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Speaker 1: We've got all the experience in the world. This is

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Speaker 1: I want your flex with Dan Byer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set

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Speaker 1: guys help you make those hard decisions. And now let's

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Speaker 3: Finally, Week one is here of the National Football League season.

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Speaker 3: Hit Mike up at Swallodome. You can find me at

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Speaker 3: Dan Bayer on Fox. A new season is donned Mike.

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Speaker 3: One game in the books. The rest of the regular

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Speaker 4: If the other two hundred and seventy one come close

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Speaker 4: Game, right, Lightning and rain and everything else just delayed

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Speaker 3: delay in welcoming our new executive producer to this show.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the perfect time to welcome Moman. He's

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Speaker 3: done our preseason shows with our rankings as well, big

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Speaker 3: thanks to our old producer Ryan Berschinger, and in fact,

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Speaker 3: You can't escape it. It's everywhere no matter what I

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Speaker 3: And that's why we love his positive attitude. Ian Roddy

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Speaker 5: I'm super happy to be here, guys. Thanks for the

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Speaker 3: This is uh, this is going to be a lot

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Speaker 5: Uh, just just the ability to control your own team

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie dan Ian.

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Speaker 4: It's fun to be able to, you know, dance around

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Speaker 4: This was the Snickers You're not you probably would have

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Speaker 5: Awesome, And now your tweet has six likes because yes,

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Speaker 3: Yes, at Dan Byron Fox at Swollen Dome and Ian's

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Speaker 3: Here we are Mike Carmen's quarterback rankings four week one

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Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty four NFL season. Mike Kodia got

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Speaker 4: We get the man crush right off the jump in

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Speaker 3: Who do you like tolt in the rock mike in

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Speaker 3: Find Mike at Swollen Dome. He is Mike Harmer. I

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Speaker 3: love to have the number one guy that week. I

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Speaker 3: think it's awesome. I think there's there's a rush. That's

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Speaker 3: how I enjoy fantasy football. So I feel those top

442
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Speaker 3: five rankings are so important. What the Hot plays are.

443
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Speaker 3: They're the outside of the rankings, So the guys that

444
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Speaker 3: you still need to get into your lineup, or if

445
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Speaker 3: maybe you got a stacked position in a certain area

446
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Speaker 3: you're trying to figure out which guy to play, maybe

447
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Speaker 3: this will lean over to it. And when Mike does

448
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Speaker 3: is Ninja's coming up in a little bit. There's even

449
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Speaker 3: more of that, even more borderline guys that you got

450
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Speaker 3: that got to get into. So that's why we kind

451
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Speaker 3: of do this in the way that we do with

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Speaker 3: the hot plays, with the rankings, the cold soares that

453
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Speaker 3: were do you have any more hot plays?

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Speaker 4: Micro Rn that's the end, We're done. We did a

455
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Speaker 4: couple of rookies to close it out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to make sure because I want

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Speaker 3: to transition to the cold source. The cold Soares are.

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Speaker 3: Let's be honest, nobody wants them, Nobody wants anything to

459
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Speaker 3: do with them. They're bothersome, they're hurt, they're annoying, they're gross.

460
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Speaker 3: You don't want to touch them, you don't want to

461
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Speaker 3: see them, you don't want to look at them. That's

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Speaker 3: how we feel about these players in this group. So

463
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Speaker 3: these are the ones that you want to stay away from.

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Speaker 3: You want nothing to do with your cold source mic

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Speaker 3: for Week one of the twenty twenty four NFL season.

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Speaker 4: Quarterback position foreshadowed it a little bit earlier. Captain Kirk

467
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Speaker 4: going against Pittsburgh. Look, I don't think Pittsburgh's offense is

468
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Speaker 4: going to score eighteen or nineteen points a game, but

469
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Speaker 4: that defense, so long as TJ. Watton company are healthy,

470
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Speaker 4: they're gonna get after it. So while I think there

471
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Speaker 4: might be some points to be had when we look

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Speaker 4: at the overall, with the total on this one is

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Speaker 4: only forty three, Atlanta three three and a half is

474
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Speaker 4: the point spread on this one. Captain Kirk, I think

475
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Speaker 4: they get the win, but it's not a pretty pretty site.

476
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Speaker 4: I think it's a slug and a little bit more

477
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Speaker 4: from the kicking game and the legs of Bjohn Robinson.

