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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast knows what they call you

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Speaker 1: down at the station chackets. Welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL. My name is Dan Hansis I got

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Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with some heroes here, Mark Sessler

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Speaker 1: and Greg Rosenthal. And yes, we kept this open ended

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Speaker 1: audience of loyal listeners this season that when there was

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Speaker 1: a particularly newsy Monday morning, we might break out of

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Speaker 1: our typical cycle, which has been Monday night recap plus

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Speaker 1: And that's what we're doing today because there is a

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Speaker 1: lot to get to. How has everybody I've missed you guys,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't seen you in easily six hours.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've also been texting. That's the thing. We spend

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Speaker 2: so much time together on air, certainly off air at work,

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Speaker 2: but then it's usually like the minute we leave work,

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Speaker 2: then we start texting and it basically continues until the

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Speaker 2: next show. So you you are my brothers.

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Speaker 3: There's a healthy codependency, you know, at play. But you know,

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Speaker 3: we have only done this news show once and we

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Speaker 3: we you know, the bar needed to be high. A

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Speaker 3: lot of quarterback stuff happened and before the show happens.

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Speaker 3: You know, Greg typically will create a little news rundown,

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Speaker 3: and it was like five items and it got longer

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Speaker 3: got to go do this.

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Speaker 1: Well, said Mark, you put it.

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Speaker 2: Beautifully, I thought he was going to say, And it

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Speaker 2: turned into a Russian novel by the end. That's a

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Speaker 2: Marcism totally story, a little worn peace here.

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Speaker 1: So yes, check out the week eight Sunday recap and

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Speaker 1: we will have the Monday night football recap for the

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Speaker 1: game between Mark.

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Speaker 3: What are we saying? Are you totally? I was drifting off.

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Speaker 2: To space the Raiders the team of at l is

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Speaker 2: Jimmy g the most handsome man in the league.

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Speaker 1: Let's go just a different different when Mark is in

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Speaker 1: that home space. I gotta tell you I do.

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Speaker 2: Like the plaid though, So everyone check it out on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. No sense messing around

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Speaker 2: It just didn't feel like it should end like that.

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Speaker 2: You understand, only one team at the end of the

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Speaker 1: But you know, we'll keep working and I will continue

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Speaker 1: to have the goal that someday I'm standing here talking

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Speaker 1: So thank you. I know it's not the most popular

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Speaker 1: excused yourself from the studio when we talked the Quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: Netflix series that ran this summer, But I thought that

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Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite, like NFL films productions

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Speaker 1: figures that are left, Patrick Mahomes, possibly the greatest quarterback

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Speaker 1: just before we went on today, the Vikings announced that

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Speaker 1: Cousins did indeed tear his achilles tendon and Sunday's win

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Speaker 2: I think he was really just throwing it out there

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Nick Mullins is hurt. They have Jaren hall

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Speaker 3: He was with Kevin O'Connell for three years in Washington.

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Speaker 3: it's like I don't like. I don't think the Vikings

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Speaker 3: nothing here currently. I don't think you ride with Nick Maullins, like,

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Speaker 3: they're a sneaky good team if they get functional quarterback plays.

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Speaker 2: They showed a shocking amount of confidence in Jaren Hall

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Speaker 2: give Kirk a better chance to return there. I actually think, like,

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Speaker 1: You know what, though, Like I think he would have

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Speaker 1: you don't just give up on the season. But like

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Speaker 1: So when you think about should they go get a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: the Lombardi if they added a quarterback in Minnesota. How

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Speaker 1: say that I would love the Kyler Murray thing. That

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Speaker 2: That would be wild. But if you're like saving up

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Speaker 2: let's not burn our draft picks or our cap space

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Speaker 2: like it's for someone like Kyler Murray bright a number

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Speaker 2: one who's had some pretty good production.

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Speaker 1: And it's just interesting. I guess that it just so

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Speaker 1: in the air at the Athletics. Jordan Rodrigue reports that

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Speaker 1: the Rams are quote evaluating a range of potential scenarios

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Speaker 1: in that blowout loss to the Cowboys. They have a

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Speaker 1: so it seems like potentially Stafford is on the shelf

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Speaker 1: it could go beyond that, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, The report says they haven't ruled out injured reserve,

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Speaker 2: so that would all but end the Ram season. And again,

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Speaker 2: the timing's interesting with the trade deadline here, did they

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Speaker 2: indicates to me, like the best case in it is

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Speaker 2: probably that first thing that you said if you want

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Speaker 2: it's got to be cold in Green Bay. They even mentioned,

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Speaker 2: that that would be unlikely. But when they do further

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Speaker 2: again Mark whoever has got the Rams on their schedule

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Speaker 2: the next four weeks like totally gets lucky because Stetsan

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Speaker 2: Bennett is on the did not is on a reserve

