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Speaker 1: tomorrow day, Monday, and how about last night in the

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Speaker 3: Was this the game of the year.

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Speaker 1: Good suggested the Zach word pass tie game. We are

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Speaker 1: But again, these are the new rules. This Seahawks get

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Speaker 2: What a great call, What a great execution.

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Speaker 1: You what a great crowd, everybody thrilled that the Seahawks

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Speaker 2: About this one.

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Speaker 1: What a game, Ian, you came into this talking about

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Speaker 6: He is a young guy that is continuing to learn

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Speaker 1: And frankly, the temperature is going to be above freezing

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Speaker 9: touchdowns they both had. One of those guys leads all

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Speaker 9: rookie receivers and yards. The other guy leads all rookie

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Speaker 9: receivers and receptions. Really cool stat Ben McWilliams found for

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Speaker 9: us in research shape. It's just the second season in

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Speaker 9: NFL history that multiple rookie first round receivers have more

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Speaker 9: than eight hundred receiving yards and six touchdowns through fifteen weeks.

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Speaker 9: The other instance it happened and involved two guys from

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Speaker 9: these two teams, it would be twenty fourteen Mike Elp

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Speaker 9: Evans and Caroline is Kelvin Benjamin and then you can

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Speaker 9: also throw in another guy that was doing it that year,

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Speaker 9: and that was Odell Beckham junior, all in their rookie season.

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Speaker 9: So it's been a long time since we've seen two

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Speaker 9: guys do that. Now they're going to go both be

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Speaker 9: going at it on Sunday. McMillan is a guy that

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Speaker 9: started so strong, and Bryce sid He especially is going

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Speaker 9: to continue to be special. But Jalen Coker's gotten it

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Speaker 9: going for the Panthers lately, and Dave Canal has told

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Speaker 9: me today that Cocer reminds him a lot of Chris Godwin. Again,

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Speaker 9: I say all of this ian to say the focus

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Speaker 9: will likely be on Mike Evans, though when all is

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Speaker 9: said and done here corner Mike Jackson said, you can't

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Speaker 9: get caught up in Evan's stats. The big name said

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Speaker 9: when he goes out there, he's just thirteen. But I

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Speaker 9: think everyone understands Ian he's not just thirteen. He's number

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Speaker 9: one on this Bucks team and a guy that is

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Speaker 9: bound for Campton when all is said and done, and

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Speaker 9: they are so happy to have him back right now.

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Speaker 4: Oh, did you mention hall of Fames? Well, that's certainly interesting.

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Speaker 4: So in the business we call out a setop. This

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Speaker 4: is my segue. Congratulations our good friend Sarah Wallas to

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Speaker 4: the un F Hall of Fame for your exploits in

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Speaker 4: the women's soccer world.

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Speaker 2: That's a great picture. Congratulations to you.

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Speaker 4: We spent so much time talking about our good friend

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Speaker 4: Stacy Dale's getting into her halls of fame. You get

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Speaker 4: your shine as well. Congratulations. Would you like to thank

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Speaker 4: maybe the little people who helped you in this journey.

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Speaker 9: First of all, I had no idea you guys were

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Speaker 9: doing that, so I did not mean to see you.

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Speaker 9: It looks like I sort of threw up my own

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Speaker 9: segue there and it makes me look bad. And yeah,

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Speaker 9: the only thing I would say is I am just

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Speaker 9: always trying to keep up with Stacy Dale's and that

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Speaker 9: is also a losing battle.

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Speaker 8: So you know what, you do what you can. But yeah,

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Speaker 8: it's very nice of a University of North Florida. My

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Speaker 8: ospreys swoop.

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Speaker 9: They did, by the way, they did ask me about

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Speaker 9: going to this induction ceremony. And it's going to be

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Speaker 9: in the middle of the playoffs, and U and F

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Speaker 9: is in Jacksonville, and I said, you guys better keep

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Speaker 9: your fingers crossed at the Jaguars are hosting a playoff

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Speaker 9: game in late January, because that's what would get me there.

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Speaker 4: Not impossible, a lot of good football left to decide

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Speaker 4: whether or not you get to go to your own

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Speaker 4: Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Sarah, thank you very much,

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Speaker 4: great stuff as always, looking forward to talking to you

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Speaker 4: very soon. Looking forward to seeing what this guy as

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Speaker 4: in store for us for his encore. Philip Rivers one

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Speaker 4: of the biggest stories in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: What does he have for us?

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Speaker 4: On Monday Night, We're gonna get into it with our

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Speaker 4: friend Omar Ruiz coming up next on The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Got to hear Steve Rabeles call for Seahawks radio. He

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Speaker 1: was like, touchdown two point of, I don't care whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. The Seahawks win. It was great and the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks are now in the number one seed in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: I was messing with some stuff today to see how

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Speaker 1: I could get the forty nine ers up there. If

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners win their next two games and Seattle

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Speaker 1: loses the Carolina in Carolina, which is not crazy because

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Speaker 1: they beat the Rams, the Niners could be up into

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Speaker 1: the one seed.