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Speaker 4: So Captain Kirk goes into the QB twos for me

479
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Speaker 4: this week, as well as Dak Prescott against the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 4: Tell me, you're not waiting with a bucket of popcorn

481
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Speaker 4: to hear what Tom Brady has to say about everything

482
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Speaker 4: in this game on both sides, both he and Deshaun Watson. Right,

483
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Speaker 4: there's storylines for days, but you're looking at a team

484
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Speaker 4: last year fourth best against fantasy quarterbacks and really beyond

485
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Speaker 4: Ceede Lamb and I guess we'll talk Jake ferguson receiving

486
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Speaker 4: game is a little suspect, offensive lines a little suspect,

487
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Speaker 4: and that running back position. Man, Yeah it's Zeke and

488
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Speaker 4: whatever's left of Delvin Cooks.

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Speaker 3: So Riko now though.

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Speaker 4: Nicely got Yeah, they are Rico.

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Speaker 3: Nicet I's head.

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Speaker 2: I guarantee.

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Speaker 4: Look, he's gonna get a lot of good pop culture

494
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Speaker 4: knowledge over the next twenty five weeks or whatever this is.

495
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Speaker 4: So we'll just have an encyclopedia according to the iWatch

496
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Speaker 4: Reflex podcast.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have to catch up Ian all right? Who

498
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Speaker 3: else he got for the cold source for week one?

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Speaker 4: All right, Josh Jacob's going up against Philly. I know

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of excitement for him. The fact that

501
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Speaker 4: Lloyd is banged up and may not be able to

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Speaker 4: go hang a star on that one. It means Jacobs

503
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Speaker 4: will keep his workload. AJ Dillon's gonna be watching the

504
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Speaker 4: game like all of us, doing a podcast or something.

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Speaker 4: And then Kyron Williams going up against Detroit. Look, I

506
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Speaker 4: like Kylen Williams. I think The idea of what they're

507
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Speaker 4: doing with both of their running backs in the return

508
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Speaker 4: game is potentially asinine and destructive, but that's me outside

509
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Speaker 4: looking in. It may be the work of genius. I

510
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Speaker 4: think ninety percent of the kickoffs are going to be

511
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Speaker 4: touchbacks anyway, But for Kyron Williams against Detroit's front not

512
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Speaker 4: looking for the jail break. I know the over under

513
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Speaker 4: on this one is also pretty strong. We're looking at

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Speaker 4: fifty one what it's all said and done, but I'm

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Speaker 4: looking for him to have a smallish part in it.

516
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Speaker 4: More in the receiving game wide receivers that we're going

517
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Speaker 4: to stay away from. I got a Trio one I

518
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Speaker 4: talked about him before. As addition by subtraction leaving Buffalo

519
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Speaker 4: heading to the planet Houston. That's theefon Diggs. I think

520
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Speaker 4: he's the odd man out. I think you get Tank Dell,

521
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Speaker 4: you get Nico College, you get a little Dalton Schultz,

522
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Speaker 4: you get the work out of the backfield.

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Speaker 2: Dig This is a guy who's a nice.

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Speaker 4: Luxury product and in Week one doesn't exist unless they

525
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Speaker 4: try to force him the ball so he stays happy.

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Speaker 4: That's my only fear in making him part of this list.

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Speaker 4: Dan is they try to speed or hey, if we

528
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Speaker 4: if we at least throw it to him a bunch,

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Speaker 4: he'll shut up for a week.

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Speaker 3: Watch the Philadelpha Eagles in aj Brown and how they

531
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Speaker 3: deal with him, and then see how good it works

532
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Speaker 3: with Teamen chemistry, because it doesn't there.

533
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Speaker 4: You go, Hey, but you know what, Jason Kelce isn't

534
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Speaker 4: in Philly anymore. Dan, So Jalen Hurts feels empowered to

535
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Speaker 4: be the leader. I don't know whatever that means his

536
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Speaker 4: head coach. Well, there's no question about that, all right,

537
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Speaker 4: two other guys. One guy might get lost in the sauce.

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Speaker 4: Brandon Ayuk Monday Night Football, Welcome back. He got your deal.

539
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Speaker 4: I think there's more for Deebo, Samuel and the other

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Speaker 4: members of this receiving corps U and then DJ Moore

541
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Speaker 4: for the same reason. He's gonna end up drawing a

542
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Speaker 4: lot of sneak who comes over from Kansas City for Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: So I think you're gonna see more of Madoonsay, more

544
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Speaker 4: of Keenan Allen as much as he's able to give you.

545
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Speaker 4: And then you've got the dual back, dual tight end

546
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Speaker 4: of Everett and Comet to contend with as well, not

547
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Speaker 4: to mention Kaylin Williams himself and that try three headed

548
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Speaker 4: monster out of the backfield. So Dj Moore is a

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Speaker 4: guy that I've got great hopes for.

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Speaker 2: For the year.

