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Speaker 2: To Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I'm Alex Curry here with a very special guest today,

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Speaker 3: Nikki k filling in for Carmen. Thank you for spending

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Speaker 3: your Saturday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 2: Football is back. It is so back, Alex, so back baby.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's already been such an epic week and

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Speaker 3: it's been two days. We got a rare Friday football

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Speaker 3: treat in Brazil. Tough start for the Eagles, then Holy

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Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley. Giants fans definitely cried themselves asleep last night.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely incredible treats. And you know what the best part

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Speaker 3: about this time of year right now is we don't

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Speaker 3: know what teams are good, so every game is a

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Speaker 3: good game. It was a little bit sloppy, but it

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Speaker 3: was a beautiful display of what the promise of this

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Speaker 2: True chaos.

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Speaker 3: Nikki in Brazil, it sounds sound like I'm watching let

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Speaker 3: me tell you the prophet, I've got to go down.

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Speaker 2: I've got a crush. You gotta crush on football.

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Speaker 3: Well, there was also heartbreak at the end of the

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Speaker 3: game for Packers fans. Tough one, Jordan Love, but there

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Speaker 3: was like a sliver, a sliver of hope because the

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Speaker 3: MRI came back it said it was a sprained MCL

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Speaker 3: should not be season ending. We don't have the timetable yet,

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Speaker 3: but we'll dive into that a little later. Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: Dude Chiefs Ravens delivered up until the final play, proving

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson's head and all of our heads, really everyone's head,

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Speaker 3: That is Cynthia Freeland like coding. It's insane. It's she

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Speaker 3: brain for that. Airplanes over my head. We've got producer

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Speaker 2: Brian Finley at the news desk, which we love.

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Speaker 3: We'll keep you updated on all the college football action

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Speaker 3: as it goes down today. But let's get started with

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Speaker 3: that rare treat of a Friday night game.

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Speaker 2: Eagles Brazil Packer in Brazil.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I don't know if you heard, but the

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Speaker 3: Eagles got some loud booze as they.

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Speaker 2: Entered the stadium last night.

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Speaker 3: No, I got a question here before we go in,

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Speaker 3: and like everyone, Brian nit Patrick, everybody, are the Packers

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Speaker 3: the most loved franchise outside of America? Because I feel

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Speaker 3: like every country I've been to they love the Packers

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Speaker 3: and there's always like a Packers bar everywhere I'm traveling.

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Speaker 3: And then you kind of saw that again last night

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Speaker 3: when the Eagles came in and got booed in Brazil? Like,

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Speaker 3: are the Packers the most cheese the internationally like loved

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Speaker 3: football team?

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Speaker 5: You're you're asking the exactly wrong person.

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Speaker 2: I wish.

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Speaker 3: To stop all over Europe, Like I will say there's

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Speaker 6: No, there is, there is no Those are called.

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Speaker 2: Colored lenses are not?

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Speaker 5: That is Like I have proof enough talking with people

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Speaker 6: This might not be an educated or you could argue

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Speaker 2: I need a nice one here, you know what.

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Speaker 6: Like, well, I'm not a Cowboys outside of the US.

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Speaker 7: Actually, while I'm not a Packer fan, I'm actually gonna

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Speaker 7: side with Nikki. I think it's the cheese. Think the

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Speaker 7: cheese heads. Everybody loves cheese.

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Speaker 2: It's like an easy thing to kind of jump on

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Speaker 7: Green and yellow. It's just there's something about those colors

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Speaker 2: I grew up in a non football market and as

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Speaker 2: a universally loved food group. So that's the answer.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fine, I'm just gonna say I've traveled all over

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Speaker 3: the world and majority of like, if there's an NFL bar,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a Packers bar somewhere, like all

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Speaker 3: over Europe, South America. So okay, I'll move on. Thank you, everybody,

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Speaker 3: for chiming into that one but healthy debate. Hell yeah,

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Speaker 3: the game had it all. Like, it was a really

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Speaker 3: tough start for the Eagles and Jalen Hurts Hurts through

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Speaker 3: an interception on the eagles first drive. Packers got a

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Speaker 3: field goal off of that second Eagles drive, miscommunication on

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Speaker 3: the snap that led to a fumble and some words

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Speaker 3: recovered and scored another field goal. But but after that

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Speaker 3: tough start, Holy, Saquon Barkley made every Giants fan cry

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Speaker 3: themselves to sleep last night. Three touchdowns, two rushing, one receiving,

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Speaker 3: It feels like he was just meant to be here

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Speaker 2: Just so thrilling to see him have this moment and

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Speaker 3: Like this is the best team all together that he's

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and Alex I do have to give you one

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Speaker 2: correction here you said this game had everything, it did

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Speaker 3: For the brother Lesha Jason Kelsey, you are so missing you.

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Speaker 3: That was embarrassing. That was like the fact that they tried,

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Speaker 2: I think you retire it with him. You have to.

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Speaker 3: In years past, toush push was like automatic, This is

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Speaker 3: Not anymore, not without Jason Kelsey, the last Jason. We

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Speaker 2: Yo and no, And I do think you're right. Philadelphia's

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Speaker 2: defense carried them early on. Jalen found some momentum. Obviously

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Speaker 2: he was mistake prone to but I think if you're

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Speaker 2: enough just about Saquon Barkley, but about what Kellen Moore

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Speaker 2: ended the season last year after starting ten and one.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you know, to be frank, the Eagles

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Speaker 3: Jordan Love like he was about to go on a

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Speaker 2: Jordan needed this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jordan Love and the Packers had an answer to

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Speaker 3: And this one's NFC edition. We're gonna go through each

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Speaker 3: So after saying how big of an impact Saquon Barkley

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Speaker 2: I had them at two.

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Speaker 3: this Eagles team can lean on him as a running

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Speaker 3: like this is this is great. I'm going to take

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Speaker 3: the Eagles butt. Here's another hot take. I think Washington

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Speaker 3: hear me out, there's a lot of exciting new a

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Speaker 3: lot of hope and if Jaiden Daniels hits kind of

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Speaker 3: like how CJ. Stroud hit last year, who was again

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's gonna be a great relationship.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like this is going to be a

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Speaker 2: I love that jump that you're predicting for the Commanders. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I know Cowboy fans are gonna come at me honestly

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Speaker 2: as your pay. I don't have the Cowboys the top.

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Speaker 2: I have the Eagles as well, because I needed to

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Speaker 2: see some grit in terms of being able to overcome

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Speaker 2: adversity in that big losing skid we saw them close

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Speaker 2: out the season with last year. It was like every

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Speaker 2: time something went wrong in a game, the leadership was

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Speaker 2: not there. Well, no, they broke down.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard, like Hertz and Sirianni like, we're also

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Speaker 2: So last night it wasn't pretty, no, but they pulled

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Speaker 2: addition of Kellen is what this team needs. I think

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Speaker 2: what we saw last night was a floor for what

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Speaker 2: Baby. I am seeing things through a very different lens.

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Speaker 4: The only thing that kind of concerned me was you

438
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Speaker 4: see Jordan love th office back and it's really fun

439
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 4: And who am I to really question any sort of mechanics,

440
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 4: but you want to make sure that he can also

441
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 4: do kind of all of the straightforward things about being

442
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 4: at quarterback. However, I'm not gleaning much off of that game.

443
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 4: That field with absolutely atrocious. I think that he just

444
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 4: saw that the fact that there was an he had

445
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 4: an easier time throwing the football on and move rather

446
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 4: than having to set his seat in the really slippery draft.

447
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Speaker 4: So on both sides, I'm not really gleaning too much

448
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 4: off of last night's games, just given the fact that

449
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 4: the game plans changed once you realize how slippery that

450
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Speaker 4: surface was.

451
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Speaker 3: All right, let's switch gears to Chicago, where you are

452
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Speaker 3: en route to. Right now, all eyes are going to

453
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Speaker 3: be on the Bears as they get ready to start

454
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Speaker 3: the Caleb Williams era.

455
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Speaker 2: Do you think he's going to rise the occasion here?

456
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Speaker 2: In game one?

457
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Speaker 4: We've seen time and again that Caleb Williams can rise

458
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 4: to the occasion. He's no stranger to the spotlight. Obviously,

459
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 4: playing football at usc in the second largest media market

460
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 4: in the country. This guy has been a professional athlete

461
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 4: for years at this point with the nil coon trecks

462
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 4: that he's had, you know, the reported ten million dollars

463
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 4: he made in those just think collage alone, and he

464
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 4: has risen like nothing has ever looked too big for him.

465
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Speaker 4: So you're hoping that Zak kentinues and he's got a

466
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 4: call of the supporting to ask around him, and it

467
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 4: seems like he's having fun in Shane Waldron's offense. I'm

468
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 4: hoping that, you know, just everybody's kind of on the

469
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Speaker 4: same page. I'm not going to be surprised if there

470
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Speaker 4: are a few bumps in the road early, given the

471
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Speaker 4: facts that there's so much new on this offense.

472
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Speaker 2: Okay, what what are bumps in the road for you?

473
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Speaker 2: What about Keenan Allen? I need to hear a little.

474
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask about Keenan Allen.

