too dead.

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Speaker 2: He's free balling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, nice job, brother, that was great.

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Speaker 1: We need him to be free balling.

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Speaker 3: Nice job, free balling. Let's go JJ, Tom Petty courtesy

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Speaker 3: of Nordo. And speaking of Nordo, you know this, this

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Speaker 3: truncated segment here with the design I was thinking of

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Speaker 3: calling the Nordo's no Chancers or the Puncher's chance, and

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Speaker 3: it plays off yesterdays. Yeah, chips are chairs, but do

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Speaker 3: they have a chance? Chips are chairs, but do they

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Speaker 3: have a chance? And the premise is off yesterday when

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Speaker 3: we established the four faves and the four favorites to

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Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl, and now a trio of long

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Speaker 3: shots with a puncher's chance and a strange, strange season.

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Speaker 3: And when I say Nordo's no Chancers or the puncher's

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Speaker 3: chance teams that are twenty to one or higher to

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Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl, I mean that's generally a no

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Speaker 3: chance scenario. Long shots generally have no chance at winning

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. But this year seems to be different.

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Speaker 3: Nordo's no Chancers, and there they are.

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Speaker 7: We're gonna start in and you gave me so twenty

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Speaker 7: to one or higher odds, and I mean, I was

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Speaker 7: just gonna hug straight to that twenty mark because there's

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Speaker 7: a few in the mix there. The one of these

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Speaker 7: is twenty to one. I'm gonna start with the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 7: I believe to believe in the Lions is to believe

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Speaker 7: in that coach and to believe in that top ranked offense.

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Speaker 7: They put it around the gym better than anybody else

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Speaker 7: in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you look at the record.

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Speaker 7: I think it's eight and five, and they have their problems,

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Speaker 7: no doubt, but offensively doesn't appear to be one of

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Speaker 7: those issues. Their top three safeties, though, Kirby, Joseph Branch,

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Speaker 7: Harper they're out, that's the problem. So you have to

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Speaker 7: believe in their defensive front and rallying. Here's where it

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Speaker 7: finishes for them at Rams. So that's we could end

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Speaker 7: this story here just by watching how that game turns out.

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Speaker 7: Then they host Rogers and the Steelers that at Vikes

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Speaker 7: and Bears to finish. This is chip or chair and

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Speaker 7: do they have a chance They got to get in

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Speaker 7: which means they likely take the spot of Chicago down

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Speaker 7: by a game that week eighteen tilt might mean everything,

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Speaker 7: and then as it stands at the moment, they'd be

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Speaker 7: headed to green Bay. So can they win at lambeau

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Speaker 7: Field and not flop the way they did on an

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Speaker 7: early September day Week one, the West is probably going

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Speaker 7: to carry the top seed, whether that's Rams or Seahawks.

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Speaker 7: As we talked yesterday, green Bay and the cat bird seed,

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Speaker 7: it looks like to maintain at least the two with

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Speaker 7: the faltering East and the mediocre South. So if they

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Speaker 7: did beat the Packers, they'd go to that number one seed.

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Speaker 7: So is it the Rams? Are we going to see

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Speaker 7: a rematch of this next week? Or then they'd go

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Speaker 7: down the road again for a title game Seattle Tampa, Philly,

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Speaker 7: San fran It's an awful road to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 7: and that's probably why they're twenty to one. But that

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Speaker 7: offense keeps them alive in any game.

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Speaker 3: Well, since we did the bait yesterday, the Rams now

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Speaker 3: are close to three and a half to one. The

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Speaker 3: Packers went down to seven and a half to one. Yep,

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Speaker 3: Seattle eight to one, Bill nine to one. By doing

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Speaker 3: the twenty to one mark, that eliminates New England ten

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Speaker 3: to one, Denver eleven to one, Philly eleven to one,

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Speaker 3: Texans sixteen to one. So that gets us to the

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Speaker 3: Lions and the Jags each at twenty to one. So

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Speaker 3: the question would be, if you are spotting up with

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Speaker 3: a with a mythical honeybee, or actually with your real money,

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Speaker 3: would you spot up on the Detroit Lions at twenty

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Speaker 3: to one.

