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Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insider as long as Ian Rappaport

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Speaker 1: which we will get into a little bit later on,

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Speaker 1: you get a two part podcast from us instead. Stacy

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Speaker 1: Dales and Adam Rank will be along as well. But

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Speaker 1: let's start out Ian by getting some of the big injuries,

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Speaker 1: because there were a handful of them in those games yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Starting out with the news on Nick Bosa, the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers defensive end, who how Shanahans struck a somewhat

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Speaker 1: optimistic tone after the game yesterday, but also had decaution

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Speaker 1: of based on how he's feeling, we are concerned and

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Speaker 1: those concerns now realize.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know the main concern was

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Speaker 2: was looking at Bosa himself, right, I mean you watched

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Speaker 2: him walk off the field. He knew it was the

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Speaker 2: same knee as wasn't last year. But a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago when he tore the ACL and his reaction

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Speaker 2: really set all right, and you know, he talked to

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Speaker 2: people who were involved in this situation and they were

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Speaker 2: not nearly as optimistic I would say, as as Kyle Shanahan, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he's he often could be very

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Speaker 2: transparent on injuries. I think for Brock Purdy, he was

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Speaker 2: really pretty honest, like it's basically turf tow He's gonna

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Speaker 2: be out a couple of weeks, and last week it

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Speaker 2: was like he's getting better. He could be a backup.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't. But you know, I think he's really pretty transparent,

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Speaker 2: but sometimes they just go the other way, and this one,

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Speaker 2: based on his reaction, based on people closed him just

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Speaker 2: knew it wasn't good. Test confirmed a little bit ago

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Speaker 2: that Nick Bosa is now out for the season with

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Speaker 2: another torn a cl I think you did a good

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Speaker 2: job actually on Twitter of explaining why the initial testing

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Speaker 2: didn't job with the MRI, basically because the knee has

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Speaker 2: already been reconstructed and so it doesn't feel like other knees,

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Speaker 2: which I think was a really good, a really good point,

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Speaker 2: and I think something that probably added some caution or

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Speaker 2: whatever to Kyle shannon words yesterday. But for the forty

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Speaker 2: nine ers, I mean, it's Kittle on ir it's pretty

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Speaker 2: us missed a couple of games. It's Bosho's out for

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Speaker 2: the season. I mean, there's there's Juwan Jennings has been

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Speaker 2: They're three and zero, and I think it's real because

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Speaker 2: they have played well. But it's pretty alarming. I just

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Speaker 2: I don't know how it's pretty alarming just what they've

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Speaker 1: In the forty nine ers. It seems like every what

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Speaker 1: three years, go through just hell of injuries. It's happened

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Speaker 1: several times now since Kyle Shanahan got there. We know

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Speaker 1: he's one of the top coaches, certainly one of the

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Speaker 1: top offensive coaches in the NFL. He's as talented at

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Speaker 1: scheming people open as anybody in the league. And now

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Speaker 1: with Robert Soli back and running the defense, I mean

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Speaker 1: that defense has looked like they have before. But there

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Speaker 1: were times yesterday where, if I'm not mistaken, there were

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Speaker 1: five rookies playing on the San Francisco defense at the

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Speaker 1: same time. Taking a Nick Bosa, one of the most

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Speaker 1: on up. You know, you could sit there and say, well,

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Speaker 1: they've trade for somebody. We've seen the forty Niners make

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Speaker 1: a lot of bold trades. They get a lot of

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Speaker 1: This may well be.

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Speaker 2: It's also like trade for who you know, like you know.

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Speaker 1: Well, as this season moves on, we're still what six

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Speaker 1: weeks I believe from the trade deadline here, So some

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Speaker 1: of those teams are sitting there at ozen three. If

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Speaker 1: that BECOMESZHO four and on and five, then maybe suretain

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Speaker 1: guys were not thinking about right now start to become available.

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Speaker 2: But very much it's to get my list together.

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Speaker 1: You got you got it, I got mine going right here.

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Speaker 1: You have to focus on some of those young guys

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Speaker 1: taking on better roles than to your point. You're hoping

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Speaker 1: You said Ian was an aggravation of a prior PCL

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Speaker 1: spring for Mac Jones. So now this once again creates

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really does. The backup quarterback who you probably

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Speaker 2: don't think I know, but I do know Adrian Martinez,

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Speaker 1: Where did you play college Footballian?

