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Speaker 1: we mentioned repeatedly in the first hour, Brian Flores has

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Speaker 1: The contingency is if he gets a head coaching job,

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Speaker 1: How key is this for the Vikings moving forward into.

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Speaker 2: The off season. Well, I think it's it's paramount to know,

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Speaker 1: All right, So what do you think of this with

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Speaker 2: What do you think of all that? I think it

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Speaker 2: like with Mike Tomlin, when they know they know and

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Speaker 2: They're not like in love with me like they you know,

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Speaker 1: Here, what into the equation Now that Fernando Mendoza is

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Speaker 2: So it's I think we it's fair to rip his

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Speaker 2: I mean he showed that on the field of play.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of this stance? With more reps

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Speaker 2: at over a quarterback play, he's got a long way

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Speaker 2: to go. Yeah, he got a long way to go.

432
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's still not a very high completion quarterback.

433
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Speaker 2: The accuracy is still needs some work. I know that

434
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Speaker 2: year two with Ben Johnson's gonna be better than year one.

435
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Speaker 2: So we've already seen a pretty amazing year with the

436
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Speaker 2: first year. It's probably gonna be better next year. But again,

437
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,160
Speaker 2: there's no guarantees. You know we're talking. We talked about CJ.

438
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 2: Stroud in the last segment. Yeah, I mean, he's regressing. Unbelievable.

439
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Speaker 2: He's regressing off his rookie year two years ago. Holy cow,

440
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Speaker 2: why is he regressing? I don't know. I don't know

441
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Speaker 2: all the ins and outs, what's happening internally with the team,

442
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Speaker 2: personally with him, but he looks like a guy that

443
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Speaker 2: doesn't understand the processing speed of the NFL right now,

444
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Speaker 2: which is bizarre. Into his third year.

445
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Speaker 1: What Sean Payton, what do you think he's gonna do

446
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Speaker 1: with Jared's did him who, by the way, is sneaky good.

447
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Speaker 1: He hasn't played a lot, but Jared does a pretty

448
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Speaker 1: high level of respect around the league for who he is,

449
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Speaker 1: what he does, where he's been. What do you think

450
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Speaker 1: about that, Well, I'll go back.

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Speaker 2: I was a big fan of jam at Stidham only

452
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Speaker 2: because when I was calling college football and I was

453
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Speaker 2: sitting down with Art Briles and Baylor and they were

454
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Speaker 2: the first to recruit him before he went to Auburn.

455
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Speaker 2: You know, our Briles could not say enough good things,

456
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Speaker 2: and our Briles at the time, before all the controversy,

457
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Speaker 2: was regarded as one of the best talent evaluators out

458
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Speaker 2: there when it comes to quarterback, and he was so

459
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Speaker 2: high on him, and he you know, So that being said,

460
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Speaker 2: Stidham comes into the to college football in sort of

461
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Speaker 2: this wide open Art Briles led Baylor offense, which was

462
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Speaker 2: very much we kind of tell you where to throw

463
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Speaker 2: the football, not a whole lot of breaking down of

464
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Speaker 2: defense is really really even understanding route progressions and stuff

465
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Speaker 2: like that. Then he's then he's had to come in,

466
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Speaker 2: you know, go, you know, go along his way into

467
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Speaker 2: college then get to the NFL, and I think he's

468
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Speaker 2: had like pick up that part of quarterbacking. He has

469
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Speaker 2: everything you're looking for, right, I mean the height, the weight,

470
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Speaker 2: the arm strength, the accy. I just think that where

471
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Speaker 2: he has not taken off is that he has not

472
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Speaker 2: progressed with the offensive progression scheme. And so whatd it

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Speaker 2: surprised me if he goes out there under Sean Payton's

474
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Speaker 2: offense and tutelage and hard coaching and has a great game.

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Speaker 2: It would not surprise me at all.

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Speaker 1: In Stidham's two starts, he threw more touchdowns than picks.