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Speaker 2: given details about that, but it's it's Brett Rippin as

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, you know you were demoralized by Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Then this was the anti icing on the cake. And

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Speaker 3: it's you know, two years in a row where the

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Speaker 3: And I mean like cousins, you know, we've been talking

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Speaker 3: as you know, numbers so much. But he's playing as

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Speaker 3: well as we've ever seen him place, throwing the ball

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Speaker 3: back in that wilderness where it's like if you lose

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Speaker 3: him for you know, if he goes on IR check

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Speaker 3: you later. Rams. I mean, it's just it's like the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we'll get to the Giants in a second,

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Speaker 1: because I had a thought on that about what's going

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Speaker 1: on in the depth charts in our league right now? Mark,

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Speaker 1: what would be anti icing on the cake? Are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you scraping off essentially the top layer of what's

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Speaker 1: already like a pretty like cake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it would be I mean, icing on the

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Speaker 3: cake would suggest, well, this is just a beautiful thing,

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Speaker 3: right taste and EXPERIENCETI.

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Speaker 1: Icing would be what like.

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Speaker 3: A layer of you know, if you were to go

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Speaker 3: a cake that already tastes.

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Speaker 2: Good, like an anti freeze on the cake. That would

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Speaker 2: work some anti freeze and it ruins the cake. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's a little morient I freeze on this cake is

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Speaker 2: And I know it's a little awkward to talk fantasy

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Speaker 2: football after injuries. Of course, were disappointed for these players.

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Speaker 1: Oh, our society is long past the stage where it's

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Speaker 1: seen as awkward. We just didn't talk about it.

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Speaker 2: And it's disappointing for these teams and these men. But

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Speaker 2: if you were enjoying Jordan Addison's insane season or Pukinakua

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Speaker 2: in Cooper Cup and all this stuff, it's it's not

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Speaker 2: going to be the same. No, in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: In other quarterback news, Oh boys, True to what I

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Speaker 1: said on Sunday, I couldn't believe it. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: it would ever happened. But the first game that I

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Speaker 1: teed up this morning for a rewatch was indeed Titans football,

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Speaker 1: where Will Levis did look really fun in lighting up

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Speaker 1: the Falcons defense. The Falcons on their side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: finally mercifully benched Desmond Ritter, who's been holding the back

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Speaker 1: all year. Tellor Heineke comes in and plays well and

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Speaker 1: lineup moving forward. Here's what Arthur Smith had to say

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Speaker 1: So that's that's fun.

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Speaker 4: That's all the best I can give him where I

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Speaker 4: the best thing for his team this week. Obviously it's

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Speaker 4: not something that's earned long term. He's done a lot

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Speaker 4: it's Taylor, that's what we'll do. I concerned his Dez

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Speaker 4: obviously long term, you know, got back out there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's ready. Okay, someone translated, because that

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Speaker 1: was might as well be another language.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to translate. Yeah, Taylor Aidicky is starting Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what was all that.

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Speaker 1: Says about Dez about I got to see what Dez

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Speaker 2: Like hiding behind the injury thing. Still now he was

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Speaker 2: tested for a concussion, and he kept saying, look, health

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Speaker 2: he's feeling. But then he also said, like I'm concerned

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Speaker 1: And so that's what I mean, like, what are we

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Speaker 2: Right? I think he's talking about I think he's maybe

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee. I mean, not all. It's confusing. It's confusing

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Speaker 2: long term, it's Deaz and so what we got to

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Speaker 2: win a game this week and so that to me said, but.

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Speaker 1: If he's clear, he's cleared this hypothetical health hurdle that's

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Speaker 1: that mean that Desmin rider would start if he's healthy.

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Speaker 3: That quote, I mean, if you read it versus I

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Speaker 3: think the way he speaks sometimes you kind of drift

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Speaker 3: It said, it's not something I'm concerned about long term.

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Speaker 3: he's never introduced. Like yeah, but like, no matter how

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Speaker 3: I think for me, I took it as a clear

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Speaker 2: He will announce the starter, he said, no matter what

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Speaker 2: I promise you, I will tell you Wednesday who's Startingly

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Speaker 2: that means that's a new guy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but I also would not be surprised if Wednesday

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Speaker 1: He's got his commitment to this bit is I mean

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Speaker 1: as it should. He has been practicing with the team

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, but hadn't been able to

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Speaker 1: And the news is Daniel Jones is now cleared for contact.

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Speaker 1: And that's good news because one other takeaway from that

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Speaker 1: and it was just as crazy to me that they wouldn't, like,

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Speaker 1: But that was a head scratcher to me.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, like, I'm with you. What is he doing

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Speaker 3: I don't really remember a game where a team ended

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Speaker 3: it's an outlier, you know. The one thing with Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 3: it's like the reoccurring neck issues. He's had disc issues.

