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Speaker 1: the idea of Philip Rivers being the next head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Bills. The Gunslinger interviewed for that dad gum job. Today,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the latest on a potentially bold move

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Speaker 1: and one of their quarterbacks is a new face all together.

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Speaker 1: Our reporters will be here Stacey Dales and Steve Whites

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Speaker 1: to break down both matchups, including the monumental task ahead

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Speaker 1: have new head coaches in twenty twenty six, and Adam

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Speaker 1: Rank is here tonight with a message of hope for

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Speaker 1: each of them who could be next year's Bears. Rank

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Speaker 1: ranks the Possiblit Welcome inside with the Insiders presented by

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Speaker 1: Progressive Insurance alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafolo. I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Pelisero. Thank you to everyone here for joining us

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Speaker 1: on a Friday night, even if you are reading my

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Speaker 1: Championships Sunday. We will go deep on both those matchups,

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Speaker 1: but let's start out talking about another surprising development involving

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, the one that Ian predicted not that long ago. Rivers,

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Speaker 1: yes this is true, had an interview today for the

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Speaker 1: with Rivers. He is in those interviews Ian. He has

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Speaker 1: a voice in the search process. Handicap for me, if

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Speaker 1: the chances are that this could be real for Buffalo

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Speaker 2: The chances that Philip Rivers could be the next head

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Speaker 2: and yes, it would be absolutely spectacular for so many

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Speaker 2: again in a prominent role. And the roller coaster that

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Speaker 3: Forty something year old quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Coming in Hall of Fame, eligible, about to be and

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Speaker 2: teams begin researching Philip Rivers in late December or early January,

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Speaker 2: and it is the Buffalo Bills Mike that take the

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Speaker 2: with Josh Allen is strong, that makes sense, but the

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills are looking for a leader, someone to galvanize

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Speaker 2: this team and get them over the hump, deep into

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. Deeper than the guy with Sean McDermott. Hard

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Speaker 2: to find a better leader than Philip Rivers. Yes, he

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Speaker 2: This is absolutely Mike. Something to watch with the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 4: Years ago, Josh McCown interviewed with the Texans for their

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Speaker 4: How could you get this guy into a interview for

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Speaker 5: And then interviews for this job.

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Speaker 4: Although that I feel like led up to this moment

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Speaker 4: Sounds like, first of all, that shouldn't shock anybody, right,

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Speaker 4: The Bills now have to decide do we just fire

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Speaker 4: That's what they're thinking about and talking about right now.

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Speaker 1: Let the record show Jeff Saturday did begin one to

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Speaker 2: Weaver spent today meeting with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We've been

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Speaker 3: I've been out in public this week. Have you already

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Speaker 8: I think it went to Target with my kids earlier

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Speaker 9: About And it's tough because's been such a whirlwind. But

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Speaker 8: I mean, I look, I think at the end of

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Speaker 8: How how can I help my teammates succeed on Sunday?

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Speaker 10: I think, Uh, quarterback wins is an interesting stat. It

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Speaker 10: Surely I'm doing my best part to try and play

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Speaker 11: I guess what do you think the atmosphere is.

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Speaker 12: It's gonna be incredible. You know, I don't know how

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Speaker 4: Do you think you can appreciate it more because you're

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Speaker 1: To deal with day you used to sit back and

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Speaker 11: You're on the sideline, for sure?

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Speaker 12: For you? For sure? No. And I will say to

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Speaker 2: So those quarterbacks are experts and these guys are experts too.

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Speaker 2: Mike Garrafolo, if you had to pick an animal to

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Speaker 4: Definitely not the raccoon. They come by the house and

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if any of these guys

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Speaker 2: Adam Rank, our good friend who crushes a lot of

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Speaker 2: those animals, but not all in picks. Rank, Thank you

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Speaker 2: Why don't you take me through this week who you

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Speaker 13: One But in this AFC matchup, it should come as

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Speaker 13: a surprise to nobody, but I'm gonna be picking the

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Speaker 13: Denver Broncos to win this one. I'm gonna go twenty

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Speaker 13: because you know a lot of the haters come after

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Speaker 13: he's overrated, YadA, YadA, YadA, and then he gets hurt

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Speaker 4: All Right, Rams and Seahawks. Those are both animals, right different.

