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Speaker 1: believe in the AFC after last night's Bill's Texans game.

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Speaker 1: But speaking of belief, a big night finally you can

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Speaker 1: say on the court for the Dallas Mavericks. They got

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Speaker 1: to see eighteen year old Cooper Flag go for a

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Speaker 1: career high twenty nine points in their win over New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: We have big NBA stuff to get to. With a

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Speaker 1: guy joining us now in the hot line, nobody better

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Speaker 1: to chop it up with longtime NBA insider friend of

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Speaker 1: the show Mark Stein. He is on Twitter at the steinline.

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Speaker 1: That is at the steinline, Mark, congrats. I guess everybody

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Speaker 1: can take a breath for a night in Dallas after

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Speaker 1: Cooper flag Man.

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Speaker 5: This better be important because I'm not even I thought

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Speaker 5: I was gonna get home in time before you guys

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Speaker 5: rang ran into some unexpected Friday night traffic, So I'm

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Speaker 5: like less than a minute away from getting home. You

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Speaker 5: guys knock some good music off the radio. This better

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Speaker 5: be pressing, pressing stuff to get into. I'm just telligenceday

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Speaker 5: night or way. I'm being honest, I'm vietnamed. Look today

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Speaker 5: it was a really I'm just I'm just playing. It

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Speaker 5: was a very interesting show because the MAVs and the

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Speaker 5: Pels are both teams mired in the mess that is

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Speaker 5: the bottom of the West, and to see both Cooper

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Speaker 5: fears was great.

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Speaker 4: Too.

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Speaker 5: All the rookies were really good tonight. But I have

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Speaker 5: to say in both cases, like Cooper Flag. You know,

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Speaker 5: all the talk coming into the season was Cooper Flag

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Speaker 5: is so fortunate. We never see a rookie, we never

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Speaker 5: we never see a number one overall pick go to

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Speaker 5: got a team that's ready to win. What an advance

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Speaker 5: a situation this is going to be for Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 5: And the truth is, obviously, as you guys know, it

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Speaker 5: has been very rocky in Dallas. The Mavericks lead the

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Speaker 5: But the thing I love about Cooper Flag is he

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Speaker 5: just keeps playing. He's had a bad shoulder, he's had

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Speaker 5: He's already up to three GMS in his career because

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Speaker 5: just keeps playing. And same with Derek Queen, who's you know,

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Speaker 5: we focus on him for all kinds of reasons that

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Speaker 6: Honestly, how's that co GM thing working? I mean, doesn't

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Speaker 6: Finley get a little bit of extra juice for having

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Speaker 6: to take the beer away from Luca?

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Speaker 5: Come on, please tell me or not?

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Speaker 4: You clearly you clearly don't read me? After I after

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Speaker 5: Did you know?

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Speaker 4: Did you know that the beer was actually returned to

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Speaker 3: After loves that story. I do love that story. Loves

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, did pictures worth a billion words?

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Speaker 4: But my car I thought Mike Harmon was an avid

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Speaker 1: He had to watch, he had to watch the bulls

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Speaker 1: not show up on an NBA Cup night I'm really

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Speaker 1: disappointed about that, having a tough night, Right, that's true.

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Speaker 4: Well, I would also say that's one of the few

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Speaker 4: times the Bulls have let you down this season, because

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Speaker 4: they've been a great surprise. I mean, how about how

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Speaker 4: about my guy Vooch with the game winner the other night. So, look,

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Speaker 4: can't win them all. You're gonna survive if they don't

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Speaker 2: You'll rebound.

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Speaker 1: Now, you mentioned the Bulls, and tonight Oklahoma City beat Utah.

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Speaker 1: They were losing this game in the third quarter eighty

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Speaker 3: They have one loss on the season.

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Speaker 1: Can they break the Bulls record of seventy two wins?

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Speaker 3: Can they?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this Oklahoma City team looks like nobody can

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I should point out that the

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Speaker 4: Warriors have already broken that record with seven.

