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Speaker 2: Steelers Ravens Week eighteen title game in the EFC North.

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Speaker 2: Come on now, all my rowdy friends are coming over

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Speaker 2: for this one right now. One team is eight and six,

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Speaker 2: one team is seven and seven. The schedule gods had

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Speaker 2: the Steelers and the Ravens play in Pittsburgh the last

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Speaker 2: week of the Wow, it's incredible. You guys have a

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Speaker 2: video for this. I just came up with this answer.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You are so nimble and so

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Speaker 2: talented in the truck that you're in the booth that

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Speaker 2: you came up with it. One of the This kind

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Speaker 2: of feels like a in college football, like a conference

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Speaker 2: title game. You know, before the bowl, we will get

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Speaker 2: together one more time. Conference title game. Very controversial these days.

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Speaker 2: Not the No Name refuses to play in that MANSI

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Speaker 2: why because they're just too good for them. But in

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Speaker 2: other words, the Steelers are Ravens. Everyone would kind of

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Speaker 2: handed the North. I feel like to the Steelers a

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Speaker 2: little bit because they'd won two in a row and

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Speaker 2: they looked really good. The Ravens are like, oh not

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Speaker 2: so fast, Kimo Sabi. We got a game. We can

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Speaker 2: win out, we can beat you. This would be really fun.

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Speaker 2: And imagine either Lamar or Rogers losing in Week eighteen

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Speaker 2: to get knocked out of the playoffs. High drama. I

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Speaker 2: want this. This year's Rams Stafford McVeigh at al. They

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Speaker 2: remind me of the twenty sixteen Falcons, a team, of

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Speaker 2: course that ended an infamy, but had a lot of

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Speaker 2: incredible things going on. You have the MVP, quarterback Mytt

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Speaker 2: Ryan was the MVP. You had a cavalcade of weapons,

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Speaker 2: Julio Jones, Taylor Turbo Gabriel, the running backs, Devonte Freeman,

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Speaker 2: Tevin Coleman. This is Kyle Shanahan running the offense. A

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Speaker 2: fun team, great team, great to I mean they were

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Speaker 2: destroying the Patriots by three three touchdowns, all right, I

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Speaker 2: know it ended horribly, but my god, this was a

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Speaker 2: great team. Matt Ryan won the MVP. People did not

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Speaker 2: have that in their odds and it was just offense

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Speaker 2: Keanu Nil like just fun, cool players did outrageous things.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that the Rams are going to have

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Speaker 2: an all time melt done in the Super Bowl I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying that all this is supposed to be a compliment.

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Speaker 2: For God's sake, Weapons, MVP quarterback, Grizzled head coaches with

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Speaker 2: the Falcons. I know they came up short, but the

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Speaker 2: Rams may not. My theme, guys, is Christmas presents. It's

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Speaker 2: holiday presence. Whatever you celebrate, whatever you might get and

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Speaker 2: like from you know, maybe your least desirable to your

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Speaker 2: most desirable. And here in my tears, let's start out

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Speaker 2: with Close from Grandma. It's just the worst. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's closed when you shake it and you and you're

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Speaker 2: trying to feign interest and you just throw it and

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Speaker 2: hope for a Nintendo game. All right, listen, Close from Grandma.

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Speaker 2: I have C. D. Stroud. I just don't think he's

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Speaker 2: playing at his best this season, his best rookie season.

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Speaker 2: Can play better Bo Nicks. Of course, he looks good.

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Speaker 2: The other day he's he's very young, and he has

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Speaker 2: played much of this season. It's been fine. It just

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Speaker 2: Rogers more than me as a player. You guys know

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Speaker 2: that right now? Compared to this field. There's no shame

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Speaker 2: in this. The fact that he's forty two and even

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Speaker 2: Tier two. Sometimes you go to the stocking and back

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Speaker 2: in the day, you get a gift certificate to McDonald's,

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Speaker 2: a gift card. Sometimes it would be low as fifty cents.

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Speaker 2: They've used to make fifty cent gift card certificates to

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Speaker 2: it was awesome. It felt like fries in your hand.

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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence belongs in Tier two if you're doing the

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Speaker 2: right now, and if you looked over the last month,

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Speaker 2: it's more than the Jets game. He's been excellent and

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Speaker 2: the true miracle that Liam Cohen might have pulled off

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Speaker 2: it's not getting Jacksonville to win. We may have found

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Speaker 2: a guy to unlock the Prince that was promised in

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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence. He's playing the best football of his career.

