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Speaker 1: The best gift this holiday season is sharing it with

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Speaker 1: the ones you love. Unless your team is in a

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Speaker 1: playoff chase, then you know clinching a home game would

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Speaker 1: be pretty nice. Our two wise men, Brian Baldyer and

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, are here tonight to help us break down

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Speaker 1: the biggest matchups of week seventeen. It is Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 1: not Valentine's Day, but it's never too soon for love.

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Speaker 1: Julian Love, the Seahawks safety, joins us tonight to talk

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Speaker 1: about is Walter Payton Man of the Year nomination and

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Speaker 1: whether Sam Darnold can fill Seattle stockings with some playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: There's another holiday that starts tomorrow. It's Fantasy Championship weekend.

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Speaker 1: Before you set your lineup for maximum merriment, Marcus Grant

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Speaker 1: will be here tonight to tell you who to load

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Speaker 1: into the sleigh and who to leave. Ho Ho home.

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Speaker 1: Now, Welcome inside with the Insiders, presented by Progressive Insurance,

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Speaker 1: alongside Ian Rapperboard and Judy Batista. I am tom peliicero.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to all those of you who celebrate. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for spending the next hour with us. No doubt

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Speaker 1: watching on your phone while hiding from your family in

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Speaker 2: We got news to get to.

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Speaker 1: Let's start out in Baltimore where Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: did not practice again today as he deals with a

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Speaker 1: last week's game. It is win or go home for

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Speaker 1: you're looking for some encouraging signs about jackson status, well

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily look to John Arba.

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Speaker 3: Undetermined right now, non participation today, was not able to practice,

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Speaker 3: and I know he's fighting like crazy. To get back,

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Speaker 3: So anot of reports or things that gets said or

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Speaker 1: Things that John harbaughd does not want to be talking

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Speaker 1: and the health of his quarterback both pretty high on

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Speaker 1: the list. Here, Ian, what do you make of the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll start with the second part. First. There's been

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Speaker 5: no official determination on Lamar Jackson's status, but my feel,

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Speaker 5: be sure, has been a frustrating season on many levels.

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Speaker 5: Judy Lamar has not practiced as much as they thought.

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Speaker 5: He has been injured in some games, and as we

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Speaker 6: to reporters. John Harbaugh has been his head coach for

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Speaker 6: eighteen years. Steve Baschatti has never fired a head coach.

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Speaker 7: He's got six touchdown passes.

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Speaker 4: To Miko Ryans, the.

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Speaker 1: Only thing better than listening to you guys talk about

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network. That's right Justin Herbert and the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Come first on this show. Right here, it's a Christmas

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Speaker 5: good game. They bring it on offense. What do you

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Speaker 5: see from this Carolina team that you guys are facing

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Speaker 5: on Sunday?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, this team, I mean, I think they're kind of

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Speaker 9: finding their identity as an organization and it's gonna take

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Speaker 9: off for sure. You know, they've beaten some good teams

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Speaker 9: this year. They have on offense, they have skill, they

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Speaker 9: have a great running back room, Bryce Hun's playing at

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Speaker 9: a high level, and then they have young receivers who

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Speaker 9: are taking over games. And so it does present some

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Speaker 9: challenges and they're just not a team you can you

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Speaker 9: can really sleep on. We know, we just have to

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Speaker 9: bring our best going into their house. Their stadium has

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Speaker 9: more juice than in the past, and so yeah, they

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Speaker 9: present some challenges.

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Speaker 4: We got to go and compete for real.

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Speaker 1: Julian, congrats again on the award. Best luck the rest

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Speaker 1: of this season. Have a merry Christmas as well. Man,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you down the line.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Marry Christmas. Thank you guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: by Progressive Insurance. The Chicago Bears lead the NFL with

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Speaker 5: thirty one takeaways this season, my guy Dennis Allen. They

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Speaker 5: also have a league leading plus twenty one turnover differential.

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Speaker 5: The last time the Bears led the league in turnover differential,

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Speaker 5: they were shuffling into Super Bowl eighty five. That is

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Speaker 5: not bad company to keep if you are these Chicago Bears. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: here is the NFC playoff picture. A lot of really

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Speaker 5: good teams on there. A couple of the teams are

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Speaker 5: actually playing each other this week forty nine Ers and Bears.