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Speaker 3: It's just kind of like, I know the game and

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Speaker 3: he's playing behind a terrible offensive line. He's he was

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Speaker 3: for his health in general.

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Speaker 2: Well, at least he gets to play the Raiders next week.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's pretty heartbreaking for for Tyrod. He's had

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Speaker 2: That's why he's still playing at age thirty six. You

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Speaker 2: do wonder if that is potentially the end of his career.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he can come back this year and continue being

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Speaker 2: a backup. But I think he's still in court suing

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Speaker 2: the charters doctors for watching the injection that led to

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Speaker 1: It started the career of Justin Herbert, right.

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Speaker 2: So it's just man, uh, you you feel for this,

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Speaker 2: This whole team, this whole quarterback room seems spooked.

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Speaker 1: I went to school again, grew up in the same

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Speaker 1: area as Tommy DeVito. I went to school with a

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Speaker 1: kid named Tim DaVita, and this is Tommy DeVito. A

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Speaker 1: lot of Italians in my neck of the woods. Here

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Speaker 1: is Tommy DeVito on Twitter. If you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: can we please take him moment? This from Andy Wilson

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Speaker 1: to talk about Tommy DeVito's TD chain. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: gold change with maybe diamonds spelling out the name. And

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Speaker 1: I could tell you as someone who grew up in

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Speaker 1: and around New York, New Jersey, this is a very

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Speaker 1: normal look and people shouldn't think it's different because I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of men like Tommy DeVito and they

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Speaker 1: all have that chain.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't you know, don't shame the accessory crowd in

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Speaker 3: the Tri State area for the way that they adorned themselves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Dan are they all are? Any of them

452
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Speaker 2: football players with the word to your initials meaning touchdown?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's perfect.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about my life in the Coletown a lot

455
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Speaker 1: on this show, and there was just an uneasy existence

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Speaker 1: between the Irish and the Italians. And we were all

457
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Speaker 1: kind of in the same we all went to the

458
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Speaker 1: same church and all that, but the Irish and the

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Speaker 1: Italians were different types of dudes, and the Irish had

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Speaker 1: a certain way about them and the Italians they had

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Speaker 1: a certain way about him. The gold chains and stuff

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Speaker 1: that was the Tommy DeVito crowd kind of makes me

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Speaker 1: nostalgic for that time in my life. I kind of

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Speaker 1: like seeing him. I wish you would have been allowed

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Speaker 1: to throw forward pass on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: It was like nineteen thirties in the Bronx, But I

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Speaker 3: understand weird. Well, it wasn't exactly Gangs of New York.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying there was warfare, but there was definitely

469
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Speaker 1: a rivalry in terms of like, you know that those

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Speaker 1: two you know, cultures. I wish there was like a

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Speaker 1: who was the butcher from uh it was? I wish

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Speaker 1: there was a butcher character that was like my dad, No,

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Speaker 1: what's his name? The guy Daniel d Lewis, Like if

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Speaker 1: my dad was actually the richer of Pearl River, that

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Speaker 1: there would have been an additional pack.

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Speaker 2: Bill the Butcher. Betty the Butcher is a rapper, you know,

477
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Speaker 2: probably which is a takeoff and building.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely not referring to Betty the Butcher. Bet All right,

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Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll hit the rest

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Speaker 1: of the news. All Right, we're back. More injuries to

481
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Speaker 1: so many injuries in the NFL. It feels like this year.

482
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Speaker 1: Falcons defensive tackle Brady Jarrett suffered a torn ACL in

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Speaker 1: the team's Week eight loss of the Titans. He is

484
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Speaker 1: out for the year. He's a two time Pro bowler,

485
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Speaker 1: a key, a key to what they do, and he's

486
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Speaker 1: done for the year. Also after the year, Gregy Kendrick

487
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Speaker 1: Bourne he suffered a torn ACL the Patriots wide receiver

488
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Speaker 1: and their loss. That was from Mike Garifolo and that

489
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Speaker 1: happened in the fourth quarter. He was having a really

490
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Speaker 1: nice season, especially for Patriots playmakers in terms of that category,

491
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Speaker 1: and now his season is over as well. Quite a bummer.