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Speaker 4: Week one, I temper it and he is a high

552
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Speaker 4: end two for me rather than his normal lofty position.

553
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Speaker 3: So those are the cold soars for Week one of

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Speaker 3: the NFL season. Now we get into the Ninjas. These

555
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Speaker 3: guys may not be in your lineup every week, but

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Speaker 3: this is the week to get them in. Is that

557
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Speaker 3: a fair assessment you were? You had the ninja phrase

558
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Speaker 3: way before I came along on this show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've basically just said guys that pop out of

560
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Speaker 4: the weeds that you're not expecting. Maybe you've dismissed, maybe

561
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Speaker 4: you've put him in the closet for a little while,

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Speaker 4: and they decided they're the monster that doesn't want to

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Speaker 4: stay hidden anymore and they want to be seen. They

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Speaker 4: want to be out front, they want to cause some terror.

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Speaker 4: So here they are in your lineups.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it. Ninja's fork one.

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Speaker 2: Justin Herbert dismissed. Now, I know he's in a walking boot.

568
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Speaker 4: I know he's not one hundred percent even as we

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Speaker 4: get here to Week one against the Las Vegas Raiders,

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Speaker 4: one of the more interesting starts to the season, right Vegas.

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Speaker 4: A lot of noise with Devontae Adams. I think he

572
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 4: talked to everybody about us dan in the preseason, with

573
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Speaker 4: all the jabbering that he did. Gardner Minshew's the quarterback

574
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Speaker 4: for the Chargers. All about Jim Harbaugh and the run

575
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Speaker 4: game and everything else. They don't have any name brand receivers.

576
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Speaker 4: Guess what you might get a nice play action passing

577
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 4: game that flows out of this. And some of these

578
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Speaker 4: guys that are twos and threes, guess what they've played

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Speaker 4: as ones before? The Josh Palmers because guess what, Keenan

580
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 4: Allen and Mike Williams weren't showing up every week, So

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Speaker 4: these guys are battle tested. I know DJ Chark's still

582
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Speaker 4: on the injury list as well, so we'll keep an

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Speaker 4: eye on that. How about your guy, Gino Smith, another

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Speaker 4: guy who's been under the radar.

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Speaker 2: This entire offseason.

586
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Speaker 4: Deal with the noise that was made in Seattle was

587
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Speaker 4: when everybody was fighting.

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Speaker 3: That's true, That's true. They are very much under the radar,

589
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: even with the new coaching staff. And the Pete Carroll legacy.

590
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Speaker 3: This is what happens when your quarterback is not Marquee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very chippy.

592
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Speaker 4: But he's got several wide receivers and that's why Gino,

593
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Speaker 4: we're gonna pair him with Jackson Smith and Jigmas somewhere.

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Speaker 4: We talked about in our Pass Catcher's preview episode of

595
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Speaker 4: the podcast, and you brought him up, brought up Tyler Lockett,

596
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Speaker 4: guy like DK Metcalf, who's got a tough individual matchup

597
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Speaker 4: in this one. Yeah, with so he was narrow miss

598
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Speaker 4: on the cold source, but because I think he'll still

599
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Speaker 4: be able to make a play or two to make

600
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Speaker 4: a bigger impact. But we'll see there. Go back to

601
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Speaker 4: the running back position. Gus Edwards of the Chargers going

602
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Speaker 4: up against Las Vegas. Look, I got to ride him

603
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Speaker 4: while he's healthy. So in Week one, even against a

604
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Speaker 4: pretty good defensive front for Vegas, he's a short yardage

605
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Speaker 4: go line guy and I'll get my double digit touches.

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Speaker 4: Jerome Ford, who's been sneakily available late in drafts. I

607
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 4: think folks just forgetting about Cleveland's running game with Nick

608
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: Chubb not available for a while here going up against

609
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Speaker 4: Dallas defensive front. Look, I don't trust to Sean Watson.

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Speaker 4: I think they have to establish a run, and Ford

611
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Speaker 4: is that guy quitting himself quite nicely. In twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 4: finally at the running back position, Devin Singletary again volume volume.

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Speaker 4: I'm not looking for world beating numbers, but if he

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Speaker 4: can give me twenty for eighty and maybe find an

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Speaker 4: outside shot at a score, or give me three or

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Speaker 4: four catches, then I win. And I think the last

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Speaker 4: guy I throw on just going back to the quarterback position.

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Speaker 4: The other side of that Vegas Chargers game, Gardner Minshew,

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Speaker 4: because he has no conscience.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be fun there, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Like he's a guy that recognizes what he is at

622
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Speaker 4: this point, and he'll take his shots downfield. I like

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Speaker 4: guys that are willing to gamble a little bit. Now,

624
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Speaker 4: if it's my favorite team, I'd like that. I'm not

625
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 4: in that circumstance every week, But you know what, good

626
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: things can happen at times, and he's got enough weapons

627
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Speaker 4: to make make that happen.

