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Speaker 1: we will tell you all we know about a fluid

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Speaker 1: and only one man we'd trust to tell you who

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Speaker 1: has the ed Adam Rank is back tonight with his

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Speaker 1: game picks for Divisional Playoff weekend and surely some gratuitous

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Speaker 1: nonsense about his Bears as well. Twenty four teams already

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Speaker 1: in the off season, including the defending champs, who have

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Speaker 1: some major decisions to make over the next couple of months.

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Speaker 2: As A. J.

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Speaker 1: going to be calling playes, we will break down where

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Speaker 1: things go from here in Philly. Welcome inside with the

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Speaker 1: insiders presented by Progressive Insurance. Alongside he had Rapped Port

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Speaker 1: and Mike Garafalo. I am Tom Pellicero. Happy Divisional Playoff

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Speaker 1: Eve to each and every one of you. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you spending that time with us tonight. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: all four games throughout the course of the show analyze

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Speaker 1: it from every angle. We begin on what is alvicom,

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Speaker 1: a nightly tradition with John Harbaugh, who is still likely.

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Speaker 2: To be the Giants new head coach.

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Speaker 1: A visit to the team's facility on Wednesday went so

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Speaker 2: However, it is now.

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Speaker 1: Protein forty eight hours since the news broke that Harvad

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Speaker 3: I'll start with the most important thing.

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Speaker 4: My understanding after talking to sources involved in this thing,

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Speaker 3: Harbaugh is still expected to be the Giants head coach.

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Speaker 4: This deal, which is a five year deal likely around

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Speaker 4: But yes, they have spent the better part of the

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Speaker 4: John Harba is officially the next head coach of the

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Speaker 4: Certainly seems like there was something lost in translation, either

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Speaker 4: I guess perhaps there's a lot to be handled. It

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Speaker 5: Yes, These things usually do not take this long. This

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Speaker 5: We didn't even plan this, good job control room. Once

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Speaker 5: We've been consistently told no and optimistic, confident, these are

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Speaker 5: Good news, bad news on the concussion front in the

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Speaker 1: We got four playoff games over the next two days.

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Speaker 1: All kicks off Tomorrow four thirty pm Eastern Time, Bills

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Speaker 2: And the doubleheader.

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Speaker 1: We had Texans and Patriots, Rams and Bears on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We've also got animals making game picks. We showed it

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Speaker 1: We got my god, this is just the otters now

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Speaker 3: I got enough possum over here.

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Speaker 9: That's picking the Denver Broncos to win this twenty three

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Speaker 9: That's why I got the Patriots winning this one twenty

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Speaker 3: However, I gotta go.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if they end up doing that today.

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Speaker 6: In fact, I was talking to Sheldon Rankins ahead of

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Speaker 4: Freezing in Chicago with our good friend Stacy Dale, who's

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Speaker 10: The NFL congratulates Steve Weisch on his twenty twenty six

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Speaker 10: induction into the Black College Football Hall of Fame, celebrating

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Speaker 10: a career defined by excellence, integrity, and love for the game.

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Speaker 1: Correct to our guy, Steve Whites, joining some luminaries in

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Speaker 2: Likes of Nick Collins as a part of that class.

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Speaker 2: We love you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Congrats Man New Today, the Titans' extensive head coaching search

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Speaker 4: Joe Brady has not really made the rounds. He's been

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Speaker 4: Joe Bradys still a hot coordinator for the Buffalo Bill.

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Speaker 1: Tom Eagles looking for a new offensive coordinator and maybe

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Speaker 5: Tom, the AJ Brown that you're talking about was not

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Speaker 5: the same AJ Brown this year did not look like

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Speaker 4: If the Philadelphia Egles want to trade aj Brown, they

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Speaker 4: If this is what they want to do, which certainly

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Speaker 1: At this time one year ago, the Eagles looked like

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the super Bowl. This time around, heading

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Speaker 11: No, no, no, you know I don't less your job.

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Speaker 12: It's been a while since the Bears have been in

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Speaker 10: We're a long way from that life bevery before we

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Speaker 2: Lots of ball end zone. Pooca's got it touchdown round.

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Speaker 2: We all want to start faster.

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Speaker 11: I know that's been a fee touchdown Bear.

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Speaker 5: They will not go away. He's an explosive play waiting

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Speaker 13: What are you kidding me?

