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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where Teddy Bridgewater was never far

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Speaker 1: away for us. He's back and we're back here in

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Speaker 1: the Chris Westling podcast studio. Yes, it's your favorite time

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Speaker 1: a week. It's the Man Versus Machine Pick segment with

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Speaker 1: my good friend Cynthia for you.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we have Teddy Bridgewater back on your lions

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Speaker 2: and we've got you back. How was your Christmas? It

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Speaker 2: was great.

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Speaker 3: I'm still full. I try to button my jeans and

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Speaker 3: that's more to do. Okay, ye all gross today?

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Speaker 2: How about you?

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Speaker 1: I feel fine, I'm doing well. I was the best gift? Oh,

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Speaker 1: the best gift for the kids. I already mentioned this

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Speaker 1: on our previews show in NFL Daily. The best gift

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Speaker 1: I got was Walker said he listened to the podcast

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Speaker 1: they did on Monday night with Nick Shuk and he

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Speaker 1: said it was great. So I can't think of it.

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Speaker 1: What about the kids?

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Speaker 3: Like? What was the best? Like when the kids like?

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Speaker 3: For kids, what was the best opened gift?

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Speaker 1: It's kind of predictable, but it's like just like a

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Speaker 1: video game, you know, got it?

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Speaker 2: Yea college? Oh my god? A little bit.

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Speaker 1: They're getting they're getting older, but it's not quite as

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Speaker 1: crazy we're getting too. We're in week seventeen. We were

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Speaker 1: just little babies back in Week one. Let's put up

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Speaker 1: the records for last week. We both went one and two.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time this has happened in a

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Speaker 1: while where we both had losing weeks. Overall, we've been

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Speaker 1: We've been picking well in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: I'm at twenty seven in twenty one. It's about a

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Speaker 1: fifty five percent.

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Speaker 1: Cynthia's at twenty five and twenty three. Couple games back.

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Speaker 1: But I'm feeling better about this week than I did

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Speaker 1: last week. There were four clear games. I liked a

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Speaker 1: lot this week, and so the only hard part was picking,

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Speaker 1: you know, which one to eliminate?

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Speaker 2: But I like these. Maybe maybe I'll just.

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Speaker 1: Start, Yeah, you start, you start? Okay with you? I

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Speaker 1: mentioned Teddy up top. I know it's an off the

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Speaker 1: field story, but Teddy Briddy going to play is now

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Speaker 1: part of the Lions organization.

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Speaker 2: Line back.

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Speaker 1: As if this team didn't have great vibes at as

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Speaker 1: it was, to throw Teddy Bridgewater into the mix in

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen put him over the top. That's not the

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Speaker 1: reason I'm taking the Lions three and a half but

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Speaker 1: I do like it, and I wouldn't be surprised if

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Speaker 1: he is their backup by the playoffs, whether they passed

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Speaker 1: Tendon hooker or maybe it'll just be around for now.

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Speaker 2: I assume at Tendon hooker. Okay, minus three and a.

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Speaker 3: Half this week, for sure, Attendon hooker last week?

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, last week.

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Speaker 1: I told you Lions minus six and a half was

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite picks all year.

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Speaker 2: They absolutely cruised.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is a very similar match up

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers and a team that's playing for everything,

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Speaker 1: possibly playing to clinch the number one overall seed on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. I know some things could happen in between.

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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell says they're going to play to win no

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Speaker 1: matter what, even if even if the Vikings won on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, technically the Lions game kind of wouldn't matter

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Speaker 1: for them, but that doesn't matter. The Lions always played

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Speaker 1: a win, all right. There's the forty nine have no

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Speaker 1: pass rush anymore. I know Nick Bose is out there

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Speaker 1: zero pass rush whatsoever against this Lion's offense, which is

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Speaker 1: still plenty healthy. Drey Greenlaw is out, Fred Warners out

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Speaker 1: there with a broken foot. I just feel like the

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Speaker 1: over under on their points once again is about thirty five.

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Speaker 2: I love that team total for the Lions.