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Speaker 3: Well, so I met the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I was Bulls with harm You just wanted to

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Speaker 4: Secondly, they can it. Really, it's quick to be up

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Speaker 4: to be honest, have gotten off to a great start

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Speaker 4: when you consider that they just got Lebron James back

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Speaker 4: you can talk about anyone you want in the West

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Speaker 4: and they've all got the same problem. The Oklahoma City

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Speaker 4: Thunder should be unbeaten. They should be undefeated at this point.

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Speaker 4: The game they lost, they outre founded and outshot Portland,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it really is just a matter of do

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Speaker 4: I think they're going to do it? Do I think

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Speaker 4: that because we know the Thunder always operate with extreme

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Speaker 4: they do. But can they do it? Do they have

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Speaker 6: And then we get the fun story out here in

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Speaker 6: Dodgers executives being involved day to day. But it just

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Speaker 6: seemed like this is the next push in the evolution

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Speaker 6: the Bus family.

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Speaker 4: Well coming. Look, when you take the totality of the ownership,

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Speaker 4: I mean, the family has been one of the most

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Speaker 4: we have seen various headlines that have revealed some contentious

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Speaker 4: stuff behind the scenes. And obviously, you guys are in

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Speaker 4: southern California. You're not far from Hollywood as you're speaking

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Speaker 4: to me. You guys love drama out there. We all

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Speaker 4: know it. But you know, is this more than you

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Speaker 4: know a day or two story. I mean, again, they

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Speaker 4: traded for Luka Doncic, which you know, I was, I

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Speaker 4: was talking to someone today in the league, and it's

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Speaker 4: just like it's almost ten months now. December December second

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Speaker 4: December second is basically December one. December second is ten months.

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Speaker 4: And even next week, you know, next week the Mavericks

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Speaker 4: play the Lakers for the first time in the regular season.

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Speaker 4: Another NBA Cup game, Mavericks at Lakers next Friday, and

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Speaker 4: that's basically right around the two anniversary mark of the

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Speaker 4: Maverick sale to Patrick Dumont. So it's like, I'm again Luca.

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Speaker 4: You know, the Lakers are off to this great start,

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Speaker 4: Luca is in the heart of the MVP conversation, and

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Speaker 4: we've had ten months to get used to this thing,

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Speaker 4: So like, yeah, like again, this was this was a

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Speaker 4: you know, the Lakers, they've acquired Luka Dancic. That's the

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Speaker 4: the unquestioned franchise player. You know, Luka Dancic is whatever

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Speaker 4: all times they have that nowt are the Lakers, who've

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Speaker 4: that is what I to happen. But the hardest part

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe the second hardest part Mark Stein with us

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Speaker 1: here Fox Sports Radio is Lebron James's return, and it

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Speaker 1: went as well as you could possibly expect. Facilitator Lebron

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Speaker 1: Can he continue being this hey, I'm okay being the

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Speaker 1: maybe the third option at times behind Luca and Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 1: Are eventually Lebron's going to get back to being the

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, those Lakers title odds are going

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Speaker 1: affect the game so many ways.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think when Lebron was out, he was excited

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Speaker 4: issues you want to raise. Defensively, they have such a

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Speaker 4: high offensive ceiling. I think he's and you know, the

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Speaker 4: Lebron can come back and more importantly, stay back, he's

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Speaker 4: he can play like that. I mean, he's still such

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Speaker 4: a good player. The question, you know, the questions will

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Speaker 4: he avoid setbacks with the sciatica? But not just that.

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Speaker 4: And it's and again it's not just the Lakers asking

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Speaker 6: Oh, pacing. When will these guys shut up?

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Speaker 3: No, as always, thanks for staying up lately.

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Speaker 4: All my fault, I miss I miss tigned it all

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Speaker 3: Thanks, We'll talk to you next week. Make it easy. Mark.