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Speaker 3: You are high on Ford in the preseason, talked about

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Speaker 3: them in our running Back episode, and you mentioned the

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Speaker 3: Gino Smith and the jsn connection. I fully expect Jackson

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Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba to supplant Tyler Lockett is option number two.

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Speaker 3: He should like this is now is the time to

633
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Speaker 3: do so. And I think that we're going to see that.

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Speaker 3: Curious to see what Denver brings to the table, obviously

635
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Speaker 3: with bone Nix as their quarterback. And you mentioned the

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Speaker 3: Stan Metcalf matchup, which is one that I will have

637
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Speaker 3: my eye on and you should all have your eye

638
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 3: on it as well. And if only the Denver Broncos

639
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 3: could do their part. Seahawks are wearing the throwbacks and

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Speaker 3: their opener, so hey, enough reason to watch that game

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Speaker 3: if you just add Denver where their throwbacks could be

642
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Speaker 3: an old AFC West title instead of a Super Bowl

643
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Speaker 3: forty eight rematch, you know, sort of. Look, even though

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Speaker 3: Denver's got new uniforms, but they're not that different. The

645
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: helmet's pretty much the same except for a sticker. This

646
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Speaker 3: should have just gone with a throwback and we could

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Speaker 3: have thought it was bas against l way back in

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Speaker 3: eighty let's go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm going to envision it that way anyway.

650
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Speaker 4: See if I can't get some AI that allows me.

651
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Speaker 3: To do that, all right, He's Mike Carmen. I'm Dan Byer.

652
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Speaker 3: It is I want your flex. That's all a harmon's information,

653
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Speaker 3: except Mike's gonna give you his super Bowl pick next.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we all will, and I want your flex.

655
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Speaker 3: Plus we're doing away with the give you one reason. Yeah,

656
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Speaker 3: I'm moving on from that, but I've got some advice

657
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Speaker 3: that I got to get off my chest. You'll hear that. Next,

658
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Speaker 3: he's Mike Karmen. I'm Dan Byer. This is I want

659
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Speaker 3: your flex. All right, let's wrap this up. It is

660
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Speaker 3: I want your flex. He's Mike Carmen. I'm Dan Byer.

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Speaker 3: Week one is almost here. Ian Roddy is our new

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Speaker 3: executive producer, and Ian's gonna jump right into the deep end.

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Speaker 3: You are ready to give advice in Week one of

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Speaker 3: the NFL season. A streaming defense this week, Ian Roddy,

665
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Speaker 3: who do you recommend someone to pick up for this week?

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Speaker 5: All right, yeah, so my first tidbit of advice on

667
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Speaker 5: the pod here, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and

668
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Speaker 5: recommend as a streaming defense the Chicago Bears. What I

669
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Speaker 5: like about them? They're playing the Tennessee Titans this week.

670
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Speaker 5: Tennessee They've got Levis under center, he's you know, young,

671
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Speaker 5: last we saw him really reckless. And then just Chicago's

672
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Speaker 5: defense themselves, Jalen Johnson, one of the best colorers in

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Speaker 5: the league. You've got a pass rush with Montes, Sweat,

674
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Speaker 5: and then just other good guys in the secondary, young

675
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Speaker 5: guys Kyler, Gordon, Tyreek, Stevenson, Jakwan Brisker. I just like

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Speaker 5: the names and the talent that Chicago has. And then

677
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Speaker 5: eber Flus himself is just a great defensive mind as well.

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Speaker 5: So going against a team like Tennessee that's led by

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Speaker 5: a young guy like Levis, I like Chicago's odds.

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Speaker 3: You really, Mike, you really saw that defense merge in

681
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Speaker 3: the second half of last year and maybe after the

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Speaker 3: Sweat deal. But not only do the native Chicagoans like

683
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Speaker 3: you expect Caleb Williams to play well, but this is

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Speaker 3: kind of going to be a defensive team as well.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing, right after Eric Williams or Alan

686
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Speaker 4: Williams Alan Williams, So now I'm mixing old coordinator new coordinator.

687
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Speaker 4: After Alan Williams went and disappeared, in a lot of rumor,

688
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Speaker 4: conjecture speculation as to why still never found out exactly

689
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Speaker 4: what's going on. That kind of got dismissed.

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Speaker 1: Dan.

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Speaker 4: I kept holding up a sign as we did the

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Speaker 4: podcast last year, Ian, where's Alan Williams.