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Speaker 1: And then on the other side, four of the forty

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Speaker 1: So I know the Lions have some problems.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a defense Island, see if I can

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Speaker 1: Job sure, or just see what he'll lie to you

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Speaker 1: about in terms of the injury reports, Like the forty

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Speaker 1: the numbers say they're a better team than most six

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Speaker 1: The Lions are gonna win this game. Easy love me

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Speaker 1: some Lions minus three and a half.

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Speaker 3: Your lips to whoever's in charge. That's what I say.

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Speaker 3: You picked my team, I'm gonna pick your daughter's team.

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Speaker 3: I love I love the Rams. Okay, this week, I

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Speaker 3: think that their opportunity Saturday night against the Cardinals here

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Speaker 3: evening night, it's evening our time. I've right around dusk

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Speaker 3: sunset with a sunset, a NFC West tilt where the

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Speaker 3: Rams are in charge of their own future. Basically, I

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Speaker 3: think that they win. What's the line like, six and

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Speaker 3: a great number. They just gotta win by a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: I think so too.

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Speaker 1: That's a game where the Cardinals are missing their top

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Speaker 1: two tackles that I think, as you always tell me,

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Speaker 3: Huge matter a lot huge. I think the only thing,

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Speaker 3: you know, the only thing in this game that I'm

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Speaker 3: interested in this looking forward, because like I would like

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Speaker 3: the Seahawks win Thursday night, it could set up a

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Speaker 3: Week eighteen where things matter for the NFC West. I

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Speaker 3: kind of want to see, like some mayhem.

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Speaker 1: I want I want more things to matter in Week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: The problem is it comes down to this strength of

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Speaker 1: victory tie break with the Rams could clinch by the

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Speaker 1: end of week seventeen. We won't know until after Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: They have to wait for the Sunday results to happen.

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Speaker 1: All right, my next two picks, yep, or my next pick?

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Speaker 3: I was about to say, you're going to go to Well, they're.

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Speaker 1: They're both underdogs that I think can win straight up.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm picking them to win straight up. I'm

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Speaker 1: Denver plus three and a half in Cincinnati. To me,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those picks that you're building towards

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Speaker 3: I'm on the other side of you. For who winsky

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Speaker 3: on the other side of you the numbers.

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Speaker 1: That makes me feel better because for this purpose win

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Speaker 2: In that way.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling won't the public be on my side?

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Speaker 1: Which is a little worrisome in general, Like won't everyone say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But it's been a public kind of year. The public

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Speaker 1: spread this year, because we pick all the game debut

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six to ninety nine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: same percentage as our picks on this show, about fifty

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Speaker 1: five to fifty six. Okay, So I think everyone's overreacting

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Speaker 1: too much to recent games. In terms of the defensive performance,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals have forced a lot of turnovers. Since Week eleven,

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Speaker 1: They've definitely been better on defense. The Broncos defense looked

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Speaker 1: don't trust this Bengals defense whatsoever. I think Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: great plays. Bonix doesn't have to be great. And then

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Speaker 1: I look at the other side, where the offensive line

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Speaker 1: one team has been better all season long, and I

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Speaker 1: know Bengals have been like a Vegas team all season long.

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Speaker 1: And apparently even for your numbers, they're they're decent that

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Speaker 1: you have them winning this game. I don't think they

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Speaker 3: I have a one point win for the Bengals. So

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Speaker 3: it's not like I'm saying, really, oh, now you're with me.

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Speaker 2: You're two and a half.

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Speaker 3: Points with you, two and a half points with you.

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Speaker 3: The one thing that's really interesting about this game is

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Speaker 3: the fact that I was trying to find something good

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Speaker 3: about this Bengals defense, which trying right, because there's been

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Speaker 3: a it's been a tough season. Short passes, which is

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Speaker 3: actually not a strength of Bonnicks, is also a strength

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Speaker 3: for this On short passes with sub ten air yard passes,

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Speaker 3: Just just a fun fact. I mean, it doesn't really

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Speaker 3: it's not super predictive. It's not like I'm saying and

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Speaker 3: that is the reason that they're not gonna win this game.