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Speaker 4: This matchup of animals that other animals are going to pick?

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Speaker 3: Well, I just saw my guy Sam Darnold.

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Speaker 13: But I like the Seahawks in this one, thirty four

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Speaker 6: Him, Well, Tommy, we've heard all the confidence from his

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Speaker 6: But they said they give Stidham the power to change

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton said today that he's not worried about Jared Stidham.

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Speaker 1: As soon as we knew that Boonix was not going

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Speaker 6: You would think so, But I spoke to the safety

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Speaker 3: He said, absolutely not, because we've been.

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Speaker 6: It was clear to point out that as good as

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Speaker 1: Tom Whites, thank you very much. Enjoy that trip to

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Speaker 1: Stacy Dales will be there, but first she'll be here

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Speaker 1: with us next and the Insiders presented by Progressive Insurance.

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Speaker 4: Here is Fatty the Turtle watching us talk about him

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Speaker 1: Buddy Fernando Mendoza makes it official.

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Speaker 4: Everyone expected it now, officially entering the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 5: What happens every single year. Then it winds up being Fernando.

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Speaker 5: So tune into the draft, but also all of our.

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Speaker 4: Covers leading up to it. We're gonna talk plenty about

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Speaker 2: I don't know what song you're talking about, Mike, but

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Speaker 1: The Eagles running an offensive coordinator search that so far

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Speaker 4: Where we stand, there's a lot of factors that play

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Speaker 1: And then there's everything that Kevin.

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Speaker 4: But it's more of a boomer then some of these

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Speaker 2: And you know, there are jobs that are maybe not

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Speaker 3: This is not the Eagle's fault.

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Speaker 2: It's really just the environment around It's the media, it's

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Speaker 3: We will see where this one lands on.

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Speaker 1: Thigging a boom or bust bust yourself out of here. Ian.

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Speaker 1: We will see you later because you get something more

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Speaker 5: We will finish the show. We're going to bring it home.

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Speaker 4: Kobe Durant five passes defense this postseason, most of the NFL,

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Speaker 11: What lessons did you learn from there that's helped you

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Speaker 11: the last few weeks.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, you got to keep your foot on the pedal,

441
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Speaker 14: and obviously there was nothing that we did to really

442
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Speaker 14: take our foot off of the pedal. But each and

443
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Speaker 14: every play represents an opportunity to steal that momentum away

444
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Speaker 14: or to continue that momentum. And especially when you're playing

445
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Speaker 14: a team at home with the fans, that they have

446
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Speaker 14: the momentum that they're able to create, you know, being

447
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Speaker 14: able to get that punt return and then at some

448
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Speaker 14: point point in time it's okay, we got to move

449
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Speaker 14: on to the next play. We got to make a stop,

450
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Speaker 14: and we just weren't able to get that done. So

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Speaker 14: there's a lot of things that you learn, a lot

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Speaker 14: of things that you take away, and a lot of

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Speaker 14: confidence that gets built. And I mean, just thinking about

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Speaker 14: the fact that both of these past two games have

455
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Speaker 14: been decided by a couple of points, come down to

456
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Speaker 14: the last play. I mean, I'm we're super excited about

457
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Speaker 14: this game. It's gonna be a fun one. And what

458
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Speaker 14: better way to have the opportunity to go to the

459
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Speaker 14: super Bowl than to be a division rival.

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Speaker 11: You mentioned that how close these games have been. One

461
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Speaker 11: of the ways that you guys have been affected is

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Speaker 11: turning the ball over. How do you continue to do

463
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Speaker 11: that on Sunday.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, we have to continue to get after the passer. Obviously,

465
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Speaker 14: that's one of our main goal as d line to

466
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Speaker 14: be able to affect fourteen. And you know, in the

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Speaker 14: way that our dbs are able to disguise their coverages

468
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Speaker 14: as well. It all plays together eleven as one, but

469
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Speaker 14: we got to continue to be able to rush for

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Speaker 14: as one in the front or if we rush three,

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Speaker 14: or if we rush five, or however however many we bring.