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Speaker 7: I think their paths too hard. I would not spot

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Speaker 7: up on the kiddies at this point.

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Speaker 3: I would spot up on the kiddies if you could

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Speaker 3: guarantee me their offense is free ball.

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Speaker 2: I always love that one.

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Speaker 3: Outside of that, that's I'm middling on this because Aiden

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Speaker 3: Hutchinson in the postseason, Ali McNeil in the postseason with

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Speaker 3: that offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they can do some damage.

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Speaker 2: They can. But the reason that I'm not spotting up

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Speaker 2: on them.

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Speaker 7: And I'll give you my other two momentarily twenty to one.

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Speaker 7: They still have to get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: That's great point.

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Speaker 7: And so the other two teams I'm going to present

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Speaker 7: for you, I think in terms of just getting that

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Speaker 7: chip in that chair, they're already really in and I

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Speaker 7: think that creates problems again, Rams and Bears. Those two

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Speaker 7: games on the schedule for the Lions will determine the season.

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Speaker 3: I think, don't forget about Christmas Day while everybody else

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Speaker 3: is giving. Maybe we are taking, as in taking playoff

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Speaker 3: related souls from the Motor City Kitties.

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Speaker 2: Who's next twenty two to one?

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Speaker 7: The San Francisco forty nine ers, and they're largely healthy

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Speaker 7: right now, and I euke drama and all that kind

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Speaker 7: of to the side.

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Speaker 2: They're just one game.

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Speaker 7: We kind of forget about them when we talk about

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Speaker 7: the Rams and Seahawks and Niners are just one game

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Speaker 7: behind them, and three of the final fourward at home Titans,

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Speaker 7: then at Colts before hosting the Bears and Seahawks. So

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Speaker 7: I would actually say, of the three in the West.

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Speaker 7: Right now, the Niners might have the best chance of

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Speaker 7: actually actually again winning out and finding their way potentially

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Speaker 7: atop the NFC West. And if they can do it,

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Speaker 7: they hold the tiebreaker over the Seahawks. If the Rams

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Speaker 7: lost in either Seattle or hosting the Cards, they'd win

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Speaker 7: the division. So they're in that spot there. They win

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Speaker 7: the West.

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Speaker 1: That would be amazing.

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Speaker 7: And really they truly in some ways control their own

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Speaker 7: destiny to do so.

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Speaker 2: So they throw it well, they don't run well at all, but.

654
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Speaker 7: McCaffrey still finds his way into the end zone that

655
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 7: the defense kind of lacks on the back end, but

656
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Speaker 7: good luck running against them. And it's a coach equity

657
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 7: towel right with Shanahan. So again controlling their own destiny.

658
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Speaker 7: It's twenty two to one. This is one I actually

659
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Speaker 7: would I would put some dollars.

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Speaker 2: Down on with the Niners.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's a mythical honeybean, you can only put

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Speaker 3: it on one team.

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Speaker 1: I'm more with the Lions right now.

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Speaker 3: But the division, it's analogous with the forty nine ers

665
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Speaker 3: chasing two teams with better records than the division. So

666
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Speaker 3: it's this very very interesting at twenty two to one.

667
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Speaker 3: Next level, Shanny, who's last.

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Speaker 7: Well, well the last one here. This is where you're

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Speaker 7: in the sportsbook. You hit a massive parlay and you

670
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Speaker 7: have a buddy from Florida, and so you put a

671
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Speaker 7: hundred bucks on the Bucks at thirty five to one.

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Speaker 7: Their path it depends on it depends on them winning

673
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Speaker 7: out because they have the Falcons, they got the Panthers twice,

674
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Speaker 7: they have the Dolphins. That puts them at eleven and six.

675
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 7: I think that is a very good chance then of

676
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Speaker 7: pushing them up into the third seed, passing either the

677
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 7: Eagles or the Cowboys. In the NFC, they are getting healthy.

678
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 7: Tristan Wurf's is back practicing in full as of yesterday.

679
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 7: Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan have been activated. Bucky Irving

680
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 7: getting his legs back, get more productive games under his belt.