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Speaker 5: Put it on?

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Speaker 9: Take today?

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Speaker 3: You love me, dog see you?

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Speaker 10: I like the cold.

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Speaker 3: and environment.

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Speaker 11: It's it's gonna be fun here.

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Speaker 3: We freaking go man.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in our Stacy Dale's.

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Speaker 1: After we take a look at the matchup of the

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Speaker 1: number one draft picks. It is Caleb Williams and Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford going at.

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Speaker 2: It this weekend in Soldier Field.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Stacey Dales is joining us right now ahead of

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Speaker 1: her very early arrival and stay in late six thirty

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time kickoff on NBC and Peacock coming up

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Speaker 1: on Sundays. Stacy, the Rams have been one of the

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Speaker 1: best teams. They've had some bumps in the road, but

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Speaker 1: win one of the best teams of the course of

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Speaker 1: this season. What's the biggest challenge that the Bears are

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Speaker 1: going to have to do with, Well.

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Speaker 15: They got a bunch of challenges and we certainly Tom

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Speaker 15: could talk about the number one scoring offense and number

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Speaker 15: one passing offense with Matthew Stafford in the National Football

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Speaker 15: League this year. But we're looking at this Rams defensive

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Speaker 15: front and defensive coordinator Chris Shula and just how good

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Speaker 15: they are and how spicy they are upfront. If you

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Speaker 15: listen to DeAndre Swift this week and Ben Johnson, they

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Speaker 15: really the Bears consider this the strength of their defensive

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Speaker 15: unit much respect there. As Ben Johnson said this week,

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Speaker 15: they simply don't take plays off upfront, and from a

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Speaker 15: pressure standpoint on opposing QB dropbacks this season fifth highest

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Speaker 15: rate in the league tom at thirty eight percent in

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Speaker 15: terms of getting after it, and they don't have to

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Speaker 15: do it with a blitz. They can do it with

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Speaker 15: basically their down lineman up front thirty six percent pressure

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Speaker 15: rate when they don't blitz, which is the fourth highest

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Speaker 15: mark in the NFL for these Rams upfront. So you know,

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Speaker 15: I was on the phone this week with outside linebacker

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Speaker 15: Byron Young with these Los Angeles Rams, and he said,

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Speaker 15: they really feed.

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Speaker 2: Off of each other.

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Speaker 15: They love creating opportunities for one another upfront, and it

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Speaker 15: really comes down to how well they communicate. They are

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Speaker 15: excellent upfront when it comes to making sure that they're

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Speaker 15: all on the same page. And so for the Chicago Bears,

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Speaker 15: that's going to be something they're going to have to

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Speaker 15: handle all that pressure and certainly a team that does

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Speaker 15: a great job stopping the run as well.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be cold on Sunday night. I don't

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Speaker 1: even have to look it up to say it might

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Speaker 1: get a little bit windy at times as well. Feels

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Speaker 1: like one of those games where it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a good night to run the football station.

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Speaker 2: We know that the Bears can do that. How did

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Speaker 2: the Rams stop? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I just took a look at the weather, Tom.

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Speaker 15: We're looking at negative eighteen nineteen degree wind chill and

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Speaker 15: win gus up to twenty five thirty miles per hour

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Speaker 15: to your point, So the Rams are expecting them to

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Speaker 15: run the football, and that's what Chicago's done really well

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Speaker 15: this season, right number.

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Speaker 3: Three in the league.

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Speaker 15: And in terms of those rushyards with Swift and Manongai

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Speaker 15: and yes, Caleb Williams now Ben Johnson said this week

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Speaker 15: they've taken a little bit of a bit, a bit

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Speaker 15: of a dip excuse me, in the ground game over

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Speaker 15: the past few weeks, but he said they have to

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Speaker 15: be able to lean on it. The Rams have been

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Speaker 15: stout though I just mentioned it, against the run this season,

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Speaker 15: twelfth in the NFL. They've given up around one to

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Speaker 15: eleven per game this season. But how about this, Tom,

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Speaker 15: They've given up in the regular season just eight rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 15: That was number one in the league. So we'll see

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Speaker 15: how Caleb Williams, as you see him right there, find

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Speaker 15: the end zone, is able to find the end zone

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Speaker 15: on Sunday night. But again, the strength of this group

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Speaker 15: up front, the Bears consider that front seven for these Rams,

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Speaker 15: and in talking to Byron Young, whom I just mentioned.

