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Speaker 1: For the first time in NFL history, we have a

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Speaker 1: meeting of two forty something quarterbacks not named Brady and Breeze.

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Speaker 1: Hear what Aaron Rodgers has to say about his latest

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Speaker 1: meeting with Joe Flacco. A Thursday night feast that surely

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Speaker 1: will include pudding for dessert. The AFC West Race is

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Speaker 1: on the show tonight. Bronco star Nick Benito and Chargers

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Speaker 1: safety Tony Jefferson will join us ahead of a couple

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Speaker 1: of intriguing matchups on Sunday. Your fantasy waiver wire is

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Speaker 1: now closed. You probably got a bit on Camani Vidal.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that was just me, so who else is worth

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Speaker 1: plugging into your lineup? Marcus Grant will be here with

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Speaker 1: his Week seven sleepers that could keep your opponent up

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Speaker 1: at night. Welcome inside with the Insiders presented by Progressive

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Speaker 1: Insurance alongside he In Rappaport, Judy Matista, I am Tom Pelisero.

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Speaker 1: It is the eve of Week seven in the NFL. Amazingly,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco not on the injury report

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Speaker 1: ahead of what Cam Hayward has aptly dubbed the Icy

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Speaker 1: Hot Bowl in Cincinnati, but some other star players not

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Speaker 1: so lucky. Let's begin in San Francisco, where Brock Perty

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Speaker 1: and Mac Jones both practice on a limited basis today.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan said Mack is a little more limited than Perty.

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Speaker 1: No firm proclamations from Kyle of what direction this week's goes,

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Speaker 1: though that would seem to point toward another Max start

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Speaker 1: Sunday night against Atlanta. Whoever's out there at quarterback may

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Speaker 1: first time today since suffering a hamstring injury in Week one.

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Speaker 1: quarterback JJ McCarthy also practiced today for the first time

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, which is that ankle is not yet one

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Speaker 2: play on Sunday, but more information coming. Meanwhile, the Tampa

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Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers did not practice Day A. Mecca Bouga is

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. It seems like every Bucks receiver has been hurt,

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Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin is back at practice this week after missing

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Speaker 3: He has just ten receptions in three games this season,

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Speaker 1: Tom Jeez wide receiver receive Rice is also back his

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Speaker 1: Tom. The Dolphins one in five entering Sunday's game against

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Speaker 1: this has been a non issue in Miami. There's not

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Speaker 2: we will see how the Dolphins respond on the field.

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Speaker 1: Going to get a lot worse.

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Speaker 3: Times one hundred, I am a lot more interested in

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Speaker 3: certainly with his comments. He pulled back the curtain on

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Speaker 3: kind of thing that we know. It happens in locker

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Speaker 3: But certainly this is indicative of issues in the Miami

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Speaker 3: I am fascinated by the fact that Tua proceeds that

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Speaker 1: The primary issue for the Dolphins right now is that

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Speaker 1: and apologizing directly to his teammates at a critical juncture

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Speaker 1: again in their season. Oh, by the way, the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: owe to a fifty four million dollars fully guaranteed in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Thursday Night, we got Joe Flacco, we

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football Prime Video. Only three other times NFL

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Speaker 1: don't you think, Aaron.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's great. Great for all the old guys.

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Speaker 9: been friends with Steph for a long time. Steph is

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Speaker 9: one of the older guys in the NBA. Now there's

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Speaker 9: any time to Warriors are playing, I'm always pulling for

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Speaker 9: I mean, I've known Joe for a long time. He's

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Speaker 9: been great coming to my charity event, He's been a

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Speaker 9: great ambassador for the league. He's had a great career,

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Speaker 9: and it's fun that we're both still playing.

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Speaker 1: Falcons defense. They've been a part of this segment before,

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Speaker 1: allowing one hundred and thirty nine point four passing yards

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Speaker 1: Dolphins as welcome in our Brian Ball here as well

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Speaker 1: as my friend Steve White here. Nice to be joined

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Speaker 1: on set in Los Angeles. Baldy, you've broken down the

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Speaker 1: tape coming off of a really impressive show and by

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Speaker 1: the Falcons a huge win for them over the Bills.

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Speaker 12: What do you see, well, a couple of things. I

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Speaker 8: But this is what I'm talking about in the run game.

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Speaker 13: Hey, Baldy, isn't interesting that Tom side of the stat

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Speaker 13: In nineteen eighty two like back in our heyday, like.