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Speaker 14: We have to be on the same page and we

473
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Speaker 14: just have to continue to apply consistent pressure, continue to

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Speaker 14: be locked in each and every snap. When you put

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Speaker 14: pressure on teams, you know, throw each and every play,

476
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Speaker 14: they contend to wear down. And so obviously this is

477
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Speaker 14: a really good team. We're just gonna continue to have

478
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Speaker 14: to have our foot on the gas, continue to have

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Speaker 14: to pressure Donald and obviously it all starts with the

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Speaker 14: run game, as does every team. Obviously, I know Sharpona

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Speaker 14: is down, but kay Walk is a really good back.

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Speaker 14: We have to shut him down and make them a

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Speaker 14: one dimensional team and then we can really get after it.

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Speaker 11: I appreciate your time, Kobe. Congratulations on getting this far,

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Speaker 11: this far, and good luck on Sunday.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 5: That's our guy, Kobe Turner, friend of the Insiders.

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Speaker 4: Every time he comes on, he brings great stuff, including there,

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Speaker 4: thank you Omar Ruiz as well. All right, here's the

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Speaker 4: tail to take for the Rams Seahawks head to head matchups.

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Speaker 4: Extremely even tell you get to that last column there

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Speaker 4: or last line, I should say, giveaways. The column on

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Speaker 4: the right seven for the Seahawks won for the Rams.

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Speaker 4: You look at that, you think the Rams probably should

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Speaker 4: have won both games, but they didn't.

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Speaker 5: They went one and one. Who's gonna take the all

497
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Speaker 5: important rubber match?

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Speaker 4: Stacy Dale's bringing you here, Sam Donald vowing I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: take care of the ball better this week, but I'm

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Speaker 4: also gonna let it ripped a little bit as well.

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Speaker 4: That's great in theory, but it's hard to accomplish both

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Speaker 4: at the same time.

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Speaker 15: Absolutely, the good news, I would say, Mike is there's

504
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Speaker 15: no injury designation for Sam Donald right dealing with that

505
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Speaker 15: left oblique injury. They kind of limited him throughout the

506
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Speaker 15: course of the week at practice, made sure he got

507
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Speaker 15: just enough reps heading into this one. He says, it's

508
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Speaker 15: not an issue. They don't think it's an issue. But

509
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Speaker 15: turnovers have been an issue. No quarterback has had more

510
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Speaker 15: giveaways twenty of them in the regular season than Sam Donald.

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Speaker 15: Six of those were interceptions, as you see here on

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Speaker 15: the screen by the Los Angeles Rams. He had four

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Speaker 15: back in week eleven. He had two of them. Despite

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Speaker 15: winning back in week sixteen, in that overtime victory and

515
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Speaker 15: without Zach Charbonney. What a loss that is. The team

516
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Speaker 15: activating George Holani off of the injured reserve to add

517
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Speaker 15: a little bit of depth there. The bread and butter

518
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Speaker 15: for this Rams off and says Cooper Cup told me

519
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Speaker 15: former Ram for this Seattle Seahawks excuse me, offense is

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Speaker 15: their balance, and Cooper Cup told me that that's when

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Speaker 15: we're at our best. But he also said the most

522
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Speaker 15: important thing for our team is to take care of

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Speaker 15: the football, and of course that's going to start with

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Speaker 15: Sam Darnold. As great as he's been this season, you

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Speaker 15: know that front seven is coming after him at Lumen

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Speaker 15: Field on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yes, they are.

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Speaker 4: Seahawks have themselves a fine front seven as well, trying

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Speaker 4: to get after Matthew Stafford in this Rams offense. So

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Speaker 4: how do they limit the potential explosiveness there.

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Speaker 15: The dark side?

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Speaker 3: Mike?

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Speaker 15: That is the motto and the team name Moniker for

534
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Speaker 15: their defense. They are the number one scoring defense in football.