693
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's why I'm laughing because it came back this year.

694
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Speaker 3: I thought we had moved on, but no, no, we're

695
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Speaker 3: not still there.

696
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Speaker 2: Because it wants well, bo that's the goal.

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Speaker 4: But the big thing is that it necessity necessitated such

698
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Speaker 4: a change, right knieber Flues now well quaffed. You saw

699
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Speaker 4: it in the Hard Knocks. Actually when when a guy's

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Speaker 4: beard mustache comes one of the more interesting things on

701
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Speaker 4: Hard Knocks. You got a bad show. But ibra Flus

702
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Speaker 4: good defensive mind. Eric Washington is their defensive coordinator, really

703
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 4: well regarded the guy that they're already thinking in two

704
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Speaker 4: years time might be looking at head coaching jobs down

705
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Speaker 4: the line. But you've got a good structure. You were

706
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Speaker 4: a top ten defense down the stretch. Now a full offseason,

707
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Speaker 4: they made a couple other trades quietly during training camp

708
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Speaker 4: that added some more depth. Now sweats banged up to

709
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Speaker 4: start things, but expected to go. As we sit and

710
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Speaker 4: record this late on Thursday, Yeah, everything is there to

711
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Speaker 4: go make some noise, so long as the offense does

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Speaker 4: their job right, which under justin fields, the problem was

713
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Speaker 4: as much as he could give you an electric play,

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Speaker 4: he could also just lay the ball down on the ground.

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Speaker 4: So less of that from Caleb Williams. If he's a

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Speaker 4: better steward of the ball means better opportunities for this defense.

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Speaker 3: Off We are year twenty seven of my long term

718
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Speaker 3: league ten teams standard league team defense. But again we

719
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Speaker 3: only have ten members, so there's it's you know, a

720
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Speaker 3: little tighter than a twelve team, and our rosters are short.

721
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Speaker 3: But anyway, when it comes to team defenses which we play,

722
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Speaker 3: you have your usual suspects. You have the Niners off

723
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Speaker 3: the board, Ravens were taken, Ian's Jets were taken in

724
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Speaker 3: my ten team league. I completely whiffed on taking the Bears,

725
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Speaker 3: and then I waited to our pick up deadline that

726
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 3: we have where we can pick up in ten minutes

727
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Speaker 3: after the deadline passed, where we could pick them up.

728
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Speaker 3: I picked up the Bears. So Ian, I am right

729
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Speaker 3: there with you, and in fact, they may stay on

730
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Speaker 3: my roster. I think they're going to be a play

731
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Speaker 3: throughout this season, so they could be out there in

732
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Speaker 3: your league, because I think there are other flashier names

733
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Speaker 3: that you will see, and you'll see people end up

734
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Speaker 3: taking the Browns. Obviously, great defensive team you know are

735
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 3: are going to be taken. But a team like the Bears, Yeah,

736
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Speaker 3: people may not be as keen to it as you

737
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Speaker 3: would think.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, only rostered in leagues right now.

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Speaker 3: Perfect, Yeah, and so yeah, that's where our league was.

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Speaker 3: So when I picked up the Bears, maybe it was

741
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Speaker 3: forty one percent. All right, here's here's my categories. I

742
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 3: give you a Survivor pick every week. We're not gonna

743
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 3: we're not gonna mess with this one. You gotta go Cincinnati.

744
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is healthy, which we don't know when we're

745
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 3: gonna get again. Right, You've got Jrod Mao coming in.

746
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 3: We don't think that the Patriots are really in it.

747
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissette is the quarterback, veteran leadership, blah blah blah.

748
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Speaker 3: But with Jamar Chase back, with T Higgins, I think

749
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 3: you gotta ride Cincinnati. I think you're gonna see a

750
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Speaker 3: lot of Bengals this week for the for the Survivor

751
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 3: pick that is going to be your obvious one if

752
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 3: you're looking for one that maybe isn't as obvious. I

753
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: would even say Seattle to that point, Mike, of you know,

754
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 3: the Seahawks are a six point favorite, one of the

755
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 3: big more bigger that you have. But I think people

756
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 3: are wondering what you're gonna get from Mike McDonald. I

757
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 3: think a lot of us are wondering what we're gonna

758
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 3: get from bo Nicks. And I think Seattle's defensive line

759
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 3: is improved, they should be able to score against Denver.

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Speaker 3: So Seattle could be or your hidden gem when it

761
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Speaker 3: comes to survivoral.

