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Speaker 2: Patter Mahomes is no ordinary man.

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Speaker 1: Hear what he's saying now about his ankle and his

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Speaker 1: We're gonna play it for you anyway, whether.

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold just keeps dealing, which might make striking a

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Speaker 1: or at least more expensive for the Vikings. Brian Baldinger

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Speaker 2: We'll never leave you.

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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rapaport and Juny Matista,

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Pelisero, Teddy Bridgewater gonna be a special

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Speaker 1: guest on the show. Just what a state title at

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Speaker 2: Stick around for that.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 9: In short, it is just not the way you play quarterback.

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Speaker 2: It's right lyons.

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Speaker 11: You know what happens is, you know, you win eleven

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Speaker 1: Great quotes, no surprise from Dan Campbell hilarious video if

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Speaker 2: Here loves them. We'll take whatever fine comes with it here.

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Speaker 1: But Judy, in all seriousness, this is what makes the

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Speaker 2: Now is going to write them off. They're down to

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Speaker 1: They're signing people off practice squads every week.

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Speaker 2: They don't care.

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Speaker 1: They're going to win however they need to, and they

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Speaker 6: In the playoff opener, not just that, but Dan Campbell

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Speaker 6: I am going to follow Dan Campbell whatever he says.

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Speaker 6: Having said that, it is a blow, especially to start

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Speaker 7: That's understandable.

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Speaker 8: You know, on one hand, this is frustrating because like

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Speaker 9: It's so good, and.

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Speaker 8: You'd like to see them not that you want to

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Speaker 9: Reality is, no one's at full strength.

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Speaker 8: We've seen teams in the past lose everyone, including starting

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Speaker 9: They could be the team now.

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Speaker 8: I also would like to see what it's like if

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Speaker 9: This is what they are.

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Speaker 8: It is a team that theoretically has the kind of

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Speaker 9: Or whatever, you know whatever, Dan Campbell said.

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Speaker 8: So now we're gonna find out how strong is the

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Speaker 9: What can they withstand?

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Speaker 8: And it's actually going to be a really interesting sort

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Speaker 9: Is the team still good enough as a whole. It's

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of guys with a resume like this.

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Speaker 1: that is our guest right now on the Insiders, Teddy Bridgewater.

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Speaker 1: Join us right now. Teddy, it's awesome to see your

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Speaker 4: For you here, Man.

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Speaker 12: It's good to seeing you guys as well, Man, and

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Speaker 12: I appreciate it. It's been a fun ride man, these

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Speaker 9: This is really an amazing thing. Well, I say, I

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Speaker 8: After I asked my question, I want you to tell

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Speaker 8: us what you're wearing around your neck. But first my question,

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Speaker 8: I heard a rumor in twenty twenty two when you

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Speaker 7: Is that true?

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Speaker 9: And tell us what you're wearing around your neck.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's definitely true.

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Speaker 12: And that high school happens to be Miami Northwestern, Man,

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Speaker 12: the best high school in America state champs. When I'm

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Speaker 4: So we came away with state championship this year. I'm

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Speaker 2: I looked it up.

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Speaker 1: The final score in that state championship game, I believe

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Speaker 4: It's the kids and the coaches.

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Speaker 12: Everyone's come together and putting the pride aside and put

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Speaker 4: And we got it done.

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Speaker 12: There's nothing about Bill Belichick is just trying to prove

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Speaker 8: You know, you had some really good coaches in your tenure,

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Speaker 8: Was there some inspiration from some of the coaches you've

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Speaker 12: Man, I played for some great coaches throughout my career,

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Speaker 12: I told myself, man, if I ever get a chance

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Speaker 12: you know, some of the great things that those guys done.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: At this point, I don't know if you've been watching

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Speaker 1: What did Randy mean to you? Obviously playing in Minnesota,

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Speaker 12: You know, Randy, He's a guy man who I played

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Speaker 4: Growing up I wanted to be like Randy Moss. You know.

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Speaker 12: I know now you know kids say man obj with

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Speaker 12: I most do things like that, and he was someone

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Speaker 12: And you know, he's just someone man who always idolized them.