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Speaker 15: They are absolutely suffocating defensively, the Seattle Seahawks. And I

536
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Speaker 15: spoke with safety Julia Love and he said, it's just

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Speaker 15: a collective mindset with their group. We are swarming. We

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Speaker 15: gass each other up. Mike McDonald always tells them and

539
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Speaker 15: is set a publicly twelve is one, meaning you actually

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Speaker 15: feel like you have a twelfth man out there on

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Speaker 15: the field. That's how suffocating they believe that they are

542
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Speaker 15: when it comes to Matthew Stafford, though it has been

543
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Speaker 15: a challenge, they have yet to sack him this season.

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Speaker 15: Stafford is responsible for five touchdowns and no interceptions against

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Speaker 15: this defense in two games. He had five hundred and

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Speaker 15: eighty one total yards of offense. In Week sixteen, Mike

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Speaker 15: almost five hundred passing yards. So for Mike McDonald. He's

548
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Speaker 15: talk about leaky yardage right, explosive plays. Those are things

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Speaker 15: that they have to limit. They have to stop on

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Speaker 15: Sunday at home, and as Julian Love told me, they've

551
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Speaker 15: got to be on the same page. Communication has to

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Speaker 15: be at its very best of the season. He said.

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Speaker 15: If you are not clean and you leave Matthew Stafford gaps,

554
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Speaker 15: he will exploit your weaknesses, probably the best in the

555
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Speaker 15: NFL doing so. He finds your week spots and he

556
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Speaker 15: attacks those week spots. And so they also believe they

557
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Speaker 15: have to get in the mind of Sean McVay figure

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Speaker 15: out how he is calling this thing offensively. And then

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Speaker 15: I love the last quote Julia Love told me after

560
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Speaker 15: that it's man for man, violent and we want to

561
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Speaker 15: make it grimy and muddy at Luminfield on Sunday in

562
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Speaker 15: the NFC Championship. It's going to be a great one.

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Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers head coaching search rolled on today. Anthony Weaver,

564
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins defensive coordinator, one of the most impressive interviews

565
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Speaker 1: last several years on the circuit. He had his in

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Speaker 1: person session with the Steelers, who also have interviewed Mike McCarthy,

567
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Speaker 1: among others. The decision could come sometime in the coming days.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins already have their decision. A new head coach

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Speaker 1: in Jeff Halfley, new GM in John Eric Sullivan, introduced

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Speaker 1: by owner Stephen Ross on Thursday. So he sat down

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Speaker 1: with our Cameron Wolf Sully.

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Speaker 16: Congrats on the gig, and look, this is a team

573
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Speaker 16: that's ready to do this thing, rebuild us a decade

574
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Speaker 16: as waiting to win. What's the first thing on your

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Speaker 16: list of how to get this team to be a contender?

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Speaker 17: Sure?

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Speaker 9: I think I think the very first thing we have

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Speaker 9: to do is Jeff Hafley and I need to dive

579
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Speaker 9: into the roster. There's some pretty big decision points that

580
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Speaker 9: are looming. To speak in specifics on that today would

581
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Speaker 9: be irresponsible because there's too much work to do in

582
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Speaker 9: too many conversations to be had. But we need to

583
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Speaker 9: do that, and then we need to turn a quick

584
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Speaker 9: guy to free agency. Obviously, everybody understands where we are

585
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Speaker 9: within the cap. We're not gonna have a ton of

586
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Speaker 9: flexibility there, but we need to do our due diligence

587
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Speaker 9: there and then it you know, we turn to the draft.

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Speaker 9: You know, we start our draft process. Senior Bowls next week,

589
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Speaker 9: quickly be into draft meetings and it'll be a strong,

590
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Speaker 9: steady March to April. So that's how that goes right

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Speaker 9: out of the gate.

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Speaker 16: I know you talked to press conference about quarterback and

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Speaker 16: accordance to that question, I guess my question there would

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Speaker 16: be you made my eyes raised when you said draft

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Speaker 16: a quarterback every year. Sure, where does that philosophy come from?

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Speaker 16: And the idea of competition into that room? I'm sure

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Speaker 16: we'll cite some people at home. What's your vision in

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Speaker 16: the competition?

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Speaker 3: That's sure.

