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Speaker 1: Cricket Rocket Turn. Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of

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Speaker 1: the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster, the official

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Speaker 1: ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. It's me your host,

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Speaker 1: cy Ahmanson, and Week seven, your favorite team is coming

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Speaker 1: off of bye. We're gonna take on a team that

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Speaker 1: I was very nervous about a few weeks ago, and

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Speaker 1: then I got less nervous about. And even though I

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Speaker 1: should have gotten more less nervous, the nervousness has increased.

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Speaker 1: I don't like playing teams with back to back losses

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Speaker 1: that are that are good. Uh, And that is what

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Speaker 1: is happening this week as we take on the Philadelphia Eagles. Now,

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Speaker 1: normally on the show, the great Chad Daniels joins me,

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Speaker 1: but there are gonna be a few exceptions this year,

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Speaker 1: a few moments where he gets the week off, and

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Speaker 1: this is one of those moments because we have long

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Speaker 1: time Tailgate guest, longtime Philadelphia Eagles fan, Blake Wexler, who's

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Speaker 1: worked for the organization, fantastic comedian, joining us to break

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Speaker 1: down all things Eagles. Blake, I appreciate your time first

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Speaker 1: and foremost.

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Speaker 2: Of course, and I am a fantastic comedian and what

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Speaker 2: else do you have to say that's nice?

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Speaker 1: And secondly, I want to ask this as you and

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Speaker 1: I who care a lot about each other, but also

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Speaker 1: in this tight universe where our teams are about to play,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't always go great from a private dialogue standpoint.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask this in a way that what's

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Speaker 1: the what did the kids say? They call it triggering.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask this in a way that doesn't

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Speaker 1: trigger you and your Philly brain good luck, because I

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Speaker 1: think it's an important question. The Eagles are one of

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Speaker 1: the more interesting roller coaster teams in the history of

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Speaker 1: professional sports. They draft a quarterback, they go on a

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Speaker 1: crazy run to start season, he gets injured, They win

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with the backup and a new coach

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Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson. Quickly thereafter, that young rookie quarterback that

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Speaker 1: everybody thought was the future of the league is gone

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Speaker 1: and the head coach is gone, and then they start over,

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Speaker 1: and then you've got this new team that seems to

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Speaker 1: build into a juggernaut, and then down the stretch they

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Speaker 1: collapse a couple of years ago, just like, oh no,

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Speaker 1: everybody's not gonna be here anymore. Like old school Major

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Speaker 1: League movie reference, like, let's pave the parking, Let's turn

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Speaker 1: it into a parking lot. That's what it felt like

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Speaker 1: after that Buccaneers loss. Then somehow they keep everybody. The

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Speaker 1: next year, they're a juggernaut all the way to a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl title. Then they start this season and you go, well,

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Speaker 1: this is clearly the best team in football, and then

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Speaker 1: they lose these last two in a way that is

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Speaker 1: almost not even recognizable and is someone whose job it

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Speaker 1: is to discuss the upcoming matchup, even though that's in

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Speaker 1: a humorous way. I don't know what's happening, Blake, What

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Speaker 1: is your team? What's happening here?

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Speaker 3: Should I? Should?

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Speaker 1: I go? Oh? No, one of the best teams in

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Speaker 1: the league has lost twice, and they very rarely lose

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Speaker 1: three times in a row. Or am I looking at

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Speaker 1: that moment in a grade school project where the lava

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Speaker 2: Buddy, I don't know what you're talking about, but I

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Speaker 2: will say that you know exactly what I do.

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Speaker 3: So it's funny.

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Speaker 2: We had a similar conversation earlier in the season about like,

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Speaker 2: what is this team? And this is before we lost

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Speaker 2: the two games and when we were winning. So we

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Speaker 2: rattled off four wins in a row to start the season,

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Speaker 2: lost the last two to probably the two worst teams

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Speaker 2: out of all those teams that we've played, for sure,

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Speaker 2: And I was not nervous by the way that has changed.

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Speaker 2: But will you talk to me about that when we

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Speaker 2: were four and oh, I'm like, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: did barely squeak by a bunch of games last season

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Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. The games were close. There were

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Speaker 2: certain games that could have gone either way, even going

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Speaker 2: back to that snow game against the Rams and the

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Speaker 2: playoffs where people forget Matthew Stafford was marching down the

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Speaker 2: field in the fourth quarter and if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So now I'm like, well, this is just how we

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Speaker 2: win super Bowls. I'm calm, there's nothing to freak out here.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna just win the Super Bowl for now on

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Speaker 2: and now. And then I went to the Giants game

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Speaker 2: that we got and it wasn't oh a coin flip,

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Speaker 2: you know. We got destroyed in that game, wall to

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Speaker 3: So to answer your question.

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Speaker 1: Point, yeah, We're where a guy took his shirt off

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Speaker 1: on the postgame show, confidently knowing the rest of the

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Speaker 1: went like, well, we watched the game, take your shirt off?

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Speaker 2: Yeh, why is your shirt ever on? I guess it's

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Speaker 2: if you're gonna play like that, no shirt, no problem.

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Speaker 3: And you know even you might as well.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna play like that against the Eagles in

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Speaker 1: prime time, forget your pads at home. It's a quicker

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Speaker 1: path to being shirtless on national TV.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna play like that against the Eagles,

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Speaker 2: no need for cleats, flip flops, flip flop your way

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Speaker 2: up and down the field. I like the sound of it.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, here's what I think is going on, because

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Speaker 2: I've been thinking about this a lot. We have like

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Speaker 2: a mini by as they call it, because we played

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Speaker 2: Thursday nights, so we'll have which I hate.