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Speaker 12: To see him, you know, show that love to my

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I think we all can echo that Randy Moss

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Speaker 8: your team, including one player that I was just reading about,

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Speaker 8: Antonio Branch, safety I believe was at Penn's what committed

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Speaker 8: to Penn State ended up flipping to Colorado?

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Speaker 9: What were your dealings with Coach Prime?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 9: I know, I feel like.

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Speaker 8: He interviewed you when he was still at the network

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Speaker 8: a couple of times, maybe, Like, what were your dealings

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Speaker 8: with Coach Prime? Like, and talk about just that situation

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Speaker 8: sending to someone sending a great player to Colorado like that?

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Speaker 12: Well, honestly, I try to stay out of the kids

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Speaker 12: recruitment and with TV we called him t D.

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Speaker 4: Antonio Branch his recruitment man.

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Speaker 12: Now he's a kid, he's acceptably smart, and he has

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Speaker 12: awareness of what's going on in colleage of sports. And

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Speaker 12: he developed a relationship with the coaching staff at Colorado.

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Speaker 12: They fell in love with his game. I fell in

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Speaker 12: love with his game and the way he's physical. He's

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Speaker 12: a six four safety sixty three safety little plays like

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Speaker 12: a linebacker and he can go and attack the ball

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Speaker 12: in the air, and I'm pretty sure you'll be talking.

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Speaker 4: About him about three years from now.

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Speaker 12: But we're excited for him going to Colorado and our

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Speaker 12: other six guys who signed earlier this year, so.

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Speaker 2: Real quick day.

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Speaker 1: That leads us to the final question here, which is

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Speaker 1: your first year out. You said you wanted to prove

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Speaker 1: you could coach high school football, anything else you want

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Speaker 1: to prove you can do college football, NFL football, Like,

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Speaker 1: where's coach Teddy going to be going here in years

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Speaker 1: to come?

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Speaker 12: Because Teddy, hopefully, I mean, we'll see how he's next

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Speaker 12: week and a half, two weeks play out, might be

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Speaker 12: signing with a team or something and then returning back

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Speaker 12: to coach high school football in February, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Well, hold up, hold up, now, are you coming back?

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Speaker 9: Are you somewhere?

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Speaker 12: That's the plan, man, My team though, that's the plan.

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Speaker 12: You know, we wanted to win the state championship and.

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Speaker 4: Then coach go back to the league, see what happens,

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Speaker 4: and then come back Februah.

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Speaker 12: And all see and continued coach of high school football.

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Speaker 4: So let's see how it plays out.

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Speaker 2: Where you go? Do you know where you're going?

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Speaker 9: Do you have an are you a bumped.

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Speaker 2: To get on a plane to sign with a team.

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, don't leave us without the scoops here.

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Speaker 4: You're on the inside right right now. I'm enjoying us man,

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Speaker 4: this state championship. Man with you all right?

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Speaker 1: You got to text us though, when you sign, you

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Speaker 1: got to text us and let us know where you're headed. Man,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you being here. Congratulations again, Teddy, awesome senior

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Speaker 1: for sure.

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Speaker 4: Man, I appreciate you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Man, Thank you, thanks man, Teddy, Bridgewater state champion now

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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback again. Looking forward to seeing how that all

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Speaker 1: ends up of courses once the quarterback of this team,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 2: You have had a bunch of quarterbacks since.

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Speaker 1: Probably not one play at the level that Sam Darnold

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Speaker 1: is right now.

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Speaker 2: So what happens when is one year contract comes to

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Speaker 2: an end?

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Speaker 1: Our Mark Rouss will be with us to break that

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Speaker 1: down next on the Insiders News tonight out of Arizona,

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Speaker 1: Buddha Baker, he's probably gonna finish his career as a

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Speaker 1: Cardinal as Ian Rappaport tweeted a short time ago, Cardinals

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Speaker 1: and Buddha Baker reaching agreement on a three year fifty

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Speaker 1: four million dollar extension that includes thirty million guaranteed. You

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Speaker 1: remember back in the offseason there was back and forth

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Speaker 1: about the contract. There was a trade request at one point.

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Speaker 1: Now Buddha locked up four years to come the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: How they got some work to do on the Josh,

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Speaker 1: butellises the world after this season. Right now, there's not

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Speaker 1: a roll twelve and two after beating the Bears last

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Speaker 1: night and maintaining pace atop the NFC. Here's how it

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Speaker 1: breaks down. Three teams all tied at twelve and two.