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Speaker 2: And we're talking Niners right now.

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Speaker 1: How about that Omar in that convenient So yes, how

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Speaker 1: important is this game for the Niners Monday?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers played his first game already against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: But now it's a home game. Now it's Monday night

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Speaker 1: football juice crowd gonna be a different environment.

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Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 5: They have that number one seed in their site, Smike,

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Speaker 5: and I think they have the number one seed in

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Speaker 5: their grass and control their destiny. Now with that Seahawks

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Speaker 5: win over the Rams, if they close out with three

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Speaker 5: straight wins, including a Week eighteen finale against Seattle, they'd

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Speaker 5: be the number one seed. And the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 5: are very aware of the talking in years past with

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Speaker 5: George Kittle and Kyle Yuschek, guys who have been there,

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Speaker 5: the whole Kyle Shanahan era. They are very aware that

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Speaker 5: like in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three, when they

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Speaker 5: have been the number one seed, they've gone to the

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Speaker 5: super Bowl. So last night Kendrick Bourne was telling me

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Speaker 5: that the guys in the locker room we're talking about

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Speaker 5: where we watching the game the rams Seahawks was very

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Speaker 5: important for them and it broke their way. Defensive coordinator

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Speaker 5: Robert Saala saying today that it's okay to have that

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Speaker 5: carrot dangling in front of them as long as they

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Speaker 5: have the focus to rain back in on what's in

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Speaker 5: front of them, and that right now is the Indianapolis

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Speaker 5: Colts on Monday night, and speaking with Bourne, he feels

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Speaker 5: that this team's football is the best is still in

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Speaker 5: front of them. Brock Purty obviously they've won four since

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Speaker 5: he returned, but he can still elevate as they continue

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Speaker 5: down the stretch here, someone like Bourne, who's hardly played

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Speaker 5: with Brock Prudy, can still develop that chemistry. So they

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Speaker 5: feel that they can take it to another level as

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Speaker 5: they head into the postseason and their best football still

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Speaker 5: in front of the.

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Speaker 1: Mike Omar I've had this conversation with people around the

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Speaker 1: league and some of them are saying I'm nuts. But

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Speaker 1: to me, Kyle Shadahan right now is the coach of

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Speaker 1: the year. Now, we got a couple of games to

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Speaker 1: play it out to see how it goes. We shall

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Speaker 1: see all right to the AFC we go. Stay with us, Omar,

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Speaker 1: because you're covering this game at forty nine ers Colts.

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Speaker 2: You see where the Colts are right there.

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Speaker 1: Got to go on a bit of a run here

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Speaker 1: and again I feel bad because somebody's gonna miss the

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Speaker 1: playoffs frankly at both conferences with a good record.

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Speaker 2: But there you see it right there.

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Speaker 1: So the Colts their playoff chances being in front of

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Speaker 1: them with Philip Rivers, they took the chance. You'll want

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Speaker 1: to see it payoff, particularly if you're somebody who lives

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis and roots for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: So what's your sense of where they are right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Colts looking forward to this game, the electric

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Speaker 5: atmosphere you mentioned Monday night football, Philhlip Rivers playing at

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Speaker 5: home for the first time in this miraculous comeback. The

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Speaker 5: Colts saying that they are inspired, they are motivated, just

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Speaker 5: getting all that extra juice from Philip Rivers in his return,

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Speaker 5: Rivers saying that he wasn't as sore as he thought

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Speaker 5: he would be on Monday when he woke up after

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Speaker 5: that game in Seattle. He's looking forward to a better

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Speaker 5: performance both head coach Shane Steichen and offensive coordinator Jim

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Speaker 5: bob Cooter saying the fact that they didn't push the

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Speaker 5: ball down the field against the Seahawks was not an

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Speaker 5: indication that Philip Rivers couldn't do it. It was just part

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Speaker 5: of the game plan. So look for them to possibly

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Speaker 5: stretch the field more against the forty nine ers and

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Speaker 5: look to play their way into the playoffs by winning

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Speaker 5: some of these last three games here to close out

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Speaker 5: this season.

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Speaker 1: Mike I talked earlier in the show about playing in

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Speaker 1: Lumenfield and when you're the offense, you got to deal

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Speaker 1: with the noise. You're playing your first game in five years,

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Speaker 1: like you just want to sort of keep it simple

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Speaker 1: if you can, maybe rely on your defense in your

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Speaker 1: running game. But yeah, I do expect in this one

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Speaker 1: they're going to open it up a lot more at

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Speaker 1: home again with that energy on their side. Omar Safe

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Speaker 1: travels to that game and I'm looking forward to your

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Speaker 1: reporting there.

