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Speaker 1: Bridget Condon will be there, but first she will be

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Speaker 1: here to tell you Cincinnati to keep the clock from

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Speaker 1: striking Midnight three two one. Welcome inside with the Insiders

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Speaker 1: alongside Judy Matista and Mike Garifolo. I am Tom Pelicero.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year to everybody a little bit early, or

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Speaker 1: if you're faking the kids out in like fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: from Super Bowl fifty nine. We've got twelve playoff spots

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen wrapped up on Monday night in a game

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Speaker 1: All that, though, just sets up what would have been

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Speaker 1: not be a storyline on Sunday Night, Judy, But We've

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Speaker 2: Now. They gave up seven point nine yards per defensive

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Speaker 1: And frankly, if the Giants do see Saquon Barkley out.

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Speaker 3: There's no chance the Giants are gonna let Sakuon Barkley

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Speaker 3: I counted it quite seven up front, four linebackers.

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Speaker 1: Really not gonna let him run off the zero coverage.

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Speaker 7: What do you expect.

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Speaker 8: I can't imagine a bigger game, or I can't remember

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Speaker 7: No doubt.

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Speaker 6: Jeffrey. I like their chances as well. And I know

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Speaker 6: we've talked about Detroit's defense ad nauseum for a long time,

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Speaker 7: With Detroit, you better score forty or you're not going

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Speaker 6: As we saw last night, they got that interception by

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Speaker 2: That, Judy, all Right, the AFC has a spot open

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Speaker 2: If the Broncos lose and the Dolphins win, thats are

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Speaker 8: Well, I'm so glad you referenced the Bengals in this

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Speaker 8: I think it's a done deal. I think Denver deserves

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Speaker 1: There pretty easily.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you, Jeffrey.

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Speaker 6: It's about what you want to happen and what's actually

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the MVP race because there

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Speaker 8: I think we're trying to find people to make this

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Speaker 7: I don't know where Mark stands is.

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Speaker 8: I think Josh Allen rapped this award up when he

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Speaker 7: You know, you beat the Lines on the road, you

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Speaker 8: They're only lost by the way. That gives you a

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Speaker 8: pretty good narrative. Already, you're talking about a player in

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Speaker 8: He's changed the way he's played. I just feel like Mark,

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Speaker 7: Here in the MVP all year long.

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Speaker 6: Jeffrey, you know you know I love your opinion, man,

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Speaker 6: I always respect you. But I think the key word

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Speaker 7: Just Josh Allen plunging in from the one yard line.

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Speaker 6: But what Lamar Jasson is doing this year is history.

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Speaker 6: He's at a clip to me have the highest passer

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Speaker 7: And that's what Lamar Jackson is doing for me.

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Speaker 6: And I know Josh Allen has gotten better, and I

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Speaker 6: it to the man who deserves it. Judy, dude, he's

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Speaker 2: We should remind everybody, by the way, this is a

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Speaker 2: If fat player is the MVP regular season Award, everybody, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Mark Ross.

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Speaker 2: Don't go far and read Jeffrey ch ads COMNFL.

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Speaker 1: Dot com first read.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, Mark Ross is going to be

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Speaker 2: back with Baldy to break down the last night's game

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Speaker 2: on the Insiders.

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Speaker 1: That is his name. I can confirm he is Jared

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Speaker 1: goff and he's got a big opportunity in front of

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Speaker 1: him and his Lions team on Sunday night, beat the

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Speaker 1: Pellis Zero now joined by Brian Baldinger and Mark Cross.

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Speaker 1: The Lions didn't need to win that game last night, Mark,

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Speaker 1: they didn't need to play their guys. They could have

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Speaker 1: said we had the week five by let's give them

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Speaker 1: a rest, let's gear up. But you also knew Dan

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Speaker 1: Campbell of all people, was not gonna do that. You

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Speaker 1: watched the game. What were your big takeaways coming off

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Speaker 1: on Monday night?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the Lions are built to win, and Dan Campbell's

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Speaker 6: built to win and has instilled that into the Lions.