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Speaker 1: Lions Biking is still on a collision course per week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: If they both win.

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Speaker 1: These next two weeks before that, that game would be

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Speaker 1: for the NFC North title and pending tiebreakers. What the

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Speaker 1: Eagles do quite possibly for the number one overall seed

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Speaker 1: in the NFC and a first round by time. Now

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Speaker 1: for game flow presented by Progressive, as we bring in

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Speaker 1: Brian Balneer and Mark Cross. Mark sam Donald certainly has

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Speaker 1: kept the game flowing again and again.

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Speaker 2: For Minnesota through the course this season.

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Speaker 1: The question at some point is going to become does

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Speaker 1: that flow continue into twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Five, And it seems like the price is only going up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the cash will be flowing in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 5: For Sam Donald, no kind of in any kind of way.

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Speaker 5: And for Sam Donald with the Vikings organization, this is

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Speaker 5: a good problem to have, and I think for them

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Speaker 5: it's not a surprise. I was at training camp, and

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Speaker 5: of course you visit training camps, you get the hyperblelee

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Speaker 5: of everybody's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be great.

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Speaker 5: But Kevin O'Connell really felt strong about Sam Donald being

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Speaker 5: the starter, and then my Princeton guy at the GM

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Speaker 5: quasi adulpho Mensa did as well. He wouldn't stare me wrong.

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Speaker 5: So that's not a surprise. But the Sam Donald story,

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Speaker 5: even though he's been one of the biggest revelations this year,

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Speaker 5: it's still a story to be ritten. And if Sam

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Speaker 5: Donald goes out there and the Vikings win the Super

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Speaker 5: Bowl or even get to the Super Bowl or NFC

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Speaker 5: Championship game, and you're the Vikings, You're like, there's absolutely

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Speaker 5: no way we can let this guy out of the building. Now,

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Speaker 5: if he falls apart down the stretcher in the playoffs,

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Speaker 5: that makes your decision a little bit easier. But as

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Speaker 5: it stands right now, the options for Minnesota are to

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Speaker 5: either franchise him, you know, at forty million next year,

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Speaker 5: it'll look like that'll be a bargain because they're only

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Speaker 5: paying them five for this five million this year, so

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Speaker 5: you're getting a two for one there. Or try to

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Speaker 5: get him to a long term contract. You know, if

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Speaker 5: he plays well down the stretch, you could franchise and

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Speaker 5: trade him as well. But if he gets to free agency,

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Speaker 5: there's such a dearth of quarterbacks. We were talking about

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Speaker 5: Teddy Bridgewater and the break could start for teams.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: There's going to be teams falling all over themselves to

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Speaker 5: try to sign Sam Donald Baldy, and the draft class

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Speaker 5: is not looking like a stellar one. So either way,

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Speaker 5: the Vikings story to be written for Sam Donald keeps surprizing.

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Speaker 2: Go get that money there, or hit the free agent market.

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Speaker 2: Tom and other teams will give it to him there.

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Speaker 1: I was at that game last night at Minnesota. Sam

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Speaker 1: Darnold had more misses just inaccurate passes that he's had.

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Speaker 2: In the past.

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Speaker 1: You can handle that a lot better though, when he

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Speaker 1: throws darts like that one we just showed to Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson in the red zone.

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Speaker 2: That is a really high degree of.

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Speaker 1: Difficulty throw Kevin O'Connell's done our remarkable job with them,

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Speaker 1: which is why O'Connell right now is a front runner

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Speaker 1: for the NFL Coach of the Year. Meanwhile, the guy

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Speaker 1: who used to be in Minnesota, Kirk Cousins, that's been

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Speaker 1: a bumpy ride.

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Speaker 2: We talked about that earlier today.

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Speaker 1: Rahie Morris not even committed to him being the starting

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Speaker 1: quarterback in Week sixteen.

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Speaker 2: This is now the state of the NFC South. The

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Speaker 2: Bucks are rolling. Just put up a big number on

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Speaker 2: the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons, though Baldy got the win, despite the fact

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Speaker 1: we're talking about should they bench the quarterback? They gave

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars guaranteed too. They did win that game, they're.