477
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Speaker 1: Very very smart guy from what I hear, and when

478
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Speaker 1: people you know with whom I chat away from the

479
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Speaker 1: microphone talk about him, it sounds like he's Sean Manion,

480
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Speaker 1: smart but with more talent. So if you're leading New England,

481
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Speaker 1: don't you just load up against the run until Stidham

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Speaker 1: starts making big third down passes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I think the all of the cliche

484
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Speaker 2: things are in play for this game. I mean, they'd

485
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Speaker 2: be foolish if they don't try to run the football.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is it's way easier said than done.

487
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Speaker 2: This this Patriots defense. The one thing that I that

488
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Speaker 2: I was made aware of, which is kind of ridiculous

489
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Speaker 2: that in this game against the Texans that I was

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Speaker 2: that I was a part of last week. Even though

491
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Speaker 2: that I was like in the weeds with all of

492
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Speaker 2: this stuff, nobody talked about how good their defense was.

493
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Speaker 2: It really wasn't until leading up the days the day

494
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Speaker 2: or two leading up to the game did the national

495
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Speaker 2: attention go like, oh my god, by the way, yeah,

496
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Speaker 2: we've we've exhausted four days of talking to how good

497
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Speaker 2: this this Texans defense is. The Patriots actually have a

498
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Speaker 2: pretty good defense too. Let's dive into that. And then

499
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Speaker 2: you see the gameplay on Sunday and you're like, oh

500
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Speaker 2: my goodness. Right, Like for where the Texans are really

501
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Speaker 2: strong in the edges, the Patriots are really good internally.

502
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Speaker 1: Milton Williams seems like he's worth every penny they gave

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Speaker 1: Christian Barmar.

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Speaker 2: I mean those guys, those guys are really really talented

505
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Speaker 2: inside and they're in They're secondary is like aggressive, right,

506
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Speaker 2: I mean, they will go after everything and they have

507
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Speaker 2: really fast, speedy linebackers. I just think that it's gonna

508
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: be really really hard for the Broncos to establish a

509
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Speaker 2: run game stay with the run game if it gets

510
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Speaker 2: stuffed early on just knowing that, like, Okay, we can't

511
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Speaker 2: have Stidham throw thirty five forty times in this game

512
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Speaker 2: to win. But it also we also know Sean Payton,

513
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Speaker 2: and I think he's not afraid in this environment on

514
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Speaker 2: an AFC Championship game, if the run game isn't working,

515
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Speaker 2: he'll just say, I gotta do whatever it takes to win. Yeap.

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Speaker 2: So if Sidham ends up throwing fifty times this game,

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Speaker 2: that also wouldn't surprise me, because I don't think they're

518
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Speaker 2: gonna have any success running the football against this defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a little Jordan Humphrey on a series

520
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Speaker 1: of nines just right down the field.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean based on what you know, what they

522
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Speaker 2: did in the last game. You know, when it gets

523
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Speaker 2: to crunch time, he understands how they officiate, the officials officiate.

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Speaker 2: He's not afraid to like throw down the field and

525
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Speaker 2: his hope for a pass, I mean, you know, so

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't surprise me either, just to like take some

527
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Speaker 2: deep shots. What do you The thing is, what do

528
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Speaker 2: you have to lose? He's got the ultimate out. You're

529
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Speaker 2: starting a guy that hasn't thrown an NFL pass in

530
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Speaker 2: a regular season in two years. No one expects you

531
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Speaker 2: to win. So go out there and just chuck the

532
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Speaker 2: ball around as far as you can take it.

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Speaker 1: Poka Nakua against the Seahawks of this season, two games,

534
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Speaker 1: three hundred receiving yards on twenty four targets. How how

535
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Speaker 1: in the heck do they handle that monster Pooka Nakua.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, he is h he is

537
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 2: the guy for all the right situations. He can beat

538
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Speaker 2: you downfield, He's strong enough to run across the middle,

539
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 2: he can play that slot position. I just have such,

540
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: you know, high praise for him and what he can do.