681
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Speaker 7: I think their defense gets into a rut. You can

682
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 7: throw it on them all day, but if running the

683
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 7: ball in the playoffs matters, And this sounds weird and

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Speaker 7: stupid because they just i mean, the Saints just put

685
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Speaker 7: one forty on them, But I'm telling you that run

686
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Speaker 7: defense is for real in Tampa.

687
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Speaker 2: And if it's open season.

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00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 7: Thirty five to one is a mortgage if you can

689
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Speaker 7: stomach the roller coaster and walk falls the way of

690
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,879
Speaker 7: the Buccaneers at thirsty five to one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where my mythical Honeybee would go at thirty

692
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: five to one, because I think they're gonna make it somehow,

693
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Speaker 3: some way. Now watch them lose to Atlanta tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The odds are the best, and you make compelling cases

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Speaker 3: for and or against the previous two, the Motor City

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Speaker 3: Kiddies and next Level Shanning.

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Speaker 2: I like that. That's really cool.

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Speaker 7: this vike bite. This is a person we really haven't

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Speaker 7: talked about all season. So if I'm catching you off

710
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Speaker 7: and you don't have an opinion, that's fine, we'll move on.

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00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 7: But Ty Felton, I'm just curious about his development thirty.

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Speaker 3: It's just like, what well, I mean, I have an opinion.

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Speaker 3: Oh goody. If you had hit it like into the

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00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 3: season or early in the season, holy cow, what an

715
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 3: opportunity to be an elite gunner this young man has

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Speaker 3: and for the most parties come through with it.

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Speaker 7: But indeed, well, just ty Felton from an overall perspective,

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Speaker 7: So whether it's the discombobulation of the offense or is

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Speaker 7: it being behind you have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison. At

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Speaker 7: the time you mentioned pre and early season Addison out

721
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 7: was suspension. He's back, Speedy Naylor Jalen Naylor. So is

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Speaker 7: it potentially just being behind that group? Is he not ready?

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Speaker 7: Has the discombobulation of the offense stunted his growth because

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Speaker 7: he's a hardcore special teamer man as you mentioned, for

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00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 7: the most part, I think he's played on about seventy

726
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Speaker 7: percent of team, so he's finding himself to be valuable there.

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Speaker 2: But just twenty nine offensive snaps all.

728
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Speaker 7: Season two for two on catches, including a first down

729
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Speaker 7: chain mover.

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Speaker 2: I just haven't seen a bunch of tie Felton this year,

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Speaker 2: that's all. And he popped in my head.

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Speaker 1: Great question.

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Speaker 3: The pure progression of ascending the wide receiver depth chart.

734
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Speaker 3: Still has four games to go, and maybe there will

735
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Speaker 3: be some tie Felton entering the cap. Yeah, TJ Hawkinson

736
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Speaker 3: staying healthy, Josh Oliver catching touchdowns. Then the aforementioned three

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Speaker 3: with a eighteen to three and one. Well, that's provided

738
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Speaker 3: some proverbial roadblocks. Obviously. The number one thing I will

739
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Speaker 3: leave the season with regarding ty Felton unless something you know,

740
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Speaker 3: unless he gets a lot of run a wide receiver

741
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Speaker 3: and just starts changing games is when you get drafted

742
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Speaker 3: and you're a wide receiver, you want to play wide receiver,

743
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Speaker 3: and no matter who thinks you're good enough now or

744
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: whenever to get into that spot, you have a high

745
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Speaker 3: level of belief that you can help.

746
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Speaker 2: So it's there.

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Speaker 3: They're one of two ways you can handle that. Are

748
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Speaker 3: you going to be a malcontent and sulk and be

749
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Speaker 3: the e or in the room, or are you going

750
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Speaker 3: to embrace what's been put in front of you and

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Speaker 3: handle it with a plum. It's been the latter for

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00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 3: ty Felton, who I mean after wins and losses, he

753
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 3: wants to play more man, but he recognized his team first,

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Speaker 3: and that's something that is noteworthy with.

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Speaker 1: Ty Bikes Mike Sikes, Bye.

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Speaker 2: Thank you thousand Hills.

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Speaker 7: Are you worried at all about TJ apparently nursing the

758
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 7: shin and that I'm from darisaw again A does not practice,

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Speaker 7: does not participate with the knee, right, just seeing those

760
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 7: things this time of year, you know, it's it's to

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Speaker 7: the point where either I'm I'm completely desensitized by it,

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Speaker 7: but then I kind of WinCE a little bit, like WHOA.

