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Speaker 1: Major changes across the NFL landscape in the past twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, with four more teams joining the search for

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Speaker 1: a new head coach. We will take you inside each

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Speaker 1: decision tonight and tell you what is next for the Falcons, Browns,

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Speaker 1: Raiders and Cardinals. This season is long over for those teams.

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Speaker 1: For others, including Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers, it is

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Speaker 1: just heating up. Wild Guard Weekend is almost here, and

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Speaker 1: our team of analysts and reporters will tell you what

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Speaker 1: you need to know on all six matchups. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: Bucks and of course the Chiefs. We will break down

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Speaker 1: where things went wrong for some of last year's contenders

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Speaker 1: and how they can get right.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insiders, presented by Progressive Insurance, alongside

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, Judy Batista and Mike Garafolo. I am Tom Pelisero.

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Speaker 1: Ten hours into this day, live on NFL Network, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two games into the NFL season, and

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Speaker 1: just like the NFL season, we got some big stuff

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Speaker 1: here left six games on Wild Card Weekend. It all

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Speaker 1: kicks off on Saturday, afternoon with the Texans, No, just kidding,

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Speaker 1: not the Texans for once, Rams and Panthers kicking things off,

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Speaker 1: Packers and Bears going at it in primetime, a triple

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Speaker 1: for eighteen teams not so lucky they're out of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And for those making major changes today, that includes in

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Speaker 2: Raiders were three and fourteen.

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Speaker 1: They won their opener in New England, won just one

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Speaker 1: ultimately for them fortunately meaningless game yesterday against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Still have the number one pick, Carol out Mark Davis

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Speaker 1: releasing a statemen notably say any in part. The general manager,

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Speaker 1: John spy Tech will lead all football operations in close

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Speaker 1: collaboration with Tom Brady, including these search for the club's

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Speaker 1: next head coach. Brady the minority owner, spy Tech, Brady's

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Speaker 1: college teammate. Here is what spy Tech had to say

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Speaker 1: on the events of today.

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Speaker 3: Just because we have the first pick in the draft

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Speaker 3: that didn't carry a lot of weight in the decision,

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Speaker 3: that we made. You know, I think we have a

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Speaker 3: great opportunity to build this franchise the right way.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: We never want to be in the spot again. I

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Speaker 3: never thought I would be in the spot. But we

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Speaker 3: got to be real with where we're at. We have

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Speaker 3: and our focus and our vision is on everything going forward.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's start with the obvious here, Ian you don't

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Speaker 1: hire a seventy four year old head coach if.

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Speaker 2: You think you going to be this bad. They're going

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Speaker 2: to be drafting a number one.

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Speaker 1: There were fire coordinators, there were problems on the field,

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Speaker 1: They wore out the patients of guys like Max Crosby.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately they just lost a ton of games. They are

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Speaker 1: going to draft number one. They quite possible get that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, to me, one of the big things that

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Speaker 5: stands out is this is looking to me like a

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Speaker 5: full rebuild, which is fine. You can rebuild it the

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Speaker 5: right way, and to hear gentlemenner John Spytek say that

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Speaker 5: probably was a refreshing thing for Raiders fans hire a

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Speaker 5: coach who comes in and understands that it's going to

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Speaker 5: be a process. Yes, they're going to take a quarterback

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Speaker 5: number one. Overall, that is a great start. If you

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Speaker 2: Last year.

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Speaker 5: Pete Carroll was a win now coach refused to play

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady was involved in the head coaching search last year,

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Speaker 1: initially targeted Ben Johnson. It seemed like that was their

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Speaker 1: broad pivot to a coach at Pete Carroll, but very

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Speaker 1: little in common with Ben Johnson. Obviously, Pete has had

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Speaker 1: That was not the only change today, Mike. We had

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Speaker 6: Yes, this one we expected Kevin Stefanski after six seasons

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Speaker 6: Stefanski now going to be a leading candidate for other teams.

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Speaker 7: And I want the fans to know we are as

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Speaker 2: Our sole goal.