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Speaker 1: Uh now, Football Friday continue on here through the rest

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey addressed the big R word when it comes

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Speaker 1: Look at your career. Look at the last seven eight

439
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Speaker 1: years of your life. That's absolutely that's you, up and down.

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Speaker 1: That's you every single day of the week. Man, come

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Speaker 1: on with I'm not that guy.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 6: The best of that is that it now becomes the

444
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Speaker 6: bidding war between all of those sponsors and partners that

445
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Speaker 6: he has to Who wants to pony up the money

446
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Speaker 6: to sponsor said retirement farewell tour. Who comes up with

447
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 6: the best, best chotchkes and everything else. Look, and part

448
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 6: of this is, obviously there's still very much alive, as

449
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Speaker 6: much as they've struggled. We talked about it five losses

450
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Speaker 6: by a total of twenty two points the AFC. It's

451
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Speaker 6: YouTube video at Jason Smith's show that went up yesterday,

452
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Speaker 6: just talking about in the AFC, who do you trust

453
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Speaker 6: who do you believe in? Who scares you? And the

454
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Speaker 6: answer is nobody. Spoiler, but great discussion as we went

455
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Speaker 6: through it. But you know, for those with us here

456
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Speaker 6: on a Friday into Saturday morning, like the Chiefs until

457
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Speaker 6: they're officially declared dead, it's like, hey, can we reboot

458
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Speaker 6: this series, this franchise for an eighth installment? Yeah, all right,

459
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Speaker 6: it's not dead. It made enough money. We were in

460
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Speaker 6: the black on it. Yeah, go ahead. That's where Kelsey

461
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Speaker 6: and the Chiefs are at this moment heading into this

462
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Speaker 6: weekend's game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, come on, man, I'm not that guy.

464
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Speaker 1: I've got that guy. No, you are every bit that guy.

465
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Speaker 1: You are every bit that year.

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Speaker 6: I want to see Jason's response to that on camera.

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Speaker 1: That's my brother. He doesn't he want anything about the fame.

468
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Speaker 1: As we talk here on a podcast, we get paid

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars a year.

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Speaker 3: To do right now, He's not about that.

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Speaker 1: He's not at that life now, you would think for

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Speaker 1: this game Colts and the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Jason, ah, you know you hate the Chiefs.

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Speaker 9: Nah.

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Speaker 1: I've just been your Kansas City Chiefs whisperer all year long.

476
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Speaker 1: I told you this is exactly what they're going to be.

477
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Speaker 1: It's stock up Mahomes. Stock down on the Chiefs. Why

478
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Speaker 1: Mahomes with the good enough weapons around him and after

479
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Speaker 1: the last two years of being a game manager, he's

480
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Speaker 1: going to have a big year. And he is right

481
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Speaker 1: top of the MVP race again, number one, number two

482
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Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback depending on how your stats go in your league.

483
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Speaker 1: He's been that good. But stock down on the Chiefs because, yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: they're getting older and they're getting surpassed by the younger,

485
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Speaker 1: more athletic, deeper teams. Right, that's what's going on with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. And here they are at five and five,

487
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Speaker 1: right exactly where I said they were. They were going

488
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Speaker 1: to struggle to make the playoffs because other younger teams

489
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Speaker 1: are improving and they're better than they are now. The

490
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Speaker 1: thing is this week, I like the Chiefs. It's a

491
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Speaker 1: big game for them. They simply are the more desperate team,

492
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Speaker 1: and for a team with a championship pedigree of the Chiefs,

493
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Speaker 1: when they know they're desperate. Kelse even talked about it

494
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Speaker 1: earlier this week on his podcast. Hey, we got to

495
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Speaker 1: put everything aside and put ourselfish just aside. We got

496
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Speaker 1: to come out and win. They are the more desperate team.