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Speaker 9: So the process that I've been entrenched in for the

601
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Speaker 9: last twenty two years has been in place for over

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Speaker 9: thirty years. And Ron Wolf brought it through the door

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Speaker 9: when he took over the Packers in late nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 3: I believe it was.

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Speaker 9: And you know he always acquired a quarterback, you know

606
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Speaker 9: he when he walked through the door, Magicowski was there.

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Speaker 9: He traded for Brett, and then he continued to acquire quarterbacks,

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Speaker 9: and slowly but surely he would trade and you got

609
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Speaker 9: draft value for him. But I just think it's again

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Speaker 9: I said it before, I'll say it again. It's the

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Speaker 9: most important position in professional sports. It is the most

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Speaker 9: dependent position. You have to build the infrastructure around it.

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Speaker 9: I don't think you could put yourself in a bad

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Speaker 9: spot as a team in pursuit of that quarterback. But

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Speaker 9: having said that, I think you can never go wrong

616
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Speaker 9: making sure that you have a deep bench in a

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Speaker 9: deep room at the quarterback position. I mean, look at

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Speaker 9: the Denver Broncos in the situation there in this very

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Speaker 9: weekend coming up. You know that backup is important and

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Speaker 9: you don't want to find yourself in a situation where

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Speaker 9: you don't feel good about it when you're deep into

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Speaker 9: a playoff run and it can cost you.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, in Green Bay did a tremendous amount of time.

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Speaker 3: Mean, look at the luck.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, from Brett Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love.

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Speaker 16: But that's not just luck, it's the work.

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Speaker 3: It's the work.

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Speaker 16: Is there maybe one one thing you can tie at

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Speaker 16: least to both Aaron and Jordan being there? Of what

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Speaker 16: was the process to find that franchise?

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Speaker 5: Got sure?

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Speaker 9: I think obviously you do the film work, and then

633
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Speaker 9: you spend a lot of time talking to people who

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Speaker 9: have been around him. You find out about the football intellect.

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Speaker 9: You know, the tabe will take you to his ability

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Speaker 9: to process. Obviously, there's a skill set that you want

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Speaker 9: to make sure that you have, especially when you play

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Speaker 9: in a place like Green Bay, or your division runs

639
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Speaker 9: through a place like Buffalo or New England or New York.

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Speaker 9: So there's traits. There's work behind the scenes in terms

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Speaker 9: of talking about the wiring of the player. But I

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Speaker 9: think it's important. Like I said in the previous press conference,

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Speaker 9: you don't wait until you don't have a quarterback to

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Speaker 9: find a quarterback. The beauty of what I've seen is

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Speaker 9: Aaron was allowed to sit behind Brett and digest the

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Speaker 9: game and learn and develop confidence so that when it

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Speaker 9: was his time, he could go play fast, play quick.

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Speaker 9: We did the same thing with Jordan, and I think

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Speaker 9: that's really a lot. It's set them up for success

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Speaker 9: when their time came. It's probably the best way to

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Speaker 9: say it.

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Speaker 16: That's a great description. And right we're in the final four.

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Speaker 16: Right now, there's a place that you guys would like

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Speaker 16: to get as a franchising. And I think about the

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Speaker 16: teams in your division and you mentioned them. You got

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Speaker 16: New England, a team that's in there with Drake Bay,

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Speaker 16: you got the Buffalo and josh Au how do you

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Speaker 16: guys get past those teams that already have that established quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think I think we just got

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Speaker 9: to build this thing the right way. We got it.

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Speaker 9: It's patience, it's discipline. You know, we're here to win now,

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Speaker 9: but we got to build something that sustainable over time.

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Speaker 9: And I think there's a there's a discipline within a balance,

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Speaker 9: within the approach that you have to take, and the

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Speaker 9: process will lead us to the right guy. I mean,

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Speaker 9: I think if you look at people who have come

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Speaker 9: from this process where you're talking whether you're talking about

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Speaker 9: John Dorsey going to going to Kansas City and signing

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Speaker 9: Alex Smith and then drafting Mahomes or John Schneider, you know,

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Speaker 9: cycling through Charlie Whitehurst and Matt Flynn and to finally

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Speaker 9: get to Matt to Matt Russell I mean Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 9: and then you know, you look at what he's done

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Speaker 9: recently with Sam Darnold. I mean, our process will get

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Speaker 9: us there. There's no roadmap, can't I don't have a

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Speaker 9: crystal ball, can't tell you how it's gonna happen. But

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Speaker 9: I have a lot of faith and conviction that this

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Speaker 9: process will lead us to.