492
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Speaker 2: Their offense is so tough to watch. He had the

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Speaker 2: most juice of any receiver they had, along with the

494
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Speaker 2: Mario Douglass, their rookie, so that it turned out to

495
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Speaker 2: be a decent free agenciety. I mean, he was their

496
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Speaker 2: second best receiver two years ago, was totally in the

497
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Speaker 2: doghouse last year, was back out of it, and I

498
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Speaker 2: expect he'll be gone. Grady Jarrett, though, was a bigger

499
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Speaker 2: impact here a team competing for the playoffs, and you

500
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Speaker 2: could see the difference they were put The Titans, who

501
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Speaker 2: have struggled to run, were really opening up some holes

502
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Speaker 2: in that defense. Once Jarrett was out, he's the you know,

503
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Speaker 2: him and Ajterrell are the two best defensive players on

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Speaker 2: that team. They're better than they used to be, so

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Speaker 2: it's not as catastrophic, but they're pretty thin there. They

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Speaker 2: have David on Yamatta who's been playing well, but that's

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Speaker 2: a huge loss for Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: I could see that being a trade deadline, a source

509
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Speaker 3: of activity. I could see them bringing someone in along

510
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Speaker 3: the line, they've been so active trying to pump up

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Speaker 3: that defense and it's been good otherwise, Like.

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Speaker 2: They have a ton of cap space, by the way,

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Speaker 2: it's why Kyler actually would make more sense for them

514
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Speaker 2: than almost any team, just because they've had all the

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Speaker 2: cap space in the world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they seem active. And like when I watched Kendrick

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Speaker 3: Bourne go down as one of the ones where you

518
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Speaker 3: knew right away he's gone. And like their list list

519
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Speaker 3: of leading receivers was Kendrick Bourn with thirty seven catches,

520
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Speaker 3: then the next person is Romandre Stevenson, then Hunter Henry

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Speaker 3: and you mentioned to Mario Douglas he has nineteen catches

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Speaker 3: on the year.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in the doghouse. He at least

524
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Speaker 2: unlike anyone else. He makes people miss when he gets involve.

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Speaker 2: But I hear what you're saying. Kendrick Bourne was a

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Speaker 2: little more of a veteran version of the Mario Douglas

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Speaker 2: neither which they had a good team. They'd be the

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Speaker 2: three in the four, you know, not the one in

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Speaker 2: the two.

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Speaker 1: Let me get some other injury stuff out of the way.

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Speaker 1: There Will Levis, who he talked about briefly. He balled

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Speaker 1: out against the Falcons, and he's expected to start on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night in place of Ryan Tannehill, who has a

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Speaker 1: high ankle sprain. And you would think if Levis continues

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Speaker 1: to flash, he will continue to start there. And who

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Speaker 1: knows what Ryan Tannehill's future is. The Jets also so

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Speaker 1: much going on in that game. They were on their

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Speaker 1: fourth string center the second half of that game against

539
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Speaker 1: the Giants, Connor McGovern their starter. He suffered a dislocated

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Speaker 1: needcap out which he's out weak to week. His backup

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Speaker 1: comes in and on the last couple series before he

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Speaker 1: hurts his calf and he's gonna be out sometime. And

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Speaker 1: this is a great tidbit for my father in law,

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Speaker 1: Bob Bates, because the guy they put in as the

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Speaker 1: fourth stringer and his first snap was a lost fumble

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Speaker 1: and the second snap nearly went over Zach Wilson's head

547
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Speaker 1: and threw the back of the end zone. But then

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Speaker 1: he calmed down and did a great job in a

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Speaker 1: really tough spot. Xavier Newman, he's a Baylor guy. That's

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Speaker 1: why Bob Bates, my father in law, is all over

551
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Speaker 1: it at BU. According to Bob Bates' text, he actually

552
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Speaker 1: started only one game at center his entire college career,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he start he's playing in

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Speaker 1: the rain in the NFL, snapping the ball, so Jets

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Speaker 1: a snake bit at offensive look.

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Speaker 2: And Dexter Lawrence, who might have had like one of

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Speaker 2: the best days of any defensive taxles like ever that game.

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Speaker 1: That game was just stupid, But shout out to the

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Speaker 1: Baylor Bear for holding it down. Mike Tomlin said, Mika

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Speaker 1: Fin's picked Minka Fitzpatrick. Their defensive back is out. I

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Speaker 1: believe it's a hamstring and the door is quote a

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Speaker 1: jar for Kenny Pickett, who was also injured in that

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Speaker 1: loss of the Jaguars. Here's Tomlin on pickett status.

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Speaker 5: I think the door is definitively a jar for Kenny.

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Speaker 5: You know, probably a game time type decision based on

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Speaker 5: the information that I'm that I'm holding here uh today

567
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Speaker 5: with no structural damage and so forth to his ribs

568
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Speaker 5: and so we see how we'll go through the week,

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Speaker 5: his ability to throw, his level of comfort, his ability

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Speaker 5: of effectiveness, et cetera. Uh, and let that be our

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Speaker 5: guide in terms of determining his availability.

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Speaker 2: I want Mitch. I want Mitch. On Thursday night, I

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Speaker 2: want to come on, Levis. I'm not saying Mitch is

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Speaker 2: gonna be good, but I think he's more entertaining to.