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Speaker 1: They knew we were coming.

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Speaker 13: On this segment, I want to get to the Falcons

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Speaker 13: That was a big question. Can the Falcons get pressure

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Speaker 13: They've got fourteen sacks, but nobody has more than two

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Speaker 5: Play Baby Berbert in the pocket, He's going to be

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Speaker 1: The fourth sack of the game for the Broncos.

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Speaker 10: There's the first sack for Denver.

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Speaker 1: He goes back at the sixth Butnito is just too quick.

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Speaker 1: You know you're having a good start to the season

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Speaker 1: Like Assauli admitted of the time that we've got here,

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Speaker 1: look at Nick Benito's stats across the board, up there

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Speaker 1: he will increase that total right now with me, Tom

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Speaker 1: Pellicero as well as Ian Rappaport, Nick Benito, thanks so much,

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Speaker 1: dude for being here. A lot to get into it.

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Speaker 1: Let me just start with this. You have this kind

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Speaker 1: of gritty, grimy win against the Jets a few days

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Speaker 1: or you over whatever? Jet lag or anything else you got?

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Speaker 15: No, Yeah, I made sure i get plenty of sleep

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Speaker 2: So we got a lot to get to about your

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Speaker 2: but I want to take a step back first. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: in this offseason, before the season started, you signed a

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Speaker 2: four year, one hundred and six million dollar deal one

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Speaker 2: to do with, after generational wealth, and you responded with

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Speaker 1: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Why was that your sort of on field response to

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, you know, just looking back at last year,

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Speaker 15: I felt like I left a lot of you know,

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Speaker 10: Of those things. I feel like it's helped me a

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Speaker 15: And obviously with everybody on the defense plane of the

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Speaker 1: So so eight sacks through the first six games of

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Speaker 1: this season, you lead the NFL in that category. Your

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Speaker 1: being a defensive Player of the Year, said recently, you

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Speaker 1: we got a ways to go. It's early, YadA, YadA, YadA,

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Speaker 1: But when you hear something like that from somebody as

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Speaker 8: Does it mean to you?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, No, it's real big. I mean, obviously he knows

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Speaker 15: what it looks like. You know, he's won the award

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Speaker 15: if not the best defender, So you know, it's obviously

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Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean, I just got to keep going.

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Speaker 10: Like you said, it's a long season.

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Speaker 15: I know, I still have room to grow my end

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Speaker 2: You've got a bunch of big games this season. Two

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Speaker 2: wondering when you're going through games like that, is there

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think. You know, I'm kind of just like

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Speaker 15: I mean, it takes kind of just like one play

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Speaker 10: I've started seeing things a little bit quicker.

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Speaker 15: I start just really feeling myself when it comes to

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Speaker 15: I'm like, all right, like the time we go now,

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Speaker 1: So I got a really hard hitting question for you here, Nick,

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Speaker 1: So people people nationally might not know exactly what your

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Speaker 1: sax celebration is. I every time I see it think

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Speaker 1: it's something smells in this room, everybody get away. What

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Speaker 8: Good question.

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Speaker 15: Well, I wouldn't even say that's mine. It was wards

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Speaker 10: So I know social media liked it a lot.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you're talking about celebrations, social media liking a

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Speaker 2: keep that going. I want to talk about your defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: We just had I know, Vance Joseph. You obviously would

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Speaker 2: to be a candidate for open head coaching jobs. A

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Speaker 2: lot of people obviously remember his tenure as a head

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Speaker 1: What has been like playing for Vance?

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Speaker 2: And is he the kind of guy you could see

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Speaker 10: No, one thousand percent I could see it.

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Speaker 15: I mean, just not even talking football wise, just he's

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Speaker 15: I'll really be excited from it. You know that day

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Speaker 10: Be as well.

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Speaker 1: So you're facing a Giants team this week that's coming

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Speaker 1: three years. Everybody's excited. They watch Jackson Dart. They watched

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Speaker 1: Cam Scattabu ripping off his shirt on the postgame interview said,

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Speaker 1: when you watch those guys on tape, what do you

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Speaker 1: see and how do you get after him this week?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 15: Scheme aside, they play hard, man, I mean everybody on

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Speaker 15: that team, especially on the offensive side, when watching them,

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Speaker 15: I mean they're trying to fight for every inch on

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Speaker 15: the field. Scataboo, like you mentioned, Man, he's trying to

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Speaker 15: run over at any and everybody. So that's gonna be

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Speaker 15: a guy we're gonna have to get all you know,

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Speaker 15: it has the ball with him and obviously Dark you

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Speaker 15: know he's brought like different energy since he's gotten the

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Speaker 15: lineup too, so you know, it's really exciting what they're doing.