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Speaker 4: Ian well, it's cool the teams have something to play for.

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Speaker 4: My fantasy team doesn't welcome inside Fantasy Insiders and Adam Rank. Sorry,

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Speaker 4: so welcome inside to Fantasy Live. We're the insiders.

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Speaker 2: Adam Rank. My fantasy team is terrible. It sucks. I'm

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Speaker 2: really upset about it.

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Speaker 4: I actually blame my players to be totally honest rather

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Speaker 4: than show me. But for those people who have something

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Speaker 4: to play for, here's what I want you to do.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about an injury situation. What I

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Speaker 4: want you to do is tell us how to manage it.

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Speaker 4: And now we'll start off with probably the biggest Patrick

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Speaker 4: Mahomes is out for this season.

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Speaker 2: How does one navigate this situation?

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Speaker 10: This is really tough because all your available options like

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Speaker 10: Jacoby Brissett.

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Speaker 2: Likely gone.

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Speaker 10: But one player I really like is JJ McCarthy, who

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Speaker 10: is going up against the New York Giants this week.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 10: JJ McCarthy has scored at least twenty Fantasy points in

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Speaker 10: back to back games, and he's going up against a

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Speaker 10: Giants team that has allowed four rushing touchdowns of quarterbacks

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Speaker 10: this season. I don't know if he's going to be

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Speaker 10: allowed to gritty into the end zone, but They've also

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Speaker 10: allowed the second most fantasy points per game two quarterbacks

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Speaker 10: this year.

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Speaker 2: So if you had Patrick Mahomes, you're scrambling for.

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Speaker 10: A quarterback right now, I would recommend you go out

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Speaker 10: there and pick up JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: All right, how about this one? The Bears are going

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Speaker 2: to be that two key receivers Roma Dunze Luther Burden.

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Speaker 2: How are we dealing with that? Well?

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Speaker 10: I mean, obviously DJ Moore would be the ideal situation,

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Speaker 10: but he's probably long gone. But in terms of pass catchers,

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Speaker 10: I love Colston Lovelin. Over the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 10: he's really come on and he has had at least

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Speaker 10: five targets in four consecutive games, and the Packers have

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Speaker 10: allowed eight touchdown passes in the last three weeks, which

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Speaker 10: is tight for the most Into the NFL, there's going

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Speaker 10: to be a lot of opportunities. We see the way

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Speaker 10: they use the play action, so Colston Lovelin could be

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Speaker 10: a huge option. But if you're playing in a DFS,

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Speaker 10: you're playing in an extremely de league. Today, Walker or

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Speaker 10: Jday Jordan is a guy that's keep an eye on.

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Speaker 2: I will keep an eye on that one.

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Speaker 4: How about this one, Josh Jacobs questionable stell knee ankle.

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Speaker 10: What's your deal their rank? Well, you got to make

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Speaker 10: sure you just go out and get the backup. You

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Speaker 10: want to go out there and get Emmanuel Wilson, who

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Speaker 10: has shown that when he's given the opportunity to go

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Speaker 10: out there and play in replacement of Josh Jacobs, that

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Speaker 10: he can go out there and do pretty well. But

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Speaker 10: we saw last week Josh Jacobs was able to fight

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Speaker 10: through an injury, not only run the ball effectively head

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Speaker 10: one of the.

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Speaker 2: Best catches so far this season.

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Speaker 10: So just make sure Emmanuel Wilson is on your lineup

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Speaker 10: or in your roster.

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Speaker 4: If you've got Josh Jacobs, good warm up act. We

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Speaker 4: will see you later. Don't go anywhere, stay in that

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Speaker 4: seat right there. We're coming back to you on the Insiders.

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Speaker 4: One of the most prestigious honors there is in the

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Speaker 4: NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year. The club winner

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Speaker 4: for the Detroit Lions is DJ Reider, a stud on

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Speaker 4: the field and a stud off the field, which we

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Speaker 4: are going to learn about right now. Welcome inside with

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Speaker 4: the Insiders, DJ Reader joining me Ian.

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Speaker 2: Rapaport and Mike Garyffolo. DJ thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 4: We want to tell the people a little bit about

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Speaker 4: what you have done to earn your second Club Winner nomination.

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Speaker 4: A Sun Never Forgets Foundation is yours to support health

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Speaker 4: and wellness to communities that need the help. You offer

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Speaker 4: free health screenings and six public reading rooms in North

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Speaker 4: Carolina and in Cincinnati, where you played before joining Detroit.

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Speaker 4: You're also a supporter for the National Kidney Foundation. And

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Speaker 4: I guess my question DJ for you is this, Obviously

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Speaker 4: on the field, you are a beast. How have you

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Speaker 4: managed all that you do, all what you do on

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Speaker 4: the field with all of the what you do off

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Speaker 4: the field as well?