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Speaker 7: Here is to be a consistent winner, not make the

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Speaker 2: That is the theme of the day.

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Speaker 6: Judy Batista, upper management taking responsibility, saying we're more pissed

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and that is why this is For all of

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Speaker 8: this is not an unattractive job. There are pieces in

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Speaker 8: they have Miles Garrett. There are holes on the roster.

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Speaker 8: they don't have is a franchise quarterback. You saw flashes

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Speaker 8: They're certainly not clear on who that competition is going

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Speaker 8: to include. Again, two first round draft picks, though they

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Speaker 8: they do. But this is not the worst job available.

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Speaker 8: Let's put it that way, Yes.

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Speaker 6: And I would expect for Stefanski, who's in the running

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Speaker 6: for multiple jobs, that the Giants would be intriguing to him.

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Speaker 6: He's from the Philadelphia area. Originally he vacations down the

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Speaker 2: He used to make that drive by the way.

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Speaker 6: So we'll see how that works out, because both side

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Speaker 1: Tom The Cardinals also made a change today, firing their

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Speaker 1: disappointing twenty twenty five campaign. Arizona actually started out two

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Speaker 1: Odermichael Bidwell did not want to go that direction, but

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Speaker 9: I know our fans are frustrated. I am more frustrated.

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Speaker 9: I know MANI is more frustrated. This is something, and

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Speaker 9: so is JG. Every one of those coaches and players

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Speaker 9: we all expected more. But I also when I look

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Speaker 9: Coaches from a year or two ago are now in

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Speaker 11: I mean, first of all, I think we're looking for

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Speaker 11: we we just came off the last game of the year,

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Speaker 11: I'd say all options are on the table, whether it's

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Speaker 11: and We're going to investigate all those that to improve

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Speaker 11: to always as we always have, we're going to do

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Speaker 1: Certainly the quarter situation Ian is going to hover over

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Speaker 1: everything in Arizona. Cayler Murray do close to forty million

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Speaker 1: year in March. What I'm most interested in, though, is

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Speaker 1: hearing Michael Bidwill talking about some of those other teams

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Speaker 1: that have turned things around. Because as much as you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, there's a lot to like about

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Speaker 5: this Arizona Cardinals roster. To see Monte Oziboord sitting there,

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Speaker 8: That also surprising because Falcons owner Arthur Blank is not

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Speaker 1: Tom last game of the NFL regular season, and it

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Speaker 6: I mean, how can you put into words just the

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Speaker 14: You know what it is if my heart had mail parts,

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Speaker 10: You want the ball in your hands with two twenty

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Speaker 10: And that's part of it. Being the old guy. I

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Speaker 1: Let's bring it our Bucky Brooks to the conversation with me,

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Speaker 1: Tom Pilisaro, Bucky, you see Mike, Tom within be. It's

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Speaker 2: We almost didn't get in because of Miskick.

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Speaker 1: This was the scene dealer's team that we had kind

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Speaker 15: Absolutely, And I think this is exactly why Mike Townley

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Speaker 12: He would be a clutch performer when they needed it.

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Speaker 15: And it hasn't been pretty all season, but I can

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Speaker 12: Now.

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Speaker 1: They just got to go ahead and get that helmet

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Speaker 16: I'm still trying to process what's going on. I know

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Speaker 17: Chunk plays that have gotten us, you know, and they

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Speaker 1: I always appreciate the authenticity of Lamar Jackson ean and

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Speaker 6: and I agree with you. I believe there's going to

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Speaker 6: a lot of times you get a feel for this

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Speaker 6: and you start to talk about coaches that have just

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Speaker 6: this be the year? And you kind of get swatted down.

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Speaker 6: Are you crazy? We're not getting those replies. So there's

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Speaker 6: going to be conversations here and everybody's got to make

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Speaker 13: But yeah, I agree with how Ian is seeing.

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Speaker 12: It right now.