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Speaker 15: It's gonna be a real good opportunity for us to

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Speaker 15: show our physicality against a team like that.

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Speaker 1: I love the diplomatic way of saying, we are going

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Speaker 1: to absolutely kick the crap out of these guys. They're

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Speaker 1: really good. Young guys there are young they don't know

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Speaker 1: any better, but we're gonna show them the physicality. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start throwing that line myself, Nick Man, keep it rolling,

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Speaker 1: Stay healthy, dude. We appreciate the time, so thank you, guys.

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Speaker 1: A lot more to come on the show, including a

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Speaker 1: look at some of the biggest surprises of twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five so far. How about those Panthers. We're throwing it

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Speaker 1: and running it for the backup running back, a rookie

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Speaker 1: receiver making some plays. Judye Matista's back with us and

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Speaker 1: Steve Whitch to talk big surprises. Right after this on

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Speaker 1: The Insiders presented by Progressive Insurance, London is calling Light

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Speaker 1: at time. Play for the man that you don't be.

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Speaker 10: Just gave sixty minutes.

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Speaker 8: Don't don't do.

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Speaker 1: What's a great brother?

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Speaker 5: Stafford, He hitched the buttet hints a cut down.

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Speaker 6: That was a dog up.

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Speaker 1: Touchdown into the echo.

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Speaker 16: Touch down.

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Speaker 14: Jason Way, We'll see you in wimbley down Low.

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Speaker 1: Team time gonna be a good time. Sunday morning on

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, the Rams and the Jaguars facing off in London.

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars go so often that I think Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: actually has dual citizenship.

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Speaker 10: It's fun, you know, It's it's fun being over here.

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Speaker 2: It really is.

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Speaker 17: You know, at first, when I came here in twenty one,

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Speaker 17: it's kind of crazy, you know, coming out here for

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Speaker 17: the first time, you don't know what to expect, and

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Speaker 17: you're coming out for one game. I think we're here

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Speaker 17: for like two and a half days and such a

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Speaker 17: long trip, and it's a it's a quick turnaround, and

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Speaker 17: but once you do it and then you come back,

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Speaker 17: and it starts to feel like, you know, I don't

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Speaker 17: want to say, like a second home. But for us,

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Speaker 17: we're so used to coming here at the Grove and

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Speaker 17: all the employees are so friendly and nice, and seeing

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Speaker 17: all the fans and the experience of the games playing

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Speaker 17: in the two stadiums. The two stadiums are incredible. It's

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Speaker 17: just it's a cool atmosphere to play in. And we've

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Speaker 17: kind of gotten used to the whole travel deal and

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Speaker 17: stuff like that, so it's not as big of a

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Speaker 17: big of a deal for us now. And I just

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Speaker 17: enjoy it. I mean, it's fun being over here, and

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Speaker 17: I think it's a good opportunity for our team to

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Speaker 17: just come closer together. We spend a lot of time together.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, presented by Progressive Insurance, Tom Pilli,

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Speaker 1: Sero Steve Witch here in La joined once again by

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Speaker 1: our Judy Batista. Judy let's talk some of the biggest

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Speaker 1: surprises so far in the twenty twenty five NFL season.

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Speaker 1: What's something on your list?

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Speaker 3: First of all, the Indianapolis Colts are the biggest surprise

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Speaker 3: in the league so far. They have the best record

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Speaker 3: in the AFC, the number one scoring offense, the number

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Speaker 3: four scoring defense. Jonathan Taylor is the league leading rusher.

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Speaker 3: Daniel Jones is having a career renaissance. He's completing almost

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Speaker 3: seventy two percent of his passes, playing really cleanly. They

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Speaker 3: have a big test this week against the Chargers. But

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Speaker 3: nobody saw the Colts coming.

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Speaker 8: At this point.

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Speaker 13: No, Gerdy, No, nobody's saw the Colts coming at this point,

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Speaker 13: this at this point.

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Speaker 1: Of the season.

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Speaker 13: But I want to go to Denver to the guy

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Speaker 13: that Tom and Ian just spoke to it, and that's

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Speaker 13: Nick Benito. When we talk about great pass rushes, we're

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Speaker 13: thinking about Max Crosby and Miles Garrett and TJ.