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Speaker 6: And the big game flow For me, it wasn't the

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Speaker 6: much lauded offense that made the play.

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Speaker 7: It was the defense that made the play win.

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Speaker 6: Brock Purdy threw that first interception right to Kirby Joseph

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Speaker 6: and it was because of the Lions offense putting so

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Speaker 6: much pressure on the forty nine ers, like, you have

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Speaker 6: to keep up with us. We're going to score every play,

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Speaker 6: so you have to score every play to keep up,

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Speaker 6: and if you don't, the game is over. And once

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Speaker 6: brock Perdy made that mistake, it all went downhill from

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Speaker 6: there and up for the Lions. And right after that

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Speaker 6: the Lions went down and scored when they went for

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Speaker 6: it for the second or.

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Speaker 7: Third time on fourth down.

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Speaker 6: More of the pressure that the Lions offense puts on

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Speaker 6: you that every single down counts. When Jared GoF threw

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Speaker 6: the touchdown to Alman Ran Saint Brown on fourth down,

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Speaker 6: that's really for me. When the game changed and it

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Speaker 6: was over from there, the pressure was on brock Purdy.

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Speaker 6: The Lions defense, despite being shorthanded, could actually thrive because

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Speaker 6: Purdy was under pressure and the Lions offense just kept

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Speaker 6: going and going and going baldy And to me, that's

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Speaker 6: why they're going to be hard to beat, because the

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Speaker 6: defense really just has to make one play or two

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Speaker 6: plays in a game and they're gonna win it.

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Speaker 7: Because the offense is that proficient they can.

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Speaker 9: Put pressure on anybody. Mark They've scored sixty four touchdowns

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Speaker 9: down seventeen games. It's almost for a game if my

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Speaker 9: master serves me correctly. But then, you know, you watched

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Speaker 9: the hooking ladder last night. You know, one yard throw

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Speaker 9: to Monross Saint Brown, the flip to Jamison Williams right here, Jmo,

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Speaker 9: and it's forty yards and it's you know, it's a

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Speaker 9: forty two yard touchdown. This team could score from anywhere

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Speaker 9: on a field date. You know, you look at Jamiir

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Speaker 9: last night, He's scored in a thirty yard run Bill Conlattle.

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Speaker 9: They've used that play against Arizona a couple of times

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Speaker 9: this year. They've got all the gimmicks. But in Jamison

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Speaker 9: Williams and in Jamiir Gibbs, those two players alone can

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Speaker 9: score from anywhere on the field. Just a couple of

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Speaker 9: weeks ago, we saw Jamison score an eighty two yard

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Speaker 9: catch and run. We've seen Jamir go seventy yards the

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Speaker 9: pay dirt. I mean, you get the ball at to

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Speaker 9: thirty on a kickoff, they could score one play. So

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Speaker 9: aman Ross at Brown is good and Sambulaoport is great,

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Speaker 9: and you know they can Tim Patrick. All these guys

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Speaker 9: are good, but those two guys, specifically Jamir and Jamison.

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Speaker 9: Those guys they should put the fear and any opponent

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Speaker 9: that they play in the playoffs because to your point,

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Speaker 9: they can keep the full court press on from scoring

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Speaker 9: from anywhere on the field.

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Speaker 1: Mark, thank you very much. Go join the party, Baldy,

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Speaker 1: stick around. We got to get some more from you

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Speaker 1: on the Bengals and Steelers in just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Big Week eighteen slate in the NFL all kicks off

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Speaker 1: on Saturday with what we're calling hard knocks Saturday Browns Ravens, Bengals, Steelers,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of important games on Sunday, including the Bucks

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Speaker 1: and Falcons not playing each other but still playing for

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Speaker 1: the NFC South title, and of course it all wraps

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Speaker 1: up on Sunday Night football Game two seventy two Vikings

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Speaker 1: and Lions. Winner gets the number one seed home field

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Speaker 1: advantage in a first dround by loser goes on the road.

