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Speaker 1: to spend your Saturday afternoon. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: it and talk about some of the bets here. Andrew

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Speaker 1: Rickson wants you to kick us off here because you know,

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Speaker 1: on the early lines we were on opposite ends of

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Speaker 1: the spectrum on this game. I continue to be on

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Speaker 1: my spectrum for whatever that's worth, and you you are

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Speaker 1: continuing to stand pat with your Carolina Panthers. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 2: Joe, hashtag keep pounding. That's what it comes to to

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Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers. It's the process. Play double digit home underdogs,

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Speaker 2: check plus ten and a half. Panthers cover the spread

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Speaker 2: each of the last ten games following a loss. They've

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Speaker 2: covered thirteen straight as underdogs following a loss. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what else I need to tell you, guys. Obviously

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Speaker 2: it's too many points. It's too many points for a

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Speaker 2: team laying ten and a half on the road to

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Speaker 2: take the Rams, in my opinion, a Dome team when

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Speaker 2: there is rain in the forecast in a matchup where

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Speaker 2: we've already seen the Panthers beat the Rams. Now, do

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Speaker 2: I expect that same type of outcome? Now, I'm not

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Speaker 2: picking the Panthers on the money line. I don't think

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Speaker 2: this is an upset special type of situation. The Rams

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Speaker 2: are clearly the better team. That's not my selling one

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Speaker 2: year is that, Oh well, the Panthers can repeat history

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Speaker 2: and upset the Matthew Stafford led Rams two times in

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Speaker 2: the same season. I don't think that's the case, but

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Speaker 2: I think that they can just keep this within striking distance,

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Speaker 2: keep it within ten points. The Panthers are going to

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Speaker 2: get back their starting offensive guard, Robert Hunt. I think

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Speaker 2: And that's what you look at Dave Canalis. That's what

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Speaker 2: back with Rico dad On Chewba Hubbard, who were both

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm taking the Panthers. So give me Panthers

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Speaker 1: Cool story, bro, I'm taking the Rams on the other

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just blanked out there for a second. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Dave Canallos. Why do I do There's so many coaches

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Speaker 1: he'll still have a job after this game. He deserves it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you this, Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: This is the playoffs. Carolina Panthers have no idea what

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Speaker 1: is not battle tested. They have no idea what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Everything Andrew says statistically is right, except the only difference

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Speaker 1: the big boys play, and the big boys are gonna

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Speaker 1: show up here. Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford, this entire group here,

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Speaker 1: I don't think this defense has an answer for him, period,

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Speaker 1: being kind of an underdog in these playoffs. I'm not

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Speaker 1: very dangerous Carolina Panthers. Look, Andrews said a lot of

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm predicting in this one. So give me

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next one here. Since

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Speaker 1: Andrew and I continue to be on the same page

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Speaker 1: talk about the Houston Texans and this game against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: I'm taking the Texans laying the points on the road

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Speaker 2: this is the only road team that I like this

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Speaker 2: the only where I can put confidence. Every time we've

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Speaker 2: what's my confidence level? With the Steelers even last week

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Speaker 2: it was like, yeah, they should probably win, Like this

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Speaker 2: you were right about the Pittsburgh Steels on the upset

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Speaker 2: just hey, Mike Tomlin, underdog at home, let's roll against

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. Okay, sounds good. But for me, I think

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Speaker 2: that this Texans team, winners of nine straight games. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Steelers at home, never lose, see your Strouds own two

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Speaker 2: on the road in the playoffs. Many of those things

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Speaker 2: are true. They've also not covered six straight postseason games.

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Speaker 2: You just look at the total thirty nine and a

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins should be one hundred percent healthy. He didn't

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Speaker 2: Ken Joey Porter Junior. Maybe I'm gonna take Nico Collins

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Speaker 2: in that particular matchup. So I think that the Texans

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Speaker 2: this excuse me that covers a spread this week.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I'm glad you mentioned Nico Collins in that

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Speaker 1: this is what happens where he doesn't win playoff games anymore. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they just don't. And this Houston Texans defense is ferocious. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know they've let some lesser teams hang in there.

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Speaker 1: And I know Aaron Rodgers, a crafty old veteran. We

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Speaker 1: could talk about all this. Exactly what I said was

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Happened last week. Did it knock? Yes,

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Speaker 1: it did upset special. The Pittsburgh Steelers found a way

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Speaker 1: for him. And I think that I agree with Andrew Erickson.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin at the front there on the fifty yard line,

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Speaker 1: pounded on his chest, pounded on his chest. Good job,

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Speaker 1: you made the playoffs. That's your job. You got a

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Speaker 1: winning record, Good job, congratulations. Now go in a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're capable of that right now, Not

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Speaker 1: our New England Patriots hosting the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to lay the points here with the

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Speaker 2: this game. I think this game flies under forty six

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Speaker 2: We've all talked about it, cupcake schedule, easiest schedule in

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Speaker 2: in which cupcake?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is the optimal way to eat a cupcake.