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Speaker 1: What I think it's time. By the way, with Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: you know, like right like the second half of his career,

577
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Speaker 1: like Bono just started wearing the sunglasses all the time

578
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Speaker 1: inside and outside. I think Tomlin and these press conferences

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Speaker 1: indoors to just wear the aviators because it's always like now,

580
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Speaker 1: it's a little weird when he's not wearing them, So

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Speaker 1: why not just roll with them all the time because

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Speaker 1: he looks cool as hell on them.

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Speaker 3: I could listen to him all day long. I think

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Speaker 3: the one development that's a little interesting is that losing MIKEA. Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'd say you just hardcore rest them as

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Speaker 3: much as you can if it were the previous version

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Speaker 3: of the Titans that we watched in London, dead and

588
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Speaker 3: dead on arrival, on offense, but Minka Fitzpatrick being absent

589
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Speaker 3: against what we saw from Will Levis is a factor

590
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Speaker 3: if he's going to continue to whip the ball down

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Speaker 3: feel and become operate like a super robot.

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Speaker 1: Will Levis the quarterback we always wanted justin Herbert to

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Speaker 1: bet get that off, all right, contract news, I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that everybody shut up. The Packers give Rashan Gary

595
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Speaker 1: a one hundred and seven million dollar extension four years.

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Speaker 1: He's a pass rusher. He announced it on social media.

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Speaker 1: This was the final year of his rookie deal. Former

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Speaker 1: first round pick, he has been a difference maker for them.

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Speaker 1: He overcame a torn acl GREGI and I guess this

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Speaker 1: is a good time for Packers PR to fire out

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Speaker 1: something like this because other news around the organization is

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Speaker 1: not so hot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, shout out to Rashan Gary for breaking this

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Speaker 2: story on Twitter. What I found unique was I actually

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Speaker 2: think he put the amount of money in his original tweet,

606
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Speaker 2: you know, so it's like he's coming for your corner now.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have like the signing bonus. Our guy rap

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Speaker 2: sheet got there first with that. It was a thirty

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Speaker 2: four million dollars sign it was But good job for Gary,

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Speaker 2: he gets over one hundred million dollars. Our friend's over

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Speaker 2: at the PFF podcast, Steve Pelozolo noted Rashan Gary and

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Speaker 2: this was before last week, had the highest pass rush

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Speaker 2: win rate of any player they've ever recorded this season.

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Speaker 2: So far, like he was on pace for it probably

615
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: wasn't going to maintain because early on they were being

616
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Speaker 2: careful with them coming off of to ourn acl. But

617
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Speaker 2: that that's how much Rashaun Gary is winning. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how their defense is so bad with so many

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Speaker 2: good players, but they are.

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Speaker 1: So He's that they always thought Miles Garrett could be

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Speaker 1: get me, Mark come at me.

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Speaker 3: No that now you've now you've just gone into insane

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Speaker 3: world gear.

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Speaker 2: It's got posters of Rashan Gary in his room.

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Speaker 3: Gary is a higher pressure percentage over the last two

626
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Speaker 3: years than Micah Parsons and Nick Bosa. So, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's sort of this gem inside that defense,

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Speaker 3: and they've not been really good as a group. I mean,

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Speaker 3: their offense isn't helping them out.

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Speaker 2: ACLS really used to take two years to recur from.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's just I mean, and sometimes people come

632
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: back slow, plenty of people, but sometimes they come back

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Speaker 2: and they're Better'll never it never happened.

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Speaker 1: I think age, Yeah, definitely factors in. But you know

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Speaker 1: Ferry von Miller, now there's like a breeze hall and

636
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: it's like was he even hurt those type of situations.

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Speaker 2: And even von Miller the first time around. He's on

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Speaker 2: his second ACL, so that's it doesn't help too.

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Speaker 1: That is a thing the Bills add to their backfield.

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Speaker 1: They signed playoff Lenny Fournette off the Street, where he'll

641
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: join a Bill's depth chart led by starter James Cook

642
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: has been very good this year. And also Latavious Murray,

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Speaker 1: who I like, he's an old man that's still just

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00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: go north and south, buddy and you'll be all right.

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00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: TDD Johnson is also there. And now you add playoff Lenny.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know where he fits in. But they

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a deaf guy. He's a body this.

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Speaker 3: Sage like maybe like a goal line guy for them.

649
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Speaker 3: But I kind of if I like it at all,

650
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: because it sort of mystified me. I mean, it tells

651
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 3: me two things. One, all right, like people are whispering

652
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 3: about Derek Henry still being available the Bills are out

653
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: on that one. But also, if Leonard Fournett's going to

654
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Speaker 3: join any team, I like him joining like in November,

655
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 3: not like we can get him for eight or nine weeks.

656
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Speaker 3: That's probably the best case scenario.

657
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: I have a theory to hear it.