475
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Keenan Allen is a veteran, but he's

476
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Speaker 4: new to Caleb Williams and Taylor Williams is new to

477
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Speaker 4: this league. So we want to go have a quarterbacks

478
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 4: sugarting the ball. That's that's new that it's going to

479
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 4: see some looks and some things from this honest defense,

480
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are overlooking it's gonna

481
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 4: be I think there's going to he's gonna hold the

482
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Speaker 4: ball a little bit longer, like we've seen him do

483
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Speaker 4: that in pre season, where the line is kind of

484
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 4: had to hold up a litt too long, And I

485
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 4: think that's just him me getting through the progressions, trying

486
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Speaker 4: to process this offense because he's not a thousand cup

487
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 4: uncomfortable with against Okay, So if I see him take

488
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 4: some sacks, if he's seeing some furn overs from incompletions,

489
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be surprised. I don't think that

490
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 4: anybody should lose by that, you know, any means, even

491
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 4: if you look at sort of love last season, he

492
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 4: had been in his offense for three years on the bench,

493
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 4: and he still took a little while to kind of

494
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Speaker 4: get his groove with his guys and if guys are

495
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Speaker 4: learning him at the same time. It's just it's a

496
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Speaker 4: reality in the NFL when you have so much, so

497
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Speaker 4: many new pieces, especially at the quarterback position. So don't

498
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Speaker 4: don't panic if this doesn't go like amazingly well right

499
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Speaker 4: off of that. But I do think that this is

500
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Speaker 4: going to end up being a full fantastic thing for Chicago.

501
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Speaker 2: Correct, and Carmen, I do have a question in terms

502
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Speaker 2: of rookie quarterbacks. I mean, we saw CJ. Stroud take off,

503
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Speaker 2: and then you're seeing what's happening in New England with

504
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 2: Drake May, you know, being sat behind Jacoby Brissette. And

505
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Speaker 2: then obviously there's stories throughout the league of young quarterbacks

506
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Speaker 2: who get that time to absorb. Like you just mentioned,

507
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Speaker 2: Jordan Love, do you anticipate Caleb kind of veering more CJ.

508
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Speaker 2: Stroud or are those bumps gonna be bigger than anticipated.

509
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Speaker 4: It's so funny when we look back at CJ. Shrouds

510
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 4: season last year. The culmination of it was incredibly untrusted

511
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Speaker 4: ined was I can't say enough about how well he did.

512
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Speaker 4: But it's not as though ces Shroud didn't make mistakes.

513
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Speaker 4: He didn't look like a rookie at times. There were

514
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 4: games where he didn't throw for a touchdown, and I

515
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 4: think that that's completely realistic to think about Caleb Williams

516
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,479
Speaker 4: when you think about again those ups and downs. I

517
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 4: do think when the season is all said and done

518
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 4: and the Bears kind of hit their stride, Caleb, well,

519
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 4: you're gonna look back at the season and it's going

520
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Speaker 4: to be more ces Shroud than not.

521
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Speaker 10: I've just been very.

522
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Speaker 4: Cautious about comparing him to CJ. Shroud because I just

523
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 4: don't want that to be the expectation. As a Bailey.

524
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Speaker 4: Caleb is his own dude, and if he goes out

525
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 4: and vollved out like that, I'm not going to be surprised.

526
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Speaker 4: But I also don't think that we should glean anything

527
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Speaker 4: if he doesn't go out and do that, and if

528
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 4: there are some more bumps in the road and he

529
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 4: is trying to get acclimated to this offense. He does

530
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 4: have so many guys around him though, that he's not

531
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Speaker 4: going to need to go be the hero this season's

532
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 4: pretty much at all. As long as he's out of

533
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Speaker 4: the game manager and takes care of the football, they're

534
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 4: going to see some success with the Chicago Bears between

535
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 4: all the offensive buttons they have and the defense that

536
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 4: should be a top five units this year.

537
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Speaker 3: Okay, I know we've talked a lot about maintaining expectations

538
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Speaker 3: for Caleb Williams. You've we've every week thing up to tomorrow.

539
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, though, Okay, so break it down.

540
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Speaker 3: What would be considered a successful rookie season in your

541
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Speaker 3: opinion for Caleb.

542
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 4: I want him to take this step by step. So

543
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 4: the Bears rookie quarterback records are just on the floor.

544
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 4: They are just so abysmal, and he should blow through

545
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 4: those by Halloween. If he does that, if the Bears

546
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 4: get to a winning season, beyond that, I don't care.

547
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 4: I'm really really happy with that. If you kind of

548
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 4: see the intangible things of this system taking old and

549
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 4: Caleb kind of grasping it and looking like a pro

550
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 4: throughout this mistakes or not, I think that's great. I'm

551
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 4: not trying to assign a winner Tunnal to the Chicago

552
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 4: Bear at this point because this is a school of sport.

553
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 4: Even if Caleb goes the ball out, that doesn't mean

554
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 4: that the team is going to fall out. For as

555
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 4: much challenge that's on it, this is still football. It's

556
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 4: still there's tons of parody in this league. And I

557
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 4: just want to make sure that we're not assigning, you know,

558
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 4: team success to one person, okay, because that's not how

559
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 4: the same works.

560
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,959
Speaker 3: If they don't know the postseason, is it a failure?

561
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 3: Is it just that you just want to have a

562
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 3: winning season, That's what I just.

563
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 4: Want them to have a winning I want them to

564
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 4: be maybe in the winning seasons. Don't forget like this

565
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 4: is still going to be especially Jordan Love now not

566
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 4: missing it time and time. Yeah, this is this is

567
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 4: a division with two Super Bowl contenders in a legitimate

568
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 4: super Bowl contenders in it, and it's going to be

569
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 4: hard to win this division. It's going to be hard

570
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 4: to make the playoffs out of this division. But we

571
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 4: could absolutely see a three foods from the NFC and

572
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 4: North in the playoffs this year. But I don't just

573
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 4: don't think that it's a failure by the stander Bears

574
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 4: that they don't reach the post season. I mean they've

575
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 4: only had one winning season in the last I believe

576
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 4: eight or nine years. So just getting into a winning

577
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 4: season at this point is a step up and an

578
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 4: improvement from last year in particular from here before that.

579
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 4: If they're on the right track, that's all I care about.

580
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, before we let you go, we got to

581
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Speaker 3: talk about the team that is a top the NFC North.

582
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Speaker 3: I think for most people, the Lions, the expectations are

583
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: high this year, even higher than they were last year.

584
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 3: After narrowly missing the super Bowl last season. Do you

585
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: think a super Bowl is the realistic expectation for Detroit.

586
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 4: My prediction this year is Lions Verus sheet Super Bowl,

587
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 4: and I stand behind that untoes down. At this point,

588
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 4: I am so high on the Lions. Still. They have

589
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 4: They have their returning basically all of their team from

590
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 4: last year. They also retained Ben Johnson as their offensive coordinator.

591
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 4: They became Aaron delenn as their defensive cornator, both of

592
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 4: which shook head coaching interviews. On top of that, the

593
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 4: one blemish they had last year was their secondary because

594
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 4: they couldn't keep guys healthy. At this point, now they

595
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 4: went out and they traded for Carlton Davis in the

596
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 4: off season. They took two quarterbacks with their first two

597
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 4: picks in the draft.

598
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Speaker 1: They now I think.

599
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Speaker 4: Very deep secondary because Brad Holmes, their general lander, was

600
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Speaker 4: like I'm power high water, I'm fielding a full secondary

601
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 4: this year. I do not care. And on top of that,

602
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: I just think that the defense is for their long.

603
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 4: They have a new defensive line coach to Ade Hutchinson

604
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,239
Speaker 4: talks about this week, how good of a relationship they have.

605
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: They've gone out to dinner and he really feels like

606
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 4: he can thrive within his coaching points and all of

607
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff up front. So if you have

608
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 4: a pots up front and on top of those detafles too,

609
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 4: and you have the back end and you talked some

610
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 4: good linebackers there, I mean, the defense is going to

611
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 4: be great. And then you already know the offensive firepower

612
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 4: that they have and the versatility they have on offense

613
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 4: with a very creative offensive line, Pops and most creative

614
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 4: offensive line with Ben Johnson, on top of the motivating

615
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 4: factor of Dan Cambell and your head coach who was

616
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 4: going to be the best and reminding you every single

617
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 4: second this season that arly within one half of the

618
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 4: Super Bowl last year. That is on the expectation that.

619
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Speaker 2: Some fire Carmen cheers to that. Carmen, take a sip

620
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Speaker 2: of proseccoy. You earn that next class. Thank you so much.

621
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Speaker 3: Have a great time with the Bears home opener, and

622
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Speaker 3: we'll see you back next week.

623
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Speaker 4: Thank you guys, so much fun, Oh we will.

624
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Speaker 2: We love you all.

625
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 5: Right.

626
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: Now, let's check in with Brian Fenley and see what's trending.

627
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Nikki and Alex, what we got right now

628
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 6: is college football galore. But there's some news regarding Packers

629
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Speaker 6: quarterback Jordan Love. This is This is encouraging, right, this

630
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 6: is It looked pretty severe last night when some thought

631
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Speaker 6: that maybe it was an ACL. There was a lot

632
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 6: of keyboard warriors on social media that don't have PhDs

633
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 6: or mds trying to diagnose him. But what we are

634
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 6: hearing is that it is an MCL spring for Jordan

635
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 6: Love from last night and he's probably only going to

636
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 6: miss three to six weeks.

637
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: That's not bad.