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Speaker 1: A guy who he's also gonna be kicking back and

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Speaker 1: watching on the couch, but knows a lot more about

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Speaker 1: what he's looking at than I do, joining us right now.

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Speaker 1: Former NFL running back longtime coach Eric the Enemy is

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Speaker 1: on the show.

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Speaker 6: Eby.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see again. Man it's been a minute.

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Speaker 1: How are we doing out there?

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Speaker 10: Doing great?

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Speaker 1: Tom?

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Speaker 10: I appreciate you having me on your show.

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Speaker 11: Sitting out here catching up, watching a lot of NFL football,

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Speaker 11: been spend a lot of time with the family, Spend

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Speaker 11: a lot of time with my mom, my father, time

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Speaker 11: that I normally don't have to spend.

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Speaker 10: But I'm enjoying it. So sometimes with don't know bad.

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Speaker 11: Luck, we wouldn't have any good luck at all, and

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Speaker 11: I am making the most of it, spending time.

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Speaker 1: If you're in college football this past season at U C.

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Speaker 1: L A, and like you said, you're just diving in

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Speaker 1: these past few weeks, right since your season ended, and

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Speaker 1: watching the NFL. What jumps outs like, what are the trends,

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Speaker 1: who are the players? What's what's catching your eye?

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Speaker 11: I tell you what's catching my eye is just a

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Speaker 11: thousand yard rushes. The number of thousand yard Russias that

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Speaker 11: have that have come about. You know the league is cyclical,

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Speaker 11: because I almost seem like everything comes back. So one

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Speaker 11: thing I did, I wrote down just a list of

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Speaker 11: thousand yard Russias.

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Speaker 10: And I know this has been.

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Speaker 11: A debate, uh probably today and yesterday talking about uh,

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Speaker 11: what'sh just Saquan do Uhuon should go for the record.

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Speaker 11: Now that's just me being personal obviously being a huge

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Speaker 11: fan of running backs, and not too many times you

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Speaker 11: you get an opportunity to go in history and say

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Speaker 11: that you're the number one guy in that particular category.

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Speaker 11: So I'm a little biased right now. I'm saying, hey,

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Speaker 11: go for the record. But just looking out and just

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Speaker 11: looking at all the numbers right now, you got nine

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Speaker 11: rushers in the league that are over a thousand yards,

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Speaker 11: and then you got guys that are within striking this distance.

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Speaker 11: You got Joe Mixon from Houston, Chase Brown from Sincy

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Speaker 11: I know unfortunately got injured this past week and not

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Speaker 11: exactly sure what's going to take place with them, James Cook,

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Speaker 11: Alvin Kamara. I mean, you got a number of guys

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Speaker 11: who's doing some great things and then you look at it.

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Speaker 11: I mean, Aaron Jones going over one thousand, the kid

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Speaker 11: out of playing for Tampa Bay, Bucky Irvitt, he's done

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Speaker 11: a hell of a job. Tony Pollard, Nate Harris. I

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Speaker 11: mean the trend is the run game seems to be

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Speaker 11: coming back. With all these teams that are going to

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Speaker 11: these passing offenses. You got to make these guys defend

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Speaker 11: the run. And I think that's one thing that has

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Speaker 11: stood out for me so far this year.

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Speaker 1: That to eb you know you played the position. I

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Speaker 1: know you're always you got little personal lives toward the

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Speaker 1: running back position. But there there's a long time of

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Speaker 1: right the devaluing in free agency and passing offenses were

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Speaker 1: opened up. Part of that was the rules, But you're right,

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Speaker 1: there are teams. I was just in Green Bay last

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Speaker 1: Monday night watching them. They're a physical running team, which

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen a ton in Green Bay. What is

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Speaker 1: this about personnel? Is this about strategy? Finding value? What

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Speaker 1: is it?