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Speaker 8: One more thing about the owner, Steve Bushatti, is he

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Speaker 8: has a really good close relationship with John Harbaugh. He

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Speaker 8: certainly knows what he has in John Harbaugh. He certainly

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Speaker 8: knows what he has in Lamar Jackson too. He is

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Speaker 8: a deliberate owner. He will take his time. It's not

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Speaker 8: going to be rushed into anything. It's hard for me

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Speaker 8: to imagine that he would want to break this up unless,

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Speaker 8: as Ian pointed out, unless they want to make changes

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Speaker 8: that John Harbat just cannot abide. But I would expect

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Speaker 8: that they run this back but have lots of conversations

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Speaker 8: about how to get past the bumps that occurred this year.

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Speaker 8: Clearly there was some friction somewhere in that organization and

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Speaker 8: that needs to be smoothed out because the reality is

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Speaker 8: what we saw Lamar Jackson look like Lamar Jackson last night.

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Speaker 8: We didn't see that for big stretches of the season,

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Speaker 8: and that's why they are in the position they're in today.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't all bad news over the past couple of

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Speaker 1: days across the NFL. We got the good news. Do

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Speaker 1: we get Packers Bears? Part Three?

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Speaker 2: Can I wait for that one?

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Speaker 5: Major changes across the NFL today, including in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 5: Pete Carroll, super Bowl winning head coach win Now coach

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Speaker 5: The Raiders moved on from Pete Carroll after a dysfunctional

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Speaker 5: season that saw him fired two coordinators and have his

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Speaker 5: hand picked quarterback Gino Smith lead the NFL in interceptions.

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Speaker 12: It was a.

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Speaker 5: Brutal year and now a new start for GM. John

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Speaker 5: spy Tech and Tom Brady, who will combine to pick

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Speaker 5: the new head coach. Meanwhile, in Cleveland, another situation where

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Speaker 5: a new face is going to be on the sidelines.

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Speaker 5: Kevin Zevanski, the two time head coach, fired after a challenging,

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Speaker 5: challenging two seasons. They've had plenty of problems at the

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Speaker 5: quarterback position, plenty of cap problems, including those created by

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Speaker 5: the Deshaun Watson trade.

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Speaker 2: No matter kevin'svans, he.

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Speaker 18: Is now out.

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Speaker 5: They love him big fans just really needed a new voice.

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Speaker 5: And Andrew Barry will be among those who lead the

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Speaker 5: search duty for a new head coach in Cleveland.

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Speaker 8: In Atlanta, Raheem Morris was fired by the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 8: after just two seasons. That's a pretty quick cook, and

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Speaker 8: after winning the last four in a row, that was

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Speaker 8: not enough to save him. The Falcons did not make

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Speaker 8: the playoffs this season despite finishing eight to ninth, same

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Speaker 8: record as the Panthers, who won the division. Raheem's exit

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Speaker 8: is part of a broader reimagining of the entire football operation.

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Speaker 8: Is going to be a new president of football operations.

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Speaker 8: That's probably going to be Matt Ryan. There's a lot

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Speaker 8: of moving parts here, a lot of decisions to be

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Speaker 6: Mike Jonathan Gannon three seasons with the Cardinals fifteen and

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Speaker 6: thirty six is not good enough for owner Michael Bidwill,

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Speaker 6: who fired Gannon today.

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Speaker 13: And now Gannon didn't have Kyler.

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Speaker 6: Murray for roughly half the time that he was the

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Speaker 6: head coach of the Cardinals because of injuries, but Bidwell's says,

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Speaker 6: we still should have won more games down the stretch,

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Speaker 6: so he makes the decision to part with Gannon. Monte

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Speaker 6: asen Fort remains the general manager. They are now going

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Speaker 6: to have to look for a new head coach and,

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Speaker 6: by the way, figure out what to do with Kyler

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Speaker 6: Murray and all that guaranteed money that they've got heading

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Speaker 6: his way next season. The Lions and Bears yesterday, with

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Speaker 6: the Bears saying we're playing football that's what their head

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Speaker 13: Me Bid even got a chance to the two seed here.

