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Speaker 1: Central Titans and the Dolphins. First team in n FELL

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Speaker 1: OTP for my analysis. That's right. All right, So we

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Speaker 1: obviously Titans when over the Dolphins is a given. That's

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Speaker 1: We they want Las Vegas over Indianapolis. If that happens,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you being with us, and thanks as always for

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Speaker 1: listening to the oath of the team. So where the

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Speaker 1: legends go, everybody knows it's our house, fighting though Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Making us to read greatness is meant to be ours.

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