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Speaker 10: I think it's a combination of everything everything you just said. Yes,

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Speaker 10: it is about finding value.

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Speaker 11: It is about making sure that you can get the

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Speaker 11: right person in that position that can run the rock

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Speaker 11: and also be available for this time of the year.

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Speaker 10: But on top of that.

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Speaker 11: Just the way the league has trend yet a lot

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Speaker 11: of teams that were basically doing a lot more passing

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Speaker 11: game and when you're throwing the ball on offense, the

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Speaker 11: trend on defenses to play a little bit more sub packages,

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Speaker 11: and now what teams have done and lining up in

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Speaker 11: some of these sub packages or lining up in twelve

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Speaker 11: personnel with two tight ends and making teams defend the run.

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Speaker 11: And so when you're making those little guys play against

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Speaker 11: big guys, old school tells you, hey, big guys should

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Speaker 11: beat up on little guys all the time. And one

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Speaker 11: thing that's showing this, it's showing to be true.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have also worked in a place in Kansas

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Speaker 1: City where you know, for Andy Reid, it's always been

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Speaker 1: Andy just wants to throw the ball one hundred times

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Speaker 1: a game, and sometimes you guys would do exactly that.

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Speaker 1: You watch them, and I'm sure you're catching up on

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Speaker 1: them as well. Be you know, they're fifteen and one

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Speaker 1: and they've been the team and all year it's been like,

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Speaker 1: well they're catching breaks and this isn't the best team

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Speaker 1: we've seen. What about that group? What about Patrick Mahomes specifically,

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Speaker 1: a guy who you were there from his first year starting.

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Speaker 1: What allows them to have the consistency that they're having.

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Speaker 11: The thing that allows them to have the consistency, first

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Speaker 11: of all, is they have one of the best Hall

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Speaker 11: of Fame coaches you know, in our modern day era.

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Speaker 11: Coach Reid has done a heck of a job. But

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Speaker 11: on top of that, Coach Reid has done a great

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Speaker 11: job of building a culture and getting these guys to

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Speaker 11: understand the only thing that matters. It's not about the numbers. Okay,

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Speaker 11: it is not about the numbers. And what am I

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Speaker 11: saying with that, I'm talking about all the personal stats.

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Speaker 11: Personal stats do not mean anything. It's about those two

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Speaker 11: little alphabets and one that says W and L. When

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Speaker 11: it's all said and done with, you got to find

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Speaker 11: a way to make sure collectively. We used to always

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Speaker 11: discuss this that we can find a way to drag

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Speaker 11: I across the finish line for sixty consecutive minutes, we

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Speaker 11: can clean up the rest throughout the course of the week.

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Speaker 10: So when you have that type of culture.

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Speaker 11: Where guys are buying in and not getting concerned, not

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Speaker 11: being concerned with their personal numbers. Now everybody's buying into

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Speaker 11: the big picture, and the big picture is to always

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Speaker 11: win the when the AFC West Division on top of

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Speaker 11: the established home field advantage, and then to win the

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Speaker 11: Super Bowl.

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Speaker 10: That's why those guys are fifteen and one.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite Patrick Mahomes story? I said, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: what story pops in your head?

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Speaker 10: There's been plenty of him.

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Speaker 11: I told this one not too long ago on TV

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Speaker 11: and it's still amazing me. It just blows my mind

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Speaker 11: because right in the middle of a play, Patrick has

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Speaker 11: scramblings to his left.

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Speaker 10: We're playing against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 11: It's a critical third down situation and we got Von Miller.

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Speaker 11: You know, he was pretty fresh at that time. I

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Speaker 11: think this is the twenty eighteen season. Pat scrambling to

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Speaker 11: his left and he does. Von does a heck of

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Speaker 11: a job of defeating Mitchell Schwartz at that particular time,

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Speaker 11: so he gets around Schwartz.