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Speaker 16: The right guy, faith and conviction, a new err Indeed,

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Speaker 16: thank you, Sully, Appreciate you man, Appreciate the time.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely good look at.

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Speaker 1: Ten teams lo have new head coaches in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Half of those still trying to figure out exactly who

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Speaker 1: that's going to be. The Bills, the Browns, the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Stailers. Last year, the Bears would have

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Speaker 1: been on that list. Instead, they were on the list

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Speaker 1: of teams that made it to the round of eight

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Speaker 1: before things came to a halt that our man, Adam

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Speaker 1: Rank certainly took to heart. Rank. If there's a message

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Speaker 1: that you have for all those teams starting from scratch,

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Speaker 1: what is it?

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Speaker 13: Well, I gotta say, Tom, first of all, thanks for

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Speaker 13: having me there. It's been a tough week, though I

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Speaker 13: haven't been this sad since Porttailo's cake shake machine went

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Speaker 13: down last July. But I'm pushing through. But I'm going

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Speaker 13: to take the positive outlook here because it was just

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Speaker 13: one year ago this week the Bears hired Ben Johnson,

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Speaker 13: which now Ranks is the third happiest day in my

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Speaker 13: entire life. And this is a new experience for the

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Speaker 13: Bears because you know, It's like seeing spring in January,

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Speaker 13: because too many times the Bears have gone into the

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Speaker 13: offseason wondering who the coach was going to be, who

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Speaker 13: the quarterback was going to be. Sometimes it was both.

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Speaker 13: But now it's nice to sit here and look at

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Speaker 13: the coaching carousel as you put out right there, and

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Speaker 13: be like, hey, is this going to be a guy

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Speaker 13: who's going to go to the Bears? Is Fernando Mendoza

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Speaker 13: going to be the starting quarterback? But I'm going to

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Speaker 13: sit here for a message for those five teams. Well,

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Speaker 13: not you, Buffalo, you got Josh Allen. You're fine now

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Speaker 13: your owners throwing the wide receiver under the bus and

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Speaker 13: speaking of the bus, Pittsburgh, take a hike. You guys

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Speaker 13: have had fifty years of coaching stability. You don't need

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Speaker 13: this message for me. So I'm going to say this

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Speaker 13: to everybody in Cleveland, Las Vegas, and of course the

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Speaker 13: former Southsiders there in Arizona. You have questions at quarterback,

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Speaker 13: you have questions at head coach. Bud Listen, you make

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Speaker 13: one right move and all of a sudden, all your

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Speaker 13: worries will be over. You'll spend your your holidays wondering

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Speaker 13: about the future. So I know it looks bleak right now.

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Speaker 13: But just as that Portillo's cake shake shake machine started

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Speaker 13: coming back to life, your franchises will come back to life.

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Speaker 3: So know that you have a friend in me. Hang

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Speaker 3: in there. It's all going to be okay. Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 1: Here comes the foe man watched face, stands and throws

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Speaker 1: along both. He's done the right stuff for kay Shaw Guvey.

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Speaker 17: Who's just over hand to tous down pictures. I'm coming

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Speaker 17: in at Wicklett that's regained a two score lead. That's

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Speaker 17: what's up. Come on, how the hell the thrown started forward?

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Speaker 17: They want Henderson up. They're telling the touxits what's floating?

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Speaker 17: It makes I don't care.

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Speaker 3: What's on the way.

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Speaker 17: Allen in the pocket loads it up deep ball down

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Speaker 17: the field.

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Speaker 1: The ball is intercepting Jake Cletton mcfillin.

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Speaker 13: Oh my goodness, fall Pierre.

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Speaker 12: I thought Brady did coach at it.

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Speaker 17: I did too, So both of those sideline exploded.