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Speaker 5: Really good one coming up for us. Like to bring

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Speaker 5: in our good friends Brian Baldon and Bucky Brooks Baldy.

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Speaker 5: I want to start with you. You got two really

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Speaker 5: good teams, and the Bears and the forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 5: both of them headed to the playoffs. Big time showdown.

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Speaker 5: How do you see this game breaking down for.

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Speaker 2: All of us?

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Speaker 7: Well, I mean this is very competitive here. I mean

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Speaker 7: we've got four teams right there you just put on

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Speaker 7: the list. They got a eleven wins, all with a

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Speaker 7: chance to get the number one seeds. So there's a

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Speaker 7: lot to play for. I'll take this. I'll take this

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Speaker 7: side of it. I'll take We just watched, you know,

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Speaker 7: Brock Perdy put on an epic performance Monday night against

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Speaker 7: the Colts. Five touchdown passes. We know Kyle Shanahan called

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Speaker 7: an excellent game. You got the matchups he was looking

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Speaker 7: for and perty executed it. The Chicago Bears don't have

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Speaker 7: a great defense, but as you mentioned, Ian, they leave

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Speaker 7: the league with thirty one takeaways.

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Speaker 2: They've got land mines everywhere along the defensive front, from

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Speaker 2: the back end, Kevin Byer, who leaves the league interceptions

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Speaker 2: for the second time in his career a pro bowler,

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Speaker 2: nay Sean Wright. Get what they do with Tremaine Edmunds,

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Speaker 2: that middle linebacker You've got to be careful with some

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Speaker 2: of the layer throws that Kyle Shanahan loves to throw

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. You get your finger

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Speaker 2: tips on some of those. Sometimes you can get some takeaways.

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Speaker 7: So I think if you asked a lot of defensive

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Speaker 7: coordinators like Dennis Allen, would you rather lead the league

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Speaker 7: in defense or takeaways? They would probably say, we'd rather

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Speaker 7: lead the league in takeaways. And so that's what the

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Speaker 7: Bears can give you. They can take the ball away.

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Speaker 7: They did it against the Green Bay Packers to help

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Speaker 7: win that game. They got an on side kick that

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Speaker 7: helped get the ne extra possession, and so I think

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Speaker 7: that's what the forty nine ers have to really contend

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Speaker 7: with here this week is a defense that's proficient at

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Speaker 7: getting the ball back to the offense and getting extra

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Speaker 7: bats for Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 8: You know, boud do you talk about a defense being

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Speaker 8: a takeaway defense, and that is the most important statistic

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Speaker 8: in football.

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Speaker 4: Can you take the ball away from the opponent? It

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Speaker 4: leads to wins.

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Speaker 8: And the Bears of being able to do that, and

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Speaker 8: with Ben Jason dolling the offense the way that he's

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Speaker 8: been doing it. They've been able to run the football,

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Speaker 8: calmun Nungai, DeAndre White, Jondre Swift being able to get

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Speaker 8: it done passing it on the perimeter, Kayleb Williams being

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Speaker 8: very efficient. But I'm gonna say this, I believe Kyle

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Speaker 8: Shanahan has done his best coaching job of his career

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Speaker 8: this season with the Niners. The Niners have had injuries abound.

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Speaker 8: The Niners are traditionally talked about as a title contending.

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Speaker 8: This is the first year coming in that no one

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Speaker 8: really hailed them as a contender. I think that it

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Speaker 8: has freed them up to just try and be the

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Speaker 8: best version of themselves. And what we're seeing is a

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Speaker 8: team that has taken that process mindset and just gotten

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Speaker 8: better and better.

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Speaker 4: They're not perfect, they have flaws, but man, their.

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Speaker 8: Confidence, their connectivity, their chemistry is coming together at the

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Speaker 8: right time. And you can look up and you can

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Speaker 8: see the San Francisco forty nine ers owning the number

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Speaker 8: one seed where they play at home the entire month

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Speaker 8: of January and February on their way to another Super

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Speaker 8: Bowl appearance.