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Speaker 10: He's literally about to make the sack on Pat, and

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Speaker 10: Pat somehow.

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Speaker 11: Someway flips the ball out with his left hand and

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Speaker 11: completes the ball for a first down completion. And we

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Speaker 11: see this type of stuff every day in practice because

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Speaker 11: that's who Pat is, but watching him do it on

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Speaker 11: game day in that particular moment, it just stood out

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Speaker 11: and it was huge, and in that moment, he just

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Speaker 11: couldn't believe what had actually taken place. I got caught

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Speaker 11: up in a moment just because it happened. But on

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Speaker 11: top of that, I was trying to make sure that

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Speaker 11: I can get the next play called because I was.

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Speaker 10: Like, hey, did you guys see this? And he was

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Speaker 10: sitting there.

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Speaker 11: Coach Read's like, hey, you got to get the damn play,

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Speaker 11: and he'd be called a play. So I called the

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Speaker 11: play and I go back, did you guys see this?

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Speaker 11: And you know, I'm sure with a few colorful words

658
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Speaker 11: that I use at that particular time, but that's probably

659
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Speaker 11: one of my favorite plays by Patrick, and there's been

660
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Speaker 11: a number of them, trust me, over the years. But

661
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Speaker 11: you talking about it the ultimate competitor, a kid who

662
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Speaker 11: loves to win, and he takes it personal. And that's

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Speaker 11: what you love about it.

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Speaker 1: The last thing for you be I could talk to

665
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Speaker 1: you all day, but I want to make sure I

666
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Speaker 1: ask you this. It's New Year's Eve, right, everybody's making

667
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Speaker 1: their New Year's resolutions for twenty twenty five. When you

668
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Speaker 1: look at the year ahead, where is Eric Enemy? What

669
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Speaker 1: do you want to be doing? What is the future

670
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Speaker 1: holding for you over the next three or sixty five days?

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Speaker 10: Well, I'll say this, Eric Bnemy wants to be back

672
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Speaker 10: involved in coaching.

673
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Speaker 11: I want to make sure that I can have an

674
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Speaker 11: opportunity to work with some men, to help develop men,

675
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Speaker 11: to help lead men, hopefully helping shape in young men's

676
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Speaker 11: lives and leading the team to a destination that leads

677
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Speaker 11: to greatness at some particular time. So that's one thing

678
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Speaker 11: that I'm looking forward to. But right now, I'm just

679
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Speaker 11: taking it day by day. I'm enjoying the free time

680
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Speaker 11: that I have, maximizing these opportunities and then just taking

681
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Speaker 11: it one day at a time. And right now also

682
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Speaker 11: to being the ultimate fan. I get to watch everybody

683
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Speaker 11: play with no stress. So right now, hell, I got

684
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Speaker 11: the best seat in the house. I don't have any

685
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Speaker 11: stress on my stress.

686
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Speaker 7: I don't have to worry about.

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Speaker 11: Damn, this player can't play this weekend. How we're gonna

688
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Speaker 11: get through this game plan? Or should we not allow

689
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Speaker 11: Saquan to rush and doing achieve greatness and getting his

690
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Speaker 11: name in the record books. I'm just enjoying this moment,

691
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Speaker 11: and so I'm gonna sit back and enjoy us this

692
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Speaker 11: weekend and watch just like everyone else.

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Speaker 1: He'd be tremendous stuff. Man, when you're back in the

694
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Speaker 1: league next season, you got to come back on the.

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Speaker 10: Show, all right, Oh yeah, yes, sir.

696
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Speaker 11: And then at some point in time, we got to

697
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Speaker 11: tell some ice fishing stories as well.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm not getting in the shanny out on the

699
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Speaker 1: lake here, but I know that if you were back here,

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Speaker 1: we'd have a couple of cold ones over there. Very

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Speaker 1: thanks a tod, Eric Begs a lot for being here. Man,

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Speaker 1: Well you soon.

