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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pelisaro along with Juda

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Speaker 1: Batista and Ian Rapaport. If you are listening on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: this is part two. Doesn't matter. You can listen to

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Speaker 1: this part first, then go back to Part one, different

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Speaker 1: subject matter in each one. Over there, we talked about

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Speaker 1: the AFC playoff picture. We ran through some of the

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Speaker 1: key injuries out of Sunday's games, including Patrick Mahomes out

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Speaker 1: for the season and for the entire twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: off season essentially because of a torn ACL. Michael Parsons

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Speaker 1: also suffering now confirmed a torn ACL. Two massive massive injuries.

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Speaker 1: Also DeVante Adams banged up. Sounds like they're optimistic, not

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Speaker 1: a long term absence for him with a hamstring injury,

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Speaker 1: but for the one team that has clinched a playoff

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Speaker 1: Berth in the NFC, that is goin to bear mentioning

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Speaker 1: as we move forward, take a look care at the

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Speaker 1: NFC playoff picture. It's not quite as chaotic, I feel

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Speaker 1: like as the AFC, but we are still in a

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Speaker 1: situation where we're going to go into Week six team

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Speaker 1: with no team having clinched a playoff Berth with exactly excuse,

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Speaker 1: no team having clinched a Division one team in each conference,

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Speaker 1: having clinched a playoff berth The Rams won yesterday, They've

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Speaker 1: got the Seahawks on Thursday night in a huge, huge game.

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Speaker 1: The Bears won, the Eagles finally got a blowout win.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers lost, and so the Bucks three days Judy

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Speaker 1: after hembrhaging the top spot and control their destiny, now

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Speaker 1: have it back as we move on into the final

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Speaker 1: part of the season. Here the NFC West, it's obvious

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Speaker 1: by looking at the standings that is probably I would

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Speaker 1: say the best division in football right now. And there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of unknowns here in terms of even the

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Speaker 1: Rams sitting there's the first team in. They could potentially

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Speaker 1: be as low as the seven seed by the time

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Speaker 1: this thing gets wrong.

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Speaker 2: Let me just start by saying, watching the Rams game

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Speaker 2: when Davante pulled up and then remember Pooka had the

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Speaker 2: cramps at one point, and so he was I was like,

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Speaker 2: stop the games, just stop playing the games, because everybody's

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Speaker 2: getting hurt.

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Speaker 3: I hate those sequences.

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Speaker 1: It looks serious for people like he stands up very

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Speaker 1: bad and then it's like his leg gives out with

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Speaker 1: classic cramps.

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Speaker 4: But it looked worse than that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was when I was like, just maybe we

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Speaker 2: take a pause on the games today anyway. Well, I

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Speaker 2: mean the Seattle game now on Thursday night, I think

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Speaker 2: is probably Yes, I agree, it's probably the biggest Thursday

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Speaker 2: night game we've ever seen. The implications are enormous. I

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Speaker 2: am most crazy. I am fascinated to see if the Eagles,

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Speaker 2: who had the get right game we anticipated they would

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Speaker 2: have against the Raiders, right, they seem to have figured

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Speaker 2: out their offense. It looked much better. They were running

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Speaker 2: the ball, Jalen looked more comfortable running, they were doing

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Speaker 2: all the things you'd hope they would do all season.

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Speaker 2: Does that really carry over to a team that is

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Speaker 2: not the Raiders, who are just a dreadful football team

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Speaker 2: right now? I'm really interested to see if, like, did

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Speaker 2: that really flip the switch or was that just a

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Speaker 2: product of the team they were playing. And I'm also

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Speaker 2: I mean, I am like sort of fascinated in that

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Speaker 2: like watching a car wreck kind of way. The Bucks

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Speaker 2: and Panthers situation, I mean, the NFC stuff, like is

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Speaker 2: somebody going to win this division?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: What's I mean? You know the Bucks have it in

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Speaker 2: front of them. I think but can they can they

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Speaker 2: close it out there? Getting healthier, all the things we've

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Speaker 2: been waiting for. The offense is finally intact. I mean

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Speaker 2: can they Can they do it? Though? You know?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: This NFC playoff picture is kind of fun because it's

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Speaker 3: not like wild and crazy like and there's really not

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Speaker 3: a It's like Kyle Brand always talks about the come

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Speaker 3: running team like there doesn't seem to be one. It's

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Speaker 3: just like, you know, it feels like we know where

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Speaker 3: you know, we probably know five of the teams right now.