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Speaker 1: They thought that Klups had to catch, but when he

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Speaker 1: came down the ground, Ja Kwon McMillan took the ball

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Speaker 1: away from him. Was it a catch? Was it an interception?

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Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter at this point one way or another,

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Speaker 1: it is the Patriots facing the Broncos. That game three

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time on Sunday CBS, and Paramount Plus winner

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Speaker 1: heads on to Super Bowl sixty. Here's some things to

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Speaker 1: know about this matchup. Jared Stidham will be the first

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Speaker 1: quarterback since Roger Staboch in nineteen seventy two to make

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Speaker 1: his first start of the season in a conference championship

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Speaker 1: game or later. Quarterbacks making their first start of the

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Speaker 1: season in a playoff game are one in seven since

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty. The only win Branker with the Bills the

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Speaker 1: comeback nineteen ninety two against the Oilers. With a win

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Speaker 1: over the number two ranked Broncos defense on Sunday, Drake

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Speaker 1: May would become the first quarterback ever to win three

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Speaker 1: playoff games against top five total defenses in a single

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Speaker 1: postseason Darrety beating the number one ranked Texans the number

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Speaker 1: five ranked Chargers. May We'll have to take better care

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Speaker 1: of the ball, fumbling six times and losing three of

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Speaker 1: them this postseason. Mike Verabel just the third person in

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Speaker 1: the NFL history to reach a conference championship game with

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Speaker 1: the same franchise as both a player and a head

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Speaker 1: coach win this one, and he becomes the first ever

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Speaker 1: to do it on the field and on the sideline.

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Speaker 5: Live from Lumenfield in Seattle. Welcome to week sixteen.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: Rams League by sixteen on the road.

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Speaker 4: Seahawks can jump right back into this game with a

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Speaker 4: big return. Here makes the catch at his own forty three,

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Speaker 4: starts up the middle, turns up field.

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Speaker 16: There it goes hiay capfish.

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Speaker 14: Firefax on wide open, breaking up.

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Speaker 17: Cut down, stay off. After reviewing the play, the quarterback

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Speaker 17: through a backward pass, which will we'll cover in.

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Speaker 10: The end holl By the after game of the year.

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Speaker 5: It's going to overtime.

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Speaker 17: Let's it go right, sod cot pooka touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Tam steps Let's look back at the.

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Speaker 13: Jump touch down.

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Speaker 17: If the Seahawks scored a two point conversion, they're gonna

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Speaker 17: beat the Rams.

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Speaker 1: Darn past time and looks it's.

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Speaker 17: Hit top fit day off, win the game.

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Speaker 5: It's the classic, As they say, what are.

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Speaker 1: We gonna get? In Round three?

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Speaker 4: Rams Seahawks the NFC Championship game to determine which NFC

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Speaker 4: West team is going to play in their division rivals

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Speaker 4: home down in Santa Clara six point thirty PM on

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Speaker 4: Fox and Fox won there. Make sure you tune in

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Speaker 4: for that one. Here are some things you need to

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Speaker 4: know for this matchup. This will be the first player

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Speaker 4: off game between the NFL leader and passing yards that's

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford and the number one scoring defense that's the

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Speaker 4: Seahawks since Peyton Manning against Seattle in Super Bowl forty

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Speaker 4: eight back in twenty thirteen. Remember how that went. Also

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Speaker 4: worth noting the passing yards leader is owed six in

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Speaker 4: the playoffs against the number one scoring defense in the

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Speaker 4: last fifty seasons.

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Speaker 3: Hmm.

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Speaker 5: This will be the first playoff game.

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Speaker 4: In NFL history featuring two players who each topped seventeen

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Speaker 4: hundred receiving yards in the same regular season. Poka, Nakula

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Speaker 4: and JSN finished first and second in the NFL receiving

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Speaker 4: yards in twenty five, the last time these two teams played,

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Speaker 4: Poka had a career high two hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 4: receiving yards. That was a tumultuous week for him that

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Speaker 4: he capped with an amazing performance on the field. Sam

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Speaker 4: Darnold threw six interceptions against the Rams this season, led

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Speaker 4: the NFL with twenty giveaways, yet he's reached the conference championship.