638
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 6: That's not bad at all. Best case for what happened,

639
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 6: absolutely no question about it. The Commander's placing their quarterback

640
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 6: Marcus Mariota on injured reserve, and they have signed QB

641
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 6: Sam Hartman from their practice squad. So the legend of

642
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 6: Sam Hartman continues.

643
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, he love Sam's hair.

644
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, I was like, what's happening? Nikki's doing this?

645
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: Like I Handjess like what did I miss?

646
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: What do I not know? That's friending on Sam Brand's hair?

647
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: Took college football worm got it last year. So the

648
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: more the more Sam Hartman flow in our lives, the better.

649
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: Love that.

650
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think the Bengals are hoping the more

651
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 6: Jamar Chase the better because they have ruled him as

652
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 6: a game time decision for Sunday's game. They've also on

653
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Speaker 6: the injury report put an illness next to his name,

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Speaker 6: So that's a little bit interesting as far as what

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Speaker 6: could be going on there.

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Speaker 3: But we saw him talk, was it yesterday or the

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Speaker 3: day before, saying that he's gonna he's gonna play this season.

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Speaker 2: So and he didn't seem sick.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it seems curious, but he is listed as a

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Speaker 6: game time asson as you said, Alex, when he was talking,

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Speaker 6: he mentioned himself as a game time decision. In college football,

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Speaker 6: we've got several top twenty five teams playing right now,

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Speaker 6: this one on Fox Television. Number eleven Utah has a

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Speaker 6: seventeen and nothing leading against Baylor. That is early stages

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Speaker 6: of the second quarter. Number five, Notre Dame, speaking of

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Speaker 6: Sam Hartman, they are trailing Northern Illinois. We've got the

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Speaker 6: upset watch here at thirteen to seven. Albeit it's still

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Speaker 6: six minutes in the second quarter.

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Speaker 2: Yet it's early. It's a little I love it when

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Speaker 2: they wear their gold helmets though. These are my favorite helmets.

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Speaker 6: Yes, oh yeah, yeah, iconic. Yeah, you can't beat that.

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Speaker 6: Number one Georgia forty five to nothing against Tennessee Tech.

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Speaker 6: They made that part of the schedule that there's also

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Speaker 6: seven twenty nine left in the fourth quarter. There Number

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Speaker 6: twenty one Iowa has a ten to nothing leading against

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Speaker 6: Iowa State early a lead for number six Ole Miss

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Speaker 6: ten and nothing against Middle Tennessee eight minutes to go

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Speaker 6: in the first quarter. Second quarter. Number twenty two Louisville

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Speaker 6: twenty one to seven in front of Jacksonville State. I

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Speaker 6: want to mention this this one needed overtime and not

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Speaker 6: just one overtime session to sort out a victor. It

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Speaker 6: was Oklahoma State, the number sixteen ranked team in the country,

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Speaker 6: taking on Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Grain takes the ball, hands it off hill, hit the

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Speaker 1: back build, hey stop, hey stop.

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys win.

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Speaker 6: The Cowboys win, The Cowboys win another big court down

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Speaker 6: stop Oklahoma State Radio Network. They won thirty nine to

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Speaker 6: thirty one in a second overtime against Arkansas. And that

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Speaker 6: was the final play of that second ot where Oklahoma

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Speaker 6: State coming back from twenty one to seven deficit in

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Speaker 6: the first half.

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Speaker 2: You know they called them the cardiac Cowboys. Do they

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Speaker 2: I do. I've spent a lot of time.

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Speaker 6: You spent a lot of time in Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: Yoh, Mike Gandy, Mike Gandhy is the gift that keeps

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Speaker 2: on giving in so are the cardiac cowboys. I swear

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Speaker 2: that fan base knows how to keep you humble but

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Speaker 2: also give you a heart attack and maybe give you

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Speaker 2: some reason to celebrate that you didn't know you needed.

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Speaker 6: Well, Nikki, what about the q OUR codes that he

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Speaker 6: was trying to put on his player's helmets, Like did

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Speaker 6: you hear about that?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: No, enlighten me on all.

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Speaker 6: So I'm curious what you both think about this. So

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Speaker 6: he was trying to get this thing across where the

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Speaker 6: players had QR codes on their helmets so the people

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Speaker 6: watching could take their phone and then donate to an

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Speaker 6: nil fund. The NCAA came down and said, look, we

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Speaker 6: cannot have this happen.

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Speaker 2: We can't do walking advertisement.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, walking funny.

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Speaker 3: His time looking out for his players, looking for him

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Speaker 3: to get paid. It was like a go fundme exactly

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Speaker 3: on their helmet. Like, I say, you want to pay us,

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Speaker 3: you like watching us.

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Speaker 2: Let's go. I think I got that idea from I've

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Speaker 2: seen bachelorette parties out with my venmo is really or

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Speaker 2: you know here the QR code is is the next

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Speaker 2: level they scare me. How how fast would you be

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Speaker 2: able to zoom in and scan it? I mean that's just.

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Speaker 3: On TV, right, If you're watching on TV and it's

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Speaker 3: like like there, I think that's how you could do it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would assume have to get tight shot with

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Speaker 6: a camera. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's also Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater is very very

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Speaker 2: intimate and very very loud. So maybe some of those

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Speaker 2: they have the paddle people and they stand and they

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Speaker 2: whack their paddles against the foam matts and it's a

731
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 2: drumming noise louder that you know ever that can just

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Speaker 2: startle you at any moment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Alex Nicky as they get it back to you

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Speaker 6: also number three Texas one, AGA's number ten Michigan thirty

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Speaker 6: one to twelve, back to both of you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, woo, all right, thank you, Brian. We gotta go

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Speaker 2: right to break here.

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Speaker 3: But when we come back, it is the dues and

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Speaker 3: the don'ts and sports you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 1: listen live.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here

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Speaker 3: with Nicky k. We are broadcasting live from the Tyro

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Speaker 3: dot Com studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending

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Speaker 3: your Saturday afternoon with little Nick and me. It is

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Speaker 3: time right now for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 1: Highlighting the dues. Wh I love that putting a spotlight

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Speaker 1: on the don'ts.

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Speaker 2: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 6: That's insane.

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Speaker 1: Next time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna start with a D, and mine

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Speaker 3: is do honor Legends. Alex Morgan announced her retirement from

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Speaker 3: soccer this week, while also announcing that she's pregnant with

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Speaker 3: their second baby, and she will play her final game

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Speaker 3: in San Diego tomorrow. Now, the San Diego Waves sold

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Speaker 3: over eleven thousand tickets in one day to see her

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Speaker 3: last match.

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Speaker 2: And this is what I love.

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Speaker 3: In like a very unprecedented moment, multiple media partners will

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Speaker 3: simulcast Alex Morgan's final game. You have CBS, Paramount plus, ESPN,

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Speaker 3: two Prime, NWSL plus like everybody coming in showing out

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Speaker 3: for Alex Moore.

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Speaker 2: That name has been such a staple in our discourse

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Speaker 2: of women's sports in the fight for equity and what

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Speaker 2: the US women's national team has accomplished as well.

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Speaker 3: Dude, I remember after they won because I was a

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Speaker 3: US embedded reporter in France when they won their World

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Speaker 3: Cup in twenty nineteen, and the chant in the stadium

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Speaker 3: in Leon was equal pay, equal pay, Like she give

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Speaker 3: not a woman herd? Yeah, not only like made women's

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Speaker 3: soccer what it is, but like really was such a

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Speaker 3: force in bringing women's sports to where it is right now.

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Speaker 2: And if you ask any casuals, she's one of the

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Speaker 2: first names mentioned.

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Speaker 3: In the like women's athlete, Like she's going to be

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Speaker 3: up there. How about Yeah, all right, Kate La Clark. Now,

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Speaker 3: let's okay, do wear white after Labor Day? And I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about you, Isaiah Likely. I don't have the white cleet, sir.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Like you got it? What if you

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Speaker 2: had white cleats on? That's what Patrick Mahomes said. Everybody, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: letn know.

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Speaker 4: We don't know.

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Speaker 2: And maybe the discourse after that game, Raven's finally getting

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Speaker 2: the edge over the Chiefs. Yeah, so wears some white?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, okay, I have a don't here okay, don't

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Speaker 3: challenge the champ. Joey Chestnut crushed his competition. Is made

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Speaker 3: ate a world record eighty three hot dogs in ten

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Speaker 3: minutes in his Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Special, his competition only ate sixty seven.

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Speaker 3: That's sixteen more hot dogs Kobiyashi.

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Speaker 2: It was like a head to head. It was a

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Speaker 2: huge rivalry. But for But the thing is Joey is

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Speaker 2: a staple that that competition didn't have the lore of

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Speaker 2: the fourth of July. Different, right, Yeah, but he is

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Speaker 2: the goat. The goat. I can't even amountin say, han't

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Speaker 2: even I love it? Okay, I'm gonna go with a

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Speaker 2: don't here, don't This is a little cliche. Don't ever

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Speaker 2: give up. I'm gonna give some love to the Paralympics,

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Speaker 2: which are ending tomorrow. And we have seen stories and

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Speaker 2: unfold of athletes who have overcome such adversity and triumph,

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Speaker 2: and specifically how about the Woodhalls hunters. I haven't done Okay,

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Speaker 2: So don't ever give up? Do you believe in true love?