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Speaker 6: Down sixty to nothing. That two seed didn't look great here,

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Speaker 6: but this Bears team has been resilient. Touchdown right here,

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Speaker 6: Caleb Williams, the jday Walker cuts it to eight after

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Speaker 6: the two point conversion, and then Caleb to the impressive

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Speaker 6: is tied.

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Speaker 2: But these Lions they played for pride.

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Speaker 6: They did it against the Packers a couple of years

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Speaker 6: ago in the final week of the season.

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Speaker 13: They do it again against the Bears.

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Speaker 12: Here.

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Speaker 6: Aman Ross Saint Brown twenty six yards, Brown eleven for

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Speaker 6: one thirty on the day, setting up Jake Bates from

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Speaker 6: forty two away, and the Allians take it nineteen to sixteen,

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Speaker 6: closing out the season playing strong despite not going to

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Speaker 6: the playoffs.

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Speaker 13: The Bears, by the way, got.

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Speaker 2: That two seed anyway because the Eagles.

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Speaker 13: Decided to not play football.

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Speaker 14: Well.

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Speaker 6: They played, but with their backups playing football with Ben

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Speaker 6: Johnson called it now typ forer good coverage presented by

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Speaker 6: third recording his league leading a seventh interception yesterday. Seven

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Speaker 6: is the most playoff Bears player in a single season

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Speaker 6: since Kyler Kyle Fuller got it.

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Speaker 13: They also had seven and twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 6: Chicago led the NFL with thirty three takeaways. In twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty five, nay Shan right, the cornerback, had a bunch

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Speaker 6: of them as well. Those guys were going after the

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Speaker 6: football and Dennis Allen's defense, and now they're going to

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Speaker 6: go after the football being thrown by that guy, Jordan

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Speaker 6: Love as they take on the Green Bay Packers. Oh

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Speaker 6: Man can't wait to see these two teams go out it.

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Speaker 6: They played two great games in the regular season, looking

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Speaker 6: forward seeing what the third round has to bring, and

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Speaker 6: we know it'll bring. Stacey Dale's covering the game. The

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Speaker 6: Chicago resident going to be on hand for this one.

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Speaker 6: Let's start with the Packers on this one. They decided

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Speaker 6: to let Jordan Love chill in week eighteen, despite him

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Speaker 6: getting clearance from that concussion.

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Speaker 13: He will now play.

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Speaker 6: They will now be as much as full strength that

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Speaker 6: they could possibly be at this point, Stace, what are

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Speaker 6: you expected from the Packers in this one?

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Speaker 19: Yeah, they let a lot of players, starters sit out

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Speaker 19: of that Vikings loss yesterday, Mike. So that's good news

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Speaker 19: because they got a little bit more rest. And one

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Speaker 19: of the things Jordan Love has talked about is he

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Speaker 19: returns to face the team that knocked him out a

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Speaker 19: couple of weeks ago in the Bears Week sixteen. It

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Speaker 19: was an Austin Booker hit to the helmet. They took

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Speaker 19: a lot of one reps last week, so one's versus

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Speaker 19: one's good verse good. And he also talked about Jordan

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Speaker 19: did recently that he was able to take a deeper

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Speaker 19: dive into the Bears defense. Now you mentioned the Bears takeaways,

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Speaker 19: they got thirty three of them, and I'm sure he

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Speaker 19: sat down and took a look at all thirty three

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Speaker 19: and also took a look at this pass rush and

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Speaker 19: what the Bears do in terms of the disguise.

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Speaker 18: And the changes they do up front.

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Speaker 19: But Jordan Love getting the extra rest. We'll see if

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Speaker 19: there's any rest, But you have to think that his

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Speaker 19: ability to take a little bit of a deeper dive

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Speaker 19: into the film mic is going to help him coming

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Speaker 19: into this one. Just the third meeting, by the way,

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Speaker 19: all time in the playoffs between these two teams and

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Speaker 19: then for Chicago, they were so disappointed as we saw

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Speaker 19: those highlights Mike that you ran over. I was in

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Speaker 19: the press conference with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams last night.

