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Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to move the sticks DJ, Bucky back with you, Buck.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Man? Another man? Walk?

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Speaker 3: Our weekend is upon us. It should be a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun to see what is about to happen. We

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Speaker 3: I would say the best single elimination tournament that you

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Speaker 2: Should be a lot of fun to see what happens.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 1: We are going to go through these games, preview the games.

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Speaker 1: What we're looking forward to seeing should be an awesome

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Speaker 1: weekend of football. Looking forward to it. Man, there's storylines

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Speaker 1: that are rich. I don't know that I can ever

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he would be at six million, four thousand, seven

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Speaker 3: Because you talked about having two quarterbacks, two young quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: No, it's going to be an interesting man. Again, We'll

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting there. I'm with you on that Dolphins Chiefs. Dude,

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Speaker 2: DJ, It's not a lot of fun cold weather game.

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Speaker 3: The only thing that I want to do is I

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Speaker 3: So for all those Dolphins guys who say, oh it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, man, that's gonna be a rough one again.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. They defensively have been outstanding. Offensively, I think

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Speaker 1: This one was crazy to me. Mahomes touchdowns of twenty

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Speaker 3: Well, I think what it shows you, and I'll admit

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Speaker 3: Andy Reid comes from green Bay, wearing green Bay. They

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Speaker 3: always believe it's the quarterback Hall of Fame caliber quarterback

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Speaker 2: DJs.

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Speaker 3: So I said, I think it was the last two weeks, Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: The Josh Allen experience is one that can take you

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Speaker 3: But you don't want this to become a track meet

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Speaker 2: The NFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 3: And the Niners and the Packers are a challenging team

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Speaker 3: this is one where he can just let it rip.

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Speaker 3: Hey man, Jordan Love, we're gonna push the envelope, we're

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Speaker 2: And I think for the Cowboys that can be a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: Playing the Dallas Cowboys at home is a tall task.

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Speaker 3: They've won sixteen in a row. When they play in

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Speaker 3: The Dallas Cowboys with advance but to be tighter than

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Ceedee Lamb. I think he's gonna get

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Speaker 2: We come back.

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Speaker 1: We've got two more games to get to, including our

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Speaker 3: It's time for the MCS Game of the Week, presented

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Speaker 3: by DraftKings Sportsbook. This week it's the Rams at the Lions.

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Speaker 3: To spread is minus three, favoring the Lions over under

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Speaker 3: is fifty one and a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: When we talk about picking games, you can't pick a

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Speaker 3: better one than this. Just all the storyline, This is

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Speaker 3: like a real life soap opera. That's gonna play out

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Speaker 3: in real time. Jery Golf taking on his former team

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Speaker 3: the Rams, Matthew Stafford taking on his former team the

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Speaker 3: Detroit Lions. You have the bitter part of it, where

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Speaker 3: Jery Goff is certainly disappointed and mad at his former

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Speaker 3: coach Sean McVay. You have the joyous part of it,

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford coming home for a reunion. You have two

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Speaker 3: really good offenses, intriguing defenses going. This is really an

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Speaker 3: exciting matchup. Man who it's gonna be a tough one

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Speaker 3: to call.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. I think this is a track meet,

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Speaker 1: I really do. I think this game's in the thirties.

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Speaker 1: I could see it being a big time, fun shootout

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Speaker 1: type game. Matthew Stafford's got weapons, buck, he's got experience,

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Speaker 1: he's got an elite play caller, and you can flip

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Speaker 1: it over the other side. Jared Goff's got you that

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Speaker 1: postseason experience as well. He's got some firepower on his side.

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Speaker 1: So to me, I look at it and go, Okay.

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Speaker 1: If it's a high scoring game, then it comes down to,

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Speaker 1: you know, late drives and who has the ball, who

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Speaker 1: can make those plays late in ball games, it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me not to lean towards Stafford. Anne McVeigh that combination,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's a close game late, I think

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Speaker 1: that tips towards their side a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I feel you on that, Like, I mean, there have

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Speaker 3: been years where I've talked about Matthew Stafford been an

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Speaker 3: MVP just because of his late game comeback prowess. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he is a master of orchestrating the fourth quarter comeback.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you just look at his history DJ He's

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Speaker 3: one of the best he's ever done it. You think

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Speaker 3: about the Rams and the amount of confidence that they're

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Speaker 3: gonna have, because in these games it comes down to

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Speaker 3: the quarterback, right, the Rams are gonna look on the

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Speaker 3: other side and some of those guys, not all of them,

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Speaker 3: but Aaron Donald certainly knows Jered Goffin. The difference in

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Speaker 3: talent between Jered Goffin Matthew Stafford, like that's gonna give

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Speaker 3: him a level of confidence. The thing that can till

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Speaker 3: the game in the Detroit Lions favor.