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Speaker 3: Saturday triple header this past weekend. We have also got

704
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Speaker 3: a doubleheader coming your way this weekend coming up here,

705
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Speaker 3: a bunch of AFC North teams right here, coming your

706
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Speaker 3: way four thirty pm Eastern, followed by the nightcap eight

707
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Speaker 3: pm Eastern on ESPN ABC.

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Speaker 1: That's where we're gonna start here.

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Speaker 3: As we bringing Bridget Content and Brian Baldinger to talk

710
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Speaker 3: about this game.

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Speaker 1: Baldy ready to rock. Love the look.

712
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Bridget the importance of a win here

713
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Speaker 3: for the Bengals and the Steelers in this game.

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Speaker 12: It's hard to focus right now because Baldy looks so cool.

715
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 12: Didn't get the memo, But yes, this game is very

716
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Speaker 12: important for both teams different ways. Let's start with the Steelers.

717
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 12: If they lose this game, they'll be riding a four

718
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Speaker 12: game losing streak into the playoffs. They'll only be the

719
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Speaker 12: third team in more than fifty years to do so

720
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Speaker 12: what does that mean? Well, don't tell Patrick Claybond because

721
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Speaker 12: we're talking about momentum here. I know he doesn't believe

722
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Speaker 12: in it, but Mike Tomlin does. He says that we

723
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Speaker 12: have to get that stench off of us that they've

724
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Speaker 12: had the past couple three games by going out here

725
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Speaker 12: and beating this Bengals team. Of course, their fate will

726
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Speaker 12: be determined earlier on Saturday. At that game, you'll be

727
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Speaker 12: at Mike between the Ravens and Browns. If the Ravens win,

728
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Speaker 12: then the Steelers. It doesn't even matter. They don't get

729
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Speaker 12: the three seed, they don't win the AFC North, but

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Speaker 12: that doesn't matter to Tomlin. He said, I'm not even

731
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Speaker 12: sure that I'll think about that. He didn't give a

732
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Speaker 12: definite answer as to whether he would play his starters

733
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Speaker 12: or not based on the results of that game, but

734
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Speaker 12: he basically said, we need them momentum. We need this win.

735
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Speaker 12: We cannot go into the playoffs on a four game

736
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Speaker 12: losing streak, so keep that in mind. But for the Bengals,

737
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 12: everything is in front of them. They need to win

738
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Speaker 12: on Saturday, beat the Steelers in order to keep playoff

739
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Speaker 12: dreams alive, and in talking with people around the organization,

740
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Speaker 12: they tell me that vibes are fantastic in Cincinnati. Players

741
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Speaker 12: are ready to take care of their part and then

742
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Speaker 12: root like hell on Sunday. Joe Burrow spoke to media

743
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Speaker 12: today and he said, no matter what happens on Sunday,

744
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Speaker 12: we have a fantastic opportunity on Saturday to go out

745
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 12: on this season, end it on a good note with

746
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Speaker 12: getting a win streak. So their focus is go out

747
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Speaker 12: there and win on Saturday, Baldi and whatever happens Sunday

748
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Speaker 12: is out of their control.

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Speaker 9: I mean, and get above five hundred for the first

750
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Speaker 9: time this year, get to nine and eight, and then

751
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Speaker 9: sit and wait. I've been in that situation. You gotta

752
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Speaker 9: wait until the next day to find out if you

753
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Speaker 9: get if you make it, or you don't make it.

754
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 9: You have to deliver with those results. But to finish

755
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 9: on a five game win streak. And for the Steelers, honestly,

756
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Speaker 9: when they were rolling before they hit the stretch of Philly, Baltimore,

757
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Speaker 9: Kansas City, three of the best rosters in the NFL,

758
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Speaker 9: they were leading the league of takeaways. Now they still lead,

759
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 9: but not like they were. They've had two takeaways in

760
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 9: these three games, and you know they've turned over five times.