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Speaker 8: Watt.

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Speaker 13: But Benito is the guy who is leading the league

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Speaker 13: eight sacks. And what is surprising is the fact that

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Speaker 13: usually these guys get sacks and bunches. He's only had

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Speaker 13: one game where he hasn't had at least one sack.

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Speaker 13: That consistency and playing great against the run is why

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Speaker 13: he does need to be in the early part of.

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Speaker 8: The Defensive Player of the Year conversation.

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Speaker 1: Jerdy, how about a player that makes your list for

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Speaker 1: biggest surprises so far?

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Speaker 3: Well, Baker Mayfield leading the MVP race is certainly a

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Speaker 3: huge surprise. Twelve touchdowns, one interception, but really, just go

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Speaker 3: back and walk this game against the Niners. That third

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Speaker 3: and fourteen play where he took off, got away from

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Speaker 3: a sack, scrambled and dove for the first down. That

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Speaker 3: is truly a quarterback putting a team that is depleted

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Speaker 3: by injuries on his back. This offense is roaring, and

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Speaker 3: he still has not played with his full complement of

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Speaker 3: wide receivers. That touchdown pass was to like his fifth

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Speaker 3: or sixth wide receiver. So when that offense gets healthy,

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Speaker 3: look out Baker Mayfield on his way to a potential MVP.

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Speaker 13: Well, Jenny, Baker Mayfield is doing his thing for the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 13: Rico Dowdell and the Carolina Panthers are doing their thing.

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Speaker 13: With Carolina being at three and three and in full

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Speaker 13: contention here in the NFC South, that is a big

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Speaker 13: surprise and look at ric O'doondell and this run game

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Speaker 13: that goes to show the investments that they made in

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Speaker 13: their offensive line have worked. And the fact that Dowdell

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Speaker 13: in the last two games has more than two hundred

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Speaker 13: and fifty total yards. This offense is working for Carolina

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Speaker 13: and dare we say they could be there in the

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Speaker 13: mix when it's playoff time in the NFC South.

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Speaker 1: Our time for one more Judy, one more big surprise

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Speaker 1: so far at the one third point in the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the renaissance of the New England Patriots. It's over.

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Speaker 1: They have arrived.

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Speaker 3: They are leading the AFC East, much to the dismay

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Speaker 3: of the other teams that are in the AFC East.

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Speaker 3: Drake May is blossoming right before our eyes. Each of

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Speaker 3: his three touchdown passes last week traveled more than twenty

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Speaker 3: yards in the air. They're getting contributions from a wide

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Speaker 3: receiver group that was really maligned over the last few seasons.

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Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs has had an immediate impact. Look at the

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Speaker 3: rest of their schedule. It is very, very manageable. Do

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Speaker 3: not be surprised if we get into late December and

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Speaker 3: we are talking about the Patriots as a playoff team.

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Speaker 1: For more Judy surprises, go to NFL dot com slash

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Speaker 1: Batista for her full article. Steve, great stuff. As always,

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Speaker 1: We will see you again soon.

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Speaker 2: For now, I well, it was not exactly great stuff

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Speaker 2: for the Philadelphia Eagles last Thursday.

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Speaker 8: I was there at MetLife Stadium. We came into it

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Speaker 8: talking about the offense.

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Speaker 2: We left talking about the offense and the defense and

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Speaker 2: the whole thing. Back to back losses, which has been

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Speaker 2: a rarity for the champs. Here is how Nick Sirianni,

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Speaker 2: their head coach, responded to two rough weeks in Philly.

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Speaker 16: You know, adversities are going to happen. They happen for

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Speaker 16: every team in the NFL. They happened for every team,

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Speaker 16: They happened for every person, and you can really look

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Speaker 16: back on, you know, you think back on your old

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Speaker 16: experience as you look back at adversities that we've had.

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Speaker 16: I'm thankful for those. You know, obviously this is a

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Speaker 16: new year and new things, but I'm thankful for twenty three.

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Speaker 16: I'm thankful for how twenty four started off because it

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Speaker 16: put us in a position to do what we ultimately

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Speaker 16: wanted to accomplish our goal last year. So you know,

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Speaker 16: That is a mindset that is really critical to have.

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Speaker 16: That adversities that.

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Speaker 17: You go through.

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Speaker 16: Make you stronger. If you allow it to.