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Speaker 2: He played at Arizona State. No, that is Kent Miami

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Speaker 1: the two places, Adrian Mark That was my other guesses

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Speaker 1: and I'm at rock party. He was limited all last week.

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Speaker 1: It was close enough that they at least talked about

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Speaker 2: Well, I have a different question, what and I think

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Speaker 2: I have an answer, but I have a different question.

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Speaker 2: What do you think? And I know we have a

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Speaker 2: you think mac Jones did in these last two games? Like,

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Speaker 2: he's got another year on his contract with the forty

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Speaker 2: but certainly he could. So what do you think he

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Speaker 2: did the last couple games for his like value end status.

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Speaker 1: I guess, well, he got halfway to his incentives, which

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Speaker 1: four wins would unlock his one hundred thousand dollars per

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Speaker 1: win that he gets. But but additionally, I mean he

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Speaker 1: showed why Kyle Shanahan liked him coming out in the

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Speaker 1: the upside of a Trey Lance over mac Jones. Mack

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Speaker 1: then becomes a free agent. Kyle brings him in. You're

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Speaker 1: a question about his Brock party. To Gay, he is

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars over fifty million dollars per year. He

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Speaker 1: know with Brock he's had different injuries. They're usually like

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Speaker 1: But you've got somebody who you know now can step

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Speaker 1: undergo surgery. As Ian mentioned last night, ankle, yes, ankle,

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Speaker 1: What did I say mean time ankle? It was bad.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad, bad looking injury.

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Speaker 2: Usually when players are all on the field, both sides

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Najie Harris torn achilles. You could see that.

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Speaker 1: Terris's achilles, he and James Connor Bill said to be

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Speaker 1: not more so for James Connor than for Naji coming

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Speaker 1: lamb Ian, who that was an ugly looking injury. You

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Speaker 1: know where it's now it looks like it's got some

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Speaker 1: that play From just talking to some people who are

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Speaker 1: at this play, it doesn't sound like this is a

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Speaker 1: hip drop tackle because there's no grasp you would need

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Speaker 1: the unwaiting but also the grasp where he just kind

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Speaker 1: of goes down awkwardly there. He'saw CD tried to get

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Speaker 1: of this ian. But the optimism that CD had last

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Speaker 2: For the optimist, Yeah, I think that that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: My understanding, first of all, the timeline is he's out

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Speaker 2: they do not plan to put him on IR, which

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Speaker 2: means if you say, like, what's the most likely scenario

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Speaker 2: my educated guests is he probably misses three games and

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Speaker 2: First of all, amazing that he went back out there.

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Speaker 2: And also, you know you talk about Nick Bosa knowing,

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Speaker 2: knowing how injured he was, like Cedd clearly knew, tried

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Speaker 2: to run, took himself out. Nope. But then the other

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Speaker 2: thing is after the game, like sometimes there could be

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Speaker 2: optimism and then it settles in and then he's in

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Speaker 2: a walking boot in the facility and you're like, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is this is pretty real. This is tough for

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. He is one of their best players. So

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Speaker 2: for the fantasy world, he is one of the best

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Speaker 2: fantasy receivers who was a top ten pick in almost

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Speaker 2: every league. The Cowboys have had some real challenges and

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Speaker 2: I am really curious to see what it ends up being.

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Speaker 2: Like last last yesterday, it was bad Bears were I

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Speaker 2: know the Bears came into this thinking that they were

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Speaker 2: they for sure were they thought they were going to

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Speaker 2: be more physical than the Cowboys receivers Ceedee Lamb didn't

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Speaker 2: finish the game, and I think that was it was

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Speaker 2: all pretty clear. I'm really curious where the Cowboys go

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Speaker 2: from here, Knowing one of their best players is going

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Speaker 2: to be out, knowing they were going to have to

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Speaker 2: rely on other receivers who are certainly much not as accomplished,

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Speaker 2: and knowing what happened to matt Eberflus's defense against Ben

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Speaker 2: Johnson and the Bears.

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Speaker 1: That's the staggering part is that the defense has been

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Speaker 1: as bad. Now in Maddi Eberflus's defense, you losed her

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Speaker 1: on Bland. You have Trayvon Diggs who's kind of in

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Speaker 1: and out. He was in the medical ten yesterday. So

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Speaker 1: you're talking about two of your top corners. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've had Kenny Clark he got banged up in that

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Speaker 1: game as well. They have not stopped the run, and

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, they can't rush the passer without Michael Parsons.