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Speaker 2: Still in it. Who ends up winning that division?

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Speaker 13: Well, I mean just the eye test I saw the

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Speaker 13: Bucks live. That's so far the stadium take apart the Chargers,

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Speaker 13: and the eye test tells me I know the Bucks

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Speaker 13: have won for in row look like a better team.

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Speaker 13: Atlanta looks like they're leaking oil. And they won despite

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Speaker 13: Kirk Cousins. I mean, he made the one throw to

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Speaker 13: Drake London, but he can't get the ball down the

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Speaker 13: field right now. And this is not a slump. I

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Speaker 13: believe this is what Kirk Cousins is right now. I

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Speaker 13: mean he can't get out of the way the sacks

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Speaker 13: last night day, he couldn't escape anything within the pocket.

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Speaker 13: And so I don't know, like Michael Pennix is just

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Speaker 13: sitting there with this big cannon of an arm and

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Speaker 13: great athletic ability and it's a gamble. But you know, look,

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Speaker 13: Atlanta has beaten the Bucks twice. The only times this

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Speaker 13: year they've scored more than thirty points was against Tampa,

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Speaker 13: and in those games, Kirk Cousins tho eight touchdowns against

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Speaker 13: one interception. His best football's come against HIMPA. But right

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Speaker 13: now that team is leaking oil. They don't look like

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Speaker 13: they're gonna win this division. The Bucks look good to me.

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Speaker 13: They're coming on at the right time. That running game

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Speaker 13: has improved more than any other team in this league

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Speaker 13: from a year ago, and that's kind of the catalyst

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Speaker 13: right now for that team and why they're going in

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Speaker 13: the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Baldy look forward to seeing how that Christmas backdrop continues

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Speaker 1: to evolve for another week. He gets better every week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to you, Mark, Talk with you again soon as well.

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Speaker 2: Alan under center.

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Speaker 14: They go to shove him over the goal line and

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Speaker 14: it's a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen is good from a yard out.

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Speaker 14: Here's the snap on second and goal and it's an

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Speaker 14: Alan keeper and he sails into.

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Speaker 2: The end zone on a four yard touchdown run.

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Speaker 3: Oh my, was that easy little shovel pass.

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Speaker 15: And that's Shakir with the Buffalo touchdown.

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Speaker 3: It is a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Pass for Alan.

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Speaker 14: Alan under center, gonna roll out to his right. Alan's

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Speaker 14: gonna throw it to Davis and he's into the end

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Speaker 14: zone for a five yard touchdown reception. Alan with his

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Speaker 14: second passing touchdown of the game.

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Speaker 9: He is a touchdown machine.

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Speaker 7: He is a touchdown machine.

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Speaker 6: And now we have our column machine, Jeffrey Chadia joining

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Speaker 6: us to discuss his first first read column nfl dot

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Speaker 6: Com slash first Reid to go check that out, everybody,

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Speaker 6: all right, Jeffrey, let's start on the sunny side of

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Speaker 6: the street with the winners from your column this week.

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Speaker 16: Well, that man we just saw, Judy Josh Allen was

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Speaker 16: the big winner. Because the MVP race feels like it's

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Speaker 16: over after that big win against Detroit. He's beaten the undefeated,

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Speaker 16: previously undefeated Kansasity Chiefs beating the Lions on the road,

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Speaker 16: and he is putting up points like crazy, six touchdowns

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Speaker 16: in the last two games. I can't imagine the Sakuon

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Speaker 16: BARKLEYO Lamar Jackson is going to be able to catch him.

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Speaker 16: And so right now he's looking at a pretty good

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Speaker 16: end of the season and potentially the first round by

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Speaker 16: I things break his way. Number two on this list

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Speaker 16: is going to be Vance Joseph, the defensive coordinator for

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Speaker 16: the Denver Broncos, who had the twenty seventh ranked defense

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Speaker 16: last year, when in terms of points allowed, tid for

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Speaker 16: first this year. A tremendous turnaround. You saw the way

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Speaker 16: they played against Indianapolis, getting the five turnovers, a big

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Speaker 16: fumble recovery turn for touchdown by Nick Bonito there. And

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Speaker 16: this defense is personal league in sacks, tied for firston

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Speaker 16: scoring and really we talk about Sean Payton and bow

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Speaker 16: Knicks fans, Joseph in this defense has been the backbone

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Speaker 16: of what they've been doing in Denver. And then third

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Speaker 16: in this list, I will go to Liam Cohen in

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Speaker 16: Tampa Bay, the best offense nobody is talking about in

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Speaker 16: the NFL. They're scoring twenty nine points a game. That's

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Speaker 16: fourth overall. They just went into the Chargers house, dropped

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Speaker 16: forty on the top rank scoring defense in the league.