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Speaker 2: But you know, these are two teams that really know

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Speaker 2: each other. And you know, I think Sam Darnolds like

543
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Speaker 2: what two touchdowns to six interceptions against this defense. First

544
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 2: time he saw him, he at four. Yeah, so you know,

545
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: obviously he knows that. I mean, they know that McDonald

546
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: knows that with the whole Seahawks offense that look, they're

547
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: gonna have to run the football, They're gonna have to

548
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 2: do all the things, but also they're going have to

549
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: come up with new wrinkles both both sides. We have

550
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 2: to come up with new wrinkles that they haven't already

551
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 2: coached against each other in the last two games, so

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Speaker 2: I can't wait for this game. I think the Seahawks

553
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 2: end up winning this one. I think I think they're

554
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Speaker 2: just a stronger football team in all three phases, and

555
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Speaker 2: I think that home field environment is going to be

556
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 2: huge for them. So I'm anticipating a Seahawks Patriots super

557
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Speaker 2: Bowl with the Seahawks winning.

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Speaker 1: Softy from Seattle, kjar softy from Seattle twenty minutes from.

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Speaker 2: Now, Time for two more.

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup has one touchdown the last three months, all right,

561
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Seattle wide receiver Cooper Cup one touchdown last three months.

562
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Speaker 1: Still his work in the run game and setting edges

563
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Speaker 1: and just smacking you if you don't see it, if

564
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: you don't see it coming, especially that that's still high end.

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Speaker 1: Is Cooper Cup key in this game? Or in what

566
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Speaker 1: ways is the key? Well, of course he's He's definitely key.

567
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a big body receiver that

568
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: can get down them there. And and the way that

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker is running last week, you know that that's

570
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: gonna be a part of the game. I mean, Kyraen

571
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Speaker 1: Williams is gonna be a big part of LA's game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those two teams.

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Speaker 2: The reason why it's gonna be really fun to watch

574
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: is like they're very similar. They can ground and pound

575
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Speaker 2: you if they need to, and they and they really

576
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: kind of want to just set up everything else down

577
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Speaker 2: the field. So it's gonna be ground and pound whoever

578
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: gets the edge on the ground. And then can we

579
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: take a deep shot down the field? And with Injigba

580
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 2: on the outside for Seattle, and then you have the

581
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Speaker 2: high enders for you know, like we talked about with

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Speaker 2: Puka and Davante with La, you know, it's it is

583
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: going to be fire against fire and let's let's see

584
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: who wins. But yeah, I think having those receivers get

585
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 2: grimy and dirty in the run game, that's it's huge

586
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 2: for both teams. All right.

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Speaker 1: So just to close it, Sam Darnald, what what do

588
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: you expect from Donald Sunday night. We're not hearing or

589
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: reading anything about the oblake. Doesn't mean that it's gone.

590
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: But he only threw twelve times. He only had to

591
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: throw twelve times in the divisional win against the Niners.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about Sam? You know, I'm not

593
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Speaker 2: gonna I'm not gonna count Sam out for anything. I

594
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: think that he has this quiet confidence that we all appreciate.

595
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 2: We've seen him tough some things out. I think he's

596
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 2: gonna the way that he the way that he threw

597
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: the ball last week. I mean, he could have thrown

598
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Speaker 2: the ball thirty times. It does didn't need to right,

599
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: so he looked healthy to me. And then you you know,

600
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: now you're going to get another week to get that

601
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: muscle to get right. So I don't think it's going

602
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 2: to be an issue at all. I think his biggest

603
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Speaker 2: his biggest issue is just really deciphering this this really

604
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: good defense from La and not throwing the don't throw

605
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: the game away. That's it. If he doesn't throw an interception,

606
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: they for sure a hands down win the game. I

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Speaker 2: have a good show today, right, Yeah, thanks Ben Leber.

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Speaker 1: Twin Cities Live, Channel five three to four thirty at

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Speaker 1: familiar with Softy from Seattle, KJR.

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Speaker 2: I've heard his work before.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just have let's see where are you sitting, so

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Speaker 2: Do you're right have that right index finger on that

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Speaker 1: Now, we don't anticipate problems because Softy has been on

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Speaker 1: We're here to talk about his super chickens and get

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Speaker 3: This good work, brother, thank you very much, good work man.