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Speaker 15: He said, you know, it's one thing to deal with

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Speaker 15: Kyle Mnungai on your screen and DeAndre Swift, but when

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Speaker 15: it comes to Caleb Williams, he told me you can't

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Speaker 15: just rush for four seconds. You've got to rush for six, seven,

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Speaker 15: eight seconds. And it's not the first guy, the second guy,

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Speaker 15: even the third or fourth guy.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna make you miss.

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Speaker 15: And so they will be targeting him on Sunday night

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Speaker 15: in Chicago in a hostile environment.

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Speaker 1: Next thirty pm Eastern on NBC and Peacock. That's where

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Speaker 1: you can find the Rams and the Bears eleven am

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Speaker 1: Eastern at Soldier Field Stacey Dale's. They're seven and a

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Speaker 1: half hours before kickoff right here on ed Work.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's the Bears logo on the Mart. Forget what

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Speaker 5: the Mart stands for, but that's that huge building in Chicago.

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Speaker 5: Adam Regan knows a lot about Chicago. He's gonna come

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Speaker 5: in a second. He's gonna be like, dude, you don't

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Speaker 5: know the Mart. That's the mark there, it is right there.

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Speaker 5: Come on in rak, let's talk about the Rams and the.

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Speaker 3: Bears while you're laughing there.

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Speaker 5: We were going to get rich. I thought we were

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Speaker 5: getting regular rank. I didn't realize we were getting this

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Speaker 5: rank right here.

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Speaker 3: You've been to the Mart lately, you know, I'm sort

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Speaker 3: of offended that this.

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Speaker 9: I finally get out here there to talk of my

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Speaker 9: native tongue and get an opportunity to show my true

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Speaker 9: authentic self, and now you got to sit here and

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Speaker 9: make fun of me.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 9: I didn't get down to the Mart the last time

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Speaker 9: I was there in Chicago, and I was there in

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Speaker 9: December in that cold game against Cleveland, and I know

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Speaker 9: the Rams are trying to play it off like it's

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Speaker 9: no big deal, Like, hey, I know what it's like

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Speaker 9: to be in the snow because they went to Mountain

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Speaker 9: High and Rightwood and think that that's going to prepare

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Speaker 9: them for this. But like when Rick Kane was out

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Speaker 9: there in the wave pools of the North Shore or

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Speaker 9: in Phoenix, and then you go to the north Shore,

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Speaker 9: it's an entirely different ball game out here. We saw that. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: the last time this Rams team came out here in

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Speaker 9: nineteen eighty five, you might have heard of that team.

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Speaker 9: Dieter Brock Eric Dickerson were shut down there. Mike Garrifolo,

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Speaker 9: it's gonna be a cold one. Don't let the sun

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Speaker 9: behind me fool you.

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Speaker 5: The Merchandise Mart was open in nineteen thirty that he

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Speaker 5: said that's too long, shortened it to the merch mart.

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Speaker 5: They said that's too long, so they just went with

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Speaker 5: the mart at some point. That's how we got here.

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Speaker 5: All right, make your pick here for this game. Rank

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Speaker 5: which way you gotta go on Bears Rams.

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Speaker 9: You know I'm gonna go with the Bears pretty quick,

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Speaker 9: pretty good here, thirty one to twenty in a game

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Speaker 9: where it's going to be decided because of those those

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Speaker 9: cold elements. Hey there, the Rams are trying to say, hey,

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Speaker 9: we played Hey, Matt Stafford's played in the cold before

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Speaker 9: it like, yeah, he's been one to nine in the cold.

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Speaker 9: And now they're trying to make a big deal because

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Speaker 9: the the Shanahan coaching trees upset at Ben Johnson because

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Speaker 9: he's handshake wasn't vigorous enough at the end of the game.

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Speaker 9: But all that doesn't matter. I think this Bears team,

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Speaker 9: now that they finally exercised the demon of the Green

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Speaker 9: Bay Packers, are going to go out there with house

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Speaker 9: money and find it not easy to go. This is

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Speaker 9: one of the most talented teams in the NFL. I'm

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Speaker 9: talking about the Rams there. It's a very good team.