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Speaker 1: That's why we're friends. Andrew, come on right, fire, big,

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Speaker 2: So with the Patriots schedule, they have faced one defense

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Speaker 2: without Milton Williams the season, Patriots have allowed one hundred

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't have this pick in my top five picks.

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Speaker 1: I stayed away from this game. I just I feel

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Speaker 1: Andrew Ericsson, is a game we both like. We were

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Speaker 1: gonna reiterate the farewell, you know, last day of high

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Speaker 2: So for those reasons, I think schematically the Jaguars have

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Speaker 2: the spread seven and one against the spread eighty eight percent.

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Speaker 2: So I know when we talk about home field advantage.

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Speaker 2: It's usually Chicago or Pittsburgh or these cold weather stadiums,

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Speaker 2: even Buffalo, but Jacksonville like that has been the home

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Speaker 2: to home field advantage this year, where they've got the

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Speaker 2: jacuzzis and pools in the in the in the stands

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Speaker 2: and the fans are having a great time, and I

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Speaker 2: think that matters here. So I like the Jaguars here

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Speaker 2: to get covered the plus one and a half, and

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Speaker 2: that's the safest approach here, just because again, betting against

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen is never a thing I like to do

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Speaker 2: on an NFL Sunday. But there is also a chance

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Speaker 2: too that this isn't Josh Allen at one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: He's been battling Alden foot injuries, and I think that

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Speaker 2: this line is just not factoring that in it all.

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Speaker 2: This is like, oh, this is regular Josh Allen, Superman

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen, and maybe he is fine, maybe he is

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent healthy, but he takes a hit, a

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Speaker 2: lower body hit from Josh Heines Allen, the other Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen playing in this game. You know, maybe he isn't

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Speaker 2: going to be able to be Superman, and maybe he's

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Speaker 2: met his kryptonite. In the form of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: So I like Jacksonville here as well.

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Speaker 1: So James Cook was one hundred and seventeen yards against Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: which I think is one of the games where you

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Speaker 1: didn't like him. Memory serves what the two hundred yard

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Speaker 1: game was the Carolina Panthers. That was the one where

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Speaker 1: he ran the mind. So your Carolina Panthers by the

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Speaker 1: way court to game one, But I remember you not

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Speaker 1: liking him against Cleveland. You're like, this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tough matchup against Cleveland, and then and then we

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Speaker 1: were like, well it guts that you have two touchdowns on.

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Speaker 2: It like this, this is one of the more exciting

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Speaker 2: that because it's strength on strengdy. Yeah, like matchups where

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Speaker 2: number one run defense against the NFL leading rusher in

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Speaker 2: James Cook. So look, I think it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a sweat regardless, because Jonathan Taylor came very close in

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Speaker 2: his two matchups against Jacksonville, he had over seventy yards.

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Speaker 2: So look, James Cook could finished with seventy rushing yards. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I'll still take that bet. Take the under. And if

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Speaker 2: James Cook actually think I want to pull this stat

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Speaker 2: here too, I pulled it when I was looking at

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Speaker 2: the James Cook rushing yards prop and correlation with when

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills cover the spread. So yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: what it is. So the Bills are nine to zero

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Speaker 2: when they rush for at least one hundred and fifty yards,

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Speaker 2: three and five straight up and against the spread when

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Speaker 2: they're held under one hundred and fifty rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, last one here before we get to

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Speaker 1: our favorite picks of the week in the upset special,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Philadelphia Eagles minus four and a

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Speaker 1: half against San Francisco. You and I are both on

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Speaker 1: the Eagles side of this football game. Once again, You've

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Speaker 1: got the team traveling three thousand miles, You've got the

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Speaker 1: earlier window. Yes, it's not a night game where you

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Speaker 1: have a little bit more time, so it's four o'clock

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Speaker 1: here cold. I feel like the Eagles pulled down the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers to their level. To me, that's what

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Speaker 1: it is. You've seen this started at three and a half,

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Speaker 1: and I said lock it at three and a half

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Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna move, and it did. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of sharp people jumped on that because

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Speaker 1: they are still the rank defending champions. They are still

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Speaker 1: the team that has a home field advantage when a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams don't. And I think you know I'll

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Speaker 1: say it once, I'll say it again. San Francisco got

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Speaker 1: waid and measured and they were found wanting last week

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Speaker 1: by the Seattle defense. And this defense will show up

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Speaker 1: in this game. This crowd will show up in this game,

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Speaker 1: and I think they will do enough offensively like they

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Speaker 1: always do to eke out a victory. That's been the

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Speaker 1: way it goes. I don't love the Eagles after this week,

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Speaker 1: depending on what Matt they end up with, but I

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Speaker 1: will say this, I do like them this week against

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Your thoughts on this one, because

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Speaker 1: you and I are in agreement again here on the program.