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Speaker 1: That's the first game in King Williams's career, which grand

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Speaker 1: isn't that many game, first time in his career he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been sacked. Think about that. So much. What we

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Speaker 1: talked about last year was Caleb Williams being sacked at

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Speaker 1: a historic rate. They didn't touch him in that game,

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, a lot for Dallas to figure out

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Speaker 1: as we roll.

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Speaker 2: For you, sorry, I know you have so many other

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Speaker 2: things to get to, but just walk quick. It's been

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Speaker 2: rough for obviously for the Cowboys. When you trade Micah

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Speaker 1: Tracy although Cam Scataboo, if you want silver lining the

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Speaker 2: When it's a home game and you know, like they're

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Speaker 2: And I think it's time. And let's see what decision

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Speaker 4: Or from me insiders after this, Wheeland niels at the

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Speaker 1: This is a forty three yard field goal. Try to

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Speaker 3: It is fucked balls down to the ground.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Greg goes the balls on it on.

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Speaker 5: The forty seven of the ground sends the Lord off

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Speaker 5: the edge just like I told you he was so

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Speaker 2: It on that extra point.

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Speaker 6: He comes around the edge and gets it right there.

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Speaker 1: And now Andre Schmidt for the wind from fifty five

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Speaker 2: Pick it up. It's god. I'm oh tap the Green

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Speaker 1: Great call there from our old friend Andrew Siciliano, the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Cleveland Browns. What a wild day of

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Speaker 1: on paper for a lot of the games got a

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Speaker 1: bad ugly games that all ended in wild finishes. As

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you. You were there in Cleveland sitting

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Speaker 2: And then it flips.

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Speaker 1: Just tell me from your perspective in the stadium what

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys.

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Speaker 2: It was wild.

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Speaker 5: So the conversation in the press box. The murmurs in

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Speaker 5: the press box were, all right, let's get Dylan Gabriel

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Speaker 5: going here. When is Joe going to get pulled here?

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Speaker 5: You know, guys, you know Kevin Stefanski, Well, he's not

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Speaker 5: going to disrespect a veteran quarterback of Super Bowl winning

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Speaker 5: and you see Grant Delpit get that interception, and you

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Speaker 5: and that operation was incredible. Would a rookie quarterback be

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Speaker 2: That? Was so fast, so freaking fast.

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Speaker 5: Go back and watch it. It's all over social. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it was so cool to see it in person. I

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, yeah, So anyway, it was a really did

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Speaker 5: Well? I walked very briskly to the middle of the field,

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Speaker 5: and I didn't know who I was getting. We asked

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Speaker 1: Rank you sitting back watching that game on the couch

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Speaker 1: as a Bears fan. We'll get to that remarkable performance momentarily.

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Speaker 1: Here I imagined you were. You were relishing every second

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Speaker 1: of that. Oh you need a microphone on their rank.

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Speaker 2: You know, on this show, we like to hear when

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm sorry about that. Yet. I did not go

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Speaker 6: that I didn't didn't have everything working. That's fine, That's

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Speaker 6: what I'm like. Oh, they're just ignoring me, Like this

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Speaker 6: is this is what it's like being you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: That's fine. Do the other guys view you as the

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Speaker 1: Or is that just you?

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Speaker 2: Just me?

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Speaker 6: I kind of view myself in that lens, you know what,

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Speaker 6: I walk around like the backstay like I'm triple H

437
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Speaker 6: walking around pulling the strings. But here's my thing. I

438
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Speaker 6: was watching that and a Packers fan was at the

439
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Speaker 6: facility where we were watching this game. He's like, stupid,

440
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Speaker 6: stupid special teams. It's no big deal. And I said, hey, pal,

441
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Speaker 6: you are a special teams play away from being zero

442
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Speaker 6: to six in the division last year. So this is

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Speaker 6: just a coming full circle moment. But it just goes

444
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Speaker 6: to show you like this is This is one of

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Speaker 6: the things why I try not to get try not

446
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Speaker 6: to overreact to things that happened in the first couple

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Speaker 6: of weeks of the season, because like last week, the

448
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Speaker 6: narrative was like, are the Packers even going to lose

449
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Speaker 6: a game? Are they going to go undefeated? How badly

450
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Speaker 6: are they going to win the Super Bowl? Now they

451
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Speaker 6: lost to the Browns. It's just one of those things,

452
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Speaker 6: like there are professional ballplayers on both teams. Cleveland Rose

453
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Speaker 6: the occasion, I don't think that Jared Listen, Jordan Love

454
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Speaker 6: is fine. He's a good quarterback. He's gonna go out there,

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Speaker 6: He's going to face the Dallas Cowboys this week, he's

456
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Speaker 6: gonna throw for four hundred yards and then you guys

457
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Speaker 6: can all go back on the bandwagon and everything will

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Speaker 6: be fine.