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Speaker 9: I love the Sean McVay very much. But it's gonna

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Speaker 9: be a tough one. But give me the Bears in

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Speaker 9: this one, and I think the Bears are going to

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Speaker 9: move on to the NFC Championship game of my predictions

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Speaker 9: come correct, They'll be playing host of the San Francisco

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Speaker 9: forty nine Ers next week.

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Speaker 1: Bill's Broncos kicks off divisional playoff weekend four thirty pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern Time tomorrow. That game in Denver. It is on CBS.

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Speaker 1: Here's some things I know about this matchup. Bill's eleven

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Speaker 1: and one when James Cook tops one hundred scrimmage yards,

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Speaker 1: just two and four when he does not. Denver allowed

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Speaker 1: both Jonathan Taylor and O Mario and Hampton to clear

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Speaker 1: that mark this season. The Broncos lost both of those games.

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Speaker 1: Denver led the NFL with sixty eight sacks in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Well Bill's quarterback Josh Allen was sacked a

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Speaker 1: career high forty times. Broncos also posted a forty point

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Speaker 1: seven percent quarterback pressure rate, second best in the league,

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Speaker 1: behind only the Viking. Speaking of Josh Allen, he already

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Speaker 1: has nine rushing touchdowns in the postseason, needs one more

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Speaker 1: to tie Jalen Hurts with ten for the most playoff

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in NFL history.

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Speaker 2: But Allen's gonna have his work.

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Speaker 1: Cutout for him tomorrow against this relentless Broncos D.

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Speaker 14: They've got some massolet studs over there. Obviously, they rushed

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Speaker 14: the passer extremely well, you know, interior there again, some

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Speaker 14: big stout guys that can can really push the pocket,

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Speaker 14: and they could stop the run in the back end too.

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Speaker 14: My guy like Pat Tritanna, who was Defensive Player of

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Speaker 14: the Year last year. That's a good team over there.

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Speaker 14: And anytime you're facing a really good defense and you

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Speaker 14: gotta go out there next shooting to your park.

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Speaker 12: You know, he's been great. Uh you know, he he

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Speaker 12: puts the team on his back for sure in critical moments.

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Speaker 12: He finds a way to come through in the clutch.

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Speaker 12: One thing that we got to eliminate his you know,

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Speaker 12: his second chance opportunities. You know, he drives off that

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Speaker 12: finding opportunities even if the players not there. So you know,

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Speaker 12: he's a great player, So we got a game plan

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Speaker 12: and you know, eliminate the explosives from him.

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, it is an NFC West showdown for a

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Speaker 1: spot in the NFC Championship Game. Forty nine Ers headed

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Speaker 1: to Seattle after dropping that Week eighteen game for the

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Speaker 1: number one seed a couple of weeks ago in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 1: Some things you know on this matchup forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: or eight and oh, when Christian McCaffery gets twenty five

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Speaker 1: or more touches in twenty twenty five. In that first

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Speaker 1: meeting with Seattle, McCaffrey handler at thirty one times, leading

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Speaker 1: to a seventeen thirteen win. Week eighteen, different story, fourteen

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Speaker 1: touches for Semac forty nine ers fell thirteen to three.

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Speaker 1: Seahawks wide out Jackson Smith and Jingba had thirteen receptions

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Speaker 1: of twenty plus air yards this season.

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Speaker 2: That is the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But in the two minions against San Francisco Weeks one

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Speaker 1: in eighteen, this man's just one catch over twenty air yards.

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Speaker 2: How about this?

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Speaker 1: Brock perty four and oh in his career in Seattle

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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks complete nearly seventy percent of his passes

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Speaker 1: with eight touchdowns and three interceptions in those games.

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Speaker 2: Here's party on playing in Seattle.

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Speaker 13: It's one of the hardest places to play when it

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Speaker 13: comes to the environment and the fans and every down matters,

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Speaker 13: and you know, you have to be on point with everything,

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Speaker 13: your communication, the operation, you know, things like that because

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Speaker 13: you know all it all matters, It all adds up.

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Speaker 13: So but when you're on top of it and you

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Speaker 13: can execute, you know, on the road, it can feel

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Speaker 13: really good when you do your job at a high level.

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Speaker 13: So tough place to play, but it's worth it if.

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Speaker 2: You're on top of your stuff.