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Speaker 2: I I don't think you're giving enough credit to the Eagles,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I think this is an ass whoopin

508
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Speaker 2: I know everyone talks.

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Speaker 1: About the Rams again.

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Speaker 2: The Rams are gonna be ass whooping the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the Eagles here. I think this is

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Speaker 2: a statement game where they say, oh, yeah, no, we

513
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Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl last year. We are the ring

514
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Speaker 2: super Bowl champions and the forty nine ers talking about

515
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Speaker 2: walking into a game wounded it. Stern William's even gonna

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Speaker 2: play in this game.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it. Don't forget we've seen.

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Speaker 2: It's not enough. Why can't the Eagles win by a touchdown?

519
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts at home is five and oh straight up

520
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs, four and one against the spread. Average

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Speaker 2: margin of victory for Jalen Hurts is twenty one points.

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Speaker 2: In these playoff games the Eagles have smoked, including Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 2: Now I know in that particular game they had quarterback injuries,

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Speaker 2: but even before they had those injuries, mean the Eagles

525
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Speaker 2: were favored and they took carab busin covering a massive spread.

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Speaker 2: So the rhetoric last week with the forty nine ers

527
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Speaker 2: against the Seahawks was this is our all in game

528
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Speaker 2: for San Francisco. We win this game, we get the bye,

529
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Speaker 2: we have home field advantage throughout to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: And they lost that game and I think they got

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Speaker 2: dominated thirteen to three, did not capture the domination from

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Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks in that game against d N, San

533
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Speaker 2: Francisco couldn't do anything. And that's what happens. You don't

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Speaker 2: have Trent Williams and the fact that they're going to

535
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Speaker 2: quote unquote evaluate whether he can play this week suggests

536
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Speaker 2: to me even if he's out there, he's not one

537
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Speaker 2: hundred percent. I kind of feel like the forty nine

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Speaker 2: Ers are just kind of runn out of gas, right. Shanahan,

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Speaker 2: to his credit, has done an excellent job. He should

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Speaker 2: be in the Coach of the Year conversation for sure

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Speaker 2: because of how many injuries they've had to overcome. But

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Speaker 2: eventually you just run out of gas, right, and they

543
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Speaker 2: have more linebacker injuries that are stacking up. I think

544
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Speaker 2: the Eagles can have their way on both sides of

545
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Speaker 2: the football here. Offensively, I think they can move the

546
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Speaker 2: ball easily on the forty nineers defense, and defensively, I mean,

547
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Speaker 2: Seattle's the top tier defense. The Philadelphia Eagles at home

548
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Speaker 2: after being rested all of last week and Week eighteen,

549
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Speaker 2: rock Perty, Ricky Pearsol's banged up, No Trent Williams. Potentially

550
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Speaker 2: on the Eagle side, they're getting Lane Johnson back like

551
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Speaker 2: he is the guy that makes offense work huge. So

552
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Speaker 2: when I'm giving you all these points here and then

553
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Speaker 2: I look at the lines, like all four and a half,

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Speaker 2: why why are the four and.

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Speaker 1: A half with a reminder of a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago when they got beat at home by the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers. You for your call, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: think that sticks in your crawl a little bit, you know, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's again. You'd not taken them for granted, You're not,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know Perdy can make plays, you know,

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey special. You know, I'm still not sold on a

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Speaker 1: healthy Kittle is after that ankle spring, which I believe

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Speaker 1: to be a high ankle that nobody wants to say,

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Speaker 1: but your one hundred percent right that Lane Johnson returns

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Speaker 1: is absolutely huge for this run game. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: just out of steam right here and drawing a Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: five and oh straight up in the playoffs at home

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Speaker 2: four and one against the spread. Average margin of victory

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Speaker 2: twenty one points, lowest margin of victory six points, so

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Speaker 2: he's beaten everyone at home in the playoffs by at

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Speaker 2: least six points. Four and a half is not big enough.

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Speaker 2: I think the Eagles went by a touchdown or more.

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Speaker 1: nice to see Andrew Erics and I start off with

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Speaker 1: win so bad. Liam Cone get his first head coaching

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Speaker 1: the windows closing for Buffalo will see Hey, maybe Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen has one more trick up as sleeve. But we'll

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