762
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Speaker 4: See if you can overpower up front Denver's offensive line

763
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Speaker 4: not harolded it as one of the best. And we'll

764
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Speaker 4: see what Sean Payton's got. In the post, Russell Wilson

765
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Speaker 4: era a lot of praise for bo Nicks. A lot

766
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 4: of it I think flows out of it. I got

767
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 4: no personal animus with him, but it seems like everybody

768
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Speaker 4: has a love fest if they've met and hung around

769
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Speaker 4: Sewan and Peyton, So I think that there's a little

770
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Speaker 4: of that that flows through. So maybe bo Nicks gets

771
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 4: elevated a little more than is reality, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm looking at Seattle's defense. It's one thing

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Speaker 4: you know, your new head coach can do is coach

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00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 4: him up on that side of the ball. So I

775
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 4: would expect aggression against the rookie because, let's face it,

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Speaker 4: the Denver Wide Receiving Corps. Who do you trust out

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00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 4: of there? Yeah, there's a couple of guys you like.

778
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Speaker 4: D Yeah, but week to week, right, Sutton s du right,

779
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 4: and then everybody keeps trying to make Mims happen.

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Speaker 3: We'll see, sure, we'll see if Mims the word on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Mike Ian, if you didn't know, Mike

782
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 3: was also talking directly to me about Sean Payton. I

783
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Speaker 3: tell the story. We were filling in one time on

784
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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio and Sean Payton was the guest, and

785
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Speaker 3: I decided to make up a game called danger Zone

786
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: where we just asked him like rapid fire questions in

787
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 3: sixty seconds and he completely played along. So I'm like,

788
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 3: all right, cool, And it's the only time I've ever

789
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Speaker 3: done the segment. I've never done it again.

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Speaker 4: You would never go back to the well And no,

791
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Speaker 4: that was I wasn't talking about you, And you know,

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Speaker 4: love it, Lovington. We've got a couple others in our

793
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Speaker 4: in our in our severe that may maybe it's a

794
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Speaker 4: bit over the top for my liking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I uh he played along with danger Zone,

796
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Speaker 3: so I was game with it.

797
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Speaker 4: Awesome, But why would you go back to the well

798
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 4: you got your hit, Hey, that's it stands in it.

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Speaker 3: Uh my points of he'd probably like to forget it,

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Speaker 3: so I think, yeah, it's probably it's a proble movie

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00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 3: for distant memory. Oh man, the points of Palooza. That

802
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 3: is not new a game where look, you can look

803
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 3: at the over under. It might always suggest that you

804
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: do so when you're looking for fantasy, find out where

805
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Speaker 3: the over unders are the highest, and maybe look to

806
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 3: play guys in those games. I'm not gonna take the

807
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Speaker 3: highest one every week unless it's just there's there's no

808
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 3: other option, and I feel that there's another option outside

809
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 3: of Rams Lions, and it is one Mike mentioned earlier.

810
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 3: I think Jaguars Dolphins is going to be a fun one,

811
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Speaker 3: and I think it's it's gonna be hot, you know that,

812
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 3: but hey, Jacksonville is accustomed to some of the warm weather.

813
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 3: They go down to Miami to face the Dolphins. I

814
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Speaker 3: think you're gonna see a lot of points. Second or third,

815
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Speaker 3: I think highest over under the week. But I love

816
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville and Miami and that points of palooza.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty nine and a half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, part of it, Dan is just the It's also

819
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Speaker 4: the tiebreaker, right if you're deciding between WR twos, WR threes, whatever,

820
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 4: and you're torn, look to the game where there's an

821
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Speaker 4: expectation of a higher point on it. Sure, and then

822
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Speaker 4: obviously we also, you know, soon enough we'll start getting

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Speaker 4: into the weather apps and NFL weather websites that give

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Speaker 4: us an idea of what we're looking at for wins

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00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 4: and whatever when we dig a little deeper into kickers

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Speaker 4: in things of that nature. But yeah, it's to jump

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Speaker 4: out that we got three or four games that are

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Speaker 4: forty eight plus. That's a nice little kickoff for the NFL.

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Speaker 3: And then my final news segment, by the way Colts

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Speaker 3: Texans around, that's you know, over under for points wise,

831
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Speaker 3: same with Cardinals bills. But I'm signing with Jacksonville and

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Speaker 3: Miami to really pay it off. My final segment, I

833
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Speaker 3: told you we were doing away with the give you

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Speaker 3: one reason, but I am going to give you a

835
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Speaker 3: player each week, and I'm going to give you a

836
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Speaker 3: player in a category of an Oasis song in honor

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Speaker 3: of them reuniting, and who knows of this concerts even

838
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Speaker 3: of no, no, we didn't, we didn't try, and I

839
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 3: know there's rumors of them come into the States, but

840
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Speaker 3: we did not get any tickets. Didn't didn't even try.