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Speaker 1: There's always coaching fallout potentially out of some of these

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Speaker 1: playoff games as well, both in terms of who gets

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Speaker 1: hired and at times who gets fired or in the

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Speaker 1: case of Mike Tomlin last Tuesday, who steps down with

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott ian. And you've addressed this before, there's certainly

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Speaker 1: been rumblings within the league. Right if you don't make

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Speaker 1: it passed, if you don't get to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen at some point of the Bills run

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Speaker 1: out of patience. What is your understanding after they beat

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars last week, But what the chances are, if

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Speaker 1: any that this game on Saturday could impact McDermott's future

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Speaker 1: in buffal At the.

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Speaker 4: Very least, Tom, it is worth a discussion, right because

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Speaker 4: I think all of us were kind of paying attention

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Speaker 4: to the Buffalo Bills last week, whether or not they

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Speaker 4: were going to build the beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, whether

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Speaker 4: or not we would have to monitor this down of

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Speaker 4: Sean McDermott after that game they won, They played well

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Speaker 4: heading into this game, and right, some of the expectation

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Speaker 4: is because it does seem like they have a clear

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Speaker 4: runway to the super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes for instance, Olamar Jackson.

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Speaker 4: But there is a really good Broncos team. It shouldn't

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Speaker 4: be a discussion, right. I think it's fair to say

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Speaker 4: this should not be a discussion. We shouldn't be spending

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Speaker 4: time talking about Sean McDermott's job status. But we now

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Speaker 4: cover a league where anything is possible, Literally anything in.

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Speaker 3: The world is possible.

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Speaker 4: John Harbaugh can lose his job, with Mike McDaniel could

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Speaker 4: lose his job after we're told that he was not

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Speaker 4: losing his job. At least we are going to have

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Speaker 4: the discussions. I don't think it is going to be

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Speaker 4: a thing. But at least it is worth saying that

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Speaker 4: we're going to be watching what happens, even though it

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Speaker 4: shouldn't be anything different.

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Speaker 5: John mcdervis's like, you wouldn't fire a guy with glasses,

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Speaker 5: would you. Maybe that's why he put it up. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: the guys getting hired, the guys that are interviewing right now,

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Speaker 5: I got your both on that. That's good, that was

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Speaker 5: a good job. By this is where it gets a

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Speaker 5: little tricky, right because he's all the coaching candidates in

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Speaker 5: Saturday's game. Now, if you win, that's great, like that

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Speaker 5: strengthens your resume, but it's also bad because it makes

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Speaker 5: you untouchable. Then for another week, you can't talk to teams,

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Speaker 5: you can't be hired by teams, and then sometimes teams go, eh,

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Speaker 5: you know what, we got this other guy we're moving

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Speaker 5: on to. So here are the guys that are in

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Speaker 5: that sort of I mean, they're trying to win the game, right,

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Speaker 5: It's like not like, oh, let's lose, because then if

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Speaker 5: you lose, by the way, it weakens that resume. So

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Speaker 5: here are the guys where it's like good news, beat news,

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Speaker 5: you won, but you can't interview and you can't talk

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Speaker 5: to these teams going up, So keep an eye on

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Speaker 5: these guys. See what they can do. The Broncos with

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Speaker 5: a leading for there right there, the Broncos and Seahawks coaches.

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Speaker 5: Based upon the rules, they got all their interviews out

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Speaker 5: of the way during last week's bind, nobody could talk

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Speaker 5: to them this week. For teams like the forty nine

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Speaker 5: Ers and the Bills, you're cramming it in either right

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Speaker 5: before your game or right.

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Speaker 1: After your game. It's a complicated process. There is no

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Speaker 1: perpose way of doing it. Delayed until after the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl is simply not realistic. But absolutely if you lose

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Speaker 1: this weekend. We saw it last year with Ben Johnson

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Speaker 1: after the Lions lost, he was the Bears coach. By

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Speaker 1: the next morning, you fast forward here. Whoever loses the

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Speaker 1: games this weekend, in person interviews with current NFL assistant

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Speaker 1: coaches can begin on Monday.

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Speaker 2: This thing could really get moving very quick.

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Speaker 1: Forty years ago Monday, that was the last time we

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Speaker 1: saw the Rams and the Bears meet in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Jim McMahon running wild, William the Refrigerator Perry was on

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Speaker 1: the field. Bears shot up the Rams twenty four to

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Speaker 1: zzing at Soldier Field Chufflin their way to Super Bowl twenty.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in.

