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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, everybody, It's Thursday, October twenty fourth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. We're cruising like

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Speaker 1: John Madden. It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant,

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Speaker 1: joined by Michael f Florio, and we.

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Speaker 2: Are in the Madden Cruiser, the actual bus.

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Speaker 3: This is pretty sweet.

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Speaker 2: This is dope in my head though I know I

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Speaker 2: said this there, like this is where John Madden lived

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Speaker 2: in my head, like he has slept on this couch,

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Speaker 2: he has played Madden over there, like this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Except like Madden was a large man, Like this couch

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Speaker 1: is like I don't know that I could sleep on

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Speaker 1: this couch unless it Scott couch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like you gotta.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it pulls out, but uh yeah no,

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Speaker 1: this would be great. Plenty of TVs. Obviously there's Madden

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Speaker 1: hooked up. You could come in and play here. I'm

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Speaker 1: very excited, very fortunate to be able to do a

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Speaker 1: show from here today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean I walked up and I was like, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, like I took a picture outside of it,

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Speaker 2: like it's got his This is dope.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely dope. So thank you to the folks at

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Speaker 1: EA for letting us come crash in here for a

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Speaker 1: little bit and do the show here. Of course, you

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Speaker 1: know it is a Thursday. We have our top calls

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Speaker 1: for the week, so we'll go through those. But let's

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Speaker 1: start with a couple of headlines. The first one because

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Speaker 1: we are just a few hours away from the start

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Speaker 1: of week eight and Thursday night football. The Vikings and

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Speaker 1: Rams are going to play at Sofi Stadium, literally just

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Speaker 1: behind us here in the Madden Bus. And it looks

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Speaker 1: like now we're waiting for inactives to be out to

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Speaker 1: find out officially, but it looks like Pooka Nakua could play.

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Speaker 1: Combined that with Cooper Cup who is expected to play tonight,

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Speaker 1: so the Rams are going to have their top two

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Speaker 1: receivers back in this offense. I think with Cup, I

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Speaker 1: think we sort of already decided that he's playing for

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Speaker 1: the Rams. He's playing for you. Pookah's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a different situation. Hasn't played since week one, hasn't really

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Speaker 1: gotten any practice time in If Puka goes, would you

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Speaker 1: feel comfortable putting him in a lineup?

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Speaker 2: He it's a little like it's a little bit more

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Speaker 2: depending on your options. Unlike Cooper Cup who were on

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Speaker 2: is if he plays, which he is going to, you

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Speaker 2: get him in your lineup. But Puka could be on

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Speaker 2: a snap count. Like we said, I have a lot

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Speaker 2: of people who have sent me questions like why would

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Speaker 2: they do this? Why would they not wait ten more

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Speaker 2: days to give Puka full time to rest? And the

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Speaker 2: truth is this game is very important.

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Speaker 3: For the Rams.

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Speaker 2: There's a big difference of being three and four, especially

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Speaker 2: in the NFC West right now, compared to two and five,

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Speaker 2: So you could make it an argument that their season

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Speaker 2: is on the line tonight. But even so, like I

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Speaker 2: have Puka on a number of teams, and like I

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Speaker 2: think i'd play him over someone like Khalil Shakir, which

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Speaker 2: is one of my options. But if you've gone by

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Speaker 2: have in place, I think it's okay then to take

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing too, because this week, weirdly,

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Speaker 1: in Week eight, there are no teams on a buy,

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Speaker 1: so you have your full complement of players, obviously injury

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Speaker 1: players not with standy, but you have your full roster

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Speaker 1: this long without Puka and Kua. I'm kind of with

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Speaker 1: Ian Harden's had a wonderful tweet about It's something to

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Speaker 1: the effect of, if you start Pooka, expect him to

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Speaker 1: be on a limited snapcount with very few targets. If

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Speaker 2: It's something where like I have Pooka on say like

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Speaker 2: three or four of my fantasy teams. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: because if that happens and I sit him in every league,

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Speaker 2: all right, I could still enjoy this and benefit from this.

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Speaker 1: I knew I took advantage of at least at least

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Speaker 1: officially now. Jamison Williams is going to be suspended for

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Speaker 1: two games for violating the league's performance enhancing substances policy.

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Speaker 1: It's a thing that's kind of been out there. Dan

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Speaker 1: Now Jamison Williams has put out a state about it.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like the Lions aren't going to a peela.

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Speaker 1: I think they just sort of want to get this

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Speaker 3: This week they play the Titans.