658
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: The mysterious Josh Allen shoulder injury is leading to some

659
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: changes to their play calling near the goal line, so

660
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: they want to get somebody in there that can debangs Wild.

661
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: He did finally run in that in that game. I

662
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: did notice. So they started Latavius Murray and anytime they

663
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: were in the hurry up, which they're they used more

664
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Speaker 2: in that game, almost used primarily. And Alan talked afterwards like,

665
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see, maybe we'll do a lot

666
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Speaker 2: of that. So maybe maybe Fordett is an upgrade on

667
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 2: Latavius Murray as like the hurry up back. For some reason,

668
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: they don't like using James Cook for that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. All Right, you mentioned it, Mark,

670
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: So let's circle back with the trade deadline twenty four

671
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: hours away. Derrick Henry is still available, despite you know,

672
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Speaker 1: some things coming out of Tennessee. He is still available,

673
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: according to Jake Glazer, who is plugged in on such matters.

674
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Speaker 1: So if you really want Derek Henry, there's probably a

675
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: pretty decent chance he can be had if you give

676
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Speaker 1: up what the Titans are looking for, which is probably

677
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Speaker 1: a fairly nice draft pick. And another report out there

678
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Speaker 1: is that there is a team a mystery team that

679
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Speaker 1: has offered the Commander is a conditional second round pick

680
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Speaker 1: for Montes sweat I think this is interesting because you've

681
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: heard Chase Young's name put out there more in terms

682
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Speaker 1: of the Washington Pass rush. Sure that could go at

683
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Speaker 1: the deadline, but Mike Grifolo said on our show last

684
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Speaker 1: week that either could be had. It just depends on

685
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Speaker 1: what is the better offer. So Young and Sweaty could

686
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: be gone. Young or Sweaty could be gone or neither.

687
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 3: Florio, not our Florio, but at PFTUS Mike Florio had

688
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 3: some information that the Falcons were sniffing around one of

689
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 3: these players, So I mean that kind of makes sense

690
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 3: with what we talked about before, especially post injury. It's

691
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Speaker 3: I kind of find this whole Commander's thing interesting, where

692
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 3: they're like, we're getting rid of one of these guys.

693
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 3: We're not sure which, but one of these guys is

694
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 3: going to be off our roster, like why, and we've

695
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 3: already discussed like who the heck is making this decision

696
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 3: or this order. But I don't know, I want to

697
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 3: be post like confusing commander stuff, and this feels confusing

698
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Speaker 3: to me. I don't quite get why you have to

699
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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I was hoping for it based on the time

701
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Speaker 2: we were taping this. Eric Roberts behind you know the virtual screen.

702
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been watching this, but I

703
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 2: need some breaking news. Eric, we have a t trade.

704
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Speaker 2: We have a trade. Hit me with that break. The

705
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Speaker 2: Giants are finalizing a deal, according to our guy, Ian Rapaport,

706
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Speaker 2: breaking that news to send Pro Bowl defensive lineman Leonard

707
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Speaker 2: Williams to the Seahawks. According to rap Sheet and Mike Garifolo,

708
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Speaker 2: Lenny Williams to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Here there you go. I mean you want to talk

710
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Speaker 1: about I said, speaking of that conversation with Garifolo, you

711
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Speaker 1: know we're talking about how much things can change just

712
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Speaker 1: based on the outcomes of Sunday and the Giants losing

713
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Speaker 1: a game that they had a ninety nine percent chance

714
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Speaker 1: of winning. I think absolutely plays a role here in

715
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Speaker 1: them saying, you know what we done, so we're gonna

716
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Speaker 1: get rid of our second best defensive lineman, maybe third

717
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: now with Kavon really emerging along that line. But Leonard

718
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Speaker 1: Williams is always He was a good player on the Jets,

719
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Speaker 1: he became a great player on the Giants, and he

720
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: definitely will fill a need mark for a Seattle team

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Speaker 1: that needs some help in the trenches on defense.

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Speaker 3: I like it for them. I don't like it for

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Speaker 3: Williams in the sense that he did the very savvy

724
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Speaker 3: thing where while he's played for two teams, he probably

725
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Speaker 3: didn't need to move his residence just by operating for

726
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Speaker 3: the Jets and Giants. But now you're getting sent about

727
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 3: as far away as you can geographically, but you're being

728
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 3: sent to a team that suddenly and surprisingly leads the

729
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 3: NFC West after the swoon of the Niners.

730
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Speaker 2: So fortune's up and Ian in the tweet mentions, gives

731
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Speaker 2: them some flight financial flexibility as a primary motivator. So

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Speaker 2: that's interesting. Like for Saquon I guess, or for who

733
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Speaker 2: knows Lendar, Williams is a free agent, so this is

734
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Speaker 2: more of a rental. He's I think thirty thirty one.