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Speaker 2: Winning a gold medal in the four hundred meters sprint.

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Speaker 2: He's a double amputee. He has been one since he

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Speaker 2: was eleven months old, and this was just a month

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Speaker 2: after he was championing his wife, Tara Davis Woodhall, who

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Speaker 2: won a gold at the Paris Olympics as well. So

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Speaker 2: we love that. Yeah, give it up. I love it.

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Speaker 3: You said never, don't give up. I said, do keep

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Speaker 3: it in the family. Hey dude, I love it, love

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Speaker 3: it so much. Okay, do give us a good throwback?

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Speaker 3: Is my next one. Ludacris throughout the footitch out of

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Speaker 3: Braves game with his big.

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Speaker 2: Arms and his big shoes, throwing it back to his

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Speaker 2: get Back music.

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Speaker 3: Video from two thousand and four, and it didn't click

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Speaker 3: at first.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, what's happening here?

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Speaker 3: It took me like thirty seconds to be like, oh no, okay,

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Speaker 3: this is what he used to do.

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Speaker 2: Like he had a kind of like belt brow to

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Speaker 2: his hand and threw it out connic beautiful. Okay, one

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Speaker 2: one real quick here. Yeah, don't miss out on your

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Speaker 2: chance to buy your fifty to fifty Raffle tickets. What

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Speaker 2: show Hayes the money SHOWO TONI had a solo homer

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Speaker 2: last night, and he is now just five homers away

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Speaker 2: from fifty home runs. He's got forty six stolen bases,

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Speaker 2: so we're on fifty to fifty watch a historic. I

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Speaker 2: was like, where are we going with this? Listen?

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Speaker 3: Did someone like win a ton of money from the

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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty raffle?

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Speaker 2: You know, get a little creative with.

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Speaker 3: It, dude, Yes, do show players and coaches, personalities and commercials.

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Speaker 2: I talked about this earlier.

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Speaker 3: Dan Campbell's Appleby's commercial was Chef's Kiss all right when

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Speaker 3: we come back, The King of the ASC lives rent free,

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Speaker 3: and Lamar's Had. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 3: to hour two of Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry

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Speaker 3: here with my special guest Nikki in for Carmen today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us. We

844
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Speaker 3: have had so much go down already this week in football.

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Speaker 2: NFL is back, baby.

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Speaker 3: We had the two games already this week, a rare

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Speaker 3: Friday night treat that ended with a little bit of heartbreak.

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Speaker 3: But then today, you guys, we're Packers fans. Take a

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Speaker 3: deep breath. Jordan Love is most likely only going to

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Speaker 3: miss three to six weeks from what we heard. We

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Speaker 3: also had, like Thursday night, probably the best like opening

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Speaker 3: matchup that we could ask for in the AFC. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna get to that in just a bit. We also

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Speaker 3: had a legend announce her retirement this week. We kind

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Speaker 3: of talked about that a little last segment, you guys.

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Speaker 3: Alex Morgan will play her last soccer game.

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Speaker 2: Hats off time tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: She helped make women's sports, in women's soccer what it

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Speaker 3: is today. I am so happy the entire sports community

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Speaker 3: are giving her her flowers. The game's already sold out.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be simulcas on multiple network, CBS, Paramount, ESPN Prime,

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Speaker 3: like basically anywhere. A little tough on an NFL Sunday,

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Speaker 3: but just like, ugh, we need.

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Speaker 2: To celebrate these women for what they did. I mean,

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Speaker 2: especially with all the hype we've seen around the WNBA

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Speaker 2: this summer, we must not forget that it was the

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Speaker 2: US women's national team. Oh yeah, that really led the way, right.

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Speaker 3: Got the conversation started for women's sports and equal pay

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Speaker 3: and just like kind of bringing it to the forefront

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Speaker 3: We have Cynthia Frielan from NFL Network joining us in

895
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Speaker 3: about thirty minutes to break down.

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Speaker 2: Basically human computer.

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Speaker 3: Everything going down in the NFL also give you a

898
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 3: little little help with your fantasy. But let's dive back

899
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 3: in to football, because we had an incredible first game

900
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 3: on Thursday.

901
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 2: This game delivered.

902
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: Both teams marched down the field to score touchdown on

903
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 3: each of their first possessions, with two new guys scoring

904
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 3: the touchdowns. Ravens, he had King Henry Chief's first round

905
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 3: draft pick, Xavier Worthy, like a gazelle, like a straight

906
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 3: gazelle running in that touchdown. His first NFL possession was

907
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 3: a touchdown. I also love the fact, I don't know

908
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 3: if you guys saw this. Patrick Mahomes went out of

909
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 3: his way to make sure he grabbed that first football

910
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 3: for Worthy from one of the officials so he could

911
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 3: get his first touchdown ball. He also obviously had two touchdowns,

912
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 3: so he got two touchdown balls and got the game ball.

913
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 3: Three framers from his first NFL game. Welcome to the

914
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 3: big leagues, Alex.

915
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: Did you play SIMS growing up? The computer game?

916
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 9: No?

917
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So here's a funny story go on. I

918
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 2: didn't play a lot of video games, but I played Sims. Okay,

919
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 2: A lot of people. You build homes you know whatever.

920
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. There was a cheat code to SIMS.

921
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 2: Normally you had to earn the money and watch it

922
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: build up, but if you had the cheat code, Rosebud,

923
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: you could have millions of dollars and build whatever you wanted. Okay,

924
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy is Rosebud. He is a cheat code. He

925
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 2: is so unfair to add to this Chief's offense. And

926
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: then I mean those numbers like you mentioned, three touches,

927
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: sixty eight yards, two touchdowns. This man. I think the

928
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 2: rest of the league is upset with Buffalo for making

929
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 2: the trade that enabled Xavier Worthy to be a Chief.

930
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: We'll see, well, Hollywood Brown not even playing in that game.

931
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: And I mean, you know, watching that game, I had

932
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: two takeaways. One is that the Chiefs are going to

933
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 2: repeat and you know, put it down right now. And

934
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: number two is that this watching them is fun again

935
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 2: because last season they won in an ugly in ugly fashion,

936
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 2: but saying you know, hey, come at us, we'll do

937
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 2: something different than what our identity has been in they're back.

938
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So okay, my couple takeaways from this basically

939
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: AFC Championship rematch. On that same note, Patrick Mahomes and

940
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 3: the Chiefs got better, and it really showed you that

941
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 3: last year that was the season and the window for

942
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 3: teams to really take advantage of this Chiefs team because

943
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 3: they got better. They got better. And my second is

944
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. I know you said they're not, but Mahomes

945
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs are your kryptonite. Ren for even though

946
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 3: like he cannot find a way to finish these games

947
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 3: against the Chiefs, he had three opportunities in the red zone,

948
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 3: in the end zone with thirty seconds left and lost

949
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: by inches a toe. But again it can't come down

950
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: to that because he had two other prime opportunities. But again,

951
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 3: I love this rivalry. I love how close these games are.

952
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 3: The Ravens are right there. But the difference between a

953
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 3: super Bowl winning team and not the winners know how

954
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 3: to finish, and Lamar is one to five against Mahomes

955
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 3: and whatever it is, whether it's like a mental block

956
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 3: or it's just something, it's like, you know, when you

957
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 3: play your okay, So I had a very competitive father,

958
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: and when you play them, like in a sport, the

959
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 3: first you were you were never gonna beat him. The

960
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 3: first time you do, it's almost like, well should I do?

961
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 7: This?

962
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 3: Is it going to take him down. Like and I

963
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 3: remember the first time I beat my dad in something.

964
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: It was like I like I literally jumped that mental

965
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 3: hurdle and was like, no, it's done.

966
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 2: I'm just as good. I'm just as good if the

967
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 2: playing field is equal. Yeah.

968
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 3: So it's like I'm just waiting for that moment with

969
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson because he has all of the talent and

970
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 3: all of the ability, he just has not been able

971
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 3: to get over that mental hurdle with whatever it is

972
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 3: with the Chiefs in Mahome like Mahomes like it was there,

973
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 3: we were, we watched it the last thirty seconds. It

974
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: was like you had you.

975
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: Had a couple of misthrows on that final drive too.

976
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 2: It wasn't just the likely like it was a little

977
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: far Flowers. I think he missed a wide open Zay

978
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 2: Flowers on one of the fun He.

979
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 3: Was like trying for someone else. It was like Flowers

980
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 3: wasn't but exactly that the target. It was just That's

981
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 3: why I'm cracking under pressure.

982
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: It looked wide open. He saw every everything but him.

983
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 3: I just we saw it like we saw it right there,

984
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: like that, you gotta be able to finish, right, like

985
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 3: Super Bowl winning teams know how to close out the

986
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 3: biggest moments and right there unfortunately not quite there yet.

987
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 2: But again, if they both get to the postseason, he'll get.

988
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 3: Another opportunity because that's where that's where it's gonna go

989
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 3: down if it happens again. But now let's continue on

990
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 3: our new game that we started in the first hour

991
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 3: called if You're not first.

992
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 2: You're last. First you last.

993
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 3: Now we're an AFC edition, so we're gonna go through

994
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 3: each of the divisions in the AFC and share who

995
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 3: we think is going to finish first. And we're gonna

996
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 3: start in the AFC East. And I am going with

997
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 3: now if we if we're looking here, I'm just gonna

998
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 3: give you what the odds are, Okay, cause DraftKings has

999
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 3: Jets at plus one sixty five, Bills at plus ninety

1000
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 3: five nine five, Dolphins at plus two oh five, Patriots

1001
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: at plus twenty five hundred.