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Speaker 4: That's how good the Niners are playing.

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Speaker 5: They might never play another away game. It's crazy and

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Speaker 5: the fact that they may have to play this week

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Speaker 5: without George Kittle for every other team would be a

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Speaker 5: huge deal for them. It's sort of like they're used

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Speaker 5: to it. You guys can handled Bucky Baldy. Thank you

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Speaker 5: very much, great stuff, Great breakdowns is always cannot wait

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Speaker 5: for that one.

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Speaker 10: Hey, I'm Hunter Henry from the New England Patriots, and

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Speaker 10: I'm wishing you and your family at Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: All right, This is Alex Heiswerth the Pittsburgh Dealers.

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Speaker 7: I just wanted to wish you and your family a

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Speaker 7: merry Christmas and happy holidays.

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Speaker 9: My name is Tom la Charges and I want to

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Speaker 9: wish you and if im me a happy holiday.

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Speaker 4: Hello.

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Speaker 7: This is Rob Gronkowski and I want to wish you

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Speaker 7: and your family the happiest happy holidays.

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Speaker 1: That one makes me laugh every time. This guy that

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Speaker 1: was a serious news man, Our guy, Cameron Wolf aka

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Speaker 1: the Wolf of ball Street with me Tom Peliicero here

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Speaker 1: on the Insiders Week seventeen, Tons at Steak Cam. Where

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Speaker 1: are we starting on what you're hearing around the league?

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Speaker 11: Tom, Let's start the Wolf of ball Street in Buffalo,

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Speaker 11: where James Cook should be a top contenitor. Of Offensive

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Speaker 11: Player of the Year. He told me in the locker

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Speaker 11: room after this past win that I want the rushing title.

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Speaker 11: That's something I want on my mantle, in part because

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Speaker 11: it's something my brother Dalvin Cook doesn't have. James Cook.

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Speaker 11: I remember back in April, I was on a fishing

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Speaker 11: boat with James Cook and he told me, I'm going

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Speaker 11: into this year like it's my last year in Buffalo.

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Speaker 11: He hadn't got his long term deal yet, there was

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Speaker 11: questions about his future. He came out here had his

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Speaker 11: best year as a pro after getting that long term deal.

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Speaker 11: He's also been extremely vocal hyping guys up on the

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Speaker 11: sideline during games, being that sole member of the Bills offense.

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Speaker 11: As they go into a period towards the playoffs, they're

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Speaker 11: going to lean more and more on Cook and he

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Speaker 11: has records that he wants to break, including that rushing title,

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Speaker 11: which he currently has in his grasp. Next, let's go

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Speaker 11: to Pittsburgh, where the legend of Kenny g is getting

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Speaker 11: more and more attention. They're offensive coording to Arthur. Smith

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Speaker 11: told me he loves gainwell, mostly because of how he

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Speaker 11: can contribute as a receiver. We saw that catch last week.

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Speaker 11: The incredible grab he made with his concentration. With DK

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Speaker 11: Metcalfs suspended, They're going to lean even more on Gainwell.

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Speaker 2: As a receiver.

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Speaker 11: Don't be surprised to see Gainwell and Jalen Warren out

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Speaker 11: on the field at the same time with Gainwell playing receiver.

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Speaker 11: They love his hands and he's built a trust with

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Speaker 11: Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers has told people he's one of the

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Speaker 11: smartest players on this team and he trusts him in

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Speaker 11: key situations.

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Speaker 4: So Kenneth Gainwell may be.

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Speaker 11: A X factor for the Steelers' playoff run. And finally,

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Speaker 11: let's go to Carolina, where Rico Dawdle has been one

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Speaker 11: of the best value free agency signings. They signed him

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Speaker 11: for a one year, two point seventy five million dollar deal,

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Speaker 11: and now he has setting himself up to get paid.