497
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Speaker 1: It's been a great run for the Colts, and the

498
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Speaker 1: Colts are terrific, but at five and five, they know

499
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Speaker 1: they maybe can afford one more loss, maybe too the

500
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Speaker 1: rest of the way. When you're a five hundred team,

501
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Speaker 1: you're saying only two more loss rest away. That's a

502
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Speaker 1: big thing. They are the more desperate team. They are

503
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Speaker 1: playing at home. There'll be a lot of points. I

504
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Speaker 1: like the over, but this is one of those games

505
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Speaker 1: where the Chiefs find a way to win, you know,

506
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Speaker 1: maybe extra roughing, the passer penalty.

507
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Speaker 6: Look what you did.

508
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Speaker 1: They find a way to win a Butcker field goal

509
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Speaker 1: of ma Homes drive at the end. Again, tons of points.

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Speaker 1: I love the points, but the fact that Daniel Jones

511
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Speaker 1: is dinged up a little bit. You don't know what

512
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Speaker 1: his status is. A midweek practice injury likely has them

513
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Speaker 1: on the injured list for a little bit for this weekend.

514
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Speaker 1: I expect them to play, but you never know how

515
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Speaker 1: health he is.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is a game the Chiefs pull out and they

518
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Speaker 1: win to get to six and five, and now Monday,

519
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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna say, oh, there they are.

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Speaker 3: They beat the team of the best record of the AFC.

521
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are back to Now the Chiefs will simply

522
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Speaker 1: be six and five and still struggling for the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: Chiefs a three point favorite, fifty as you're over under

524
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Speaker 6: right now. Uh, we did see it last night and

525
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Speaker 6: it trickled into the morning. Remember when Adrian Hill, the

526
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Speaker 6: NFL referee, left Thursday Night football with the injury.

527
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Speaker 3: And the non contact injury. Yeah, alright, well.

528
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Speaker 6: He avoided a major injury. But I saw him attributed

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Speaker 6: Chief Star avoids major injury. Was trending on the interwebs.

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Speaker 6: Yeah no, he'll play certainly there. But you know the

531
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Speaker 6: point that that Jones is dealing with an injury. It's

532
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Speaker 6: a big deal coming out of a bye week. Look,

533
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Speaker 6: I expect with the new insertions on defense, an extra

534
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Speaker 6: week and a half of meetings, that the Colts defense

535
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Speaker 6: will be game. They had some issue in the secondary

536
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Speaker 6: addressed at the deadline and everything, but this is one

537
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Speaker 6: to the desperation mode that comes into play now. Rashid

538
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Speaker 6: Rice another week, Keep waiting for heroics. They haven't really

539
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Speaker 6: seen it except for those first two weeks. That's normalized

540
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Speaker 6: a bit. The run game remains sporadic, whether it's Pacheco

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Speaker 6: or Kareem Hunt or Bushard Smith. You're not seeing continuity

542
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Speaker 6: there in the offensive line. We highlighted some of the

543
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Speaker 6: stats a little bit earlier in the show to where

544
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Speaker 6: you're talking about the fourth most pressures in the NFL,

545
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Speaker 6: number one, far and away obviously justin Herbert, but for

546
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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes, there's not a whole lot of set your

547
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Speaker 6: feet and deliver the ball. Go figure. That's exactly what

548
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Speaker 6: we were talking about with Josh Allen a bunch last night,

549
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Speaker 6: right that you're not getting that extra beat to look

550
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Speaker 6: down field and set up and work on timing, and

551
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Speaker 6: that'll be key here. But looking for that Chiefs defense

552
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Speaker 6: no slouch themselves to handle the Indie high powered offense

553
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Speaker 6: and get a much needed win at home. Nothing else

554
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Speaker 6: is an extra storyline for the back end. Folks can

555
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Speaker 6: get excitable as you say and say, hey they're back. No,

556
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Speaker 6: it's a win, one of many they'll need to string

557
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Speaker 6: up if they want to play meaningful football. In January.