1002
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 2: A build mode over there in New England.

1003
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 3: And I am taking the Dolphins to win the AFC East. Now,

1004
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 3: there is so much hype, I think, too much hype

1005
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 3: around the Jets, who haven't proven anything yet. Aaron Rodgers

1006
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 3: hasn't proven anything with the Jets, yet he had four

1007
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 3: snaps last season before snapping his achilles. Plus there's trouble

1008
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 3: in Paradise with Aaron Rodgers and Robert Sala, and we've

1009
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 3: we've seen kind of the callouts in the media that

1010
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 3: we've heard former teammates kind of share, you know, not

1011
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 3: necessarily on the same page. So I'm not as high

1012
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 3: on the Jets as everyone else is.

1013
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: Now.

1014
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 3: The Bills and Josh Allen, they lost a lot of

1015
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: weapons and they're going to have to put that whole

1016
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 3: Bills team on his back.

1017
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 2: Can he do it?

1018
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 3: He probably has the second best odds I think to

1019
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 3: win the AFC East.

1020
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: But Miami has everything they need right now.

1021
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 3: They just paid all of their guys, so you know,

1022
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 3: they feel appreciated, will take ownership in wanting to win

1023
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 3: and play for each other, because that's a big deal.

1024
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 3: Like Tua has not only gotten better each year, but

1025
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 3: now he's confident and has a coach that believes in

1026
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 3: him and tells him how great he is. And that

1027
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 3: is huge not only for a player's confidence, but that

1028
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 3: is then going to bleed onto how they play on

1029
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 3: the field and are with their teammates. They also have

1030
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 3: two top tier weapons and Tyreek Hill last season led

1031
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 3: the league in receiving yards, tied for the lead in

1032
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns, and Jayden and Jalen wattle Head over one

1033
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 3: thousand receiving yards. I think this Miami team can be

1034
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 3: very dangerous and I think they're going to take the

1035
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: AFC East.

1036
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 2: Have you seen those videos of Mike McDaniel's transformation since

1037
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 2: he's been he's been, I am obsessed. I love that.

1038
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 2: I am obsessed with Mike. The way he showed up

1039
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 2: in South Florida to the metis swag yes now as

1040
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 2: absolutely I I do. I do.

1041
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 3: Let your freak flag fly like weird as rad sign

1042
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 3: me up. He like just everything. I'm like his comments,

1043
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 3: the way he talks about his players, everything else. Like

1044
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 3: I am obsessed with that man. I want them to

1045
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 3: win because of him.

1046
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 2: I and I love Dolphins. I mean I've always I've

1047
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 2: always just loved Dolphins.

1048
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 3: You know how you said, like you didn't grow up

1049
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 3: with like a football team. We didn't really hear when

1050
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 3: I was growing up, and we didn't have like a

1051
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 3: solid NFL team.

1052
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: I loved the Dolphins because.

1053
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 3: Of because of the colors, because of the Dolphin, and

1054
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 3: because of acevan Terra.

1055
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 2: So I was just like Miami. Oh my wish, oh

1056
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 2: my gosh, oh Snowflake and Ray Minkley defined my existence.

1057
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: Thank you. We still open and close the sliding glass

1058
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 2: door in our house back iconic love free Snowflake. I listen, Okay,

1059
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 2: I have a soft spot for Miami. However, I think

1060
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 2: their playoff exit last year in that frigid, cold Kansas

1061
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 2: City arrowhead stating, Oh, I think I think it broke them.

1062
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 2: I think I'm you know what, you know what they say,

1063
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,439
Speaker 2: what when you're a Jet, You're a Jet all the way. No,

1064
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 2: I think this is one of the most talented rosters

1065
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 2: on paper in the league. I think whatever Rogers is doing,

1066
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: you know, I think I think it's thrown us all

1067
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: for a loop. And this was a team that won

1068
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 2: seven games without him last season. He's got to be

1069
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 2: good for at least four or five more this year.

1070
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 2: I am I'm joining the I'm joining the I'm joining

1071
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 2: the Jets gang. I'm I'm saying they are gonna win

1072
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: the AFC East. This is the year that the Buffalo

1073
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 2: Bills rain ends. Sign me up for the heartbreak, but

1074
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 2: I'm with it.

1075
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 3: Okay, agree to disagree, Let's move to the AFC West.

1076
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 3: This is a no brainer for me. Chiefs are going

1077
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: to run away with with the AFC West. Mahomes is

1078
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 3: that guy. We just talked about it at the top

1079
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 3: of the hour. They got better this offseason. The receiver

1080
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 3: room got better, Worthy Rice. They don't have to solely

1081
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 3: rely on try is Kelsey. Now, they have options, they

1082
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 3: have depth, they have weapons to take advantage of, and

1083
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 3: it feels like they haven't really had this since Tyreek

1084
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 3: Hill left and they're able now.

1085
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Speaker 2: To spread out the field.

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00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 3: The Chiefs are a dynasty, and after watching Game one

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00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 3: and what should have been kind of the top competition,

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00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 3: possibly the toughest competition for them, they won Game one

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00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 3: right out of the gates.

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Speaker 2: Listen, Alex, I have to applaud us. We've gone over

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00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: an hour into this show and we have not once

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00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 2: said the name Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 3: So first of all, I just had to I just

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00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 3: I for sure thought you were going to do it

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00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 3: in the dude, Okay, he was waiting for you.

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00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 2: Well, I know, I know, but there were other ones

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00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 2: that I wanted to get to. But listen, everything you

1098
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 2: just said about Kansas City, I believe the Chiefs are inevitable, yeh,

1099
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: and I really would love to see them make history

1100
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 2: this year. Like the man on your shirt, like the

1101
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 2: man on my shirt? What wants the best one? The

1102
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 2: next one?

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00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 3: No, a little Nick's wearing Tom Brady after he won

1105
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 3: Super Bowl in Tampa Bay and was drunk on avocado

1106
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 3: tequila and is getting carried out.

1107
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,919
Speaker 2: This is the feeling you live for and you throw.

1108
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 2: I work for the Euphouria. Yeah, a super Bowl. This

1109
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 2: is a man unhinged, unbothered and well deserved. I love

1110
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 2: so listen. I I like and love what Kansas City

1111
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 2: has established. I also loved seeing Taylor Swift strut and

1112
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 2: look fully confident in her moment.

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00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 3: I'm did you hear Patrick Mahomes talk about her in

1114
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 3: his pregame interview? There was like a pre tape pregame

1115
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 3: interview and he was like, yeah, she's like really football savvy.

1116
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: She was like, ask a lot of great questions. I

1117
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 3: think we're gonna have to run a Taylor's Swift play

1118
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 3: this year.

1119
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: I'm intrigued to see how this continues to unfold. And Yep,

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Speaker 2: Kansas City until they're dethroned, I will not doubt them.

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00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, the back to back champs looking for a three

1122
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 3: p CHEVP the chief p ooh like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move to the AFC North, where.

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00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 3: Odds right now have Bengals and Ravens tied at plus

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00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 3: one forty five to win it.

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00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 2: My pick is going to be the Ravens.

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00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 3: I'm hoping Thursday Night's game lit a fire in their

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00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 3: bellies because they had.

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00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 2: Every opportunity to win that game.

1130
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 3: But again, I'm say it again, the Chiefs and Mahomes

1131
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 3: right now live rent free in Lamar Jackson's head. Whatever

1132
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 3: the mental block is, he just cannot seem to get

1133
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 3: over that hump.

1134
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 2: Now he has the talent, he has.

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00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 3: The ability to go head to head, but those last

1136
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: thirty seconds where you can make it or break it,

1137
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 3: we saw what happens and he did not make it

1138
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 3: like it did not happen. I still have faith that

1139
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 3: this team can make a deep playoff runt, and if

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00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 3: they do, they will meet the Chiefs again in the postseason, because,

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00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 3: as you said, the Chiefs are inevitable and they were

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00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: built for the postseason and they are going to go deep.

1143
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 2: Listen, because you took Baltimore, I'm going to take the Bengals. Fine,

1144
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 2: watch out, Fine, Joe Burrow is bad baby, and I

1145
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 2: think we're gonna watch him put on a MASSI class.

1146
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 2: I mean everything about this man and the way he

1147
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 2: has carried himself as a competitor. Yes, yes, I think

1148
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 2: that he's going to be on a mission to re

1149
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 2: establish himself. Hey, do not forget about me. I wouldn't

1150
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 2: be surprised if we saw an MVP campaign from him

1151
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:19,760
Speaker 2: this season.

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00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 3: I'll take let's go, I'll take all right, let's move

1153
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 3: to the ACEC selp you guys.

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00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 2: I am so high on CJ. Stroud.

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00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 3: I am picking Texas. There will be no the Texans.

1156
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 3: There will be no sophomore slump for the offensive rookie

1157
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 3: of the year. I'm calling back to back AFC South

1158
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 3: titles for CJ. And the Texans also like they got better.

1159
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 3: They added Stefon Diggs, Joe Mixon. They are young, they

1160
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 3: are exciting. This is a team that is trending up

1161
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: in someone I would put my money on.