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Speaker 3: The Lions to me are like the most interesting because

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Speaker 3: if they get in and right now they're not in,

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Speaker 3: I mean nobody's in. But that's not true. The Rams

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Speaker 4: Right now they're not in.

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Speaker 3: But if they do get in, I think they would

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Speaker 3: immediately be viewed a welcome back to these studies. I'm

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Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport, like explosive, scary, nobody if you want to

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Speaker 4: That's going to be interesting.

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Speaker 3: The Packers again after losing Micah, do the Packers make

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Speaker 1: And then well if they if they beat the Bears,

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Speaker 1: not only are they up a half game, but they

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Speaker 1: have the tie breakers come in, but it's a lot harder.

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Speaker 1: The path of the Bears becomes significantly harder if you

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Speaker 1: get swept by Green Bay. The Bears also take on

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Speaker 1: week after and then they finish it home against the Lions.

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Speaker 1: So that division potentially could come all the way down

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know the last is like you know, Judy,

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Speaker 3: you said, Cark I, we're talking about the Raiders, which

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Speaker 3: is another interesting thing. But the Bucks Panthers is like

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Speaker 3: both should probably get in, Like I don't think that

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Speaker 3: they will. It seems like it should be won, but

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Speaker 3: like the Panthers have had the best season they've had

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Speaker 3: so many ways, and there's still seven and seven and

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Speaker 3: like may not get in. I don't know. Either way,

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Speaker 3: it would sort of be you know, you'd sort of

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Speaker 3: like them to earn some fruits of their labor. But

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Speaker 3: either way, things you're looking.

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Speaker 4: Up for Carolina.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers are still a confounding team. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the best wins and the worst losses.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Packers in Green Bay, they beat the

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a fair case, all right, set the

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Speaker 1: records aside. If this were if we were the college

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Speaker 1: football playoff Committee, and it didn't matter how many games

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Speaker 1: you win, it's all about like.

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Speaker 4: Who do we like? Like that, that'd be great.

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Speaker 1: I kind of be scared of the Saints right now

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Speaker 1: if we're talking any team in that division. They just

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Speaker 1: beat the Bucks in the pay Anthers in consecutive weeks.

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Speaker 1: They swept the Panthers as much as you know, we

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Speaker 1: you know, I know post its on on social media

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Speaker 1: and you did too last night. It's like, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: great to get a draft pick. We all want our

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Speaker 1: a hard season, judy for any of these teams. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, Okay, the Raiders might end up with the

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Speaker 1: number one pick. The Raiders are historically bad. They had

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Speaker 1: is virtually impossible in the modern NFL. Great, you might

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Speaker 1: Nando Mendoza or whoever it is, like, what what are

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Speaker 1: this point, But at least you can see the building

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Speaker 1: blocks of the direction that the Saints are going. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the Raiders are in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I've got a pretty good idea what the Saints are.

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Speaker 1: And as much as maybe they're not winning the Super

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Speaker 2: In that group, well, there's no question you feel much

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Speaker 2: better about the Saints. They may have the quarterback like

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Speaker 2: he's he's done. Okay, the last few weeks Kellen Moore

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Speaker 2: a lot better about the same The Raiders are like his.

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Speaker 2: Remember I mean the Browns team that went winless, Like

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Speaker 2: you watch the Raiders and you're like, is this one

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Speaker 2: that's exactly what I thought.