558
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Speaker 1: We got more football coming up in ninety seconds, including

559
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Speaker 1: a big upset pick. But first let's find out what's

560
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Speaker 1: trending from a guy who's been called the Andy Reid

561
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Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. If you go out to eat

562
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Speaker 1: fast food with him, he will steal your nuggies. It's

563
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Speaker 1: Steve de Seger, big Cheezburgers fan.

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Speaker 6: I think that's all we have in common.

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Speaker 9: I'm just guessing he's had a couple more than I

566
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Speaker 9: have in my life. The late game in the NHL

567
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Speaker 9: went to Boston in overtime in LA two to one. Earlier,

568
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Speaker 9: Minnesota with a shutout five nothing win at Pittsburgh Buffalo

569
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Speaker 9: nine three over Chicago, and Carolina was a four to

570
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Speaker 9: three winner at Winnipeg. The Jets MVP goalie Connor Hellibook

571
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Speaker 9: will have knee surgerysetter and then miss four to six weeks.

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Speaker 9: The Lake College football game there were two tonight is

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Speaker 9: on FS one and with about five minutes to go

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Speaker 9: at UNLV, It's now Rebels thirty eight to ten over Hawaii.

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Speaker 9: UNLV ready to go to nine and two on the season.

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Speaker 9: NC State beat Florida State twenty one to eleven seminoles

577
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Speaker 9: with four turnovers. They missed a couple of field goal attempts.

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Speaker 9: Florida State two and six in the acc old miss

579
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Speaker 9: as an announcement on the future of coach Lane Kiffin

580
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Speaker 9: will come in about a week after the rivalry game

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Speaker 9: at Mississippi State. Virginia Tech's new contract with James Franklin

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Speaker 9: exapenn State is for five years and more than forty

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Speaker 9: million dollars. Texas A and M gave athletic director trev

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Speaker 9: Alberts a six year extension. The Detroit Lions star tight

585
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Speaker 9: end Sam Laporta is likely out for the year after

586
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Speaker 9: back surgery. Quarterback rookie for the Giants, Jackson Dart is

587
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Speaker 9: still out with a concussion, so Jameis Winston will start

588
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Speaker 9: again at Detroit. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is questionable. He's

589
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Speaker 9: still on IR with a toe injury. The Broncos gave

590
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Speaker 9: kicker Will LUTs a three year extension. Packers running back

591
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Speaker 9: Josh Jacobs is questionable. He was limited in practice today

592
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Speaker 9: with a knee injury, but Colts quarterback Daniel Jones practice

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Speaker 9: fully and will play Sunday against Kansas City and the

594
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Speaker 9: forty nine Ers are increasingly frustrated with injured wide receiver

595
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Speaker 9: Brandon Ayuk, according to the Athletic that he reportedly missed

596
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Speaker 9: some meetings and did not communicate well to the NBA.

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Speaker 9: Late game, Portland wins at Golden State one twenty seven,

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Speaker 9: one twenty three despite thirty eight points from Steph Curry.

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Speaker 9: Oklahoma City is sixteen to one after dominating the second

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Speaker 9: half at Utah one forty four to one twelve. The

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Speaker 9: final thundershot sixty one percent from the floor for the game.

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Speaker 9: Shake iljis Alexander with another thirty one points. Denver got

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Speaker 9: thirty four from Nikola jokicen a three point win at

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Speaker 9: Houston won twelve one oh nine. Phoenix over Minnesota one fourteen,

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Speaker 9: one thirteen despite forty one points from Anthony Edwards on

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Speaker 9: the winning side for the Suns, Devin Booker was four

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Speaker 9: of eighteen shooting from the floor, tenn assist nine turnovers.

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Speaker 9: Dallas edge New Orleans one eighteen one fifteen New Orleans

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Speaker 9: Pelicans two and fourteen. Easy wins for Miami and for Toronto,

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Speaker 9: which shripped Washington Washington one and fourteen. Cleveland over Indiana

611
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Speaker 9: Pacers two and fourteen. Brooklyn was two and twelve but

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Speaker 9: got to win at Boston one thirteen one oh five.