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Speaker 1: Well, Stacey, I'm gonna ask you this because you spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of time around the Packers team too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were if you were talking about them, Is this

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Speaker 1: the best team in football? And through those first two games?

463
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Speaker 1: And defense, once again, I'll say, whatever you know about

464
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Speaker 1: the Browns offense, they've got their challenges, but once again,

465
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Speaker 1: it was a it was a pretty dominant defensive effort,

466
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Speaker 1: especially when you remember that the one touchdown the Browns

467
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Speaker 1: scored was the product of just a weird interception that

468
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Speaker 1: leads a couple of plays later to a touchdown. What's

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Speaker 1: the level of concern that you sense about Green Bay

470
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Speaker 1: or just from your own eyes watching it, about whether

471
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Speaker 1: or not you know this was an operation versus this

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Speaker 1: is a sign of maybe some of the things that

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Speaker 1: they got to fix here moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Tom, I would chalk this one up to a good

475
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Speaker 5: loss for the Packers because of all that hype. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you get a little humble pie in the NFL. And

477
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Speaker 5: the thing about their team is they're young, but they

478
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Speaker 5: have really good leadership. I was in both locker rooms

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Speaker 5: after the game, by the way, and it was so

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Speaker 5: cool because I talked to Bubba Ventron, the special teams coach,

481
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Speaker 5: before the game, about the Browns and like, damn, your

482
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Speaker 5: defense is good, and he's like, yeah, it is, and

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Speaker 5: we got to be better on special teams. So special

484
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Speaker 5: teams and defense for them came through. I saw him

485
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Speaker 5: after the game. He's pumped in his locker room, and

486
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Speaker 5: then I go to the Packers locker room and Micah

487
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Speaker 5: Parsons is so interesting because as he gets ready to

488
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Speaker 5: face the Cowboys this week, it's going to be fun.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a lot of banter going on

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Speaker 5: about that game. But he was really interesting at his

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Speaker 5: locker you guys last night, because you know, he took

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Speaker 5: full accountability.

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Speaker 2: Tom.

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Speaker 5: To answer your question, He's like, I had two offsides

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Speaker 5: in that game. That's unacceptable for a player of my caliber.

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Speaker 5: It's an eighteen you know, run season, and we run

497
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Speaker 5: through eighteen weeks in this season and there's a lot

498
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Speaker 5: of football to play. And what was also really interesting

499
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Speaker 5: is how many times did you see Jeff Hafley as

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Speaker 5: a defensive coordinator. Right He's got a few guys huddled

501
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Speaker 5: up at I think it was Xavier McKinney's locker, and

502
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Speaker 5: they were all kind of having an interesting conversation about

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Speaker 5: the defense. And that's unusual, I don't You don't typically

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Speaker 5: see coordinators go and kind of grab a few guys,

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Speaker 5: but that something I also saw. They have an outstanding defense,

506
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Speaker 5: but they're really good, so are the Browns Defensively. The Browns,

507
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Speaker 5: you could argue that they'll tell you we think we're

508
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Speaker 5: the best defense in the NFL, and they put on

509
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Speaker 5: a display of that yesterday. But I don't since any

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Speaker 5: concern Tom sorry Rank about where the Packers are going.

511
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Speaker 5: This is a really good team, and I had a

512
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Speaker 5: couple of coaches around the league text me about the

513
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Speaker 5: division this morning. We all still think the Packers are

514
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Speaker 5: really damn good and they will bounce back from this.

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Speaker 5: I expect them to have a really good performance.

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Speaker 6: Next week, we'll.

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Speaker 1: Talk about the Vikings getting to win a blowout fashion

518
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Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz to quarterback. We get to the Monday

519
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Speaker 1: night game too. Lions face the Ravens tonight. That's in

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Speaker 1: part two of the podcast, which you also can find.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about the Bears here. For a second, Stacey,

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Speaker 1: You're based in Chicago, but as our resident Bears super fan.

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Speaker 2: I gotta let Rank go first on this one. We've

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Speaker 2: been waiting for this.

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Speaker 1: Rank. This was, this was the moment right here, this

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Speaker 1: is what it was.