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Speaker 1: That, by the way, I think that's the right thing

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Speaker 1: to do competitively. But when I realized you guys played

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Speaker 1: on Thursday off of our bike. No, I want you

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Speaker 1: to play on I want you to play on Monday,

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Speaker 1: but I want you to play on Sunday I want

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Speaker 1: you to have the short week.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't want your mini bie. Is that a thing

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Speaker 1: the league is doing. It's fair, it seems more fair,

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Speaker 1: But I want unfairness against you, Blake.

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Speaker 2: I understand, And when I came up with the term

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Speaker 2: mini bye, I was I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep.

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Speaker 2: But I stand by it because I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: if it was up to me, the Eagles would play Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

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Speaker 2: and I take off Saturday and then we would play Sunday.

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Speaker 2: So I think, what's going on with the team after

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Speaker 2: thinking about it during our mini by, is that our

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Speaker 2: offensive line, for the first time in years, is not

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Speaker 2: playing like the greatest offensive line of all time, and

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Speaker 2: we're calling plays and expecting these plays to work as

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Speaker 2: if they are still the best offensive line of all time.

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Speaker 2: They're really banged up. Our center Jurgons Cam Jurgens, who

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Speaker 2: He had back surgery a few weeks before training camp started.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, society, if you've ever had back issues,

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Speaker 2: but back from.

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Speaker 3: My understanding, how dare you?

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Speaker 2: How dare I also I have such back issues? If

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Speaker 2: I drop coins on the ground. I'm like, well, there

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Speaker 2: go my coins, and you know how much I love.

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Speaker 1: My Somebody else will find them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, someone else will find them. It'll be lucky to them.

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Speaker 1: And can I tell you something really quick me cause

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Speaker 1: you and other friend of the program Zach Martina, also

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Speaker 1: fantastic comedian Detroit Lions fan. It has been so exhausting

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Speaker 1: for me the last few years to listen to you

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Speaker 1: both claim to have the greatest offensive line of all time, Like,

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Speaker 1: and you say it in the way that when I

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Speaker 1: know he thinks you're wrong, you think he's wrong. I

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Speaker 1: think both of you are wrong.

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Speaker 3: You do it.

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Speaker 1: You do it in the way that like twenty four

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Speaker 1: entities will say an original fact as though it's inarguable

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Speaker 1: clearly it's the greatest offensive line in the history of

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Speaker 1: do that. It's like it's like you went to twenty

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Speaker 1: four Hour News College to come on this show. It

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Speaker 1: drives me crazy.

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Speaker 2: Who I was the valed victorian of twenty four hour

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Speaker 2: News College and I and I have that diploma displayed

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Speaker 2: prominently in my home.

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Speaker 3: But it is you're so right.

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Speaker 2: It is also not a of all Even saying the

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Speaker 2: greatest wide receiver of all time is controversial, but there's

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Speaker 2: no like qualitative quantitative stats from an offensive line. It's

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Speaker 2: like saying I have the greenest lawn of all time.

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Speaker 2: It's like you can't quantify a color, you know, and

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Speaker 2: so it is subjective. But anyway, let's say a fantastic

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Speaker 1: You guys had a very good offensive lineman. Fantastic, fantastic

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Speaker 2: Sure sure, sure, sure sure, and that is that's that's

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Speaker 2: how we refer to him as well. But he was

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Speaker 2: replaced by Jurgens, who has been injured. Landon Dickerson has

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Speaker 2: and you look at the running numbers. Saquon Barkley isn't

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Speaker 2: in the hardest sport on a human body that exists,

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Speaker 2: that these guys will just get healthy during the season.

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Speaker 1: There are very few times in football that you can go, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's a big reason they won the thing, Like Reggie

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Speaker 1: mean you didn't need all of the parts. But the

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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley addition, I was trying to think back, like,

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Speaker 1: where do we get close to that in football that

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Speaker 1: the Reggie White thing. Had Randy Moss won it with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots that year but they.

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Speaker 3: Lost this year. That's what I was gonna say right.

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Speaker 1: That was a sizeable difference. I think if the Pack

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Speaker 1: were to win the Super Bowl this year, the Micah

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Speaker 1: Parsons thing could pan out that way. But it's just

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Speaker 1: You have all these pieces that are still there, and

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Speaker 1: your line might be banged up, But even though all

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Speaker 1: this stuff is bubbling, I don't know how stuff never

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Speaker 1: bubbles over or bubbles out in this way. The crazy

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Speaker 1: so fascinating about your organization. Two weeks from now, you

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Speaker 1: might just go it's all sucked back in and it

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Speaker 1: all looks normal and everybody's happy, and you're the best

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL. And I don't know what sort

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Speaker 1: to people I've never heard of exists. But that ability

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Speaker 1: to wrangle, that's what makes me nervous about this game.

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Speaker 1: Is all of a sudden, they can just go, oh,

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Speaker 1: When we went to break, we were we were just

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Speaker 2: I will go with Kieley Ringo will give up three touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: You got a guy and your team named Keeley Ringo

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Speaker 2: a children's animated show Who's in a band? You go

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Speaker 3: And then score. I'm gonna say twenty eight twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Where we have no I can defer to our producer

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Speaker 1: we do not have a defined decision. Great, so why

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll just we'll prepare for both then.

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