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Speaker 3: We will we will have a bet.

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Speaker 2: I do have one.

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Speaker 3: I'm fairly confident in Wild and Wings tonight. That's what

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Speaker 3: we're going at. First we get a programming well, of

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Speaker 3: course I'm gonna talk about the Wild first. Yeah, we

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Speaker 3: have a programming predicament tonight on the fan. The fan

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Speaker 3: will take Wild Red Wings tonight. You'll hear that the

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Speaker 3: Timberwolves also in action tonight, which you'll hear on the

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Speaker 3: free iHeartRadio app Timberwolves channel. If you get the Bulls

646
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Speaker 3: at home, which of these matchups to UPA is more intriguing.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to be at the Wolves and Bulls tonight.

648
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: So but that doesn't mean that Wild Wings is not

649
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: intriguing to me. As I shared yesterday, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the the football season done, spent four days in Colorado

651
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Speaker 1: with my daughter. So now that I'm settling in destride

652
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Speaker 1: into the winter sports, and which means I'm watching the

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Speaker 1: Wild from opening puck drop to the final play, you know,

654
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Speaker 1: I mean obviously walking around and you know, missing a

655
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Speaker 1: little bit of it, but it started for me. I

656
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Speaker 1: went to the game against Winnipeg. Okay, that was a disaster.

657
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: The eleven thirty am Sabers game hit it a perfect

658
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Speaker 1: time of the day on a Saturday, and I had

659
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Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, I know about Taje Thompson and

660
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: Alex Tuck and Jordan Greenway and you know some some

661
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Speaker 1: other players for the Sabers with whom I'm quite familiar.

662
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 2: I had no idea how fast they were.

663
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Speaker 1: So now you know, I was just at this Winnipeg

664
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Speaker 1: game where I think they gave up six falset ed

665
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: got yanked in the third into the third period. It

666
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: was a disaster. And then after the game you learn

667
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: Boldi gets hurt. So now you're down Boldie and Bogosian

668
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: and Johansson and bro Dean and jul Eric Sinek. All right,

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Speaker 1: so what's gonna happen in this Buffalo game against the

670
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Speaker 1: team this one fifteen to seventeen? And I just watched

671
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Speaker 1: a scrappy Minnesota Wild team fend challenge after challenge after

672
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: challenge by being strapped players and win that thing five

673
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: to four. All right, But you know this is and

674
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: then this is for those who listened to nine to

675
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: him frequently, you may have heard this a couple of

676
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: days ago. All right, I knew who Quinn Hughes was.

677
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to pretend that I'm up at nine

678
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: or nine thirty on weeknights watching Vancouver Canucks hockey.

679
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: So I knew who he was. After they traded for him.

680
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: I read about him and how much he has the

681
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: puck on his stick and he's an Olympian and that

682
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Speaker 1: whole thing. Then I watched him live in that Winnipeg

683
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Speaker 1: game and yeah, they got killed, but I'm like, are

684
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Speaker 1: you kidding me?

685
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 2: With this guy?

686
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Speaker 1: First time i'd really seen him in person, all right, Now.

687
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: I saw him at the skate that morning when we

688
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: did box in the box, not as big as I thought.

689
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: He was twitchy. He's about the twitchiest player I think

690
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, with his shoulder shakes and his head

691
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: and his deeks and what he does when the puck

692
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: is on his stick. So I fell in love. And

693
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: then I watched him that Sabers game. Fantastic. He had

694
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Speaker 1: a cross ice pass for a goal in that game

695
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: that was just fantastic. Then same thing with Toronto. Got

696
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Speaker 1: some domination to it and the game against Montreal on

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Speaker 1: the back to back. You know, I know Caulfield is good, but.