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Speaker 11: He has a huge incentive this week. If he gets

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Speaker 11: seventy scrimmage yards, he gets one million dollars. He also

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Speaker 11: gets another two hundred fifty thousand dollars if he gets

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Speaker 11: a touchdown. Is a part of his incentiate based contract,

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Speaker 11: setting him up for this career year. And I remember

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Speaker 11: talking to general manager Dan Morgan a few weeks ago

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Speaker 11: talking about how they saw Dowdle play well against them

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Speaker 11: last year, and when they got rid of Miles Sanders,

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Speaker 11: they dialed into Dowdle as a backup running back. He

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Speaker 11: has become the lead dog for much of the year,

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Speaker 11: and now he has the opportunity to continue to lead

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Speaker 11: them going forward and potentially get paid not only that

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Speaker 11: a million dollars incentive, but also big money this offseason

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Speaker 11: when he hits freegency.

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Speaker 1: Cam great stuff as always. You know what's even cooler

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Speaker 1: than one million dollars, Let's find the playoffs ready in.

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Speaker 5: Seventy scrimmage yards for a million bucks. Count me in

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Speaker 5: on that. I don't get any of it, but I

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Speaker 5: am excited for Rico Daldo on that one. Here's the

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Speaker 5: NFC playoff picture. A lot of things have been decided,

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Speaker 5: a lot of teams have clinch berths, and there is

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Speaker 5: the NFC South. Can I wait to see how this

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Speaker 5: plays out? Assuming the Bucks can get us to Week eighteen?

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Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield, what's going on?

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Speaker 10: Yeah? I mean, listen, we would love to be and

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Speaker 10: I would love for us to be in a different

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Speaker 10: spot than we're in right now. Don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 10: but we've been here before and you can always rely

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Speaker 10: on those experiences and take what you've learned and go

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Speaker 10: from there. But I trust this group. You know it

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Speaker 10: hasn't been our best play by any means. I know

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Speaker 10: that we all know that, but we can still accomplish

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Speaker 10: everything we want to.

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Speaker 5: Still all there for the ten Bay Buccaneers as we

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Speaker 5: welcome in Judy Batista once again, Judy, allow me the

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Speaker 5: honor of team you up on your own article on

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Speaker 5: NFL dot com that sorts through all the teams that

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Speaker 5: have clinched playoff bers, all the upsets coming, kind of

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Speaker 5: the ins and outs of what we're going to see

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Speaker 5: over the course of the next couple of weeks. So

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Speaker 5: we saw Baker Mayfield there talking about the future of

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Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What is at stake here and

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Speaker 5: what should we expect from Baker's team.

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Speaker 6: Well, Baker is right, it's all still in front of them.

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Speaker 6: If the Bucks went out, they still win the NFC South.

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Speaker 6: But certainly things have gone sideways for this team. They've

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Speaker 6: lost six of their last seven after starting hot, and

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Speaker 6: I think what's most concerning is everybody was waiting for

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Speaker 6: them to get healthy, figuring then the offense would kick

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Speaker 6: into gear and things would go back to normal. Except

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Speaker 6: they are as healthy as they have been at any

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Speaker 6: point this season. The offense is almost entirely intact, and

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Speaker 6: it's still not getting better. They're averaging just nineteen points

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Speaker 6: per game since Week twelve, that's twenty fifth in the league.

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Speaker 6: Baker's performance has declined as well. He's thrown six interceptions

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Speaker 6: in the six game since Week eleven. His completion percentage

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Speaker 6: has dropped by seven percentage points. So it's just not

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Speaker 6: clicking into gear again. They're healthy, it's still in front

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Speaker 6: of them, but certainly it's worrisome for the Bucks that

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Speaker 6: they were building up to this opportunity to get everybody

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Speaker 6: on the field together. Now they are together, and the

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Speaker 6: offense still hasn't clicked into gear.

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Speaker 5: Pressures on for the next two weeks. I really wonder

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Speaker 5: if that left shoulder injury is still affected Baker. Maybe

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Speaker 5: that's some of the issues there were probably never going

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Speaker 5: to know. He's never going to say anything, but I

661
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Speaker 5: do wonder about that. All right, take me to Green Bay.

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Speaker 5: No Michaeh Parsons last week. Obviously the defense is going

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Speaker 5: to collapse, except they didn't actually looked really good. What

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Speaker 5: do we expect here from the Packers defense that is

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Speaker 5: somehow still standing.