841
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 3: But I am excited to see, uh, the Gallagher brothers

842
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 3: back together. And I figured what better way to, uh,

843
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: I don't know, to celebrate that than to have a

844
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Speaker 3: player be in a category of an Oasis song each week.

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Speaker 3: So it's a different song which allows which allows me

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00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: to do a positive or a negative and uh, We're

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Speaker 3: going to start out week one the song Supersonic, So

848
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Speaker 3: this player is going to have a supersonic sort of

849
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 3: performance on Sunday. Mike, you mentioned them earlier in your

850
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks Kyler Murray Arizona Cardinals against the Bills. We talked

851
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: about the love of Trey McBride and him going off

852
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 3: draft boards a lot earlier. Kyler Murray is not at times,

853
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 3: and I think that there is an awesome opportunity for

854
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 3: him to show his stuff against the Bills coming up

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00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 3: on Sunday. He's not gonna have to deal with the

856
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 3: weather in Buffalo of any snow or cold. Since it's

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Speaker 3: Week one, my supersonic play for Week one is Kyler

858
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 3: Murray of the Arizona Cardinals in a good way?

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00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: Do you sing a few bars of the song too?

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Speaker 2: Are we treated to that?

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00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 3: No? I can't for podcast rights reasons. You know, we

862
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: don't want to howe them any more money.

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Speaker 2: Oh, nicely done? Wait to be well.

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Speaker 4: Actually, you know what if they fight us, they're not

865
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Speaker 4: fighting each other, we might get that tour after all, Dan.

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Speaker 3: Barr, Liam and Noel putting together a super Bowl time

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Speaker 3: for our Super Bowl predictions. Mike Harmon, you teased yours

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Speaker 3: earlier by seeing the Bears from the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to give us your Super Bowl prediction?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: The prediction for the fight is pain.

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Speaker 4: Somehow, some way, the Eagles navigate their way to the

873
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 4: Super Bowl again. I'm not the biggest believer in Sirianni,

874
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 4: but I love the roster. Even with the changes at

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00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 4: the offensive line, I think there was depth there on

876
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Speaker 4: the defensive line. Yeah, I know, Fletcher Cox has gone

877
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 4: and Kelsey're gone. I can't state how much those two

878
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 4: losses kind of bug me. But bringing in Saquon Barkley

879
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 4: and I think there's enough talent to keep things rolling up.

880
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 4: On the other side, maybe I'm just still an apologist,

881
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 4: and because picking the chiefs.

882
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 2: Isn't fun, I've done that before. Like I'm moving on.

883
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna take the Buffalo Bills, all right, That

884
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers sorry, and the Jets fall flat, That the

885
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 4: Dolphins can't finish because they have no defense. Patriots are

886
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 4: what they are, so they win the division, and then

887
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 4: the battle of Attrition begins, and that no Stefan dis

888
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 4: means that Coleman and Shakir and Kincaid and Cook can

889
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Speaker 4: get it done.

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Speaker 3: Ian Roddy your Super Bowl fifty nine prediction.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would love to pick my Jets, but to me,

892
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 5: I just feel like there's too much that has to

893
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 5: go perfectly right for them for that to happen. So

894
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Speaker 5: my AFC candidate is the Cincinnati Bengals' gotten them right.

895
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 5: With Joe Burrow returning, I think I don't know if

896
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 5: a deal is going to get done with Chase here,

897
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Speaker 5: but that's not really the point of this this talk

898
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Speaker 5: right now is you know, I think I think he'll

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Speaker 5: be there at some point, is the bottom line. And

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Speaker 5: I think that they'll make it to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 5: this year. They've been there once before, and that was

902
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Speaker 5: when Burrow was so young already, and he's older now,

903
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 5: more experienced, So just from a cerebral standpoint, he's improved

904
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Speaker 5: so much and now he's healthy. So I like the

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Speaker 5: Bengals for that, and then the NFC. I'm with Mike.

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Speaker 5: I like the Eagles again. I also don't really like

907
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Speaker 5: Nick Sirianni, but like Mike said, too, really really like

908
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 5: the roster and even though they lost Jason Kelsey, it

909
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 5: just feels and Fletcher Cox, it just feels like they

910
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 5: have so many trench guys. Whenever they lose someone, they

911
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 5: can just unbox a new one, you know, fresh from

912
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 5: the rap. You know, they've got Cam Jurgen's waiting in

913
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 5: the wings, a former pick that they can just replace

914
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Speaker 5: Jason Kelsey with. For Fletcher Cox, it's not a one

915
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Speaker 5: for one thing. But they've got, you know, uh, Nolan

916
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Speaker 5: Smith from Georgia who's barely played yet and he was

917
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Speaker 5: a first round pick. I I just really like where

918
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Speaker 5: the Eagles are right now roster wise, and regardless of

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Speaker 5: whether or not Sirianni is the best head coach, they

920
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Speaker 5: do have an adult in the room and Jalen hurts.

