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Speaker 1: The season with Peter Schreeger's a production of the NFL

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Speaker 1: in partnership with I Heart Radio. What's Up, everybody, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the season with Peter Schreeger. We are entering week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen, and just about every NFL team sounds like

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Speaker 1: there's still alive. I am so excited for the next

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Speaker 1: so many different little intricacies amongst the matchups this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I look at Packers versus Vikings, and it's like, all right,

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Speaker 1: Vikings meet the Packers. The Vikings, they eliminate the Packers,

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Speaker 1: they get that sweep of the Packers, first time they've

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Speaker 1: done it with Aaron Rodgers on the roster since two

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Speaker 1: thousand nine, and they can finally plant their flag and

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Speaker 1: say we're the Kings of the NFC North and in

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Speaker 1: the process stave off the forty niner. Is a little

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Speaker 1: bit that said, if the pack there's win, you better

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Speaker 1: believe this is gonna be the next twenty days of

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Speaker 1: like Packers talk, Packers talk, Packers talk, and if they

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Speaker 1: be madness. Now, the San Francisco forty Niners are interesting here.

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Speaker 1: They just keep on winning with brock Purty, They've got

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Speaker 1: eight straight wins. They actually have the tiebreaker over the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: So the Vikings have a one game lead in the standings,

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Speaker 1: so they're the two seed. But I think that's the

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Speaker 1: Matt Lafloor's hart, but also get that home game in

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Speaker 1: to have to go out to San Francisco. Meanwhile, in

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Speaker 1: out here on this podcast last week and I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 1: no moral victories brought. The Dolphins had an amazing performance

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Speaker 1: and YadA YadA. Data Now the Dolphins embarrassed um by

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Speaker 1: if two was gonna play. But recording this on UH

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Speaker 1: Tuesday's in the protocol, I would imagine Teddy Bridgewaters the guy,

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Speaker 1: the season. Can Teddy Bridgewater be the dude to get

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Speaker 1: them the win? Um Jets fans. Fascinating scenario with the Jets. Here.

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Speaker 1: The Jets were thinking they were done after laying an

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Speaker 1: was I referenced the Coming to America scene where Mortimer

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Speaker 1: They needed the Patriots to lose, they got it. They

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Speaker 1: got it. The Jets are suddenly alive. The Jets win out,

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Speaker 1: we are doing this remote today. Aaron, which team is

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Speaker 1: Bills fan. For the listeners, Aaron is a guy hard

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Speaker 1: pal okay, this is my claim to you. Amazon ends

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Speaker 1: Your buddy Eric Weddle last year got the call from

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Speaker 1: further ado. Welcoming him onto the season with Peter Schreeger.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Whitworth, welk up to the podcast. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you stirring up my Monday, Peter. Sometimes you

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