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Speaker 1: How's going everyone. Welcome to this edition of Between the

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Speaker 1: Horns forres an about your southern California toylet dealers. I'm JB.

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Speaker 1: Long and it's great to have the band back together,

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Speaker 1: coming off a win DeMarco, far Erica, Tampos, and back

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Speaker 1: from Parts unknown. Elies drew to tell us about all

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Speaker 1: his travel excursions as we've seen you last Morris, Yeah, guys.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I was in the coldest place on

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Speaker 1: earth in Buffalo, New York, then shot over to Green

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Speaker 1: shot from there to Pittsburgh and almost and got stuck

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Speaker 1: in the airport sat or Sunday morning, So I ended

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Speaker 1: up missing the game because of all this weather. So

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Speaker 1: and then I had to drive down from the Bay

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Speaker 1: Are this morning because all the flights in the Bay

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Speaker 1: Area were canceled coming to LA And as you could hear,

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Speaker 1: there's gardeners like cutting tree outside of my place. So

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just Hey, it's holiday season, man, and

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep rocking with it. A blazed merry

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Speaker 1: Christmas to you. You picked a tough one to miss, Maurice.

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Speaker 1: Did you happen to see the score at any point

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Speaker 1: along those travel woes. Well, I was on the plane, uh,

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Speaker 1: flying back watching it. Luckily the plane had television live

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Speaker 1: TVs where I was watching it screaming because I was like,

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Speaker 1: what is going on? Am I? The problem is it? Me?

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Speaker 1: I don't show up and all of a sudden fifty

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Speaker 1: one point? Are you kidding me? It does feel like

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Speaker 1: the mark that we've stumbled on, a formula like Maurice

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Speaker 1: travel disaster, Erica fancy pants bringing Christmas blazer free jacket.

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Speaker 1: Yes to the equation, we have to replicate all that,

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Speaker 1: So we have to lose Maurice. H Ricky's got to

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Speaker 1: bring some pants, and you gotta keep wearing that blazer. Maurice,

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Speaker 1: that blazer was fire. Wait till you see it. Have

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Speaker 1: you seen that blazer yet? I haven't seen the blazer. Look,

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Speaker 1: all the it's missing is a brim but that's not

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Speaker 1: that's not JB. But the jacket is fire and it

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Speaker 1: produced fifty one with Baker Mayfield. So we're feeling encouraged

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Speaker 1: as we head to the New Year Sundays back to

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Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium next game the Chargers, then the finale in

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Speaker 1: Seattle against the Seahawks, Erica. Where are you at this

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Speaker 1: stage of the calendar year and this stage of the

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Speaker 1: Rams season. Personally, I don't really know where I'm at um,

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Speaker 1: But professionally, no, this this has been great. This is

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Speaker 1: a really fun you know, to the last two of

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Speaker 1: the three games, even against the Packers, there were some

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Speaker 1: fun stuff. It's happening, Like I'm feeling really good. We sent,

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Speaker 1: you know, Rams fans home super happy with the last

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Speaker 1: home game of the season. The Chargers are probably going

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Speaker 1: to be resting a lot of their starters potentially. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of up in the air that way, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling like this new year just bringing on twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: You know, Baker had an incredible game. The offense play well,

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Speaker 1: the defense played well, like why not go into so

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Speaker 1: Fi and show them whose house it is? And de Marco.

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Speaker 1: Even in the depths of a tough season, even teams

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Speaker 1: that don't have winning records, almost always put together a

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Speaker 1: complete performance one to really feel good about at some

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Speaker 1: point during a seventeen game season. Was last week that

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Speaker 1: game for the Rams, oh man, a fifty burger. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you're going to feel good about yourself. And everybody played well,

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Speaker 1: checked every single box that we talked about during pregame

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Speaker 1: when you asked Ricky Hollywood, where is she at right now?

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Speaker 1: I'm at five point one. Happy that scam makers zeros

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Speaker 1: per carry average. I think that needs to carry over.