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Speaker 2: They have the better offense.

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Speaker 3: Line, and that offensive line can dominate the times we've

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Speaker 3: seen it might be the best offensive line in football.

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Speaker 3: They have two backs that are at nearly a thousand

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Speaker 3: rushing yards, and David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbs don't talk

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Speaker 3: about that enough. They can control the game running the

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Speaker 3: football amara the same round as a monster, being able

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Speaker 3: to go over the middle of the field, and when

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Speaker 3: they're running the ball successfully, Jered Goff is one of

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Speaker 3: the best quarterbacks in football, will know very early if

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Speaker 3: the line's able to control with the trenches, it goes

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Speaker 3: in their faith. The game comes down to that. You

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Speaker 3: talk about a three point game. I see it as

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Speaker 3: a three point game. But the Lions offensive line, in

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Speaker 3: my mind, is the deciding fact. That's why I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: go to the Lions in this one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, maybe it's just this one game I

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Speaker 1: can't get out of my head. But I just think

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Speaker 1: of the Rams going into Baltimore and playing against that

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Speaker 1: defense and all team so good putting such a game,

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Speaker 1: put up thirty plus on them. Every throw was tight,

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Speaker 1: window like, just ridiculous by staff. And then I think

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Speaker 1: back to Detroit going into Baltimore and getting the run

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Speaker 1: kicked in and getting ran out of the stadium, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, man, that's it's arbitrary. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: one data point now. But it's not that I can't

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Speaker 1: get that out of my head with DJ.

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Speaker 3: I'm be honest with you, Like when I went back

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Speaker 3: and I looked at the schedule, and I know people

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Speaker 3: to talk about this when you go and you now

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Speaker 3: that the season is done and you look at the

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Speaker 3: notable wins. The Lion's notable win is the opener against

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Speaker 3: the Kansa City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess want the Kansas City Chiefs who.

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Speaker 2: Want what we thought they were. And so that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying because I just picked the lines,

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Speaker 3: but that's something to think about. They don't have a

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Speaker 3: signature win over a team that we would deem to

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Speaker 3: be better than them, and so this would be a

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Speaker 3: huge task for them given that, because we've seen the

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Speaker 3: Rams knock people off and they get this thing humming

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Speaker 3: and they're running the ball with Karen Williams m HM.

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Speaker 2: I med a deal with.

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Speaker 1: No doubt looking forward to this ball game.

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Speaker 1: Right, Last Game Buck Monday Night Eagles Bucks.

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Speaker 2: Cole Lee.

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Speaker 1: I would say this is of all the matchups, this

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Speaker 1: might be the one I'm least excited about. Oddly enough,

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Speaker 1: It's just everything else has this like sex appeal to it,

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Speaker 1: and there's these great storylines, these great matchups. This is

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Speaker 1: a Bucks team that won the worst division in the

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Speaker 1: NFL against an Eagles team that's on an absolute free

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Speaker 1: fall collapse right now. And as as we're recording this,

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Speaker 1: I was reading that earlier today that the Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: hadn't even been able to throw a ball this week

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Speaker 1: coming off that finger injury that he had on it.

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Speaker 1: In an offense and a defense that have just completely collapsed.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how else to say it, but it's

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Speaker 1: hard for me when I'm looking at this against a

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowles defense who likes to dial up pressure all

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Speaker 1: over the place, the way the Eagles have struggled against that,

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Speaker 1: it seems weird from where that team was and viewed

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Speaker 1: as a favorite in the NFC, you know, six weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I can't wrap my mind around how they beat Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield in the Tampa Bay Bucks.

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Speaker 2: DJ It's gonna be a horrib one.

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Speaker 3: It's not only it's not only a horror one just

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Speaker 3: because of the way that they played, but just how

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Speaker 3: farvardmoved from their identity they are right now. Obviously, and defensively,

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Speaker 3: everyone knows about the defensive struggles they tried to transition

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Speaker 3: to Matt Patricia. They're having a tough time. They don't

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Speaker 3: tackle well. The physicality isn't what it needs to be.