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Speaker 7: TJ loved his game, loved the tight end inclusion, and

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Speaker 7: now he's not practicing with this shin thing, right he

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Speaker 7: bang his leg on a coffee table or what's going on?

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Speaker 7: Or is that something we're paying attention to? I assume

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Speaker 7: I suppose we are as well to get closer to

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Speaker 7: the game if t if TJ.

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Speaker 3: Hawkinson does not play, then there will be two people

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Speaker 3: tied in Ben Simms, yeah and the aforementioned ty Felton,

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Speaker 3: who probably will be thinking to themselves. So we're not

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Speaker 3: going to play the game with TJ, which means I'm

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Speaker 3: pre balling certainly, not saying they're rooting for TJ not

774
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Speaker 3: to play, but that one caught me off guard. To

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Speaker 3: per usual, monitor the Thursday and Friday practice reports really closely.

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Speaker 3: Listen to Kevin O'Connell's final press conference of the week Friday.

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Speaker 3: During the program, all of the answers will be revealed, then.

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Speaker 7: Last little vikebite for you, and then maybe I'll I

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Speaker 7: got a couple of my pocket from mister Leber who

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Speaker 7: joins his next segment.

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Speaker 6: Love.

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Speaker 7: It kind of feels like they've reboot the cow Boys.

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Speaker 7: They've rebooted Javante Williams career, and it's just kind of

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Speaker 7: interesting following him from his time in Denver. You know,

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Speaker 7: for instance, he had his last two seasons in Denver

786
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Speaker 7: twelve hundred and eighty seven rush yards total and seven

787
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Speaker 7: total touchdowns. Well, he's going to out do that this year.

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Speaker 7: He's running for four a to carry. He's got the juice.

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Speaker 7: They're using him in receiving situations as a guy out

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Speaker 7: of the backfield. You didn't see him catching as much

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Speaker 7: in Denver. He's already over one thousand yards. He has

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Speaker 7: nine rushing touchdowns that four point eight to carry. By

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Speaker 7: the way, he was averaging in the threes the last

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Speaker 7: two seasons, so they've really rebooted his career. And you know,

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Speaker 7: is this a conversation that revolves around, well, with that

796
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Speaker 7: passing offense, you just got to have a pulse and

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00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 7: you can be effective running. But regardless, Javante taking a

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Speaker 7: big time advantage of his opportunity in Big.

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Speaker 3: D eleven touchdowns total, but the two catching.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They have this second year backup name Malik Davis, second

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Speaker 3: year from Florida, who they tell him is really fast.

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Speaker 3: Forty three yard touchdown rushing. That was masterful. They also

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Speaker 3: have an undrafted cat from North Dakota State University. It

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Speaker 3: is Hunter Lipke. He was undrafted in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: He has a receiving touchdown. Lipkey's in North Dakota State

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Speaker 3: type name, isn't it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think he might be from Wisconsin by way of

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Speaker 3: NDSU now in the Big Deed. But what I think

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Speaker 3: will be interesting, as you hear Ben Pete and yours

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Speaker 3: to early describe it on Sunday night, is the way

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Speaker 3: they manipulate Javonte Williams, Malik Davis Lipke, Revan Spanford, Jake

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Speaker 3: Ferguson and Luke Schoonmaker. I mean we're talking h backs,

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Speaker 3: broken eyes, wide outs. They use those guys in in

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00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 3: ways where Pickens and CD lammer on the field most

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00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 3: of CD plays, and they use those guys for outlet options,

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Speaker 3: but also with Ferguson, Schoonmaker, Lipke and maybe Williams blocking

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Speaker 3: down the field for Pickens and CD.

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Speaker 2: I just learned that yesterday.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of a thing the way they use their

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Speaker 3: tight ends with no intention on most plays to catch it,

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Speaker 3: but after CD or Pickings catches a shorty watch eighty seven,

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Speaker 3: eighty six, forty eighty nine and or thirty three blocking

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Speaker 3: down the field. Okay, let's do this thing.

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