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Speaker 19: I don't know if I've seen Ben Johnson that disappointed

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Speaker 19: and bothered by that performance. And he was specifically disappointed

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Speaker 19: with the offense. They didn't score a point until the

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Speaker 19: fourth quarter, and it was a sixteen point lead only

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Speaker 19: by this Detroit offense, and still the Bears just couldn't

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Speaker 19: find ways to score points. And it was very noticeable

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Speaker 19: on the ground, sixty five rush yards, well below their

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Speaker 19: average of one p fifty. Aleb Williams, I asked him

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Speaker 19: in the press conference, did you think maybe you should

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Speaker 19: have run the ball more or wanted to? And Mike

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Speaker 19: he had one rush for one yard. So I have

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Speaker 19: to think that as they get ready for Saturday night,

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Speaker 19: understanding how good their run game has been, they get

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Speaker 19: back to doing that or attempting to do it against

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Speaker 19: these Packers on Saturday night in an environment environment that

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Speaker 19: will be electric. Ben Johnson saying today Caleb Williams, though,

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Speaker 19: is built for these moments and he's at his best

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Speaker 19: when we need him to be. So this is going

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Speaker 19: to be an exciting matchup, thinking that Jordan Love wants

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Speaker 19: a little bit of revenge against the team that can

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Speaker 19: custom his first NFL concussion in his career as they

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Speaker 19: go into Saturday.

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Speaker 13: Just wild. That's that that you just throughout.

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Speaker 6: These teams that have been around for a combined like

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Speaker 6: times now, with the twenty ten NFC Championship game being

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Speaker 6: the last one. So you know what, folks enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: Hopefully it's worth the wait. Stacy Dale's always worth the

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Speaker 6: visit with you, Ian.

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Speaker 5: This one is going to be worth the wait for

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Speaker 5: the Carolina Panthers, and it has been a wait.

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Speaker 2: Panthers are back in the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: However, it happened lots of things, lots of watching, took

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Speaker 5: it extra day and a Saturday outcome. Maybe they weren't

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Speaker 5: looking forward to, but cool Rams Panthers on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Our good friend Sarah Walsh is going to be there. Sarah,

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Speaker 5: what's up? Thank you for joining us on the Insiders. Okay,

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Speaker 5: so we know the Panthers are in, however they got in.

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Speaker 5: Take us through this matchup between Panthers and Rams.

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Speaker 18: What do you see.

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Speaker 20: Well, look, Matthew Stafford comes in the grizzled veteran seventeen seasons,

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Speaker 20: He's got a Super Bowl ring. Bryce Young, in just

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Speaker 20: his third NFL season, is making his first postseason appearance.

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Speaker 20: But if you think any of that is going to

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Speaker 20: rattle this guy, well then you've never talked to Bryce Young,

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Speaker 20: because he is about his even keeled and as calm

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Speaker 20: as it gets. He talks every week about just wanting

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Speaker 20: to go one to zero. He was asked about the

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Speaker 20: fact that whether it's a good game or bad game,

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Speaker 20: which is easier to flush because he always talks about

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Speaker 20: just flushing the game away, and he said, you know what,

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Speaker 20: You're not gonna like my answer to this, But it's

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Speaker 20: all about the process.

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Speaker 18: It's all about going back to work.

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Speaker 20: He has thrived though in pressure situations ian twelve game

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Speaker 20: winning drive since he was drafted in twenty three that

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Speaker 20: leads the league in that span. Now, the last time

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Speaker 20: he saw these Rams, it was Week thirteen. They went

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Speaker 20: for it on fourth down three times. He converted all

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Speaker 20: three of those, and two of those were for touchdowns

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Speaker 20: in a game in which they beat the Rams. So

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Speaker 20: this is going to be an incredible rematch. It was

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Speaker 20: probably the best win in the Dave Canalis, the very

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Speaker 20: young Dave Canalis era in Charlotte, And you mentioned, hey,

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Speaker 20: who cares how they get in Canallis already said he's

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Speaker 20: America Stadium. And now there's that challenge of can you

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Speaker 20: beat a team twice in one season?

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Speaker 18: And that's what lies ahead.