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Speaker 1: What they should be able to win the week after

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Speaker 1: is does this mean something for my Sam Laporta shares?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it does. Like I will, I will

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Speaker 2: not lie. I wrote up Sam Laporta as a sit

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Speaker 2: this week, was already for that, and then reports of

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Speaker 2: this came out Monday night and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I have to change this because the whole thing with

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Speaker 2: Sam Laporta has been Jamison Williams is the number two

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Speaker 2: Jamison they just they think he's better than Sam Laporta.

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Speaker 2: I think, and he's better for this offense. But with

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Speaker 2: Sam Laporta is the number two option. Now he's the

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Speaker 2: number two option for sure in the red zone. So oh,

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Speaker 2: I think you throw out the first seven weeks with

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Speaker 2: that it could look like last season, I need to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look at the sort of the air

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Speaker 1: lot of those targets. That's where Sam laporter was getting

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Speaker 1: of us me, I'm raising my hand who drafted Sam Laporta,

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Speaker 1: who have been utterly frustrated by him getting one or

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Speaker 1: looks from Jared goff in this offense. Any other Lions

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Speaker 2: No, not unless we see it first. You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna be throwing going out there throwing like second

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Speaker 2: I pulled up NFL Pro they have this as a

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Speaker 2: for almost every type of passing. Deep passes, quick passes,

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Speaker 2: I think this is a week where you could feel

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Speaker 2: good about Laporta. You can feel good about a Monra

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Speaker 2: the running backs there, Jared Goff, but after that it has.

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Speaker 3: To be like a deep league, yeh.

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Speaker 1: So don't go throwing Khalif Raymond into lineups this week, folks.

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Speaker 3: Is sort of what we're going with for this thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get into some of our Week eight predictions.

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Speaker 1: Let's start off with Club Dub the guys non quarterback edition.

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Speaker 1: Who will be the top scorer this week? And you

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Speaker 1: got one in a game that could really be a

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Speaker 1: back and forth contest between the Eagles and the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: A couple of good offenses against a couple of kind

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the whole thing. Not only do I

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Speaker 2: think that I have aj Brown, who I think is amazing.

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Speaker 2: He has had a touchdown in all three games at

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Speaker 2: least eighty nine yards in every game. He's gone for

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Speaker 2: over nineteen Fantasy points in all. He was someone that

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Speaker 2: before the year I was hyping up, like I'd rather

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Speaker 2: has been the best wide receiver in fantasy this season.

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Speaker 2: But the Bengals, like you said, they can be had.

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Speaker 2: They give up a lot of big plays and they

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Speaker 2: So I think it is possible that we get two

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Speaker 1: Well, my bowl prediction this week has been two hundred

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Speaker 1: scrimmag yards for Joe Mixon. So he's the guy that

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with in this situation against the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: Going back to Week one, when these two teams played,

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Speaker 1: mixing put up one hundred and seventy eight scrimmage yards

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna lean on Mixon again. Look, I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks have a bounce back for CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud I can certainly see that in the works as well.

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Speaker 1: But I think this is a Texans team that can

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Speaker 1: of points, and when you get to that fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: you're just trying to grind out clock. I think we

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Speaker 1: see a lot of mixing in that situation as well.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a huge.

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Speaker 3: Game for him.

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Speaker 1: Back in that Week one game, he was the RB

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Speaker 1: two behind Saquon Barkley. I think he get end up

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Speaker 1: as the RB one, you know, maybe maybe even the

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Speaker 1: top scorer for the week.

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Speaker 3: That's the first game as a Texans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's only gotten better too.

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Speaker 3: He has been a true workhorse for this Texans offense.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's funny because when he wasn't he was out.

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Speaker 1: They're trying, you know, a combination of cam Akers and

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Speaker 1: those cam Makers isn't even in Houston anymore.

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Speaker 3: Here's thirty touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna send you out of here. Can Makers literally need.

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Speaker 2: I do feel bad for cam Akers because no one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the secondary has been great, get good.

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Speaker 2: You talk about that broken hand. They said it happened

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Speaker 1: this up with the snore Lax, our favorite Week eight sleeper.

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Speaker 3: Who do you like? I love kada in this week.

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Speaker 2: I know he's I think he's kind of climbed past

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a past heavy offense and Oden

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Speaker 1: I told Adam Ranked that I have been become a bowliever.

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Speaker 3: Oh you gotta do is Bowl Laue.

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Speaker 1: All you gotta do is Bowl League. And so, like

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Speaker 3: This is about as good a matchup as you're going

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. That'll do it though. For this

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