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Speaker 2: You know, don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't watch him a lot, so you know, he

700
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: snipes and wins it with fifteen seconds to go. But

701
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Speaker 1: they the rush they created first and foremost, you got

702
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Speaker 1: to win the draw. So you win the draw, then

703
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: you got a nice rush to tie the I thought

704
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: they were going to tie it, and I'm like, damn, man,

705
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Speaker 1: I can't stop watching this team. They are so all

706
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: in philosophically with each other. Heinze had a conversation with

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Speaker 1: Tarasenko recently, at least that was the published report where

708
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Speaker 1: they had a little conversation on the side about what

709
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Speaker 1: he needed from Big Bad lad Well. So then heines

710
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Speaker 1: earlier today, I bring up Tarasenko with a couple of questions,

711
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Speaker 1: and he said he has a lethal shot.

712
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 2: And we've known that for years, from when he killed

713
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Speaker 2: the Wild when he played with the Blues.

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Speaker 1: All right, but Tarasenko, I thought, and you've watched more

715
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Speaker 1: than me I thought up to recently, tarasenkle beIN all right.

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Speaker 1: I mean he had more goals, honestly, into he had

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Speaker 1: more goals than I thought, all right, so it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a ton but I think it was a healthy scratch.

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Speaker 2: Earlier in the year.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not, but it just it's Vladimir Tarasenko. I

721
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Speaker 1: know he's near the end, but I just hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: a ton all right. Well, then you get Moose's hat

723
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Speaker 1: trick and Tarasenko he slides it to him when Tarasenko

724
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Speaker 1: could have had a hat trick. Well, that's eye opening

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Speaker 1: and the lovet Covenant. This is the gid first Covenant

726
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Speaker 1: and that's what he chose to do. I'm like, Wow,

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: there's another facet that I'm just falling in love with

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Speaker 1: with this team. Then he scores to the next game

729
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: in the Montreal game, so Heinze and the boys have

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Speaker 1: him going. They're gonna get guys back, maybe even tonight.

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Speaker 1: John Hines earlier said that it's kind of like a

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00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: box of chocolates where you've got a bunch in there.

733
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Speaker 1: You don't really know what you're gonna get until you

734
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: bite into it. They're doing morning skate right now, so

735
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: before the end of nine to noon on the tweet machine,

736
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Speaker 1: there probably will be some information about some players, potentially

737
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: returning player or players, and I like our I like

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00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: our one in one, A one two goaliepop. You know

739
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: there's been a regression to a mean to a certain extent,

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Speaker 1: specifically with ballstead of late, but comparatively speaking to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the teams around the league, including your guy

742
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Speaker 1: Wedgewood and Colorado in his backup.

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Speaker 2: I like it. I like that. I really really like

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Speaker 2: this team.

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I know this is You asked me

746
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Speaker 1: what time it was, and I told you how the

747
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Speaker 1: watch is being made.

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Speaker 2: But it's the only way to answer it.

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Speaker 1: I've been an NBA guy all my life, from from

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00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: growing up in Washington, DC getting to go to a

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Speaker 1: lot of Bullets games, and I moved to Los Angeles

752
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: during Magic Bird. I played basketball for junior college. But

753
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: so it's yeah, I'm going to the Wolves Bowls tonight

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00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to go. However, if you know what

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00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 1: excite they both excite me for different reasons. To brink

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00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: It and Larkin are on fire right now. I didn't

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00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: know until of late. This is against a super cool story.

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00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: Left Covenant likes cool stories. To brink it in Larkin

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00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: our Michigan, our Michigan Natives, and they're playing for the

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00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 1: Detroit Red Wings. How freaking cool is that? And Dylan

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Speaker 1: Larkin's a fantastic centerment So I think this is going

762
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: to be a tough one tonight. I like us against

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00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference teams generally speaking, unless it's New Jersey that

764
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: pretty much beats us every time. A couple of high

765
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: end games tonight. Wolves need to bounce back from the

766
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: Utah debacle and and the Bulls got some cool players, man,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for both.

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Speaker 2: Number two, Thanks for asking that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, Champion Conference Championships Sunday. You'll hear both

770
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 3: games here on the fan. NFC Chamanship Ram Seahawks. Seahawks

771
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 3: favorite two and a half points at home. But the

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Speaker 3: game I'm looking at for Brett's bets, it's not about

773
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Speaker 3: it's not about finding these sleeper it's just being smart

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Speaker 3: and not overthinking things.