1162
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 2: I want to repeat everything you just said. I yeah,

1163
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 2: retweet Rex rex I and I also love what they

1164
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 2: did with their passing defense. They bolstered at that The

1165
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 2: Texans were ranked twenty third in the league in their

1166
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 2: passing defense. So they added a Kuda and Brian at cornerback.

1167
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 2: And I do think this is a franchise that is

1168
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 2: doing things the right way. Oh yeah, And I believe CJ.

1169
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 2: Stroud is the truth. And I think I've seen some

1170
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 2: predictions with the Texans and the Super Bowl, a lot

1171
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 2: of things will have to break, right not I mean

1172
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 2: just just with how stacked this conference is in terms

1173
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 2: of yeah, quarterbacks, well, say you're going to have to

1174
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: defy the throne.

1175
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 3: Like there's like Mahomie again, Burrow Lamar if we're looking

1176
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 3: at this.

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00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 2: And we haven't even talked about yeah, Buffalo Worth thinking

1178
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 2: Buffalo is going to take a step back. So it's

1179
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 2: just but it's been Rogers. Yeah, there's a lot.

1180
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: This is like ifc like has some Mighty Titan quarterbacks.

1181
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be fun. It's like I'm excited. I'm

1182
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 2: so excited. It's like Christmas Eve. It is one more sleep.

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00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 6: Guys.

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00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break here, but when

1185
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 3: we come back, who's the w Rookie of the Year.

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00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer. You're listening to Fox

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00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

1188
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry alongside

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00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 3: Nicki Kay. We are coming to you live from the

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Speaker 3: tire dot Com studios here in La. Thank you for

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00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 3: spending your Saturday afternoon with little Nick and me. Shortly

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00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 3: after the show, our podcast will be going up. If

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00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 3: you missed any of today's show, be sure to check

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00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,240
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1195
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,400
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00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:33,040
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1197
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 3: you get your podcasts, and you'll see the show posted

1198
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 3: right after we get off the air. We will both

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Speaker 3: be posting it as well from both of our social

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Speaker 3: media accounts at Alex Underscore Curry at.

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00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 2: Nicki k sn one for Spectrum News one.

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00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 3: Coming to you live yea from Fox Sports Radio. All right,

1203
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 3: let's talk a little bit about the WNBA because there

1204
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 3: has been a lot of debate between Caitlin Clark, Angel

1205
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 3: Reese and who should be Rookie of the Year.

1206
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 2: Now.

1207
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 3: Some have said give it to them both, let them

1208
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 3: be co rookies of the Year. My response, get off

1209
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 3: your high hating horse and open your eyes to how

1210
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 3: great Caitlin Clark is. There is no debate she is

1211
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 3: the rookie of the year now, not hating on Angel Reese,

1212
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 3: she is an incredible player.

1213
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 2: But it is not the same level as Kitlyn Clark.

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00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 3: So far, Caitlyn Clark has already broken these records rookie

1215
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 3: record for three pointers, rookie record for assists, WNBA single

1216
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 3: game assists record with nineteen, and first rookie in league

1217
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 3: history to have a triple double and she's had two now.

1218
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 3: Angel Reese has also broken some records. She set the

1219
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 3: league record for consecutive double doubles and single season rebounds.

1220
00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 3: But Caitlyn Clark is also carrying her team to the playoffs.

1221
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 3: The Fever have clinched a playoff spot in that sixth

1222
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 3: seed for the first time since twenty sixteen. She is

1223
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 3: the reason they are there, and after that Olympic break

1224
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 3: month off, she came back even better than she was

1225
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 3: in college and that first half in the WNBA.

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01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 2: She deserves all of the flowers that she is about

1227
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 2: to get. Kaitlyn Clark used that Olympic break as the

1228
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 2: de facto off season. Oh yeah to her second year.

1229
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 2: She improved significantly, sane, the tear she went on leaps

1230
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 2: and bounds, gave her, the distance and the separation from

1231
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 2: Angel Reese and Alex. You mentioned the numbers. I want

1232
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 2: to talk about what she has carried as a woman

1233
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 2: and an athlete. Oh, it's insane, on and off the court,

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 2: It's insane. I last I spoke with Caitlyn was after

1235
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 2: their first win with the Indiana Fever, and there was

1236
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: a lot made. It was about five games into the season,

1237
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 2: the Fever were scoreless, A lot made about Fevers, Caitlin's leadership,

1238
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 2: and yeah, but they were playing like the hardest teams

1239
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: of the league, back to backs exactly exactly. And the

1240
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 2: demeanor she carried then is the demeanor she carries now

1241
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 2: as a young woman who just wants to win and

1242
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 2: who is obsessed with the game of basketball. Not to

1243
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 2: mention the media obligations she had as a rookie coming

1244
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 2: in and learning a new sport, which, mind you, don't

1245
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 2: exist for men's professional counterparts. She was doing at least

1246
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 2: three interviews and availability sessions a day, it fielding the

1247
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 2: same questions and as it gone on, and as it

1248
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 2: went on, just seeing the composure she had and the

1249
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 2: grace she had, and now that translating into wins on

1250
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 2: the court and a team culture in Indiana which is

1251
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 2: really setting the league on fire. Watch out. You don't

1252
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 2: want to play the fever in the postseason. Uh, this team.

1253
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 2: And she's not doing it all on her own. Kelsey

1254
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 2: Mitchell's having a great season on Leah Boston as well.

1255
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 2: You know, I just have been so impressed. She is,

1256
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 2: without a doubt, the definition of a rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, there is no debate, end of question.

1258
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 3: If you're against that, Like, so, look in the mirror.

1259
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 3: Something else is going on, all right, now, let's check

1260
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 3: in with Brian Fenlan and see what's trending.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Alex and Nikki, we've got a ton going on

1262
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 6: here and I want to start in the NFL. And

1263
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 6: we were talking about this last hour. But Packers quarterback

1264
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 6: Jordan Love there was some fear that he might have

1265
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 6: had an ACL situation in the injury that he had

1266
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 6: last night in the loss to the Eagles in Brazil.

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01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 6: It ends up being a lot less severe in the

1268
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 6: form of an MCL spring according to multiple outlets, and

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01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 6: his return is in that three to six week window,

1270
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 6: so a good sign for him. Also, the Angles are

1271
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 6: trying to figure out what's up with wide receiver Jamar Chase.

1272
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 6: He's considered a game time decision for tomorrow's game, and

1273
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 6: in the injury report there's also the designation of illness

1274
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 6: next to his name, So there's that added piece to

1275
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 6: the puzzle. In regards to college football, let's go there

1276
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 6: as well. Northern Illinois as a thirteen is seven lead

1277
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 6: against number five Notre Dame, and this is into the

1278
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 6: third quarter, so an upset alert potentially brewing there. Number

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01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 6: eleven Utah at the half a game that could be

1280
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 6: seen on Fox Television as a twenty three to three

1281
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 6: lead against Baylor, cam Rising the utes quarterback ninety two

1282
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 6: yards passing and two touchdowns. Number twenty one Iowa thirteen

1283
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 6: to nothing against Iowa State in that rivalry game, it's

1284
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 6: at the half their early third quarter. Number twenty two

1285
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 6: Louisville twenty eight to fourteen in their favor against Jacksonville State.

1286
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 6: Also number six Old Miss is taking it to Middle

1287
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 6: Tennessee twenty four to nothing with about five minutes to

1288
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 6: play in the first half. To some of the completed games.

1289
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 6: Number three Texas wins convincingly over number ten Michigan thirty

1290
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 6: one to twelve. Quinnewer's three touchdown tosses. Number one Georgia

1291
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 6: having no issue showing no mercy against Texas Tech forty

1292
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 6: eight to three. Carson Back the Bulldogs quarterback five touchdowns

1293
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 6: through the air for him. Number eight Pence State had

1294
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 6: to come back from an early deficit and won a

1295
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 6: tight one against Bowling Green thirty four to twenty seven,

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Speaker 6: while it was two overtimes needed for number sixteen Oklahoma

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Speaker 6: State in the Mike Gundy led Cowboys thirty nine to

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Speaker 6: thirty one in their favorite against Arkansas. After the Hogs

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Speaker 6: the WU Big Sue had a twenty one to seven

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Speaker 6: lead at the half. Seventeenth rank Kansas State over to

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Speaker 6: Lane thirty four to twenty seven, and Sarahcuse pulls off

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Speaker 6: the upset of a number twenty three Georgia Tech thirty

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Speaker 6: one to twenty eight. Is former Buckeye quarterback Ohio State

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01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 6: star in Kyle McCord the Orange QB three hundred and

1305
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 6: eighty one yards passing in four touchdowns. And lastly, some

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01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 6: news in the NBA. You all see this with no

1307
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 6: tell us. Jamal Murray is now in a contract with

1308
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 6: the Denver Nuggets. So twenty twenty nine, his new contract

1309
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 6: extension Alex and Nikki four years and two hundred and

1310
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 6: eight million dollars. They must not have seen what he

1311
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 6: did in the Olympics this summer, honestly.

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Speaker 10: No.