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Speaker 9: I think if Mike Tomlin the Steelers team want to

762
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Speaker 9: turn things around and gaining some mom en up going

763
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Speaker 9: to the playoffs, I believe it's got to start with

764
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Speaker 9: their defense, and Scott would start with them taking the

765
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Speaker 9: ball away. Whether it's TJ. Watt or Beanie Bishop or

766
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Speaker 9: Nick Krbik or Cam Hayward. It's got to start, I

767
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 9: think on the defensive side, because that's what was fueling

768
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Speaker 9: them to the top of the AFC North before this

769
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Speaker 9: three game stretching. I think that's what's going to be

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Speaker 9: preached where each guy's going to be looking deep down

771
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Speaker 9: inside going you know, it's not about plays, It's about

772
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Speaker 9: players making those plays, and that's what they got to

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Speaker 9: get back to.

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Speaker 3: Bridget T Higgins are playing on the franchise tags that

775
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Speaker 3: we're looking at the possibility of him playing his final

776
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Speaker 3: game with the Bengals, but I know Joe Burrow and

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Speaker 3: a lot of folks in that building are hoping that's

778
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Speaker 3: not the case.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we'll get to that in a minute, But just

780
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 12: talking about the difference between right now when they go

781
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 12: into this game versus December first, when they play the Steelers,

782
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 12: this is a completely different Bengals team Baldy and Mike.

783
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Speaker 12: You know, when you look at what they've done, Let's

784
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 12: start with the defense. They're now a top ten scoring

785
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 12: defense over this four game win streak, and because of

786
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Speaker 12: the consistency that they've had on defense, they've forced more

787
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 12: turnovers in that four game stretch than any other team

788
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Speaker 12: in the NFL. Things are finally clicking on defense. But

789
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 12: as you mentioned, yes, it definitely helps when on offense

790
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 12: you have Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and T Higgins. Joe

791
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Speaker 12: Burrow had a lot of very positive things, maybe sending

792
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Speaker 12: a message earlier today about his friend T Higgins.

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Speaker 7: I haven't really thought about that.

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Speaker 13: It's obviously a possibility, not one that I'm excited about,

795
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 13: but that's not in the plans. I would say, whenever

796
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 13: a great player leaves you, you wish you could have

797
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 13: found a way to keep them. You don't want to

798
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Speaker 13: make a living out of letting great players leave the building,

799
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Speaker 13: and you know, I think that's why you got to

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Speaker 13: do everything you can to get those deals done.

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Speaker 12: Early Joe Burrow saying a lot to anyone who wants

802
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 12: to listen, especially the front office, about T Higgins. T

803
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 12: Higgins and Jamar Chase the only duo in the league

804
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 12: this season that have at least ten receiving touchdowns each.

805
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 12: T Higgins has scored five touchdowns over this four game

806
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Speaker 12: win streak. He just had Mike his first game in

807
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 12: his career where he had three touchdowns last week. So,

808
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 12: you know, we talk about guy proving that he belongs somewhere,

809
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 12: wants to be somewhere. He definitely has done this the

810
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 12: past couple of games, and imagine that will be the

811
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Speaker 12: case comes Saturday. If it's the last time that we

812
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 12: see this trio together, take one good look, because what

813
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 12: we're seeing is history in the making. But hopefully, hopefully

814
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 12: for the Bengals, they find a way to make it work.

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Speaker 3: Strong comments from Joe Burrow there certainly directed toward the

816
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 3: front office the Bengals. If they don't make the postseason,

817
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 3: there are a number of games that they will look

818
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: back upon and say, if we just had one of

819
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 3: these games along the way, that's gonna be a heartbreaking

820
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 3: scenario for them to face. Look, you take the three

821
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 3: shot here, one of us about to welcome their first child,

822
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Speaker 3: the other one stuck in the weeds with a four

823
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Speaker 3: four and a seven year old and the third one.