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Speaker 16: This unit did not have Mike Evans for three games.

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Speaker 16: They lost Chris Godwin. They've rebuilt the run game, Liam

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Speaker 16: Cohen is doing tremendous things, and Pie is going to

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Speaker 16: be a head coaching candidate come January.

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Speaker 6: All right, Well, unfortunately in the NFL, for every winner,

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Speaker 6: there has.

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Speaker 7: To be a loser. So give us your losers for

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Speaker 7: Week fifteen.

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Speaker 3: This part's more fun, you know.

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Speaker 16: I'll start with Dan Campbell the Detroit Lions, and look,

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Speaker 16: they've been rolling all season long, but right now they

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Speaker 16: are tough place.

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Speaker 3: They've taken on.

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Speaker 16: A ton of injuries, lost three four more players last

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Speaker 16: week against the Buffalo Bills, including David Montgomery, their star

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Speaker 16: running back. They are now twelve and two, which means

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Speaker 16: they're tied with Philadelphia and Minnesota. That first round by

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Speaker 16: is now in question. The NFC North is now in

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Speaker 16: question because they play the Vikings in the season finale.

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Speaker 16: Dan Campbell was talking about grit with his team. They

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Speaker 16: got to be really strong coming down the stretch. Number

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Speaker 16: two on this list we talk about staying strong is

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Speaker 16: Patrick Mahomes with the Chiefs. Normally winners don't make this list,

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Speaker 16: but that hit you see there, and that ankle injury

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Speaker 16: is real. And I know he's practicing or trying to

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Speaker 16: practice this week and trying to play. But the way

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Speaker 16: he lived off the field and the way that offense

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Speaker 16: is protecting him right now, which is not very well,

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Speaker 16: that left tackles an issue. I just have a hard

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Speaker 16: time believing his mobility is not going to be in

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Speaker 16: question taking on the Texans and the Steelers and there coming,

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Speaker 16: which they.

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Speaker 15: Got to figure out if Carson Wentz is the answer.

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Speaker 16: And then finally we'll go to the NFC West, where

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Speaker 16: everybody in the NFC West has got to be a

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Speaker 16: loser here outside of the Rams because they started one

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Speaker 16: to four. You're at top of the division now at

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Speaker 16: eight and six, and you look at what happened the

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Speaker 16: Seahawks getting thumped by Green Bay and Gino Smith going

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Speaker 16: down there. The Cardinals were leading this division at one point.

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Speaker 16: They wanted a three game losing streak. Yeah they won

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Speaker 16: last week, but they still got to go to the Rams.

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Speaker 16: And then finally the forty nine Ers with all the

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Speaker 16: drama with the bounder at Campbell this past week and

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Speaker 16: all their injuries, they're pretty much done.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 6: Once again, it is the first read column NFL dot

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Speaker 6: Com slash first Read, and that is Jeffrey Chedia.

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Speaker 7: Jeffrey, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 9: What's all ego nation, man.

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Speaker 12: We just got a big dog against the Silos.

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Speaker 2: Back to work.

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Speaker 8: That was a happy team with a lot of a

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Speaker 8: lot of reasons to be excited. Ten straight win for

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Speaker 8: the Eagles, one of the hottest teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 8: and because of that.

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Speaker 9: They get a clenching scenario.

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Speaker 8: I love clinching scenis my favorite thing this time the year,

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Speaker 8: conclincianam the East with a win or.

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Speaker 9: Tilet's hope for a time.

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Speaker 8: Meanwhile, Washington Commanders can kunha playoff birth with a win

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Speaker 8: plus the Atlanta loss, plus the Rams loss, plus other things.