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Speaker 2: Two straight losses for the Philadelphia goes three times that

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Speaker 2: for the New York Jets. Three times two. That's six

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Speaker 2: zero and six for the Jets. Meanwhile, a lot of

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Speaker 2: teams have been looking at their roster and going, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know who'd be pretty good for us? How about

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Speaker 2: Breese Hall? They're starting running back. Aaron Glenn, the head coach,

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Speaker 2: has heard the rumors. He has been asked about the rumors,

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Speaker 2: and today he responded to those trade rumors.

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Speaker 13: Go ahead, you said before the season, you were pretty

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Speaker 13: emphatic about not wanting to trade Greese Hall.

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Speaker 10: All of a sudden, we're getting closer to the dead.

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Speaker 10: Rumors are running ramped again. But what's your position?

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Speaker 8: Then?

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Speaker 10: They're rumors still feel the same way.

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Speaker 18: Thanks pistol formation, So we to throw nowhere to go now,

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Speaker 18: middle of the field, bobble Dad picked off. That'll go

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Speaker 18: on Chuley's record, but that is not on him. I

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Speaker 18: think that was Julian Hill that bobbled that ball, and

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Speaker 18: that is Tony Jefferson that comes up with the interception.

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Speaker 18: Good things happen when Tony's on the field.

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Speaker 1: DJ, you know you're doing something special at the age

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Speaker 1: of thirty three, when you've earned the unk nickname and

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Speaker 1: you're still making plays like that. That is what Chargers

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Speaker 1: safety Tony Jefferson is doing when he's not stopping by

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Speaker 1: and chatting with us on the Insiders, Tom Pilicero and

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Speaker 1: Judy Battista. Tony always great to see you, man. Let's

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Speaker 1: start right there with that play. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say anything's gift wrapped. I know every takeaway is hard

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, but just take me through from your

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Speaker 1: vantage point what exactly happened on that play.

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Speaker 19: Honestly, just doing my job, doing my responsibility. They always

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Speaker 19: say good things happen when you run to the ball,

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Speaker 19: and that's really what I was doing there, and shout

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Speaker 19: out to our pass rush. Shout out to tar Heep

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Speaker 19: Stale with great coverage. He really kind of made the

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Speaker 19: play for me. I just had to finish it.

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Speaker 3: But that was your second interception this season. You haven't

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Speaker 3: had an interception since twenty eighteen, and you haven't had

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Speaker 3: two in a season since twenty fifteen, ten years ago.

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Speaker 3: You're thirty three years old. And in your eleventh season,

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Speaker 3: why are you finding the.

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Speaker 8: Ball so well right now? Well, quite honestly, I'm just

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Speaker 8: hitting my prime.

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Speaker 19: So that's why it looks like that I'm making more

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Speaker 19: plays now. But I'm feeling good mentally. I feel like

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Speaker 19: I'm ahead of the game. Everything's kind of slowed down

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Speaker 19: to me a little bit, you know. I guess I

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Speaker 19: kind of cheated from being in the scout being a

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Speaker 19: scout and being in the in the film room a lot.

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Speaker 19: I got to watch a lot of football and then

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Speaker 19: coming back, you know, let my body rest and then

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Speaker 19: just out there making plays and envisioning the stuff that

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Speaker 19: I saw when I was scouting and putting it out

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Speaker 19: to tests.

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Speaker 1: I remember I bumped into you. I think it was

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Speaker 1: at the combine two years ago when you were just

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Speaker 1: getting started out. Whoever introduced us was like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: know Tony Jefferson, he scout now for the Ravens. That's

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Speaker 1: two years ago. That's like this whole other career change

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Speaker 1: you went through. Is there ever a moment after a game,

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Speaker 1: after you play a whole bunch of snapsh you're like, man,

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Speaker 1: I could get back to watching that tape instead of

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Speaker 1: play in this game.

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Speaker 19: No, I'm feeling way too good right now, Like I

658
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 19: feel like taking that year off when I was scouting

659
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 19: just did so much benefit from my body. And again,

660
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Speaker 19: just watching so much tape, I find I kind of

661
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 19: felt myself sometimes I was supposed to be watching a

662
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Speaker 19: player and I ended up watching schemes and it's kind

663
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Speaker 19: of helping me out as I'm playing.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about this season the Chargers are having.

665
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Speaker 3: You had sort of a weird start to the schedule.