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Speaker 2: Herbert is nothing more justin Herbert than being tier two.

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Speaker 2: I hate to say that tier one talent. We're looking

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Speaker 2: it's a huge confident for him to be Tier two. Guys,

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Speaker 2: know how you guys don't have that. Tier one is

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Speaker 2: Boris and you know, there's a whole heavy stuff going

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Speaker 2: That's my tiers. There's a two A hive out there,

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Speaker 2: that's my guy who's gonna win playoff games. That's my guy.

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Speaker 2: And that is the most important test, whether you're a coach,

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Speaker 2: Drake May is gonna win some playoff games. We know

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Speaker 2: that already. It's been very rare at a time and

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Speaker 2: contract situation is an absolute mess. And this is yet

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Speaker 2: another byproduct of the absence of a middle class and quarterbacks,

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Speaker 2: or a special thing like that. Zach, you little dimple faced,

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Speaker 2: you deserve it. If all those other guys can have

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Speaker 2: with fist in the air. I also have seen other

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Speaker 2: media members and social media accounts who are tracking Caleb's

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Speaker 2: give less of a damn if Caleb Williams throws for

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Speaker 2: the last franchise invited to the party of the modern offense.

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Speaker 2: But now they're a ten win team. They have a

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Speaker 2: They're trying to be the best team in their division,

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Speaker 2: Do you know the reason Caleb likely won't hit four

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Speaker 2: openly hope he doesn't do it. Dak Prescott's going to

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Speaker 2: Last season's League MVP didn't throw for four thousand yards.

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Speaker 2: some year. It's inevitable, and it will be lame and

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Speaker 2: a petty side story in the context of everything else

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Speaker 2: a century. I care that a Bear's quarterback hasn't thrown

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Speaker 2: That's the streak you should care about, and I know

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Speaker 2: All right. You know, I have a pretty good sense

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Speaker 2: for years up to and including a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: it was Packers still have their number, Packers own them

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Speaker 2: in the last two weeks, which which personally makes me

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Speaker 2: I think we roll them. And the reason I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of that is is the Michael Parsons injury.

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Speaker 2: That is a huge, huge deal. And the second Mike

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Speaker 2: MICA's knee went, you knew it was going to affect

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Speaker 2: Bears to win this game because it's not just the

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Speaker 2: If they go to Soldier Field the Packers and win

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Speaker 2: second layer of this is this is a quote unquote

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Speaker 2: dream season for Bears. Fans. If you finish, let's just

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Speaker 2: it will really rip him apart, because that drive by

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Speaker 2: two weeks bleep bleep, like that I got you in

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Speaker 2: two weeks. Ben Johnson, you really I have to break

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Speaker 2: both times to the Packers. You can't do it. It's similar

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Speaker 2: lufflur twice if that happens. Strangely, in the last two weeks,

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Speaker 2: there has become a lot of pressure on the upstart

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Speaker 2: Bears to win this game. If they lose it on

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Speaker 2: though all the great things this season can't go on

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Speaker 2: through the Packers just can't do it. The Lions kicked

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Speaker 2: two to twenty one in the Ben Johnson Return to

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Speaker 2: Detroit game. They destroyed them. After the game, Ben Johnson

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Speaker 2: is asked just how demoralizing was oh not to moralizing

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Speaker 2: at all, and he said this quote that Bears have

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Speaker 2: hung on too, which is, we expect our team to

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Speaker 2: play our best football in December. Well we're in December

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Speaker 2: right now. It's December eighteenth. They play the Lions, Bears

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Speaker 2: last week of the regular season, probably maybe both of

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Speaker 2: them fighting for things. That is the referendum on the

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Speaker 2: Ben Jhonson Lions. You lost fifty two to twenty one

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Speaker 2: to year old Buddies. Week two. You said you'd be

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Speaker 2: better in December. What do you have now? In Bears

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Speaker 2: Lions too, it's a fascinating one. I know it's a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks away, but that's where the Lions linker.

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Speaker 2: They got Steelers at home. I think that's a good

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Speaker 2: game that to Tray can win that game. They're at Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what Minnesota's deal is. And then last

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Speaker 2: one at Soldier Field, maybe for a playoff against the

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Speaker 2: team they destroyed three months ago.

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