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Speaker 1: That one still the weirdest game of the season. And

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Speaker 1: then they beat the Titans, who also are in contention

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Speaker 1: for the worst team in the NFL. They've lost every

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Speaker 1: other game. There's no way you expected that.

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Speaker 2: And they're losing by big margins, like you're right there.

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Speaker 2: It's like they are really bad. And we talk about

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Speaker 2: the entire thing needs to be blown up, like the building,

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Speaker 2: like everything you almost have to you feel like you

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Speaker 2: have to tear it down to the studs. And who's

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Speaker 2: making the decisions. I saw somebody I can't remember who suggested,

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Speaker 2: like tom Brady needs to take over, you know, football operations.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, all of respect to Tom Brady, loves Tom Brady,

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Speaker 2: but do we have any idea of Tom Brady would

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Speaker 1: Did it last year. He presided over the coaching search

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Speaker 1: was not a fan of Sam Donald.

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Speaker 2: Was not a big fan of Sam Donald made this,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the idea of putting it all in Tom.

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Speaker 2: First of all, it couldn't happen because of his broadcasting

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Speaker 4: Huh, that's nothing Tom's defense. It's hard to do this

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Speaker 2: It's really hard. But I mean the first big decision

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Speaker 2: obviously has to be like, is Pete Carroll staying? I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's been a disaster with Pete Carroll as the head coach.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, I don't really know where they go, and

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Speaker 2: I feel bad for Ridder's fence.

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Speaker 1: One other team that's at the bottomy end of the

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Speaker 1: of those playoff standings right now is still technically alive,

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Speaker 1: but it's a really, really uphill battle.

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Speaker 4: We're in like that one percent range.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys take a loss last night, and I know

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Speaker 1: that there have been various points, right I've seen it.

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Speaker 1: Talk about a good morning football. Obviously, you talked about

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Speaker 1: been the definition of the Cowboys season. Which is every

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Speaker 1: like last night. You know, the Vikings played well offensively,

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Speaker 1: but the Cowboys defense that's had all this investment and

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Speaker 1: all this positivity, they give um some big plays to

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Speaker 4: It's just kind of Dallas's season in a nutshell right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I sort of personally like I thought they'd be better.

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Speaker 3: I had sort of higher hopes. The offense is really good.

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Speaker 3: I was like, well, the defense can kind of just

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Speaker 4: I thought Matt.

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Speaker 3: Eberfush was going to be a really good hire, and

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Speaker 1: We talked about some of the bad teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: We had a long way to go in this process.

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Speaker 1: Much as nobody's trying to lose these games. There's no

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Speaker 4: By having that pick.

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Speaker 3: And if you want to trade out, you can trade

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Speaker 3: that's how you rebuild. You get someone is going to

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Speaker 1: Simpson'll be in the conversation through the process, the Oregon Kid,

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Speaker 4: I get it, a lot of guys are going to

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Speaker 1: But that's also part of the reason we've got the

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Speaker 2: People need Fernando Mendoza. So it's going to be right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Jets could sure use for Nando Mendoza,

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Speaker 2: that would mean that, first of all, that the Giants

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Speaker 3: Game is Lumen large. It is a game you should tank,

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Speaker 4: Can you bad enough to lose to the Raiders? Well,

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Speaker 1: The other piece of it, though, too, is there have

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Speaker 1: But you don't have this breadth of options, at least

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Speaker 1: everybody's competing Judy every week, in the back of some

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Speaker 2: There's no question. We go through this all the time.

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Speaker 2: Don't right. Teams don't tank, players don't tank, Coaches don't tank. Organizations.

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Speaker 2: People in the offices certainly at least think about like, ooh,

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Speaker 3: They don't tank, but might they play their young guys

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Speaker 1: Maybe let me ask you this hypothetical question, Judy. This

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Speaker 4: And everything he brings. Let's see you end up at

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, in San Jose, live Insiders shows the entire week.

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Speaker 1: All right, a lot of fun to come here, including

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: For Ian Judy, I'm tom see you next time.