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Speaker 2: I want to like, Tom, I want to jump in.

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Speaker 2: I want to jump in really quick because I want

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Speaker 2: to tell Rank what I told you in the segment before,

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Speaker 2: which was the Bears. I want to hear what you

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Speaker 2: think The Bears went into this thinking that they were

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Speaker 2: more physical than the Cowboys and believing that they would

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Speaker 2: show that and that would help them get their first win.

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Speaker 2: Having seen that, do you agree?

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Speaker 6: I would agree. I think this is something that goes

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Speaker 6: back to the joint practices they had with the Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 6: and that the Dolphins media was complaining that the Bears

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Speaker 6: were too mean to them. I think in the first

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Speaker 6: couple of weeks of the season, we really didn't get

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Speaker 6: an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Now that's what.

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Speaker 6: That's all the Dolphins media. Why are the Bears trying

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Speaker 6: so hard, like because they're playing football. I don't know,

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Speaker 6: Maybe you guys should try it for a change. Obviously,

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Speaker 6: what happened in the first two weeks of the season.

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Speaker 6: Happened in the first two weeks of the season, and

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Speaker 6: it's not unusual for a new coaching staff to really

548
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Speaker 6: try to find their bearings as they're moving forward and

549
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Speaker 6: trying to get everything, try to get their system in.

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Speaker 6: And one of the things that when you look at

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Speaker 6: this game, obviously Caleb Williams goes out there throws for

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Speaker 6: nearly three hundred yards four touchdowns, and I think a

553
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Speaker 6: lot of people who are not fans of the Chicago

554
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Speaker 6: Bears will say, well, look, Mitch Trubisky had a six

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Speaker 6: touchdown game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Justin Fields had

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Speaker 6: his moments during his time. Even last season, the Bears

557
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Speaker 6: looked really good in London against Jacksonville. What is different

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Speaker 6: this year? And to me, the biggest difference is going

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Speaker 6: to be Ben Johnson and what we saw during the

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Speaker 6: postgame locker room ceremony yesterday. If you want to go

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Speaker 6: out and dig this up, I don't know if you

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Speaker 6: guys fix this in posts or you save it or

563
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Speaker 6: whatever you do. If you watch Matt Eberflus in Week

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Speaker 6: one against San Francisco when he got his first first

565
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Speaker 6: win of the Sea, first win of his NFL career

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Speaker 6: not really inspiring. Should have been the reddest of red flags,

567
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Speaker 6: sitting there soaking wet in a fluke win over the

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Speaker 6: forty nine ers, whereas Ben Johnson comes in with all

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Speaker 6: sorts of juice and swagger and really accountability for what

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Speaker 6: is going on now. I will caution people, Tyler Williams

571
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Speaker 6: is not going to throw four touchdowns every week. There

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Speaker 6: are gonna be times where he goes up against a

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Speaker 6: tough defense. It could be the Browns, they can be

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Speaker 6: even Green Bay where it's gonna be a little bit

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Speaker 6: of a struggle. But what we're seeing is Ben Johnson

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Speaker 6: putting the pieces into place to make this team competitive

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Speaker 6: this season. And I think that we're going to see

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Speaker 6: the Bears take step forwards, take steps forward as they

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Speaker 6: continue to march through the twenty eighteen season.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of putting the pieces in place, Stacy, the

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Speaker 1: other thing I'm struct just even watching those highlights for

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Speaker 1: you know, yes, they got Robo Dodensday has been great

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Speaker 1: so far this season. You saw DJ Moore getting the

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Speaker 1: end zone yesterday when the Cowboys just decided let's not

585
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Speaker 1: cover one of the better receivers in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: you got a Luther Burden highlight in there. You've got

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Speaker 1: a Colston Loveland highlight in there. Even Kyle Malung, guy

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Speaker 1: who you talked about with us on The Insiders after

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Speaker 1: week one, got rolling in the game.

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Speaker 2: If you're thinking.

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Speaker 1: About the broader, like the global how we're putting this

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Speaker 1: thing together, these are the guys that Ben drafted or

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Speaker 1: along with Ryan Pols to fit what he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: The fact those guys get rolling in week three seems

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Speaker 1: like a really good side.

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Speaker 5: Tom, You're so right on. It was huge yesterday. It

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Speaker 5: was huge. I mean, that's arguably the best. Tom Brady

598
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Speaker 5: said it in the broadcast, the best that he's seen

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Speaker 5: Caleb Williams play. But our guys just showed you the

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Speaker 5: flee flicker there at sixty five yard, or to Luther Burden,

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Speaker 5: who was the top receiver yesterday and was over one

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Speaker 5: hundred yards for the first time career highs for him.