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Speaker 1: He has been a different person, a remarkable player over

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Speaker 1: the last month. I think he can carry this football

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Speaker 1: team the next two weeks. What did be something think

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Speaker 1: at the player counts, I think the Rams have played

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Speaker 1: the most guys, the most players, like eighty players have

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Speaker 1: played this year. If you can somehow get this team

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Speaker 1: to seven wins to end the season, that would be

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Speaker 1: a miracle. That would be exemplary. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what's gonna What's gonna help you do that? Cam Akers

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Speaker 1: running the football like he did against Denver. Do that

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks, you'll finish for seven wins. Let's

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Speaker 1: ask our resident running back, how do you evaluate the

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Speaker 1: turnaround from the trade deadline for Cam Akers to where

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Speaker 1: he is now? Well, I thought the cam has always

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Speaker 1: can you bottle that up and get that going? I mean,

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Speaker 1: her ran physical, He showed verse, he had great vision,

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Speaker 1: he gave what you always needed an offense, a consistent

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Speaker 1: And so to me, I was very encouraged and exciting

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Speaker 1: to see what cam Akers did. I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: he was five point one carry. You go on five

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Speaker 1: point one to carry with this line, that tells you

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Speaker 1: how special he can be. If you can get that going,

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Speaker 1: it would have been more than defense. Yeah, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: the worm his turn when you're even winning appeals against

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. Odia Boucher had his suspense and overturned,

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Speaker 1: so the potential to keep that continuity in tact. They

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Speaker 1: and he's a special player. He's going to make plays anyways.

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Speaker 1: But it also a lowed you know, we saw Tyler

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Speaker 1: he's the franchise leading scorer for tight ends, and it's

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Speaker 1: just there are still these guys on this team and

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Speaker 1: exciting to see, you know, the ball being spread out

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Speaker 1: the passing game. We all expected the Rams to be

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Speaker 1: looks different. Yeah, a couple of things. Baker Mayfield getting

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Speaker 1: seems like that's what Cam Akers is doing. He's making

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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner matchup. It's like an eighth grader playing a

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun. Right when he's out of

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Speaker 1: I know the Rams love the long game, but damn

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Speaker 1: Not to extrapolate it too far, but you see Derek

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Speaker 1: the Commanders, the Jets, the Titans. One man's trash is

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Speaker 1: another man's treasure, right, And I think that he can

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Speaker 1: DeMarco Farr Yeah man. Shout out to Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: He's been there from snap one to now. Tyler Higbee,

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Speaker 1: on defense. It was him. So and Bobby Wagner too,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the fight to tow out well, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the fight, Bryson Holkins. So when Murray said we

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Speaker 1: It was on life support. We talked about it with

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Speaker 1: Chan McVay. They refused to let go of the rope.

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Speaker 1: And you're starting to see the horizon again through the storm.

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Speaker 1: So like I said it would be awesome. You got

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Speaker 1: that would be exemplary. So welcome to the fight some

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Speaker 1: a nice home with the Chargers and has had a

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Speaker 1: great rookie season. Maybe we'll come down to the laces

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Speaker 1: of the Chargers and the Rams kickers, respectively. Maurice, glad

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Speaker 1: to see you back in warmer climates, thought out and

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Speaker 1: ready to rejoin us in the booth. Everybody wear your

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Speaker 1: superstitious best to sofi Yes, invisible cloak. I have invisible

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Speaker 1: cloak on, so it's like I'm not there. Okay, show Erica,

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Speaker 1: but make sure the pants are victorious pants winning pants,

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Speaker 1: please they will be. Don't worry and DeMarco just be you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's your best is exactly what we need and all

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Speaker 1: we need. Happy New Year everyone. We will hopefully see

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Speaker 1: you at SOFI Stadium or you can listen to us

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Speaker 1: on seven ten and I'm Jack FM here in the

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Speaker 1: greater Los Angeles area. Two to go hopefully victorious ones

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Speaker 1: for your Los Angeles rams and as as between the

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