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Speaker 20: For Bryce Young having a career year in Carolina this weekend.

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Speaker 5: And what about the other side of this, because obviously

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Speaker 5: for the Los Angeles Rams, you know they were looking

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Speaker 5: to find their footing a little bit the end of

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Speaker 5: the year. Sean McVay played guys in the finale. I

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Speaker 5: don't usually see found some good football by the end.

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Speaker 5: Where do you see the Rams focus for this weekend coming?

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Speaker 20: Well, I think when you look at the Rams, I mean,

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Speaker 20: this is a roster that is absolutely loaded with talent

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Speaker 20: on both the offensive and the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 20: I talked about Bryce Young having a career year, but

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Speaker 20: in seventeen seasons, Matthew Stafford has never thrown forty six

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Speaker 20: touchdowns before.

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Speaker 18: This has not been.

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Speaker 20: As you've sort of alluded to, the most dominant stretch

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Speaker 20: of Rams football we have seen this season late in

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Speaker 20: the game.

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Speaker 18: This was a team that was down to Arizona this weekend.

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Speaker 20: But when Matthew Stafford wants to take over a game,

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Speaker 20: he can do it almost at will through.

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Speaker 18: Four touchdowns and then.

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Speaker 20: The biggest thing is is they're going to get.

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Speaker 2: Some guys back.

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Speaker 18: Davante Adams has not been in action.

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Speaker 20: He had been nursing that hamstring injury, and you heard

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Speaker 20: Sean McVay say they were airing on the side of caution,

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Speaker 20: and being the competitor that Davante is, he was sort

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Speaker 20: of pissed about it. And now he said he looks

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Speaker 20: at him and he's got that look in his eye.

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Speaker 18: He is ready to go.

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Speaker 20: If I'm a Panthers fan, I don't love hearing that

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Speaker 20: about Davante because we know what this guy can do.

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Speaker 20: So the Rams are coming to town with certainly a

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Speaker 20: lot of motivation given what happened in week thirteen in

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Speaker 20: this very same place.

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Speaker 4: Ian, I loved you guys so much, man, loved you

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Speaker 4: guy so much.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, Hey felt pretty damn.

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Speaker 21: Hey. That's a great job, man, great job, great team win. Well,

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Speaker 21: probably what you guys handled this week.

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Speaker 8: I mean that.

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Speaker 12: Staff.

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Speaker 21: Haven't you guys prepared? You guys prepared on your own. Man,

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Speaker 21: that's a great win. And I'll tell you what, guys

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Speaker 21: who hadn't played a whole lot came out here and

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Speaker 21: I impressed. Man, you really did. You took advantage of

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Speaker 21: an opportunity. What a special night, What a great environment.

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Speaker 21: It only happens in Buffalo, right here, right What a

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Speaker 21: great environment. Fans the whole game with us and you guys,

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Speaker 21: damn some of the cheermount man. Real special place to

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Speaker 21: play one more time in the stadium.

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Speaker 2: You go, hey, go Tom Fels, go Tom. Let's go on,

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Speaker 2: Let's go man.

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Speaker 4: I love us, I love them.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen teams still standing, including the Bills and the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: going at it in a wild card game this weekend,

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Speaker 1: just eight years after the last time these teams met

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Speaker 1: in a wildcard game in Jacksonville. I was at that one.

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Speaker 1: The final score was ten to three. We don't give

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Speaker 1: gambling advice on this show, but safe to say I

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Speaker 1: would take the over. Welcome back to the insiders. Tom

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Speaker 1: Pilli Cera, Bucky Brooks camp Wolf. They will be at

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Speaker 1: that game. I will not Bucky, but tell me about

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Speaker 1: this Jacksonville team. You can feel the vibes man with

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Speaker 1: Liam cu. They've been winning all year, They've had some

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Speaker 1: big ones here is he'd have a lot of momentum

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Speaker 1: going into this postseason.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, a lot of momentum.