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Speaker 8: I'm not going to read it all for you. Just

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Speaker 8: look at the screen and read all the words. Anyway,

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Speaker 8: let's get a little more on the Philadelphia Eagles and

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Speaker 8: the Steelers from someone who was literally watching them both

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Speaker 8: play last week and.

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Speaker 9: Covering and doing a lot of other fun things for us.

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Speaker 8: Sarah Walsh, thank you very much for joining us on

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Speaker 8: the Insiders So the Eagles are very much in the

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Speaker 8: hunt for the NFC's top seed. How did they address

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Speaker 8: this on Sunday? How did they get into it?

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Speaker 17: Well, first of all, when you were just talking a

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Speaker 17: second ago and you said, look at the Eagles, that's

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Speaker 17: a happy team. If you go back even seven days ago,

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Speaker 17: I would we have been saying this about this Philadelphia

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Speaker 17: team that everyone said was showing signs that maybe they

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Speaker 17: were going to fall apart because this passing game.

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Speaker 18: They're in the hunt, as you mentioned, for a number

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Speaker 18: one seed.

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Speaker 17: So they go out and they dominate the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 17: on Sunday, and there was a lot of talk. Sirianni

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Speaker 17: to Jalen Hurts, I was standing there with Darius Slay

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Speaker 17: in the locker room and he was asked about what

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Speaker 17: this number one seed would mean.

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Speaker 18: And their message, it's clearly.

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Speaker 17: Been delivered to these guys is they're going to control

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Speaker 17: what they can control, and they can't control that right now.

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Speaker 18: Detroit has the type breaker over them at the moment

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Speaker 18: when it comes to the NFC.

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Speaker 17: So Slay was of the mindset, Hey, we're going to

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Speaker 17: play whoever we play for the number one seed.

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Speaker 18: That would be nice.

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Speaker 17: What they have done a tremendous job at controlling is

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Speaker 17: that narrative that is vastly different from what it was

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Speaker 17: a week ago in terms of this team showing cracks

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Speaker 17: in the passing game because those questions were all answered,

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Speaker 17: and Nick Sirianni said more than once in that postgame

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Speaker 17: press conference that he thought that that was blown out

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Speaker 17: of proportion if you look at how efficient Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 17: has actually been, there weren't these huge passing numbers. But

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Speaker 17: on Sunday night, two receivers Davante and AJ Brown who

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Speaker 17: you saw going off the field together there each went

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Speaker 17: over one hundred yards. Each had a touchdown that had

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Speaker 17: not happened since Week thirteen of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: So this is.

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Speaker 17: A Eagles team that I think is being viewed a

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Speaker 17: little bit differently. All it takes is one game, right

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Speaker 17: and it changes the perspective. But this is not a

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Speaker 17: Philadelphia team in disarray. This is not a Philadelphia team

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Speaker 17: that is falling apart. This is a Philadelphia team that

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Speaker 17: has the longest wind streak in the NFL right now

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Speaker 17: at ten straight and they are steamrolling their way into

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Speaker 17: the playoffs.

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Speaker 9: The end, what did ay J.

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Speaker 8: Brown say, wanted to make a shut up. I'm not

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Speaker 8: actually going to shut up because I have another question

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Speaker 8: for you.

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Speaker 9: So the other team involved in this was the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 8: So everything good with the Eagles, it's opposite for the Steelers.

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Speaker 9: How can they possibly recoup?

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Speaker 8: Although I must say, all they really need to do

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Speaker 8: is just, you know, win and they win the age

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Speaker 8: set Earth that said, it's not that easy.

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Speaker 9: So tell me how the Steelers regroup it after that.

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Speaker 17: One, Sarah, Well, here's what's really difficult for the Steelers.

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Speaker 17: Obviously that game on Sunday, if that was going to

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Speaker 17: be a measuring stick, that's not how they want to

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Speaker 17: measure up.

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Speaker 18: But this is about as tough as a stretch as.

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Speaker 17: Anybody's going to see in the NFL over an eleven

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Speaker 17: day span, because on Sunday you take on the Eagles,

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Speaker 17: who are now tied to top the NFC this weekend,

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Speaker 17: really tough division game against the Ravens, and then they're going.

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Speaker 18: To follow that up against the Chiefs, who are on

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Speaker 18: top of the AFC.