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Speaker 3: There's questions about the effort, particularly that of Jordan Davis

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Speaker 3: and some of the guys up front.

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Speaker 2: It's just bad.

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Speaker 3: And then offensively, Jalen Hurts has had a ton of turnovers.

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Speaker 3: They're not running the football and I committed to run

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Speaker 3: the football to the way that they were last year

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Speaker 3: or even when they've had their best moments this season

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Speaker 3: with DeAndre Swift. And so you want to can Nick

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Speaker 3: Siriani get it all together? I think this though. I

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Speaker 3: think Nick Sirianni knows this team well enough. We should understand,

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Speaker 3: like man, a one and done scenario.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 3: You just talk about how hot deceased would be in Philly.

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Speaker 3: I think that might give you some perspectives say, hey, man,

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Speaker 3: let's go back to the basis. Let's run the football.

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Speaker 3: This team is solid, but they're not great that we're playing.

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Speaker 3: Let's run the football. Let's not mess it up. Let's

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Speaker 3: see if they can beat us. Let's try and be

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Speaker 3: simple enough on defense where we can play fast and

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Speaker 3: do it that way. I think they do that, and

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Speaker 3: I think they find a way to kind of sneak

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Speaker 3: past the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking of just as we're talking

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Speaker 1: about this, if I'm Siriannie, I might go into the

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Speaker 1: quarterback room with Jaalen, go Jaalen. How's that finger I coached?

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Speaker 1: You know, still doesn't doesn't feel right? Okay, let me

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Speaker 1: see all right, let me give you football. How does

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Speaker 1: it feel when you do this? When like this finger

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Speaker 1: feel okay, we're fixing to ask you to carry it

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Speaker 1: about fifteen times in this game.

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Speaker 3: DJ to me, it's one of the things that I

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Speaker 3: don't understand why they refuse to play to the strength

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Speaker 3: of their team. We would talk about the strength of

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Speaker 3: their team has been their offensive line and their running game.

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Speaker 3: Early in the year, DeAndre Swift looked like an All

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Speaker 3: Star running the ball. I mean he was a monster.

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Speaker 3: You have Jalen Hurst, who you know, he had fifteen

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Speaker 3: plus touchdowns, Like, he can run the football and everyone's

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Speaker 3: talking about the musch, But he has to.

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Speaker 2: Run the ball. DJ, this is a game.

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Speaker 3: Look, man, whatever we paid him, we paid them. But

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Speaker 3: now it's time to use them the way that he

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Speaker 3: is best utilized.

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Speaker 2: DJ. If he doesn't get eight plus runs, it's a

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Speaker 2: problem in the game plan.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I was going to say north of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking thirteen type runs in this game, and this

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Speaker 1: offensive line say, hey guys, this is on you.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it has to be that kind

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Speaker 3: of game. And those eight we're talking about design runs.

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Speaker 3: I'm calling them from the sideline. First you're running, this

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Speaker 3: is quarterback power, counter whatever. And then if you get

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Speaker 3: a handful of scrambles or whatever. But all hands on deck, man,

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Speaker 3: this is a must win game, obviously because the postseason.

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Speaker 3: But we had a field definite because you want to

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Speaker 3: get back on track because all it takes is one

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Speaker 3: game to flip the momentum of you clicked in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just hard. They have given you no reason

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks to buy into them.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I picked lost five of their last six.

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Speaker 3: I mean and ugly losses too, like the last loss

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Speaker 3: to the Jazz, just an ugly, non competitive loss. This

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Speaker 3: would have to be Nick here, and he's best coaching

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Speaker 3: doubt to bring this team back together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they got to cover some good whiteouts too

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Speaker 1: in this game for Tampa, which I'd be a little

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Speaker 1: bit concerned about. Now only got to cover them, you

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Speaker 1: got to tackle them. They're not easy to tackle once

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Speaker 1: they do get the ball, and that's not been a

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Speaker 1: strength of the Eagles. So man, it's a It is

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Speaker 1: a loaded slate of playoff games and we are looking

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Speaker 1: forward to it. Reminder, we'll be back on Monday to

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Speaker 1: recap all of these games as well. So appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys hanging with us. We'll see you next week right

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Speaker 1: here on move the sticks you want