921
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Speaker 5: So I got the Eagles and I have them beating

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Speaker 5: the Bengals in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Eagles win it all. Mike, did you have winning

924
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 3: Eagles bills?

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Speaker 4: Match up bills? Bills, bills, stop bills. It just rolls

926
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Speaker 4: off the tongue. I mean, they're kind of like the Bears.

927
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Speaker 4: What's funny is Jay Glazer joined Smith and I after

928
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Speaker 4: the the Chiefs and Ravens Oprah and started asking about,

929
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Speaker 4: you know, players and situations and things that stood out

930
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Speaker 4: of training camp.

931
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Speaker 2: And he went on and on about Jalen.

932
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Speaker 4: Carter, so you know, you can listen to that whole

933
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Speaker 4: conversation podcast wherever you get it, but talking about how

934
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Speaker 4: much he expected him to take a leap and be

935
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Speaker 4: a disruptor for the Eagles this year. So part of

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Speaker 4: the rationale even before I had this mapped out, before

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Speaker 4: we talked to Glazer and it just emboldened me a

938
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Speaker 4: little more.

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Speaker 3: Well, Ian and you shared the Eagles, Mike, you and

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Speaker 3: I will share the Buffalo bills. I also have Buffalo

941
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Speaker 3: advancing from the AFC. I am coining Buffalo as Snowtown.

942
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Speaker 5: That is.

943
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Speaker 3: My coinage. My phrase I will use because if it's

944
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Speaker 3: perfectly with my motown versus Snowtown real, I like it.

945
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Speaker 3: I got the Lions in the Super Bowl, and give

946
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Speaker 3: me the Lions to win super Bowl fifty nine. I

947
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Speaker 3: fought it last year because I said, I don't want

948
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Speaker 3: both of these droughts eliminated in one year.

949
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Speaker 5: I don't even know who we would be rooting for.

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00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm like, I don't want to. I'm just

951
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not gonna fight this. Let's just let's

952
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: try to bring it to fruition Lions and Bills, with

953
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 3: the Lions getting the last laugh. I guess. I guess

954
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Speaker 3: if you were to root for someone to probably be

955
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Speaker 3: Buffalo because of their previous Super Bowl failures and the

956
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Speaker 3: Lions just getting there would be an accomplishment. But we're

957
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 3: going to keep that Bill's saga continuing into next season

958
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 3: because we're going to have the Lions win Super Bowl

959
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Speaker 3: fifty nine.

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Speaker 2: Boy, that would be one hell of a party in

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Speaker 2: New Orleans, thouldn't it.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, those two fan bases, Yes, in New Orleans.

963
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Speaker 4: I still have the picture from years ago on site.

964
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Speaker 4: The battle of good and Evil is what was I

965
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Speaker 4: was outside the walking down the street and there's a

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Speaker 4: church and I was just checking out this cool kind

967
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Speaker 4: of the way the light was hitting it and reflecting

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Speaker 4: or whatever. And all of a sudden, some guy popped

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Speaker 4: out of the weeds and started telling me the story

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Speaker 4: of how at midnight every night it's the battle of

971
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Speaker 4: good and evil on those grounds. And I was waiting

972
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Speaker 4: to get shived. I didn't, but it was a most

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Speaker 4: interesting and terrifying ten minutes. I think I've ever spent

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Speaker 4: in a city, just kind of walking around myself.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, good times. Me being the fussy eater. You know,

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Speaker 3: the food in that city does not do the many favors.

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Speaker 3: But still you gotta love the vibe of New Orleans.

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Speaker 3: Still a ways away, but it'll be here before you

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Speaker 3: know it. All right, there, it is week one, your

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Speaker 3: advice that you need, Mike, and I will be back

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Speaker 3: with another episode of I Want Your Flex that will

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Speaker 3: be produced by Ian Roddy after week one. It'll be

983
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Speaker 3: with you on Tuesday, and so you'll want to get

984
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Speaker 3: our recaps and what we think of what we saw

985
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Speaker 3: in week one and what you need to get ready

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Speaker 3: for in week two as well. So for our new

987
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 3: executive producer Ian Roddy welcoming him aboard. He is Mike Carmen.

988
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 3: I'm Dan Beyer. Good luck in week one. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you next time here and I want your flex