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Speaker 1: Sam Schwartzstein, Prime Videos analytics expert to help us go

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Speaker 1: deeper into this NFC Divisional playoff matchup.

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Speaker 2: Sam, last week we saw Caleb Williams. He's been clutched

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Speaker 2: the entire season.

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Speaker 1: Take me deeper into what the numbers say about what

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Speaker 1: he's shown here on the field.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think he's trying to make all the fans

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Speaker 11: of Chicago have heart attacks because of his ability to

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Speaker 11: not play so great. He plays about league average to

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Speaker 11: the first three quarters, but it's the fourth quarter where

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Speaker 11: he's one of the best quarterback in the NFL. For

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Speaker 11: the TP for drowback, which combines yards, interception secks all

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Speaker 11: the one collective statusy how much your healthy a team

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Speaker 11: can to scoring. He is one of the largest increases

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Speaker 11: from the first three quarters to the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 11: we saw that on full display last week on Prime

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Speaker 11: Vision because of his ability to make the big play

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Speaker 11: happen that fourth and eight catch to Roma Dunz to

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Speaker 11: be able to set up get them into that scoring range.

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Speaker 11: It's a huge part of his game. But they need

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Speaker 11: to play all four quarters against Sean mcvay's team. This team,

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Speaker 11: the Rams, was one of the best overall teams in

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Speaker 11: the NFL analytically throughout the regular season, and they play

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Speaker 11: a complete football game and they'll play the full sixty

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Speaker 11: The Bears need to match that moving forward this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Rams defense has not been as good over these last

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Speaker 1: five weeks. They're still really talented, sam how can they

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Speaker 1: create challenges for this Bears offense?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, the line is line lies, damn lies statistics, and

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Speaker 11: if you look at the full season for the Rams,

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Speaker 11: they're one of the best defenses. We look at just

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Speaker 11: the last five weeks, they're giving up twenty nine point

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Speaker 11: eight points per game. That's some of the highest of

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Speaker 11: the NFL. But what they still continue to do is

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Speaker 11: to pressure the quarterback. They have these second highest pressure

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Speaker 11: rates since Week fifteen at forty five percent. The problem is,

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Speaker 11: pressures aren't the end all be all. We all know

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Speaker 11: what the number one stat that we track in and

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Speaker 11: those are sacks. Just like we see here fifteen point

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Speaker 11: seven percent pressure to sack rate. That's a round league average.

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Speaker 11: So what you need to see from the Rams is

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Speaker 11: vi a Rams fan at home, they have to win

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Speaker 11: up front. They have to get home and they have

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Speaker 11: to find a way to bring Kayleer Williams down. Now,

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Speaker 11: the problem is he's got one of the lowest pressure

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Speaker 11: to sack rates at.

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Speaker 2: Eleven point nine. He's one of the best at avoiding

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Speaker 2: those sacks.

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Speaker 11: So that's what this game will come down to is

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Speaker 11: will the Rams get home and will they bring Kayleb

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Speaker 11: Williams down.

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Speaker 1: A month or so ago, Matthew Stafford was the pretty

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Speaker 1: clear cut MVP when you talk to people around the league,

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Speaker 1: it's been a little more up and down. He showed

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Speaker 1: the highlights, he also has some uncharacteristic misses. What if

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Speaker 1: thing that makes you optimistic that Stafford in this Rams

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Speaker 1: offense is going to show up in Chicago.

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Speaker 11: It's all about pooka a cool This is the team

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Speaker 11: that leverages my best player will win almost every single time.

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Speaker 11: He's one hundred and eighteen point nine receiving EPA. Now

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Speaker 11: that's converting yards into how impactful those yards would be?

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Speaker 11: Where are they Are you getting first downs? Are you

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Speaker 11: converting third and longs? Are you making the impossible happen?

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Speaker 11: And that's what he's able to do is forty more

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Speaker 11: yards than Jackson Smith and jigmo did it play last week,

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Speaker 11: but thirty more thirty eight more receiving EPA. What makes

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Speaker 11: him so important is seventy five percent catch right where

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Speaker 11: he's catching nearly ten percent over expected. His three point

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Speaker 11: seven yards per out run the highest in the NFL.