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Speaker 9: A triple double for Nick Claxton and men's college hoops

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Speaker 9: number one Perdue all over fifteenth ranked Texas Tech in

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Speaker 9: the Bahamas eighty six fifty six wins for Louisville and

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Speaker 9: BYU women's number one Connecticut beat number six Michigan on

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Speaker 9: Fox TV tonight, seventy two sixty nine Notre Dame edge

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Speaker 9: USC on a late bess get sixty one fifty nine.

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Speaker 6: Back to You, Thank you, Steve O.

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Speaker 1: The biggest game in college football tomorrow, USC and Oregon

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Speaker 1: all sorts of college football playoff, Big Time Playoff implications.

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Speaker 1: USC could clint basically clinch a spot in the playoff

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Speaker 1: with a win, although it would be on on brand

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Speaker 1: for USC to win and then lose the next week

625
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Speaker 1: to Jerry new heisl and UCLA and they carry new

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Speaker 1: hisel off the field again. And look, Oregon would be

627
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Speaker 1: in trouble with a loss. You know they can basically

628
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Speaker 1: clinch a spot if with a win it's a ten

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Speaker 1: point spread. And but I gotta be honest, I got

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Speaker 1: a feeling you are gonna see US's best game of

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Speaker 1: the year tomorrow. I feel like they've been building to

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Speaker 1: this game for a while, Like and Lincoln Riley needs

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Speaker 1: a big signature win with US because he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: it yet. This team is really good, right, They've beaten

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Speaker 1: some teams that are talented that aren't great, but hey,

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Speaker 1: beating Michigan, Michigan is still pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Iowa is still pretty good. They won these games. Yes,

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Speaker 3: they won the road, and they lost a couple of games.

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Speaker 1: Not saying us he's perfect, but Oregon had trouble with

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Speaker 1: Indiana's offense, and USC's offense is really good. My ivor

641
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Speaker 1: is really good. They have they have playmakers at wide receiver,

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00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: at running back. I know it's on the road, but

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Speaker 1: USC just has to survive the crowd in the first

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Speaker 1: quarter of this game. And this is where Lincoln Riley.

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Speaker 1: People go back in on Lincoln Riley and on Monday

646
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Speaker 1: they're saying he just needed time to get his guys

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Speaker 1: in and it wasn't odds that's the time to figure

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Speaker 1: out the nil party out of that. But something tells me,

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Speaker 1: I got a gut feeling we're gonna get USC's best

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Speaker 1: game tomorrow and it's gonna be the biggest win of

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley's USC career. Look at you nine and a

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Speaker 1: half the total right or out to ten in some spots,

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Speaker 1: but looking at two teams that score at will Oregon

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Speaker 1: plus twenty three scoring differential, USC about seventeen. I think

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Speaker 1: the hard part here is stopping the Oregon running attack

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Speaker 1: averaging about six point three yards per carry, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's the difference here worn down road games, and

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Speaker 1: this is where Lincoln Riley struggled. He got the wins

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Speaker 1: over what Nebraska Purdue. They're not good so two and

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Speaker 1: six against on the road outside of California since last year.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a tough spot and they'll keep it

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Speaker 1: closed good enough offensively to do some damage, but they

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Speaker 1: take the l and then we do a lot of

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Speaker 1: hand ringing as to the future of Lincoln Riley once again.

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Speaker 3: Oh you day sayer, you non believer. You wait and

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Speaker 3: see where do you going?

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Speaker 6: Deon sanders on me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wait and see.

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Speaker 6: How'd that work out for him?

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Speaker 3: Exit up out of Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next, we take a.