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Speaker 17: So that is what an eleven day span looks like

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Speaker 17: for this Steelers team. What we saw on Sunday is

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Speaker 17: a team now that is going to be on a

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Speaker 17: short work week trying to figure out what happened. Offensively,

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Speaker 17: they might be without their defensive superstar TJ.

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Speaker 18: Watt, who injured his ankle in that game. That's a

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Speaker 18: wait and see situation.

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Speaker 17: But what is very apparent is despite talking to a

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Speaker 17: lot of guys on the offense over the last two

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Speaker 17: weeks that told me, if George Pickens is out, we

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Speaker 17: got a lot of guys we can do a multitude

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Speaker 17: of things.

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Speaker 18: They are really missing Pickens.

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Speaker 17: I mean, Russell Wilson had a season low one hundred

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Speaker 17: and twenty eight passing yards over the last two games.

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Speaker 18: Those are the two Pickens has been out. He's been

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Speaker 18: averaging one hundred and forty three passing yards.

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Speaker 17: When Pickens is in the game, that numbers two hundred

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Speaker 17: and seventy one passing yards that he averages. So they're

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Speaker 17: going to have to find a way hope that he

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Speaker 17: can be back. But as you know, as the Insider

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Speaker 17: and m Mike Tomman said, that hamstring injury was a

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Speaker 17: little more significant than they had expected.

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Speaker 18: But it is clear they really need him back out.

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Speaker 7: On the field.

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Speaker 8: On the fact that George Pickens was actually practicing already

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Speaker 8: this week. Good sign that at least he has a

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Speaker 8: chance to return. Sarah, thank you as always for hanging

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Speaker 8: out with us. I now you got two very loving

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Speaker 8: twins in your house right now. We're dying to hang

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Speaker 8: out with.

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Speaker 9: You and only you, so go do that.

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Speaker 8: Meanwhile, Thursday Night, which is already fast approaching, because today

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Speaker 8: is Tuesday, it's two days.

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Speaker 9: From now, thursdays, two days from now.

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Speaker 8: We got Bo Nix via Justin Herbert in what should

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Speaker 8: be for years and years to count, a showdown and

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Speaker 8: a rivalry and all the things.

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Speaker 9: Let's do a little TNF preview. Coming up next on

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Speaker 9: The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football on Prime features an AFC West battle.

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Speaker 1: It's Bo Nicks in the Denver Broncos against Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: and the Los Angeles Chargers this Thursday, eight to fifteen

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time.

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Speaker 2: Only on Prime Video.

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Speaker 1: It's bringing Sam schwarzting Prime Video in thurs Foo Pals

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Speaker 1: analytics expert use nixt gen stats to help us break

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Speaker 1: down this matchup.

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Speaker 3: Sam.

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Speaker 2: We saw these.

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Speaker 1: Teams square off back of Week six. Bonicks really struggled

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Speaker 1: in that game, especially in the first three quarters. What

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Speaker 1: does Knicks have to do with what will they try

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Speaker 1: to do against them.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, in divisional games, we call these tendency breakers, where

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Speaker 15: each team's going to look at the analytics and try

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Speaker 15: and figure out what should I do to take advantage him.

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Speaker 15: They saw coming in the Chargers are a heavy zone team.

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Speaker 3: Well, what did they do in the first half?

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Speaker 15: They played forty five percent man and that's where Bonick

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Speaker 15: struggles going through the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: Then coming out, they played mostly zone in the third quarter.

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Speaker 15: So they're trying to mix up the different looks that

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Speaker 15: Bonnicks will see, and it got him rattled. And he

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Speaker 15: has struggled more against amongst man coverage than zone coverage

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Speaker 15: throughout the year. He has a forty three percent success

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Speaker 15: rate versus zone and a thirty seven percent success rate

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Speaker 15: versus man. But we've all seen the maturation of bon

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Speaker 15: Nicks throughout this season. He's not the same guy running.

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Speaker 15: He's not running as much as he used to. He

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Speaker 15: had a couple first down scrambles last week. He's taking

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Speaker 15: care of the football a lot better. And so we'll

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Speaker 15: see a different bone Knicks in this game. But they

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Speaker 15: should be ready for anything based off the data that

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Speaker 15: we saw that first time they played. And here's what

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Speaker 15: you're gonna see a lot of is him targeting Courtland Sutton?