735
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Speaker 2: He's not the player he used to be, but is

736
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Speaker 2: still a good player. Seattle, you know, might be looking

737
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Speaker 2: to sign him to a mid you know, a short

738
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Speaker 2: term contract after this, because they are sending according to

739
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 2: pell Razer, and we got the we got the skinny

740
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 2: on the battle between these two insiders. Now I see

741
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 2: they tweeted it out basically the same time. I think

742
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Speaker 2: Ian barely beat him. But Tom has the trade terms,

743
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 2: so that's interesting. Tom gets the trade terms, but Ian

744
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: wins by like twenty seconds. When will this ever end?

745
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 2: It's a twenty twenty four second in a twenty twenty

746
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Speaker 2: five to fifth So that fake trade Colleen tried to

747
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: send out there where she was just like asking for

748
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Speaker 2: like a fifth round pick for Leonard Williams or something,

749
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 2: and you scoffed at her, Dan, that was right to scoff.

750
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 2: They got a lot more. They got a second round pick.

751
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Speaker 1: That is a good return. Yeah, and that is uh.

752
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Speaker 1: I mean that just seems like a very difficult existence,

753
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Speaker 1: the insider war. Will you imagine the semantics.

754
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: Of it all? Well, what can you imagine if zastly

755
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 3: our responsibilities flipped and the three of us had to

756
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 3: compete with each other to break news and parse up

757
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 3: breaking news. I mean, we'd be in tatters and about.

758
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm the ATN insider, so I actually lived in both worlds,

759
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: but I do it a little bit different than the

760
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: Pella Sero's and the rappaports of the world. Just put

761
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Speaker 1: it that way.

762
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Speaker 2: You're insider, You're not, You're not like you know, Sham's and.

763
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Speaker 3: I would never well for starters.

764
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Speaker 1: If my media group ever said you have to be

765
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Speaker 1: a co insider, I'm walking like, I'm gone, Like.

766
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Speaker 2: Don't they all have to do that? Almost like Schefter

767
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: had more with him for a while.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, there's always a lead dog. Fair Ian's

769
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 1: our lead dog. But if they if I was like, Okay,

770
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: here's the here are the two tweets, and we're going

771
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Speaker 1: to change the wording here, and we're going to change

772
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Speaker 1: a participle here, I'm out. I'm gone. Okay, I'm I'm

773
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: at Yahoo the next morning. Okay, hello Athletic, it's me.

774
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Speaker 1: Do you want an insider? I work alone inside.

775
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Speaker 3: I like that, And I also like the idea of

776
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 3: like this immense career retrospective that's coming down the pipe

777
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 3: for you at some point. That is just one of

778
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Speaker 3: the sort of the way that it's marketed is the

779
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 3: gentle insider.

780
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Speaker 2: I do really like that. Quickly on the Seahawks, by

781
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: the way, I've been meaning to throw this stick. I

782
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 2: really think they have a higher ceiling right now than

783
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 2: I expected going into the year because their defense is

784
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: so much more capable. They're not going to be a

785
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: shutdown defense, but they have so many playmakers. I think

786
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: some games they're really gonna pop off, like different guys

787
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: just making plays. I think it's the best Seas defense

788
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 2: in seven or eight years. The offense hasn't totally clicked,

789
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 2: you know, but they have talent there. I think their

790
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 2: ceiling is a little higher than I expected. And this

791
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: is a nice move. They lost to Chennon Nuosu, who's

792
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: an edge rusher, and I know Leonard Williams is in

793
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 2: the interior, but they were quite thin on the interior.

794
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Speaker 2: This this is a team that's pushing now. Pete Carroll's

795
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 2: getting up there in the year like this is a window.

796
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Speaker 2: I think they think they can go make a run

797
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Speaker 2: at it this year.

798
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Niners are obviously vulnerable. They're on a three

799
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Speaker 1: game losing streak. They'll they're not gonna fall off the cliff,

800
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Speaker 1: but they they have proven they are far from some

801
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: type of, you know, decades spanning dominant team. The Eagles

802
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: are winning for the most part, but we know that

803
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: they haven't been a perfect operation either. And then after that,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Lions are obviously very good team, but

805
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: they've shown themselves to be vulnerable cowboy dam thing. It's

806
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: it's a wide open NFC. So I think it's a

807
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: trade giving up a second round pick that is that's

808
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 1: pricey and the and the Seahawks have been heart before

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Speaker 1: looking for that one final piece on d H and

810
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Speaker 1: giving up high draft assets. But this one I think

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. And Williams, I bet will

812
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Speaker 1: be excited to play with that team, so good one

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00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: makes sense for both sides. And I'm and you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think the takeaway about the finally changing his address

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Speaker 1: is notable Mark and should be a conversation point as well.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful well in area of the country though Mark maybe

817
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 2: expand his horizons, you know, you ever hear aputes it

818
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Speaker 2: sound like he live like he on the water.