666
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Speaker 3: You played the first three games against your division rivals,

667
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Speaker 3: your three division rivals, you won all of them. You've

668
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Speaker 3: had some injuries, but why should we think that this

669
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Speaker 3: might be a different season for the Chargers that haven't

670
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Speaker 3: won the division since two thousand and nine. I think

671
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Speaker 3: why could it be different for the Chargers this year?

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Speaker 8: Just based off of resiliency.

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Speaker 19: I know everybody wants to speak on the injuries, but

674
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Speaker 19: to be honest with you, injuries are happening all over

675
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Speaker 19: the league, and we know here we have a next

676
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Speaker 19: man up mentality and we're using that and guys are

677
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Speaker 19: stepping up and understanding that you're here for a reason,

678
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Speaker 19: and when you're out there, everybody believes in you. We

679
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Speaker 19: believe in you, so go out there, have the confidence

680
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Speaker 19: and the will power to will it out. And you know,

681
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Speaker 19: like I said, this is this is the National Football League.

682
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Speaker 19: Everybody's dealing with something every week and that's just what

683
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Speaker 19: it is. And then having the guys in the room

684
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Speaker 19: who our leaders are. We have great leaders who can

685
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Speaker 19: provide us with you know, the right things to say

686
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Speaker 19: and everything to have us ready to go each week

687
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Speaker 19: and taking care of our bodies.

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Speaker 1: You've played for the Harbors for a long period of time,

689
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Speaker 1: we always see Jim Harbaugh and things are going well.

690
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Speaker 1: Who's got it better than us? When you go through

691
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Speaker 1: a hard stretch. What does Jim Harbaugh do to try

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Speaker 1: to get that thing headed back the right direction?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 19: I think we stay composed, stay stay according to plan,

695
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Speaker 19: no panic. We we fix our fix our mistakes and

696
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Speaker 19: we just we just hit it full forward and nobody

697
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Speaker 19: really like I said, just don't panic. You know what

698
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Speaker 19: I'm saying, it's a long season. We have the guys

699
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Speaker 19: in the room, we have the right coaches, right staff.

700
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Speaker 19: Everybody believes in each other and it's really it's really

701
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Speaker 19: no rah rah screaming or anything. Everybody's just coming together

702
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Speaker 19: as one fixing the issues.

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Speaker 8: Unlet's move forward.

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Speaker 3: You're facing the hottest team in the NFL this weekend,

705
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Speaker 3: the Indianapolis Colts that got the number one rushing offense.

706
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Speaker 3: Daniel Jones has come out of nowhere to be one

707
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Speaker 3: of the best quarterbacks in the league. When you have

708
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Speaker 3: watched them, can you explain why they have burst onto

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Speaker 3: the scene as dramatically as they have?

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Speaker 19: Very good, good football team all around, all phases. I

711
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 19: send the special teams meetings. They're hot, they're too, they're good,

712
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Speaker 19: defensive great.

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Speaker 17: And then.

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Speaker 19: Daniel Jones, man I was. I was his teammate in

715
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Speaker 19: twenty two when I was in New York. That dude's fiery,

716
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Speaker 19: very competitive, he has the arm strength. He led us

717
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Speaker 19: to the Divisional Divisional game, Divisional playoff game, so I

718
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Speaker 19: know Daniel Jones is good. And then obviously Jonathan Taylor

719
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Speaker 19: had the rushing title before. This kid really knows how

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Speaker 19: to play ball. Then you have their rookie tight end

721
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Speaker 19: who's I think he's a leading receiver for tight ends

722
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Speaker 19: in the league.

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Speaker 8: And they know.

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Speaker 19: Their head coach knows how to get their playmakers of ball.

725
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Speaker 19: So we know we have our hands cut out for us.

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Speaker 19: But at the end, of the day. We want to

727
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Speaker 19: go out there and play our brand of football. Put

728
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Speaker 19: our brand of football on tape, and we'll see what

729
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Speaker 19: happens from there.

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Speaker 1: So well, now that you're getting these turnovers, Tony, I'm

731
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Speaker 1: sure you got to cook up some additional types of celebrations.

732
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to one you did last week.

733
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Speaker 1: I remember some of those moments back in my college

734
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Speaker 1: days or maybe you know, I was working a certain

735
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Speaker 1: beverage container, handing out the drinks to everybody. Can you

736
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Speaker 1: can you just tell me what exactly you were doing

737
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Speaker 1: to celebrate there?