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Speaker 15: But I would tell you the best thing about this

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Speaker 15: team is not the x's and o's, it's the chemistry

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Speaker 15: at the continuity and just the way that they get

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Speaker 15: down in terms of their camaraderie with each other. This

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Speaker 15: is a team that's gone through some tough times early

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Speaker 15: in the season, but they figured it out and a

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Speaker 15: lot of the attention goes to Trevor Lawrence. Rightfully so,

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Speaker 15: because the job that Liam Cohen has done in unlocking

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Speaker 15: someone who should be an MVP candidate, and Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 15: has nothing short of remarkable. Since the bye week he

741
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Speaker 15: has been on a heater. He has been phenomenal in

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Speaker 15: terms of finding the open receiver Parker Washington, Jacobe Myers,

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Speaker 15: Bryan Thomas, Junior Bretton Strange and Travis Atgen, really getting

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Speaker 15: the ball to the playmakers, but more importantly stepping into

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Speaker 15: that role of kind of being the alpha dog of

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Speaker 15: this team. The guys follow his lead and because of

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Speaker 15: that this offense is balled out of control. And oh

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Speaker 15: the defense. The defense doesn't get enough credit for what

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Speaker 15: they've been doing. Number one against the run, take the

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Speaker 15: ball away at an alarming clip. This is a really

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Speaker 15: good team, and I'm glad that the football world will

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Speaker 15: finally get a chance to take notice of what's going

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Speaker 15: on down in Duvault.

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Speaker 22: Bucky, I'm just getting amped up hearing you talk. This

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Speaker 22: is the game of the week to me. I'm so

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Speaker 22: glad that we get a chance to be there because

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Speaker 22: these are excellent teams, teams that can make a run

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Speaker 22: to the super Bowl. And look the matchup that I

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Speaker 22: can't wait to see. You alluded to it there, James Cook,

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Speaker 22: who won the rushing title with the number one rushing

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Speaker 22: offense versus that number one rushing defense of.

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Speaker 13: The Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 22: And I'll start with this, James Cook waited all night

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Speaker 22: watched the Steelers Ravens game just to see if Dereck

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Speaker 22: Henry would pass his numbers so you can clinch that

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Speaker 22: rushing title. And then he got to celebrate. Sean McDermot

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Speaker 22: said he was watching too, getting nervous too. This is

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Speaker 22: something that Cook told me in April on a fishing boat.

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Speaker 22: That was his goal of his to put the rushing

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Speaker 22: title on the board. He got a contract and had

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Speaker 22: the best game of his career, best season of his career.

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Speaker 12: And when you look at the Bills.

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Speaker 22: Everyone asks who's going to help Josh Allen, James Cook

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Speaker 22: is the Bill route, But can they do it against

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Speaker 22: a really, really stout Jaguars defense. People are going to

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Speaker 22: be surprised at home on how they move around on defense.

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Speaker 22: They take the ball away, They stuffed people on defense,

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Speaker 22: and Josh Hans Allen called de Von Hamilton the nose tackle,

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Speaker 22: the best nose tackle in football for the year.

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Speaker 2: He's played excellent this year.

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Speaker 22: Anthony Campanellian at defense, they always fly around the ball.

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Speaker 22: I think this is going to be physical. It's going

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Speaker 22: to be smash mouth, and I can't wait to see it.

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Speaker 1: Buddy, If you were wondering if there was one more

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Speaker 1: bit of trivia about that twenty seventeen wild card matchup,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the only touchdown was scored by Bucky

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Speaker 1: You got five seconds. Who scored the only touchdown in

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Speaker 1: that Jaguars Bills wild card game back there eight years ago,

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Speaker 1: Josh Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Josh Helvien.

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Speaker 15: But the Jaguars Josh was Josh Heinze.

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Speaker 1: Ben Koyak scored a touchdown, not a name that I

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Speaker 1: was expected to use.

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Speaker 2: But here we are.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Cam and Bucky, thank you both very much.

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Speaker 2: Hey, the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Playoffs are here, by the way, and it all starts

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Speaker 1: with wild Card Weekend powered by Verizon. Twelve team six games,

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Speaker 1: three days and one epic weekend. Wildcard Weekend powered by

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Speaker 1: Verizon January tenth through twelfth, because it watched not NFL

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Speaker 1: dot com for the full schedule.