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01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 2: And the way I'm I am not quite sure about

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01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets runt office moves. And they're lucky that

1315
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 2: they've gotten Nicola Yokich. Yes, yeah, as a foundational cornerstone.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, whoa hitchin Jamal get your bag? Yeah, right, always, right, always,

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01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 2: But I'm I'm Brian, Wow, let me pick my job.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Like, let that think it for a moment, Especially

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Speaker 6: with how he played in the Olympics, it didn't seem

1320
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Speaker 6: like he was doing all too well out there.

1321
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Speaker 2: He was a little streaky during the postseason as well,

1322
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 2: and that's kind of been the nature of his career.

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Speaker 10: He had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yep, we'll dive into that a little later.

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Speaker 2: That's cool, said it?

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Speaker 6: That is it all that to you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Football Saturday and Alex Curry here

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Speaker 3: with Nikki k We are broadcasting live from the twer

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Speaker 3: dot com studios in Los Angeles, and it is time

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Speaker 3: for our next guest. She is the smartest human in sports.

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Speaker 3: NFL Networks analytics expert, my best friend Gordian Clyde's mom,

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Speaker 3: Cynthia Freelist.

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Speaker 2: Cynthia's green right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Synthy, I love that you start laughing every time

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01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 3: I do one of your intros.

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Speaker 4: It's great.

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Speaker 2: You're like, can you follow me everywhere and just introduce

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01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 2: everywhere I go.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's start with your Lions and the expectations because

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01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 3: they are even higher this year after just narrowly missing

1342
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 3: the super Bowl last season. Do you think Detroit is

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01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 3: getting back to the super Bowl this year? Getting to

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01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 3: the super Bowl this year?

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Speaker 10: How about just win the division? Let's start with winning

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01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 10: the division.

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01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to.

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Speaker 10: Go with I feel pretty strong about winning the division.

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01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 10: I think it's well within reach. I think there's been

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01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 10: a lot of increases in the NFC North in general,

1351
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 10: but I still think that the Lions have done enough,

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01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 10: and they did their own homework this past off season

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01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 10: improving their secondary. We'll get a chance to see that

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01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 10: secondary on display this weekend against the Rams, but you

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01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 10: know it'll be that's to me, that was the biggest

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01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 10: question mark last year, and they really they spent a

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01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 10: lot of resources against it this off season, so you know,

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't be surprissed win the division. It's hard for

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Speaker 10: me to say that. I feel like I'm jinxing it,

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01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 10: but I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you did cry when they got what it

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01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 3: was like the first place years when we play out

1363
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 3: thirty years like it was insane, no, like she cried

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 3: on air, and I loved it.

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01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 2: I loved every minute of it.

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Speaker 10: Cyndia Hegan, I'm not a Patriots fan. I mean, I'm

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01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 10: a fan of all those, but you know, I grew

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01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 10: up a Lions fan. We did not grow up with

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01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 10: good years. We grew up with lean years. So it was,

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Speaker 10: you know, very very very emotional moment. Just go along

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01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 10: and finally see them work out.

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Speaker 2: Cool, and as fans of the game, it's hard not

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01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 2: to love the Detroit Lions. So Cynthia, we all love

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Speaker 2: your love. Now here's a question for you. Over the

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01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 2: past twenty four hours, I've found myself drinking the Jets

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01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 2: kool aid. I didn't think I didn't think I would,

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01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,879
Speaker 2: but when I started just really digging into how talented

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01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,759
Speaker 2: that roster is, what they were able to accomplish without

1379
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 2: their QB one last year seven wins is Aaron Rodgers

1380
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 2: in his return at forty years old turning forty one

1381
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,840
Speaker 2: by the end of the year, is he enough to

1382
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 2: get this franchise out of the misery they've been mired

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01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:52,719
Speaker 2: in for years now.

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Speaker 10: I mean it certainly if Look, all teams need help.

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Speaker 4: We thought last night with Jordan Love.

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Speaker 10: Things look different when you don't have your starf no

1387
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 10: matter what. But I will say if this this is

1388
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:07,599
Speaker 10: a stacked team, and especially once Hassan Reddick figures out

1389
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 10: his situation and they are fully intact along that defensive front,

1390
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 10: which is what their coach specializes in, they'll be even better.

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01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 10: I love what they did along the old line this

1392
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 10: off season because that's a huge deal down a big

1393
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,799
Speaker 10: problem last year. And if Aaron Rodgers can stay healthy,

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01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 10: I think they're a ton of upside and this they

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01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 10: really have the opportunity. You know that the East is

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Speaker 10: an interesting division. The Dolphins have a few injuries that

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01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 10: they're contending with on the defense, you know, namely Jalen

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01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 10: Phillips and Christian Wilkins is now a Raider and Jalen

1399
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 10: Ramsey just signed, but he wasn't there before, so you know,

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Speaker 10: that's an interesting moment to how they'll start will be interesting.

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01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 10: And then the Bills, I don't know what's the new

1402
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 10: two new safeties. Matt Mulano's now out there linebacker that

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01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 10: has called the place for years. Like there's just an

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01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,680
Speaker 10: opportunity in this division this year to really, you know,

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01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 10: someone to take the leap and go ahead. And Aaron

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 10: Rodgers proves this all wrong a million times. And I

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Speaker 10: feel like anyone who wants to say anyone who's a

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Speaker 10: denier is going.

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Speaker 4: To be proven wrong.

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Speaker 10: Because that's just what he loves to do. Penny, Aaron

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Speaker 10: Rodgers is my.

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Speaker 3: Favorite, like Queen King Petty, like gimme, gimme more. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So who do you have winning the AFC East? Then

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Speaker 3: do you have the Jets?

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Speaker 10: You know? Right now? I do have the Jets as

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Speaker 10: close as I've ever seen it. We I have three

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Speaker 10: teams making the playoffs from that division though, so everyone

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01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 10: but the Patriots, And to me, it comes down to

1419
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 10: health because if we can see you, I also need

1420
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 10: to see too. His O line prove it a little bit.

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01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 10: I'm not worrying about Mike McDaniel figuring out how to

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01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 10: make everything work, but like the guard situation, losing Robert

1423
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 10: Hunt through the Panthers. That's a big loss, youth loss.

1424
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,719
Speaker 10: And you know, Christian Wilkins, he's made the Raiders significantly better,

1425
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 10: but it's not very helpful for the Dolphins. So you know,

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01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 10: I just need to see a little bit more. But

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01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 10: it's it's to me, it's it's pretty wide open and

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01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 10: right now the Jets just have a little bit of

1429
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 10: the edge. And I actually think they get the win

1430
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 10: in the upset in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 2: It's on Monday redemption. Honestly, they need it for the

1432
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 2: narrative of what happened last year to now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, no, you guys know I'm not jumping on this

1434
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,600
Speaker 3: Jets bandwagon with you guys. I mean, Cynthia is like,

1435
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 3: but I do the numbers, Sympia, you better listen to me.

1436
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, the numbers really comes on our private jet, Cynthia. Okay.

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Speaker 3: The Bills also look a lot different this year, and

1438
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 3: Josh Allen will be carrying a lot more of the

1439
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 3: weight on his shoulder. Is Buffalo putting too much pressure

1440
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 3: on Josh Allen to keep this team, Like in that

1441
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 3: championship conversation, I mean.

1442
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Speaker 10: Josh Allen, I think it is approved. It's hard to

1443
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 10: argue that it's not a prove it year for him

1444
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 10: in so many ways. To me, not a prove it

1445
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 10: and like very good. We already know he's up there

1446
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 10: in the very good category, But does he belong in

1447
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 10: the conversation for elite? To me, I reserve that for

1448
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 10: a very very very small few. I mean, Patrick Mahomes

1449
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 10: is elite, Tom Brady is elite. Is Josh Allen? I

1450
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 10: don't know. I think the here we will figure it out.

1451
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 10: To me, the whole Buffalo, the whole all Buffalo season

1452
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 10: rests on their defense. Can they withstand losing those safeties?

1453
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 10: You know, they were the first team to play, you know,

1454
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 10: to not play one snap of single high safety, so

1455
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 10: play two safety shells against Patrick Mahomes. That was a

1456
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 10: Leslie Frasier construct, but that was what they were best at.

1457
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 10: That exemplifies who they are. I don't know if I

1458
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 10: trust their corners completely. I like Taran Johnson, but if

1459
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 10: he's your number one corner in a division like they're

1460
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 10: in and in a conference like they're in, that can

1461
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 10: be dicey, very dicey, but it's it's it is a

1462
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 10: proven hear for Josh Allen, but the defense will dictate

1463
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:33,759
Speaker 10: their outcome.

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Speaker 2: Cynthia, you are a computer. I am a vibes master,

1465
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 2: your self proclaimed. And I've been out at Chargers camp

1466
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 2: a couple of times so far, and I love the

1467
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 2: vibes out there, especially with it beginning at the top

1468
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 2: Jim Harbough. And I love watching him work with the quarterbacks.

1469
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 2: He told me, you know, he's feeling like passionate, like

1470
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:58,080
Speaker 2: unknown to mankind. You know that whatever he says, you'd

1471
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 2: want to run through a wall for him. What is

1472
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Speaker 2: this offense going to look like for the Bolts under

1473
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:06,799
Speaker 2: Jim Harbough, Well.

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Speaker 10: We know they want to run the football, and we

1475
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 10: know that they're going to see some running place heavy sets.

1476
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 10: This is going to be old school pounding ground like

1477
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 10: you know, a gap which is like you know, the

1478
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 10: middle of the line, like are you going to run? Like?