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 19: Man, like you said, it's been a while since I

740
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Speaker 19: got the interception thing going, so I wanted to make

741
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Speaker 19: a memorable one.

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Speaker 8: Really. At the end here, you can see the hips there.

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Speaker 19: You know, I used to be in a lot of

744
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Speaker 19: Kintignetta's back in the day, you know, Main Chambalaine. You

745
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Speaker 19: know I got the hips, So I just wanted to

746
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Speaker 19: showcase the hips a little bit after that. May or

747
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 19: may not have been tequila in the cup, could have

748
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Speaker 19: been grape juice, apple juice, doesn't matter. I just wanted

749
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Speaker 19: to showcase the hips at the end there.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Tony, Unless there's tequila in that cup.

751
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Speaker 1: You're not getting my hips moving either. I totally feel you. Man.

752
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Speaker 1: Keep getting those ticks, man, keep doing your thing. We

753
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Speaker 1: appreciate the time, dude. Good luck the rest of the season.

754
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate you guys. If you've ever dreamed of

755
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: having any perfect fantasy lineup, well this would have been

756
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Speaker 1: it for Week six. Big days for George Pickens, Drake London,

757
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: the Rams defense as well. If you've ever dreamed of

758
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Speaker 1: having the worst case lineup or been managing one of

759
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Speaker 1: my current teams, this is what that would have looked like,

760
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: including a couple of shutouts pitched. Last night, I had

761
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Speaker 1: a really weird dream involved me taking a water slide

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Speaker 1: to the press box. I need better dream now for Marcus.

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Speaker 1: My words with our guy, Marcus grant me, Tom Hillicero

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Speaker 1: and Ian Rappaport. All right, Week seven, sleepers, Marcus, start

765
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Speaker 1: me off. Who should I think about putting in my

766
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Speaker 1: line up at quarterback?

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Speaker 14: Let's go with the guy that used to be a

768
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Speaker 14: staple in fantasy lineups, and that's Aaron Rodgers. I mean, look,

769
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Speaker 14: most of the season has been sort of underwhelming. He

770
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Speaker 14: had the huge game in Week one. He threw four

771
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Speaker 14: touchdowns against the Jets. He was powered by Spike. Hasn't

772
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Speaker 14: really had that coming for him since then. But this

773
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 14: is a great matchup this week, going against the Cincinnati Bengals.

774
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Speaker 14: Five of the six starting quarterbacks against sincey have gone

775
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Speaker 14: for at least two hundred and fifty passing yards. The

776
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Speaker 14: only one who didn't was Carson Wentz still finishes a

777
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Speaker 14: QB twelve that week. So I like Aaron Rodgers and

778
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Speaker 14: a spot Even though it's not necessarily a petty party him,

779
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Speaker 14: the matchup should work in his favor.

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Speaker 16: Well.

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Speaker 2: Since we're talking about dreams, my dream last night was

782
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 2: that an agent sent me a text about a client

783
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 2: wanting to be traded, but I couldn't read it and

784
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 2: wouldn't put on my reading glasses.

785
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Speaker 8: I don't even have reading glasses. Not sure what somebody

786
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 8: was trying to tell me.

787
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Speaker 2: Anyway, why don't trigger us a running back version of

788
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Speaker 2: a sleeper mark?

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Speaker 14: I'm guessing Quinchwn Judkins didn't really fit into that dream,

790
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 14: But we're gonna We're gonna squez him in here. For

791
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 14: a while, it looked like they were going to turn

792
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 14: him into a workhorse there in Cleveland. He was getting

793
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Speaker 14: about sixty percent of the snaps about eighty percent of

794
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 14: the rushing attempts. Last week, it was more of an

795
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 14: equal split with Jerome Ford, which seemed kind of confusing

796
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Speaker 14: because Judkins was playing well.

797
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Speaker 1: I think they get back to that this week.

798
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Speaker 14: Great matchup against the Dolphins, who have been shredded all

799
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Speaker 14: year long, but especially the last two weeks. Come out

800
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 14: of a doal going for a buck twenty four last week,

801
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Speaker 14: Reco Daubo going for over two hundred a couple of

802
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Speaker 14: weeks ago. So I think quinch On Judkins did a

803
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 14: big workload. It puts up a big number.