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Speaker 12: What a fun final weekend for NFL fans.

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Speaker 2: No question about the juggle.

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Speaker 23: Go in this football Gamele Panther fans arrayed a riso

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Speaker 23: fans want to know two dot oh though, guys like

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Speaker 23: Sarlon you are welcome.

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Speaker 2: Burrow under pressure sacks.

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Speaker 6: And there it is.

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Speaker 2: It's just what Sean Payton ordered.

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Speaker 23: Drink, bade the serenade with chances here where the tea shirt?

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Speaker 12: This one He's not way to's wait.

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Speaker 2: To send it up.

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Speaker 15: Go home.

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Speaker 12: Champions.

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Speaker 8: Incredible final game of the regular season, incredible final weekend

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Speaker 8: of the regular season. And now we get to turn

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Speaker 8: the page to wild Card Weekend. And this is going

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Speaker 8: to be one of the highlights of that forty nine

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Speaker 8: Ers Eagles. It is the mid afternoon Sunday game. Cannot

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Speaker 8: wait for that. Let's bring in our bucket Brooks to

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Speaker 8: talk about this, all right, Bucky, Let's just lay the

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Speaker 8: landscape landscape out here. The forty nine Ers are hoping

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Speaker 8: to have left tackle Trent Williams and receiver Ricky pearsall

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Speaker 8: back for the game. They both missed the Week eighteen game,

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Speaker 8: and the Eagles are coming off a loss, but they

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Speaker 8: rested a lot of players. That is Nick Sirianni's theory.

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Speaker 8: He likes to do that. He's comfortable with it. It has

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Speaker 8: worked before them in the past. But certainly Bucky raises

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Speaker 8: concerns about are they going to be rusty going into

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Speaker 8: the playoffs.

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Speaker 12: What's say you about this matchup?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, Jude, there's a lot of concern about the Philadelphia

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Speaker 15: Eagles deciding to take basically Week eighteen off when it

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Speaker 15: comes to their starters. They decided to rest their players

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Speaker 15: a little low management to make sure that they were

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Speaker 15: ready for the postseason. And even though if they've won

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Speaker 15: against the Washington Commanders, it could have changed the matchup.

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Speaker 12: I think the Eagles are very comfortable making.

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Speaker 15: Sure that all of their top players are available and

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Speaker 15: ready to go.

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Speaker 12: And when you think about this Eagles.

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Speaker 15: Team, I'm going to have you think about them defense first,

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Speaker 15: offense second. When their defense is ready to go, they're

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Speaker 15: one of the best teams in football. Jalen Carter is

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Speaker 15: a force of nature on the inside, and his ability

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Speaker 15: to change the game and disrupt everything sets the table

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Speaker 15: for everybody else. So having him available, having their pass

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Speaker 15: usus available, and really having their secondary need to go.

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Speaker 12: Is going to help them.

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Speaker 15: And then offensively, it's about Jalen Hursts and Saquon Barkley,

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Speaker 15: that running game being able to get untracked. When you

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Speaker 15: look at the forty nine ers offensively, there's certainly a juggernaut,

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Speaker 15: but defensively they've had issues.

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Speaker 12: So if you can run the football effectively throw it outside.

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Speaker 15: Of Devonte Smith and AJ Brown, I think all of

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Speaker 15: this consternation about what they decided to do in Week

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Speaker 15: eighteen will fall by the wayside. I expect the Philadelphia

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Speaker 15: Eagles to play well. This is a team that when

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Speaker 15: they are locked and loaded, they're one of the.

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Speaker 12: Best teams in football.

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Speaker 15: I think we see that version show up when they

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Speaker 15: take off Francisco forty.

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Speaker 8: We have been worried about the Eagles all season, Bucky,

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Speaker 8: thank you very much. When we return, we're going to

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Speaker 8: run down all the coaching moves today. Six jobs open

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Speaker 8: right now. We'll talk about each of

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Speaker 12: Them next on The Insiders