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Speaker 15: Who will make those circus catches and so this time

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Speaker 15: they see man coverage, likely there's going to target Sutton

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Speaker 15: to help him out.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of back and forth in the

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Speaker 1: offseason two about Courtland Sutton, what his future was going

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Speaker 1: to be in Denver. How much has he meant to

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Speaker 1: the growth of bon Nicks here.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, because of that Russell Wilson contract and the dead

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Speaker 15: cap money the Broncos have to deal with, they couldn't

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Speaker 15: spread as much money out to the different scale pison

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Speaker 15: players and they have leaned on Courtland Sutton. He has

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Speaker 15: forty three percent air yard chair this season, meaning how

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Speaker 15: many of the yards thrown past the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 15: are the ones being targeted to Courtland Sutton. That's fourth

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Speaker 15: in the NFL, and most importantly, on the money downs,

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Speaker 15: the gotta have it downs, he has forty four total

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Speaker 15: targets on third down this season. That's second in the NFL,

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Speaker 15: and it's also the third most EPA generated on those

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Speaker 15: third down targets. So he's making the most of the

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Speaker 15: targets that he's getting and that's exactly what a young

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Speaker 15: quarterback needs. Almost every great quarterback has their pairing of

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Speaker 15: their star wide receiver, and Courtland Sutton is proving that

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Speaker 15: he can be that guy for them this season.

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Speaker 1: I'll say a lot of people watch this segment every

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Speaker 1: Tuesday may not realize you're not just the numbers guy.

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Speaker 1: You played at Stanford with Andrew Luck, you were coached

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Speaker 1: there by Jim Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: What are he and Greg Roman doing?

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Speaker 1: What's the insight you can give us on them that

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Speaker 1: we can't get anyplace else.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I'm excited to be able to call

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Speaker 15: one of their games this week, specifically because they have

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Speaker 15: a different approach to football than what you would see

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Speaker 15: in normal modern day football. A lot of people are counterpunchers.

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Speaker 15: If they do this, we'll do that. That is not

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Speaker 15: what coach Roman and coach Harball like do. They are

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Speaker 15: hit you in the mouth first by utilizing unique personnel groupings,

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Speaker 15: which is twenty two personnel, two backs and two tight ends,

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Speaker 15: except their fullback is a defensive lineman Scott Mattlocke's two

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Speaker 15: hundred ninety fi pounds, and their second tight end is

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Speaker 15: Tucker Fisk, another Stanford guy. He's two hundred and eighty

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Speaker 15: five pounds, so they're like bringing in almost two extra

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Speaker 15: offensive lineman for these plays. Then they're gonna make you

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Speaker 15: dictate your formation by running NUB formations on offense, meaning

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Speaker 15: there's an attached tight end to one side and nobody

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Speaker 15: outside of them.

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Speaker 3: Teams often don't like to.

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Speaker 15: Line up to these formations because it makes your corner

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Speaker 15: have to dictate what the coverage should be or they're

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Speaker 15: gonna have to play in the box linebacker like we

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Speaker 15: see on this big play here, you have your corner

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Speaker 15: playing a SAM linebacker.

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Speaker 3: That is a tough spot for them to be in.

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Speaker 1: You can watch Sam on TNS Prime Vision with Next

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Speaker 1: Gen Stats Alternate stream. Thursday's coverage of Broncos Chargers on

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Speaker 1: Prime Video and NFL Plus begins at seven pm Eastern times.

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Speaker 1: Sam as always, thank you very much for being here.

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Speaker 1: Edevil dot com slash Rookies is where you can vote

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Speaker 1: for the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Week. There's

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Speaker 1: the nominees right there, including some highly drafted quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So it was to be in position to take a

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Speaker 2: quarterback up at the top. Judy, you'd say, just about

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Speaker 2: everybody here.

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, every one of those top five teams.

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Speaker 7: I think all the quarterbacks that run away really fast.

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Speaker 2: Yikes, Patriots not you know, everybody.

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Speaker 8: Else more or less, well, hey, Patriots, get it, they're

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Speaker 8: gonna have to. I would have a nice auction for

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Speaker 8: that first pick.

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Speaker 9: That might be best case scenario for them. I got more,

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Speaker 9: but we're done.