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Speaker 1: So the bets going to the NFL it is. It's

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Speaker 1: not wild and Larkin this evening, no, God is not.

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Speaker 3: I like the Patriots, even though they're favored by four

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Speaker 3: and a half.

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Speaker 2: That that to me is not a lot.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to for a team the Broncos that

781
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Speaker 3: are starting Jared Sidham hasn't had a competitive snap in

782
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Speaker 3: like two years four and a half points.

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Speaker 2: Yep, I'm you're not.

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Speaker 3: Gonna we know, betting favorites isn't fun. You want to

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Speaker 3: find cute underdogs, but that to me, road favorite to

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Speaker 3: correct road favorites are. I mean, it's and and you

787
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Speaker 3: know this is Foeba fairness and Brett Blake Moore act. Okay,

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Speaker 3: of these ten of these tens, ten Brett's bets, I've

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Speaker 3: probably you know, had had the eye up as a

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Speaker 3: side or I didn't like your picks. I'd say forty

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00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 3: to sixty percent of the time, and you've been right

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Speaker 3: on every single one of them. Like I didn't love

793
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 3: the Eagles against the Niners, but I wasn't taking the Niners.

794
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 3: I thought the Eagles had some push button to him

795
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 3: and they were driving to prove exactly what I was saying,

796
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 3: right until Eric Hendrick's backpedal through it back ten years

797
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,479
Speaker 3: in the Tampa two drop and he knocked it away

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00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 3: and Brett's Bets gets home yet again. So you're eight

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Speaker 3: and two, eightish and two ish with these bets.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to take the other side. I'm not

801
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: going to argue the other side. Road favorites at this

802
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Speaker 1: stage of the equation, Those are tricky. Those are generally

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Speaker 1: what the quote squares end quote will fire their money

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Speaker 1: in on in like Las Vegas or wherever. But I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna leave it right there that I'm not going

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00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: to say who I like or why I like him.

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00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say say, Brett Blakemore has been asked ten times,

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00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: nine to noon, all the way back to last July,

809
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: to identify a bet that he likes, and he's hid

810
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: eighty percent of them. And he's telling you take the red,

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Speaker 1: white and blue of football immortality and give the four

812
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: and a half points. If you're listening via the vast

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Speaker 1: and never expanding, iHeart audio app in the seven oh two,

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Speaker 1: which would be the area code of Las Vegas. What

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00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: I think he's suggesting is take that, take that prediction

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Speaker 1: to a sports book of your choice, and when it's

817
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: your turn, get with the clerk and say here's the deal.

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00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: I want ten dollars on the Patriots minus four and

819
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: a half, and I want you to push that button

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00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: until all of Clark County is out of paper. And

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Speaker 1: then when it's out of paper, I'll patiently wait for

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Speaker 1: you to find more trees, print and have more paper

823
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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna do it again. Eighty percent winner in

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Speaker 1: the Love Covenant, Brob that gets.

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Speaker 2: A company collapse for me? Well done? Anything else, No,

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Speaker 2: let's get to Softie.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, this Saturday, Nico Medved's basketball team

828
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: takes on the nineteen to zero Nebraska Cornhuskers led by

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Speaker 1: Freddie Hoiberg. We had a chat earlier today with fred

830
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 1: Hoiberg very complimentary of Nico Medved's offense. That's a podcasting

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Speaker 1: talut for you to listen back to.

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Speaker 2: We happen to enjoy it a lot. We think you'll

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Speaker 2: enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: It was the second segment of the radio show, and

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Speaker 1: those two teams hook up on Saturday.

836
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Speaker 2: Final hour of nine to Noon's Around the Corner.

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Speaker 1: We're going to head to the Cappuccino Capital and chat

838
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: with beloved Softy when we return to FM one hundred

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Speaker 1: point three.

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Speaker 2: K An