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Speaker 6: I think the Packer defense may be okay. Is it

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Speaker 6: going to be as spectacular as if Michael Parsons were

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Speaker 6: on the field. No, he's not replaceable. But this was

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Speaker 6: a top five defense last season, so they're not starting

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Speaker 6: from zero. They held the Chicago Bears for fifty nine

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Speaker 6: and a half minutes last week to nine points. They

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Speaker 6: are playing well. They still look competent. They don't look

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Speaker 6: disorganized without Michael Parsons. The pass that Caleb Williams threw

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Speaker 6: to win the game was a perfect cast. The coverage

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Speaker 6: was good. It wasn't like it was bad coverage. It

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Speaker 6: was just a perfectly placed paths and a perfect catch.

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Speaker 6: So I think the Packers are going to be okay.

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Speaker 6: Can they win a Super Bowl without on Michael Porson's

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Speaker 6: I don't know. We will see, but certainly they are

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Speaker 6: good enough as a defense right now to get into

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Speaker 6: the playoffs and maybe to make a little noise.

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Speaker 5: I feel like had they not traded for Micah Parson

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Speaker 5: before the season, we'd still be talking about this really

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Speaker 5: good Packers defense. They just it's a challenge, but everyone

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Speaker 5: has challenges.

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Speaker 10: This time.

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Speaker 5: All Right, the Seattle Seahawks don't have many challenges. They

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Speaker 5: are very good rolling along there. New friend Julian Love

689
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Speaker 5: was just talking about his quarterback Sam Donald and how

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Speaker 5: just chill he is. Donald has also kind of lashed

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Speaker 5: back at his doubters a little bit, not with his words,

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Speaker 5: that's not like him, but with his play.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, last week I think was a really important moment

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Speaker 6: for Sam Donald's. First of all, a game with absolutely

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Speaker 6: enormous stakes, and he did struggle early, right through those

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Speaker 6: two interceptions, and I think we were all watching saying like,

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Speaker 6: oh no. But then he rallied, and he rallied the team,

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Speaker 6: and he played really well down the stretch, almost flawless.

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Speaker 6: He led those two touchdown drives at the end, and

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Speaker 6: then don't forget he completed three passes on two point conversions.

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Speaker 6: Those were critical in the game too, So I think

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Speaker 6: he exercised some demons in this game. Again, not only

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Speaker 6: did he perform well down the stretch, but he actually

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Speaker 6: rebounded within a game. He didn't get shaken by his

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Speaker 6: early struggles. I always go back to that quote of

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Speaker 6: his saying he was seeing ghosts. He clearly wasn't seeing

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Speaker 6: ghosts for very long. He got rid of the ghosts,

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Speaker 6: and I think we can stop wringing our hands in

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Speaker 6: big games over Sam Darnold, I.

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Speaker 5: Think you're right now. The good thing is they got

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Speaker 5: a couple more coming up next two weeks and then

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Speaker 5: into the playoffs. It'll all play out for us. Judy,

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Speaker 5: great stuff right here, Great stuff on NFL dot com.

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Speaker 5: And I'll see you in a couple of segments because

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Speaker 5: you and I are now going to take a break.

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Speaker 5: And the reason we're going to take a break is

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Speaker 5: because Tom is going to talk with our good friend

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Speaker 5: Marcus Grant about something called fantasy football. Now I've heard

719
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Speaker 5: of this, but because my team was so bad, I

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Speaker 5: am not participating in any fantasy football conversation with anyone

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Speaker 5: who's in the finals. So Tom, this is all you

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Speaker 5: coming up masked.

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Speaker 4: What's up everybody? Lavonte David here, linebacker the Tempa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 8: Wish you guys a happy Holidays and a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy God bless hey. This is Alexis that

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Speaker 2: never broughtors. I just want to wish you and your

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Speaker 2: family happy holidays.

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Speaker 4: This is a shar with the Houston Texas.

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Speaker 2: Just want to wish everybody a happy holidays.

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Speaker 11: I'm Derrick Henry of the Baltimore Ravens, and I want

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Speaker 11: to wish you and your family a happy holidays.

