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Speaker 1: We welcome you too. Between the horns presented by your

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Speaker 1: I'm JB. Long with Maurice Jones drew into Marco far gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: you ready to hit the road, go to Denver and

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Speaker 1: wrap up this preseason? Ready to go, let's get it.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's better rather than the last time we

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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna take a deep dive on the two

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Speaker 1: main topics of the week. This should be fun Bryce

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Speaker 1: back Sony Michelle. Wednesday, the Rams traded a couple of

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Speaker 1: future Day three picks for the twenty six year old

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Speaker 1: now includes Daryl Henderson, Xavier Jones, and Rookie so MJD.

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Speaker 1: Gaze into your crystal ball here. How do you think

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Speaker 1: the roles and respond abilities look weak? One against the bars? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you're start off with Darryl Henderson. First you

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Speaker 1: get a little mixture of Sony Michelle, but Sony Michelle

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Speaker 1: brings a different breed of what you're looking for. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy that's been a part of Super Bowl winning teams.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that's that understands the game. He's been

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Speaker 1: But I think what you're you're getting more importantly is

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Speaker 1: acclimated to the system, getting him acclimated to the terminology,

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Speaker 1: not about this one year. I think maybe he goes

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Speaker 1: great days in New England. He had some bad days

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Speaker 1: I only can go back to the touchdown that pretty

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Speaker 1: much ice the Super Bowl. He was on, right, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna run downhill, he's gonna break tackles, he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: that hammer that very similar to C. J. Anderson when

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Speaker 1: this is an exciting time for the Rams. We were

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Speaker 1: now you get a chance to utilize him and yours

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Speaker 1: and help out Matthew Stafford in that passing game. DeMarco.

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Speaker 1: Just when you thought the Rams were all in, they

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Speaker 1: this show from Cobbam, Well, it's very right for what

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Speaker 1: you hope to get out of Michelle. Yeah, no doubt

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Speaker 1: He ran inside, he ran outside, picked up two first downs,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know why he's out of New England,

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Speaker 1: want to know what it means for Jake funking Xavier Jones.

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Speaker 1: let's call it a flavor, a genre that we felt

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Speaker 1: I think that's what kind of got the Rams going.

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Speaker 1: The flavor in which less Need is talking about is

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Speaker 1: that fourth quarter come back. When Monday, the Rams release

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Speaker 1: Duck Hodges. So it's the Bryce Perkins Show this weekend

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Speaker 1: in Denver and on the Rams Reveal podcast, I asked

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Speaker 1: awesome conversation with Perkins, who'll see hopefully go to distance

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Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right. He's probably played his way

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Speaker 1: M j D. Give our best to JaMarcus. He wants

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't put those two in, but there. They tear

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Speaker 1: stuff up, so it's a zoo here. We thank you

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Speaker 1: Southern California to you have the Dealer's proud partner of

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Speaker 1: the La RAMS will check in with you next week

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Speaker 1: after that fifty three man roster has been set, so

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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that, and please don't forget that you

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Speaker 1: still have your chance to join us inside SOFI Stadium

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Speaker 1: this season. Single game tickets are now available. Just go

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Speaker 1: to rams dot com slash tickets. Have a good rest

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Speaker 1: of your Thursday. The commoner intelegence from my place common

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