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Speaker 11: His ability to make Matthew Stafford right is the most important,

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Speaker 11: and one of his biggest plays last week was a

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Speaker 11: play that you don't really see in the staff book.

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Speaker 11: This pass breakup he was able to have again to

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Speaker 11: force any completion instead of interception. That helped fuel this

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Speaker 11: comeback against the Panthers. So if you're gonna want to

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Speaker 11: have a team to win, it's just fun. Whatever's gonna happen,

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Speaker 11: and those gotta have it scenarios. Stafford's gonna find poop

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Speaker 11: and a coup.

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Speaker 1: Sunday, six thirty Eastern NBC in Peacock. That's where you

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Speaker 1: can find the Rams and the Bears. The Kapper to

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Speaker 1: what should be a fun and wild divisional playoff weekend.

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Speaker 2: Sam, thank you very much, Thank you great news.

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Speaker 1: Not only do you get four football games this weekend,

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Speaker 1: you get the Insiders five nights a week, all through

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Speaker 1: the playoff, Live seven pm Eastern Time, on NFL Network

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Speaker 1: on NFL Plus. You can catch it on YouTube. It's

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Speaker 1: a podcast, I believe you also can have it sent

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Speaker 1: to your Zoom anything you can think of more insiders.

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Speaker 2: That for this.

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Speaker 1: It's groundhog Day again for the third consecutive night. We

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Speaker 1: can tell you John Harbaugh is still likely to be

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Speaker 1: the giants next head coach is the team facility. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: he postponed a meeting with the Titans to work on

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Speaker 1: the contract, which, still about forty eight hours after news broke,

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Speaker 1: is not yet done. Elsewhere in the coaching world, Mike

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Speaker 1: McDaniel is interviewed for fore head coaching jobs. Also today

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Speaker 1: interviewed for the Bucks offensive coordinator position. Detroit also wants

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Speaker 1: McDaniel as no c as Ian posts. A short time ago,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers setting up an interview with Mike McDaniel as well.

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Speaker 1: One way or another, he is in demand going to

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Speaker 1: be calling plays in the NFL. In twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: Dolphins interviewed Anthony Campanilly for head coach one that we're

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Speaker 1: all rooting for, just to see if we could have

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Speaker 1: a single bite from one of his press conferences that

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Speaker 1: doesn't get bleeped. Campanilli big presence. Jaguars DC did a

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Speaker 1: great job this season. Now in the mix in Miama. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: we were feeling nostalgic because we were scrolling social media

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Speaker 1: today because for reasons that were unclear, everyone's posting about

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, including the Chiefs, showed Travis Kelcey high fiving

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Speaker 1: some fans right there. I was asked to go and

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Speaker 1: send in a photo me from twenty sixteen, went.

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Speaker 2: Into the old iPhone.

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Speaker 1: There I have exactly one photo from twenty sixteen. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember the context of this. Whow I'm standing next

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Speaker 1: to a Paul Bunyan statue for what reason? I do

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Speaker 1: know that I look really skinny or else that shirt

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Speaker 1: is too big?

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Speaker 2: Mike, what were you doing in twenty sixteen?

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Speaker 5: I was at Fox a year away from joining NFL Network,

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Speaker 5: and we've got me at a live shot for Fox

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Speaker 5: Sports Live that we were going to. So this was

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Speaker 5: in San Francisco. So in ten years I saw from

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Speaker 5: covering the Super Bowl in San Francisco to covering the

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl in San Francisco. Look at all the hair

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Speaker 5: in it and have by the way.

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Speaker 4: All right, uh so for me, there's me in twenty

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Speaker 4: sixteen that is a young quarterback from Missippi State named

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Speaker 4: Dak Prescott, who I'd come to know over the years.

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Speaker 4: He was really upset that he didn't feel like he

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Speaker 4: got enough reps at the Senior Bowl, so he couldn't

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Speaker 4: show the coaches what he had. And I was telling him,

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Speaker 4: it's okay, just focus on the reps you can get

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Speaker 4: and things.

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Speaker 3: Are gonna work out. YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 4: He's now the franchise quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys and

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Speaker 4: the highest paiy quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome, doctor.

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Speaker 5: I thought that there is also twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: You're definitely twenty sixteen. We should bring this back. Ian's

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Speaker 1: famous takes late waddn't buy that plate?

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Speaker 3: By damn buy the whole thing.