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Speaker 1: Time now to Marcus. My words with our guy, Marcus Grant.

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Speaker 1: If this were a day ago, it would be Festivus.

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Speaker 4: Marcus.

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Speaker 1: I would spend my time here airing the grievances of

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Speaker 1: all the players you know showed me on last week

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Speaker 1: and cost me a spot in my fantasy championship.

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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna give the floor to you.

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Speaker 1: We're talking players in your fantasy lineups for the championship

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Speaker 1: who are not gonna leave Cole in your stocking for

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Speaker 1: the guys you were worried about. Give me a quarterback

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Speaker 1: who you don't want to see Santa coming down the

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Speaker 1: chimney with.

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Speaker 12: Well, it's gonna be Bryce Young right now. And some

745
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Speaker 12: weeks Bryce Young has been naughty, some weeks he's been nice.

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Speaker 12: He was pretty me in a pair of positive matchups lately,

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Speaker 12: and look I get it. Last week Seattle got roasted

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Speaker 12: by Matthew Stafford like chestnuts over and open fire. But

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Speaker 12: generally speaking, they've been screwed against quarterbacks all season long.

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Speaker 12: A bottom ten matchup for the position. So there's a

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Speaker 12: really good chance Ryce Young could be more like Bob

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Speaker 12: Cratchit this holiday weekend.

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Speaker 1: All right, how about a running back marcus that you'd

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Speaker 1: be worried about if you see him sitting under the tree.

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Speaker 12: It's gonna be Ashton Gentz and last week against the

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Speaker 12: Houston Texans kind of came out of nowhere. It was

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Speaker 12: like an early Christmas gift for a lot of people.

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Speaker 12: The problem is that Raiders offensive line has been more

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Speaker 12: crampist than Kringle this year because of a Gent's been

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Speaker 12: inefficient running the football. No brock Bowers, which means you

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Speaker 12: can target him a little bit more. Plus the Giants

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Speaker 12: running back charity may have dried up recently. They've been

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Speaker 12: a bottom six matchup for the position over the last

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Speaker 12: four weeks. So may not be any silver and black

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Speaker 12: bells ringing in this Raiders offense this week.

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Speaker 1: Nargus, give me a wide receiver who's the equivalent of

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Speaker 1: the leaky jello or the cap in a box that

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Speaker 1: you don't want to see coming in the front door.

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Speaker 12: That's gonna be Michael Wilson, unfortunately, because he's been really

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Speaker 12: good for us down the stretch. Here's the thing. The

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Speaker 12: Bengals have had a sleigh full of goodies for the

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Speaker 12: tight end position, but the wide receivers have not been

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Speaker 12: able to join in any reindeer games. Against Cincinnati. We

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Speaker 12: know TREYE. McBride's the top target there in Arizona. He

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Speaker 12: is going to eat well. So it makes you wonder

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Speaker 12: how much leftover food will there be for Michael Wilson

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Speaker 12: this week.

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Speaker 4: We'll see if.

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Speaker 5: There's enough holiday cheer to go around.

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Speaker 12: But this is one you might be better off sort of,

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Speaker 12: you know, keeping the receipt on and maybe returning afterwards.

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Speaker 1: One more, a tight end who would be the equivalent

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Speaker 1: of a paint can strung to the ceiling hitney in.

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Speaker 2: The face mark.

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Speaker 12: It's probably gonna be Tyler Warren, unfortunately, who's been great

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Speaker 12: for us all season long, but Philip Rivers deliveries haven't

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Speaker 12: been getting to their intended destination the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 12: Six catches forty nine yards on fifteen targets for Warren

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Speaker 12: With Rivers at quarterback. A bottom three matchup for tight ends,

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Speaker 12: the Jaguars have been the grinch against the position for

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Speaker 12: most of the season. They held Warren to just two

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Speaker 12: catches for fifteen yards back in week fourteen. Unlike a

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Speaker 12: Christmas story, this is an Indiana holiday tale that may

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Speaker 12: not have a really happy ending.