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Speaker 1: Look at two of the biggest games in the NFL

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Helping us Out'll be in elementary school. Yay,

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Speaker 1: that's next, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, finishing our show to them out of a

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Speaker 1: football Friday with a flourish two big games to look

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Speaker 1: at at one via the help of Philadelphia Elementary School

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Speaker 1: yay uh in a story that is straight out of

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Speaker 1: habit Elementary uh a viral video the last twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours of a school it's it's Cowboys week, so you know,

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia is absolutely insane for this game.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Video of elementary.

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Speaker 2: School kids punching big.

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Speaker 1: Photos that are put up in the hallways of Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboy players. Now they're kind of put up on like

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Speaker 1: punching bags and stuff, so the so the kids can

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Speaker 1: punch them and and and and not get hurt. But

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Speaker 1: you see, like there's big pictures of Ceede Lamb and

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and the the reporter is there trying to

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Speaker 1: interview the kids.

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Speaker 3: The kids are just punching these things. This is so

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Speaker 3: on brand for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: This is like the oversized bot bags that you had

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Speaker 6: that had like Bozo the Clown or Batman as a kid. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: on punching bags and giant blown up I want to

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Speaker 6: know how much those photos cost A blow. That's a

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Speaker 6: good bit man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, it is. I mean they uh you know,

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Speaker 3: they they went to town on it.

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Speaker 1: There was there were no kids that weren't like sort

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Speaker 1: of but no, they were all punching dacks.

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Speaker 6: Frustrations going. I'm sure plenty of folks started doing the

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Speaker 6: armchair psychology of what the hell is going on here?

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Speaker 3: I really was waiting for Dak.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for Janelle James to come walking through

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Speaker 1: the hallway of saying something or filming a TikTok video.

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Speaker 3: Really, I was really waiting for that. We partnered with

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Speaker 3: a local fitness and they pay us.

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Speaker 1: But uh, look two teams dealing with all sorts of

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Speaker 1: controversy and dysfunction. Jerry Jones even was asked about the

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Speaker 1: Eagles dysfunction earlier this week and he said, yeah, give

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Speaker 1: me some of that because the Eagles are thriving in it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're gonna level sure, Uh yes, it's in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: I know Dallas is feeling pretty good about themselves getting

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Speaker 1: back in after but you beat the Raiders, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's the Raiders, uh, the Eagles. I would expect a

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Speaker 1: bit of a bounce coming off of last week's game

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Speaker 1: against the Lines, where their defense showed up and they said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're a super Bowl caliber defense again, just in case

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Speaker 1: you forgot, you'd expect to bounce, but not Cowboys week.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a rough game for Dallas Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia win this by forty because the more controversial the

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Speaker 1: week gets, the better they play. Oh, no one likes

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. Now I'm gonna throw for three hundred yards

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Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. You don't like how I play, I'll

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Speaker 1: deliver you guys the football. I'll get you guys the

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Speaker 1: ball the week you all say that I'm doing my

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Speaker 1: own thing. Let's see, it'll gonna be a rough week

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Speaker 1: for Dallas. They won't do what they think they can

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Speaker 1: do offensively, and the Eagles can sit back and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we can basically clinch the NFC East this week. It'll

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Speaker 1: be a four game league basically on the Cowboys. If

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Speaker 1: we win with five left, yeah, give me the Eagles

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Speaker 1: big in this game.

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Speaker 6: Go all the way back to what Week one, twenty

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Speaker 6: four to twenty youth final, No Jalen Carter, So you

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Speaker 6: got a little bit more run from Javonte Williams that

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Speaker 6: gets swallowed up. Their top ten defense in terms of

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Speaker 6: scoring defense. You know, the only thing that matters. You

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Speaker 6: can keep your yardage thing. Uh, let me let me

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Speaker 6: know how many points everybody gives up when it's all

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Speaker 6: said and done. This Eagles squad, you know, whether it's

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Speaker 6: Brown or DeVante, Smith or Goddard, they're gonna feast. Saquon

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Speaker 6: Barkley's sitting over there. Hey, aj Brown called me out

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Speaker 6: kinda sorta he wants some of the deflection. So I'm

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Speaker 6: gonna go up and put up some points and some numbers.