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Speaker 12: God, I wish I was Baldy.

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Speaker 1: Party Hardy on New Year's e Baldy for those of us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for those of us who came tonight, Baldy. We'll do

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Speaker 1: it up for us. Pal happy that we appreciate it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: One for me, We appreciate your three sixty five bridget

829
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: almost time for bed for us. AJ Brown had that

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Speaker 3: touchdown and then one of the better passes we saw

831
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Speaker 3: on Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, and then the jersey excuge.

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Speaker 1: We've got some more on this, including another angle.

833
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Speaker 3: There's a Eagles fan, Patrick who got himself a jersey.

834
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Speaker 3: Got a little bit more for you on this one

835
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Speaker 3: after the break here in.

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Speaker 1: The Insidation, go to NFL dot com slash Rookies to

837
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Speaker 1: vote on the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookies of the Week.

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Speaker 1: You guessed it. Jaden Daniels and Bownicks two of the nominees.

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Speaker 1: Ricky piersoll So made some plays last night, My league

840
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Speaker 1: neighbors finally back into the end zone, and of course

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Speaker 1: Lad McConkey with a monster day as the Chargers rep

842
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Speaker 1: up their playoff birth edvel dot com slash Rookies probo

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Speaker 1: fan voting is now over number one vote getter Travis

844
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Speaker 1: Kelcey two hundred and fifty two thousand, two hundred votes.

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Speaker 1: That is just one third the fan voting is one

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Speaker 1: third of the file outcome. So we will wait the

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Speaker 1: announcement January second. Good Morning Football is going to have

848
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Speaker 1: all those details for you. AJ Brown had an interesting

849
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Speaker 1: day for the Eagles. Made this play for Tanner McKee

850
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Speaker 1: and then throw away Tanner McKee's keep saying, now, a

851
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: j that's his first NFL touchdown pass. Just what it

852
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Speaker 1: sounded like on the sideline.

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Speaker 7: Orth Eliven fred he threw your bowl. It was all Christian.

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Speaker 9: I got I got family over there, so maybe they

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Speaker 9: got it.

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Speaker 6: They went all up the crop the dumb after Joel sime,

857
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Speaker 6: he thinks, where's he out?

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say thanks. He's gonna be say hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you, sir.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Up, I said, making that great play.

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Speaker 1: All that talking got some Jery. Mike, you were there.

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Speaker 1: That's a scene in Philadelphia. Throughout that process there Agent

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Speaker 1: Brown regularly realizing it, but actually the fan being, you know,

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Speaker 1: giving him the I got you, I got you, you

867
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Speaker 1: and me Yeah. And then I had actually made an

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Speaker 1: appointment with A J.

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Speaker 3: I saw him in the locker room a couple of

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Speaker 3: days prior and said, I'm gonna see you after the

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Speaker 3: game on Sunday, And he said, well, I got to

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Speaker 3: earn that h with a performance, a good enough performance

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Speaker 3: to get an NFL network interview, and he did. Now

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Speaker 3: watch this, He's about to get run over by Saquon

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Speaker 3: Barkley in this photographer right here.

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Speaker 1: Look who saves the day?

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Speaker 8: Huh?

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Speaker 1: Right to the rest? Really, but I think.

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Speaker 3: AJ would have probably survived. But I don't know, like

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Speaker 3: a signed jersey or something for you boy here?

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Speaker 1: Like what did I get? Dumbing?

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Speaker 2: Are we supposed to be talking to tom as? If

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Speaker 2: everything is normal over a here?

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we've got we got a party going

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Speaker 1: over here. It's New Year's Eve. Everybody's they wanted to

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Speaker 1: come out and say Happy New Year to you. So

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Speaker 1: happy new Year, everybody, Thanks as always for making our

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four on The Insiders so great. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back more night. Yes, a New Year's Day show. Taking

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Speaker 1: easy duty of Mikey. I appreciate you all. Have a

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Speaker 1: good night. See him