1479
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 10: That's what they're going to want to do on many

1480
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 10: downs to put Justin Herbert in a strategic situation to

1481
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:26,680
Speaker 10: figure out how to leverage his big arm best. And

1482
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 10: the problem that is going to be the difficulty that

1483
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 10: they'll have at some point is I don't know if

1484
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 10: they did enough on their defense for that strategy to win,

1485
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 10: right if I'm if I'm the Chargers and I'm running

1486
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 10: the football, that takes more time off the clock. But

1487
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 10: if my secondary is suspect, then a team can pass

1488
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,719
Speaker 10: on me, which is a faster way to score.

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Speaker 4: So that's my year with them.

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Speaker 10: I think it's going to look significantly different this year.

1491
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:53,760
Speaker 10: I do think they end up probably second in the

1492
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 10: AFC West. I don't think anyone matches the chief and

1493
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 10: it's going to look a lot better. But until they

1494
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,720
Speaker 10: kind of, until they show me the their secondary is

1495
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 10: a little better. Any team in the AfD, your secondary

1496
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,680
Speaker 10: better be good because you just can't get out of

1497
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 10: like seven of the eight best quarterbacks in the entire league,

1498
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 10: like all are right like and I don't I don't

1499
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 10: even think that there are ten like there are there are.

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Speaker 10: Let's let's say there's ten really good quarterbacks, seven or

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01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 10: eight of them are in the a FC.

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01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 3: So same yeah, yeah, okay, Cynthia, before we let you

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01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 3: go tell us about your new YouTube show. Oh thank you.

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01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 10: So it's going to be fun. You know, every week

1506
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 10: on Wednesday is going to go through and preview some

1507
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 10: of the numbers for every single game, at least the

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Speaker 10: number two. So if you're like going to plan on

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Speaker 10: watching games at the bar with your friends. You can

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01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 10: watch a YouTube show and then you can go tell

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01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 10: your friends you can steal my stats and be like,

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01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 10: did you know that does? And who doesn't want to

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01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 10: do that?

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Speaker 3: Right? You could be the smartest person, like Cynthia's the

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01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 3: smartest person on TV.

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01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 2: You can be the smartest person with all of your friends.

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Speaker 2: What's the channel so I can subscribe right now?

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01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 10: Yes, it's called Numbers Numbers Game Show. It's this YouTube

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01:14:58,320 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 10: at Numbers Game Show.

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Speaker 4: Yep, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Game show.

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01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cynthia, and we love you so much. Thank you

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01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 3: for all of it, just dropping knowledge.

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Speaker 10: Have fun watching real football tomorrow again.

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01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 6: I know.

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01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 2: I can't wait.

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Speaker 10: We've had the appetizer, we had the mose boost. It's

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01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 10: now time for the main court.

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Speaker 2: Let's who, let's go. I can't wait to watch you

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Speaker 2: tomorrow on NFL Network, Bright and early.

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01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 10: All right, love, bye, bye bye, guys.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take one more break here, but

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Speaker 3: when we come back, we're making our week one NFL picks.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to Fox

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Speaker 3: Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Nikki k we

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 3: are broadcasting live from the tire dot Com Studios in

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01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 3: Los Angeles.

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01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us. Have

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01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 2: you had fun? Football is back? This has been the

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01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 2: best way to kick off a new season. I mean,

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01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 2: the scent of new beginnings is in the air. Well,

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01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:54,600
Speaker 2: it's like Christmas Eve. Oh my football fans, let's go.

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01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 5: So you know what.

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01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 3: We're gonna end the show with some NFL game picks

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01:15:58,160 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 3: and producer Patrick, you're gonna lead us through.

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01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 7: Oh yes, and let's say, well, let's tell you, well, Alex,

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01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 7: we left off with the Cowboys and Browns, and both

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01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 7: you and Carmen picked well, actually you picked Brown's carbon

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01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 7: Cowboys and the Lions were both. We're gonna go with

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,800
Speaker 7: the Jets at the forty niners, and boy do we

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01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 7: got a good one on that Monday night if we

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01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:24,799
Speaker 7: can see it with ESPN.

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01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 2: About that? About that except direct TV and it's been

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01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 2: out the same here. I know, Okay, I'm gonna s somewhere.

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 7: We're going to struggle together. It's okay with Carmen's not

1556
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 7: struggling on her pick. She picked the Jets. Okay, Alex,

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01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 7: who are you picking?

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01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 2: Okay, So.

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01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 3: I think odd Makers and Cynthia are way too high

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01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 3: on the Jets. I am taking the forty nine ers.

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01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 3: It's like they got the deals done. Trent Williams, like

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,759
Speaker 3: he was a deal breaker. He's gonna be back. Ayuka

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01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 3: is there. I think they start their journey.

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01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 2: I mean, this is it.

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01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 3: This is Super Bowler Bus year for the forty nine ers.

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01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 3: So I'm taking them, Nikki, who are you taking?

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01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 2: Listen? I know the Jets ended up getting the edge

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01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 2: in last year's meeting, although it was tragic because of

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01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:18,640
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and the way he exited the game. I

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01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 2: do believe this will be some sort of poetic justice

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01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 2: for the New York fan base. The Jets with Aaron

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01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 2: Rodgers are going to beat the forty nine ers this year.

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 2: You guys are way too high on this.

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01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you what.

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01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 7: Since we're starting off on the high road right here,

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01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 7: We're gonna keep going on that high road with more picks.

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01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 6: We got the Steelers.

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01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:44,439
Speaker 7: At the atl Atlanta Falcons, we got Kirk Cousins, we

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 7: got the Falcons, and you know what, I'm gonna go reverse,

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01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 7: NICKI Okay.

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01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 6: Who are we feeling?

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01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 2: I am all aboard Atlanta and what Kirk Cousins is

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01:17:55,280 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 2: out to accomplish in this newly revamped Falcons offense, especially

1584
01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 2: knowing everything that happened during the off season for him

1585
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 2: as he signed a big, mega deal and they brought

1586
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 2: in his replacement. I think he's going to be on

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01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 2: a mission to prove just what he is capable of.

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01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 2: I'm going atl Yeah, Okay, so.

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01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 3: I might not have them winning the division, but I

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01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 3: have them winning Game one against the Steelers, especially with

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01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 3: the quarterback Russell Wilson news that like he wasn't in practice,

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01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 3: probably not starting tomorrow.

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01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 2: We're probably getting Justin Fields quick turnound who like.

1594
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 3: Obviously wasn't taking QB one reps this week because Russ

1595
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 3: was named QB one.

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01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 2: So I'll go with you.

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01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:42,440
Speaker 3: Kirk Criusin has a lot to prove in this first

1598
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 3: home game, new team, new system training with his replacement,

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01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 3: Michael Penni's junior right behind him.

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01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking Falcons, all right.

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01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 7: Well, I'll give you some teams that are not in

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01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:55,839
Speaker 7: a new system. We're gonna We're gonna go to Florida

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01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 7: on this one.

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01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 7: We have the Jacksonville Jaguars at the Miami Dolphins and

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01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 7: Alex how we filling in.

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01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 3: Miami, Miammimy, I love Miammy, and I have taken the

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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 3: Dolphins here. They locked up all of their guys this season.

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01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 3: Tua just keeps getting better and more confident each season.

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01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 3: We heard him this offseason share how much it meant

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01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 3: to have Mike McDaniel's like, just tell him how great

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01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 3: he was, that he believed in him, and now he

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01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 3: like feels wanted and feels at home.

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01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 2: I think they're going to go off in game one.

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01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 2: I do too, especially considering the way they exited the postseason.

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01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see a high powered, high

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01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 2: flying offense. Expect some trickery. And I'm part of two

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01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 2: and on I believe is that a thing? Oh yeah,

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01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,760
Speaker 2: two and all. That's what the TUA believers call call them,

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01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 2: So you might want to you might want to look

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01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 2: on getting initiated. Alex, all right, whether you know what?

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01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 2: I love? Two?

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01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 7: Okay, going on the roll here we got Okay, the

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01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 7: Houston Texans at the Indian app the list, Colts, Nikki,

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01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 7: how we feeling.

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01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm Texans all the way on this one. I

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01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 2: think CJ. Stroud hasn't skipped a beat, and I'm so

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01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 2: excited to see what that offense does featuring Stefan Diggs

1629
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 2: and Joe Mixon, and I know it's it's gonna be

1630
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,919
Speaker 2: a good contest with the Colts. But I think Houston's

1631
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 2: a team, a team on a mission this season. Yeah,

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01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:20,799
Speaker 2: I'm also taking Texans.

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01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: C J.

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01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 3: Stroud is only going to be better in year two.

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01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 3: They're gonna come out with a bang. Let's get to

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01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:26,559
Speaker 3: the last.

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01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 6: One, our last one.

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01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 7: We got the Titans at Chicago.

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01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:29,719
Speaker 6: Bears.

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01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 2: How we feeling, Alex.

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01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 3: I'm taking the bag anti bated debut in a long time.

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01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams will rise to the occasion.

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01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 2: You take it. I'm I'm with them after getting to

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01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 2: know and see what Caleb's so we go. Both got

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01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:43,719
Speaker 2: the Bears.

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01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for spending your Saturday afternoon with us.

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01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week, same time, same place. Happy

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Speaker 3: NFL Sunday tomorrow, baby,