804
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Speaker 1: The other part of my dream was that the NFL

805
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: was staging two games at once on adjacent fields, one

806
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: of them involving the Browns. Dylan Gabriel got pinched at

807
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Speaker 1: halftime and watched the second half with me while Shador

808
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: Sanders lit it up. This is all really part of

809
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: the dreamer and a wide receiver sleeper Marcts breaking on.

810
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Speaker 14: I really want you guys to get better hobbies. I

811
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 14: don't know something, Let's go for she Rice here at

812
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 14: wide receiver and this is kind of a welcome back, right,

813
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 14: It's been a while since we've seen him. He's just

814
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 14: coming off the suspension. He got hurt early last season,

815
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Speaker 14: but in the three full games he played, had twenty

816
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 14: nine targets, turned that into twenty four catches for almost

817
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 14: three hundred yards and a pair of touchdowns. Now he

818
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 14: comes back, the Chiefs have been waiting for him and

819
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 14: a great matchup against the Las Vegas Raiders, the fifth

820
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 14: best matchup for wide receivers. So I think you're gonna

821
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Speaker 14: see the Chiefs go to him early and often to

822
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 14: got to get him back in the flow this week.

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Speaker 1: Hobbies, we need better hobbies. My hobby is playing golf.

824
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Speaker 2: Couldn't play golf this past Tuesday because it was raining,

825
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 2: so I spend five hours moving boxes around my house

826
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Speaker 2: going where my wife told me to go. Not the

827
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: greatest hobby of all time, anyway, Why don't you give

828
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 2: us a sleeper defense, Mark.

829
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Speaker 14: Let's go with the New England Patriots, in part because

830
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 14: they're very sneakily. They've been a good fantasy defense so

831
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Speaker 14: far this season. They're top seven Fantasy defense, five top

832
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Speaker 14: twelve weekly finishes. But the bigger part of it is

833
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Speaker 14: their opponent, going against the Tennessee Titans, averaging a league

834
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Speaker 14: low three point nine yards per play. They've given them

835
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Speaker 14: ball away ten times, that's the third most in the league.

836
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Speaker 14: Twenty five sacks allowed, that's tied for the most Saxon turnovers.

837
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Speaker 14: That's how you get points from your fantasy defense, and

838
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Speaker 14: I think the Patriots can get a number of both

839
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Speaker 14: of those things.

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Speaker 1: This week at NFL dot com, slash sleepers for more

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Speaker 1: about my dream just gives me more of Marcus Grant's sleepers.

842
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Speaker 1: I haven't slept well, as you can clearly tell. Marcus.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We will see you next Wednesday.

844
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Speaker 1: Stillmore to come here on this show, including well more

845
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Speaker 1: of us. How about this. We're on constantly basically all

846
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Speaker 1: the time. Tuesday's, Wednesdays, Fridays on the Network podcast five

847
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 1: days a week. It's on streaming platforms, all kinds of stuff,

848
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you watching this one more after this

849
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: Bear's Saints on Sunday, A game begat a little spice

850
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Speaker 1: here with Caleb Williams playing well against Washington on Monday Night.

851
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty one, Caleb was teammates with Spencer Rattler,

852
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: who Caleb Williams ultimately replaced On Sunday they will go

853
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: at it head ahead.

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Speaker 6: I think it is what it is.

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Speaker 18: You know, we all have our own paths, and you know,

856
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 18: we got to do our best with our own path

857
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Speaker 18: So it is what it is.

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Speaker 17: You know.

859
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Speaker 8: The pass is the past.

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Speaker 10: We'll focus on the president in the future.

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Speaker 18: But you know, I would say, yeah that that definitely

862
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 18: led me to South Carolina.

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Speaker 14: It was a blessing in disguise.

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Speaker 19: You know that I got to play with the game

865
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Speaker 19: Cocks and develop there and you know, get ready to

866
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Speaker 19: go to the league after that.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're going to close out the show with

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Speaker 3: a little test. Ian. I'm going to start with you

869
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Speaker 3: because I know you like to think you're cool, and

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Speaker 3: I want to give you a chance.

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Speaker 1: To prove that you are.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what six seven is?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it means.

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Speaker 2: It makes my kids laugh every time they say it,

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Speaker 2: and they do this all the time, so obviously it

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Speaker 2: means tom.

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Speaker 1: Yes, my kids, every time I say six seven, they

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Speaker 1: do that, and they say it in a weird voice.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what it means. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they know what it means either. I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone knows what it means. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's a really much no anyway. Thanks for watching and

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Speaker 1: seeing