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Speaker 5: He's just the third quarterback since.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety one the lead the league in giveaways and

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Speaker 4: make it this far. That's Eli Manning in seven Jim

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Speaker 4: Kelly in nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 5: Both went onto the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Eli won it.

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Speaker 4: That's a couple of stats that lead you toward the

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Speaker 4: Seahawks in this one, don't they. That's all you need

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Speaker 4: to know about that matchup. Here's all you need to

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Speaker 4: know about. Where you can find the Insiders YouTube, NFL plus,

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Speaker 4: NFL Network.

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Speaker 5: It ain't that hard seven pm Eastern. That's four pm

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Speaker 5: for all.

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Speaker 4: Those Seahawks and Rams fans out there on the West

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Speaker 4: Coast and down the bottom the fine print.

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Speaker 5: Wherever you find your.

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Speaker 4: Podcast, no excuses, Find the Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Get set for Championship Sunday with NFL Game Day Morning,

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Speaker 1: or first take a look at the Championship Sunday schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's the Patriots Sproncos, it's the Rams and the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: Those games on your television. Right after as I was saying,

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Speaker 1: get set for Championship Sunday with NFL Game Day Morning, Sunday,

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Speaker 1: nine am Eastern. Adam Zeeland joins us to break down

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Speaker 1: wy wide receivers could be the key society who goes

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Plus interviews with Rams running back

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Speaker 1: Kyron Williams and Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker. Kert Warner

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Speaker 1: explains how the Broncos can pull off the upset with

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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback, and the Crew debates whether the Rams

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Speaker 1: have enough power offense to beat the Seattle defense. All

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Speaker 1: that and more. Sunday at nine a m. Eastern, the

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Speaker 1: Alanta Falcons running a general manager search after securing their

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Speaker 1: head coach Kevin Stefanski and their president of football Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Here's a bunch of headshots of people that if things

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Speaker 1: go well, you probably won't hear a whole lot about.

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Speaker 1: James Lipford from the Texans, Andy Widel from the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: Josh Williams from the forty nine Ers, Ian Cunningham from

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Speaker 1: the Bears, Mike Bradway from the Chiefs, and Joe Douglas,

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Speaker 1: who is the former Jets GM currently working for the Eagles. Yes,

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Speaker 1: good thing. I recognize all six of those men off

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Speaker 1: the top of my heads. I can't read their names, Mike.

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 4: Grant Yudinsky was born in nineteen ninety six, the Browns

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Speaker 4: didn't even exist that year. That was that little window

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Speaker 4: when the Browns, well, the Ravens began the Browns state.

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Speaker 5: And then they were rebooted in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 4: Now he's interviewing for the head coaching job of the

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Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns. Yudinski a second interview here. The Jaguars offensive

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Speaker 4: coordinator has done a fantastic job both in Minnesota before

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Speaker 4: that and in Jacksonville. Gonna be a head coach at

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Speaker 4: some point in the near future. Maybe this year we'll

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Speaker 4: see Tom.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens hired Jesse Minter as their head coach away

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Speaker 1: from the Chargers, so only natural. The Chargers now are

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Speaker 1: interviewing the former Ravens defensive coordinator, Zach Orr for their

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator job. All Zach Orr now needs is a

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Speaker 1: stop in Michigan. He will have completed the triple Crown.

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Speaker 1: We had All Star Games coming up over the next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks on NFL Network. All kicks off this

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Speaker 1: coming Tuesday, and i'd seventy am Eastern Time with the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six East West Shrine Bowl the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Panini Senior Bowl Saturday, January thirty first, I will

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Speaker 1: be down there in Mobile, Alabama, All State HBCU Legacy Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Also on Saturday, February twenty first, four pm Eastern time,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned I'll be on the sidelines for the Panini

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. We will all be down there, Mike Garifolo

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Speaker 1: for the portions of the week Live Insiders shows, not

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Speaker 1: just at seven pm Eastern time every single night, but

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Speaker 1: before practice, between practices, we'll have practice live on the air.

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Speaker 1: All the college pre draft stuff you can possibly handle.

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Speaker 1: It's all right here. See you