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Speaker 6: And Dallas's defense expected to be better than what it

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Speaker 6: was a couple of weeks ago. But you know, anybody

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Speaker 6: trying to do a massive evaluation off of beating the Raiders,

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Speaker 6: come on, man, what are we doing elsewhere?

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Speaker 1: None of the other big games of the week. Two

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Speaker 1: teams that are really good going in opposite directions, the

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Speaker 1: Bucks and the Rams. All Right, the Bucks, it's a

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Speaker 1: rough spot in the schedule and the injuries are catching

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Speaker 1: up to them. They made it work for a long time,

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Speaker 1: but as we saw, the guy they've missed the most,

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Speaker 1: even though they're getting decent production. Sean Tucker Hand a

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Speaker 1: big game out of the backfield. Yeah, they're missing Bucky

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Speaker 1: Irving and what he does in the passing game, because

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Speaker 1: that's Baker mayfields, that's his security blanket. You see the

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Speaker 1: games he's able to drive them down to game winning

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Speaker 1: scores earlier this year, Lots of plays to Bucky Irving.

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Speaker 1: Now it's gonna help. They're getting Chris Godwin back in theory,

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Speaker 1: they get him back this week. Everything is trending well,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of injuries, and the Rams are just

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Speaker 1: a better team. Their defense is terrific. It's a top

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Speaker 1: three NFL defense and they're playing at home. This is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a Rams win. They go to nine and

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Speaker 1: two and suddenly it's gonna be Rams Eagles, Rams Eagles.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about for home field advantage, and that Eagles

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Speaker 1: win over the Rams is gonna be a big thing.

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Speaker 1: But I do like better days ahead for the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: I know they're coming back to the pack a little

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Speaker 1: bit here, but it's a rough patch in the schedule.

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Speaker 1: They're still the best team in the South. They'll get

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Speaker 1: it going the last month plus of the season. I

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Speaker 1: still feel good about the Bucks, just not Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Ram.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wan'll be fun to watch with the Buccaneers

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Speaker 6: down the stretches that they get that I'm sorry Road

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Speaker 6: Dolphin's home game, so you get two games against Carolina

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Speaker 6: in the final three weeks. So that'll be interesting potentially

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Speaker 6: for the division when it's all said and done. But

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Speaker 6: you know, outside of Abuca trying to find consistency, you

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Speaker 6: haven't had it in the passing game these last the

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Speaker 6: last month, Mayfield has struggled not having that safety valve

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Speaker 6: as you mentioned, with Bucky Irving as good as Tucker,

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Speaker 6: as good as Rashaan White's been in spots, the attrition

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Speaker 6: in the receiving corps has been amens and defensively they

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Speaker 6: can get gashed and that's where Matthew Stafford company carve

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Speaker 6: them up in a big Sunday night affair.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, the Rams have gone absolutely opposite of

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Speaker 1: where they were the last three years, which is we

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Speaker 1: started out great, which they need to because they want

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Speaker 1: to play that. They don't want to go to Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: in late January. They want Philadelphia to come to LA

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Speaker 1: in late January. They are focused, they are ready. Look,

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Speaker 1: there's a reason why I think the Rams are the

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Speaker 1: best team in football. They're showing it.

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Speaker 3: The continue to show it and watch out because of

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Speaker 3: all the teams to believe in, zero of them are

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Speaker 3: in the AFC. They are all in the NF.

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Speaker 6: Just don't let it come down to kickers and the

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Speaker 6: Rams will be just fine.

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Speaker 1: Even the first place Bears will win again this week

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Speaker 1: and prove that, Hey, I was right what I told you.

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Speaker 1: The era of good feeling is here. Mike Harmon doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean I don't have to take a Toms every week.

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Speaker 3: No, for Mike, I'm Jason. It's F and A on FSR.

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Speaker 3: Next Fox