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Speaker 1: The cases against the Broncos is the quarterback matchup Bonnicks

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Speaker 3: So I mean, yes, Brush should be low key. He's been.

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Speaker 3: He's taken the most hits this season at one oh five.

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Speaker 3: to say sacked totals or whatever, But hits are a

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Speaker 3: problem too. One hundred and five is a lot, a

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Speaker 3: lot of hits.

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Speaker 1: That is a lot, which is I think he'll he'll hit,

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Speaker 1: He'll get hit some more, hit some more.

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Speaker 2: All right, your second pick?

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Speaker 3: All right, so my second pick. I feel like I'm

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Speaker 3: scooping you on this one. I want to be we.

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Speaker 1: Can join sides. We did last week to poor effect.

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Speaker 1: Now Jalen hurts his injury that did not help us there.

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Speaker 3: We should get an asterix there.

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Speaker 2: I know they were up fourteen nothing app before he

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Speaker 3: I think we're on the same side of this one.

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Speaker 3: But I think that I want to pick the Raiders

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Speaker 3: against the Saints.

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Speaker 1: That's funny, that is that was my fifth pick, So

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Speaker 1: I was not gonna make it. Okay, I wrote down

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Speaker 1: four I loved and one I liked, and that one

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Speaker 2: I all right.

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Speaker 3: Well, in large part because the Raiders, they don't seem

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Speaker 3: to be mindful of their They don't care about where

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Speaker 3: they're drafting. In some ways, some people get mad about

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Speaker 3: this because they're like, we need to get a quarterback. Well,

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Speaker 3: you do need to get a quarterback. However, it is

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Speaker 3: also very, very very important that you evaluate the current

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Speaker 3: talent on this roster. You don't get to just pick

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Speaker 3: higher and then not make any other moves, right, You

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Speaker 2: They've played hard all year.

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Speaker 1: I've enjoyed how hard they play. The Saints could get

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Speaker 3: You loved that one last night, but no, I'm into

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Speaker 2: But the Falcons are trending up.

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Speaker 1: So if I if I don't go at least two

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Speaker 2: What do you got for your third? Okay?

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to stick with the same theme, and

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Speaker 3: that's the theme of the NFC South because I root

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Speaker 3: for like you know, I like some chaos and I

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Speaker 3: want the Bucks to win. But also my mat says

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple of reasons why. But you know it

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Speaker 3: And I think this is a hungry team where Baker

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Speaker 3: like just Baker Mayfield, he's gonna take forty passing tips

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Speaker 3: out of you know, Mike Evans will hit that ninety

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Speaker 3: I feel really good about that one as well.

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Speaker 1: So the review Cynthia's got the Raiders as a one

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Speaker 1: We clinched the two seed, we'll have nothing to play for.

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Speaker 1: Everyone wants to get Josh Allen as MVP, and obviously

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Speaker 1: they're just a much better team overall. They're getting a

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Speaker 3: So I'm with you completely on that one. I consider

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Speaker 3: lead that's like seven points, I'm just gonna run the

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Speaker 2: Just I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know that. And that's why I'm glad

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Speaker 3: just when I was picking three, they're just a couple

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Speaker 3: more that like that was way up there. The weather

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Speaker 3: I just I don't know freezing ranges.

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Speaker 2: We're summing it here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: Dogs were on the porch this morning and their breath

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Speaker 3: you guys are nuts.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So we we did it. We were gonna nail it.

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Speaker 1: We're almost there till week eighteen. Yes, thank you, believe

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Speaker 1: it again. Check her out. I can believe it.

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Speaker 3: It's because they got you working every day.

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Speaker 2: I just mean it.

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Speaker 1: It seems like it was ages ago when we were

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Speaker 1: kick starting this season.

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Speaker 2: So I am ready for the playoffs. Everyone. Check out

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Speaker 2: Cynthia's YouTube page.

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Speaker 1: Numbers game. It's the hottest with the younger demo. It's

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Speaker 1: really going off right now. And yeah, you said it

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Speaker 1: week seventeen. As we tape this, As you listen to

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