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Speaker 5: They came out of we two pretty pissed off. The

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Speaker 5: Bears did, and the person at the forefront of that

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Speaker 5: was Ben Johnson, pissed off at the practice habits. Go

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Speaker 5: back and watch the flea flicker and go take a

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Speaker 5: look at Ben Johnson on the sideline. I mean, this

608
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Speaker 5: dude is he is laser focused on next play, next play.

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Speaker 5: He's not even celebrating this thing. And I texted with

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Speaker 5: a couple of people at the Bears last night. They

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Speaker 5: were more happy about those guys playing their asses off,

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Speaker 5: That's what I was told, than the win. Even you

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Speaker 5: could see that they took coaching last week. Rank. They

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Speaker 5: took coaching, and when players buy in in the NFL

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Speaker 5: and they take coaching, you guys know, any given Sunday, Monday, Thursday,

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Speaker 5: any team can win. Look what the Browns did the Packers.

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Speaker 5: So they took the coaching. They put it in, they

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Speaker 5: manifested it, they put it into fruition, if you will,

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Speaker 5: in terms of how they performed, and you know, they

620
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Speaker 5: got some sacks defensively, they got four turnovers in the game.

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Speaker 5: The defense came alive and it was a tough night

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Speaker 5: for Dak Prescott. So you know, next game, though, the

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Speaker 5: Raiders are up next. Rank got to have another really

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Speaker 5: good week of practice, and I think that's the Ben

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Speaker 5: Johnson standard, as we saw yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one of the biggest things. I don't know,

627
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Speaker 6: if your time in Chicago goes back to Mark Tressman.

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Speaker 6: But when you look at the coaches, I know how

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Speaker 6: every coach would have responded to the loss in Detroit

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Speaker 6: last week. Where Matt Maggie would have been like, hey,

631
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Speaker 6: we're trying to find the wise Matt Ebraflus would have

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Speaker 6: blamed everybody else but himself. But Ben Johnson went out

633
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Speaker 6: there and took accountability and said that we need to

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Speaker 6: start practicing better, we need to start putting it together.

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Speaker 6: And the one thing that what you said is I texting.

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Speaker 6: We probably are texting the same people. It's like, do

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Speaker 6: you think that Ben Johnson comes in more aggressive this

638
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Speaker 6: week or less aggressive? And everybody was like, oh, it's

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be worse for him, Like now he's really

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Speaker 6: going to put the foot on the gas. I think

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Speaker 6: that his toughest practice was last week. There's a real

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Speaker 6: sense that Ben is going to put the pedal to

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Speaker 6: the metal once again, try to get them ready for

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Speaker 6: Las Vegas.

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Speaker 5: But I'll just say quick too, that flea flicker, I'll

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Speaker 5: go back to it. Yeah you can't. This isn't gimmicky football.

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Speaker 5: This this play required an essential amount of practice time

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Speaker 5: to execute, and it was run perfectly almost I mean

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Speaker 5: the toss back right here. Oh we missed the toss back.

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Speaker 5: It was a little hot for the quarterback, but a

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Speaker 5: little launched that baby right You had to practice that

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Speaker 5: is there. It is boom, but it's a little high. Okay,

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Speaker 5: But the timing was perfect because they got the safety

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Speaker 5: to look, they got the safety to move and bam

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Speaker 5: it was a touchdown. That is all time on task

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Speaker 5: during the week. And so this isn't when Ben Johnson

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Speaker 5: does this stuff. This isn't gimmicky stuff like this is.

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Speaker 5: This is stuff he believes is going to manifest itself

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Speaker 5: on every Sunday and be executed at a high level.

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Speaker 5: And if the Bears buy in like that, they can

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Speaker 5: be really damn good.

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Speaker 1: Great, both of you, guys, Rank, we gotta go. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got time limits on this.

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Speaker 2: You don't. You guys said the podcast was hard. There's

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Speaker 2: no hard outs on a podcast.

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Speaker 1: Apparently there is. I'm getting text about it, Rank station

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Speaker 1: very much. We got Monday night preview. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the Rams, Eagles, Wild finish, the Bust Jets game whole

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Speaker 1: lot more. So call me Rank Over Part two for

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Speaker 1: Rank Stacy See and I'm Tom See