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Speaker 3: You know he's also it's not the same as when

820
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Speaker 3: you know, some Joe Blow has to travel across the

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Speaker 3: country to get a job and you know, pay for

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Speaker 3: it themselves. This guy's like a multi millionaire. I'm sure,

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Speaker 3: like nice moving trucks will come and move all sorts

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Speaker 3: of gold chains and big boxes of you know, treasure,

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Speaker 3: like from east to west.

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Speaker 1: So he actually has like old school cartoon treasure chests

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Speaker 1: that were found at the bottom of oceans. The centsions

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Speaker 1: it's possible. Finally, in the news, it's a good little

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Speaker 1: newsy thing. Eric Roberts, we gotta slap that headline on there.

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Speaker 1: This from Front Office Sports.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The NFL has demanded that the University of Houston stop

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Speaker 1: unauthorized use of the oilers trademarked love You Blue uniform.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And here it is if you're watching on YouTube. It

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Speaker 1: is obviously a callback to the old Love You Blue

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Speaker 1: oilers era. Checkout Chris Westling's love You a Blue feature

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Speaker 1: he wrote years back for our site. It was excellent. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things going on here. First of all,

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00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: the Gonads of the Tennessee Titans, imagine Mark and I

841
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: understand this situation was different because it was so contentious

842
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: when the Browns were taken from Cleveland that the Browns

843
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: won the right to keep all their ip so the

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Speaker 1: Ravens could never do something like have a throwback in

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Speaker 1: Baltimore wearing Brown's orange, which is confusing, but that's the

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Speaker 1: way it is there, so that couldn't happen. But the

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Speaker 1: idea that you would ever want to do that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching the only thing I didn't like about Will

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00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: Levis's debut is that he's wearing the uniform of a

850
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: team that was ripped from a city. And that is

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Speaker 1: a salty reality for Houston football fans that now have

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Speaker 1: the Texans but missed the Oilers and those beautiful get ups.

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Speaker 1: So we got two things, two levels bothering me. One

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Speaker 1: that that happened at all, and you should, if you should,

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Speaker 1: have the good sense if you leave a city behind

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Speaker 1: and all their fans not to antagonize them from a

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Speaker 1: thousand miles away. And two, now the NFL is saying

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Speaker 1: to this this Houston area that still has a lot

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00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: of pride about those old Oilers teams that you don't

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Speaker 1: even get to call back to that for your local college.

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Speaker 3: Just come on, guys, can we just clean up the

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Speaker 3: entire operation?

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Speaker 1: End of rant?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like for me, the levels of absurdity up top

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Speaker 3: are trying to go at the University of Houston in

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Speaker 3: regards to a uniform that was attached to a team

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Speaker 3: that the NFL did very little to prevent from moving.

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Speaker 3: The whole thing went down in a way where it

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Speaker 3: was a little bit different than Cleveland. If it was

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Speaker 3: sort of a wet fart. It happened a year after

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Speaker 3: the Browns were pulled to Baltimore, and the Houston civic

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Speaker 3: uproar was not the same. But this next level of

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Speaker 3: absurdity is the Titans doing that. The only thing that

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Speaker 3: I'm torn about is that, you know, we have our

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Speaker 3: childhood football worlds and those old type, those old Oilers

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Speaker 3: uniforms were wonderful to watch, so I kind of love

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Speaker 3: seeing it in them in action, but the way that

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Speaker 3: it came to us is problematic.

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Speaker 1: Agreed.

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Speaker 2: Also, this is picking a knit here, but those uniforms

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Speaker 2: look quite a bit like the well regarded, well reviewed

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Speaker 2: two lane University blue unis. They broke out a little

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Speaker 2: bit in former aac rival two lane, so they're trying

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Speaker 2: to copy two lanes, nice clean unis. But let let

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Speaker 2: Houston wear I'm with you, good.

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Speaker 1: Rant, all right? That was insane. That was an insane

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Speaker 1: little addendum there, Greg, top.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five team. Baby, you know, let's enjoy it while

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Speaker 2: we can here.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's what's happening in the news. Yes, so

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Speaker 1: we needed to jump in obviously, so much to get

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Speaker 1: to including a breaking new whose trade Leonard Williams fortifying

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Speaker 1: that front seven in Seattle and the Giants looking ahead

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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four and beyond. We'll be back later

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Speaker 1: tonight with a recap of Monday Night football, a matchup

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Speaker 1: between Mark.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders and the Lions of Detroit.

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Speaker 1: There you go, so make sure you check that out.

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Speaker 1: And that's it for now. All right, we all have

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Speaker 1: to head into the studio. Now we've got to do

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Speaker 1: an NFL Plus recording. They're getting their money's worth here.

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Speaker 1: Heed the call.