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Speaker 1: Marcus, thank you very much. Merry Christmas. Enjoy your ugly

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Speaker 1: sweater party. Assuming that do you think that that sweater

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Speaker 1: doesn't look good? I'm not quite sure. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: You can feel the intensity at the magnitude of this

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Speaker 1: moment and this matchup. Jump bro stick down a lupside,

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Speaker 1: Wat's mcmillin's.

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Speaker 12: Tax doing a great job.

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Speaker 4: You know, we special pressure off the edge.

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Speaker 1: Bryce dancing in the pocket, tried to old Vada sack

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Speaker 1: he does Bros packing the eadside one open touchdown car.

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Speaker 8: Line up LJTA scramble response, seeing me get outside the

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Speaker 8: pocket and doing a great job of losing as man.

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Speaker 7: And that play happened because Bryce was fimble.

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Speaker 1: Bryce be quick.

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Speaker 5: It feels great and it'll feel great for the next

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Speaker 5: twenty four hours.

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Speaker 4: After that, it's not gonna matter.

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Speaker 11: There still a lot more football to kake again a

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Speaker 11: twenty four hour we'll celebrate this one, but we know

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Speaker 11: that complete.

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Speaker 7: We have to refocused this place Proverst into sweet gerline

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Speaker 7: at Jutison.

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Speaker 4: And it's one of the sweetest South.

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Speaker 12: This city is heard dafter football in.

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Speaker 1: A long time. Another big game Sunday for the Panthers

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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. But first you got three on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Unwrap all day Football with the NFL Holiday Games Cowboys, Commanders,

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Speaker 1: Vikings on Netflix. Then a primetime showdown on Prime Video

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Speaker 1: Broncos against the Chiefs. Three games, one epic holiday. For

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Speaker 1: the full schedule, visit watch dot NFL dot com. Week

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Speaker 1: seventeen rolls on on Saturday, including a big time AFC

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Speaker 1: potential playoff matchup between two teams that are gonna square

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Speaker 1: off right here on NFL Network, CJ. Stroud and the

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Speaker 1: Texans taking on Justin Herbert and the Chargers in his

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Speaker 1: NFL Saturday Watch December twenty seventh. This Saturday, four thirty

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Speaker 1: Eastern only on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus.

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Speaker 1: Subscription required for NFL Plus and it does not end there. Sunday,

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Speaker 1: nine am Eastern. Get Ready for Kickoff, which with Rich

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Speaker 1: Eisen and the crew will break down all the fallout

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Speaker 1: from the Christmas and Saturday games. Patriots tight end hunter

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Speaker 1: Henry talks about what's changed under Mike Vrabel and why

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Speaker 1: he's confident in quarterback Drake May. Plus the Bears and

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers face off as both teams look to

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Speaker 1: keep their hopes for the number one seat alive. And

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Speaker 1: we got our New Year's resolutions for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 11: All that and more.

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Speaker 4: Sunday at nine a m.

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Speaker 1: Eastern I conducted my annual poll of GM's other NFL executives.

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Speaker 1: Votes in from thirty teams, and here are your unofficial winners.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford as the MVP, JS and Miles Garrett t

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Speaker 1: mac Carsons west Or, Mike Rabel, John Schneider, Judy Batista.

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Speaker 1: You often weigh in on these various awards. Anything that

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Speaker 1: surprises you or one where you would vote another direction.

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Speaker 6: Actually, no, I have a vote, and this is how

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Speaker 6: my votes will probably go unless something goes really haywire

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Speaker 6: in these final two weeks.

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Speaker 4: And shake it up for me. Anythink you'd vote differently.

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Speaker 5: I was surprised with Coach of the Year. I mean

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Speaker 5: you hear plenty of people say, well, obviously this locks

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Speaker 5: up Coach of the Year for whoever, and it's it's

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Speaker 5: you could go Sean Payton, you could go Rabe, you

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Speaker 5: could go Canalis, and then that seemed obvious from your poll.

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Speaker 5: I was also surprised that the MVP was not as

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Speaker 5: close as I anticipated with Stafford. I thought Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, but Mike Rabel got thirteen votes. Ben Jonson the

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Speaker 1: runner up with six. John Snyder Loyal Insiders Fan got

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Speaker 1: nineteen and a half for Executive of the Year. Congrats John,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Everybody see