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Speaker 11: Thank you all for having me. But I'll probably say

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Speaker 11: just my parents when I was younger, my parents are

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Speaker 11: really honored about getting service done. My mom worked at

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Speaker 11: American Express for thirty eight years, so she was there

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Speaker 11: from the time I was little until obviously she just

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Speaker 11: retired a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of years ago.

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Speaker 11: And I remember the most impactful thing they always did

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Speaker 11: was they always had like.

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Speaker 3: A community day.

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Speaker 2: And my dad was a teacher.

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Speaker 11: My brother is a teacher, so we've always just done

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Speaker 11: work and it's always been education base. And then a

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Speaker 11: lot of dudes, like the kids So first couple of

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Speaker 11: years we did a lot of stuff with the National

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Speaker 11: Kidney Foundation after my father passed them for kidney failure.

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Speaker 11: But then these last couple of years we've really partnered

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Speaker 11: with some group, started the resource rooms. We give our

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Speaker 11: scholarships as you can see in that photo back home

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Speaker 11: during our annual gala. We do every year a Toasted

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Speaker 11: Education gala. But it's just always been about the work.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 11: My dad used to say, a son never forgets to

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Speaker 11: me when I was a kid, and he didn't just

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Speaker 11: mean to be his They meant just genuinely to be

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Speaker 11: a son of the community that you were involved with,

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Speaker 11: people who supported you all the work that you've put

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Speaker 11: in and people that put in work with you. Make

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Speaker 11: sure you pay it back and you know, make sure

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Speaker 11: you do a good job of sending the community in

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Speaker 11: a better place than which you founded. So I've always

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Speaker 11: tried to do that.

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Speaker 2: That's great, man.

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Speaker 1: You're from North Carolina, you're drafted by the Texans. You

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Speaker 1: go to Cincinnati, you go to Detroit, you do the

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Speaker 1: community work all I mean, how do you arrange it?

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Speaker 1: You get to Detroit and it's like, okay, now we

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Speaker 1: got to set it up here how do you get

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Speaker 1: it up and running that quickly, knowing that you've had

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Speaker 1: some other stuff else where?

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Speaker 2: Do you keep it going elsewhere as well?

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Speaker 11: Keep it going elsewhere as well. We're in all the

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Speaker 11: resource rooms we've been in, we're still there. So the

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Speaker 11: ones back home in Greensboro, the work we've done in Houston,

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Speaker 11: we still have the ones in Cincinnati. And my team

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Speaker 11: does a good job. It's led by my mom. She's

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Speaker 11: not going to take no finanswers. So even in the

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Speaker 11: days I don't necessarily feel like doing the work, my mom,

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Speaker 11: my brother and the team we have around us are

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Speaker 11: always there to make sure that, you know, I get

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Speaker 11: up and my mom's going to remind me about her.

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Speaker 11: She's not going for DJ saying I don't got time,

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Speaker 11: I don't got this.

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Speaker 2: She's like, what do you got?

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Speaker 11: You got ten minutes, you got twenty minutes and ten

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Speaker 11: turns the thirty thirty times an hour, and next thing

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Speaker 11: you know, we're out there. We're three four hours in.

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Speaker 11: And you know, when you're younger, you don't think much

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Speaker 11: about it. As you get older, and you know, I

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Speaker 11: got a son of my own, and you see how

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Speaker 11: much it feels your personal cup and it just helps.

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Speaker 11: You know, how many kids I've had that have been

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Speaker 11: coming to my camp since they were eleving and now

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Speaker 11: they're graduating high school, going off to college and coming

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Speaker 11: back and volunteer and helping with my camp.

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Speaker 2: It just helps a lot.

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Speaker 11: We've partner with a group Team Smile, and I didn't

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Speaker 11: know how many people weren't going to the dentist and

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Speaker 11: getting their teeth clean and getting those help screen.

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Speaker 2: So it's just helped a lot. And it's just been

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Speaker 2: really really awesome.

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Speaker 4: Man. That is awesome to hear, and the fact that

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Speaker 4: it is a family affair makes it even more special.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about on the field a little

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Speaker 4: bit as well. You guys are currently eighth in the

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Speaker 4: NFC playoffs standing, which means one spot out, and I

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Speaker 4: would say basically, you got to win out to ensure

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Speaker 4: you get there. What has been Dan Campbell's message to

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Speaker 4: you guys about how to look at the next three games.

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Speaker 11: I think just that, you know, we got to win out,

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Speaker 11: but it's got to start with the first one, So

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Speaker 11: we got to win this upcoming Sunday, And I think

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Speaker 11: the message is, you know, we hear a lot of

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Speaker 11: the outside noise, we know what's going on, and we've

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Speaker 11: kind of put ourselves in this position. So we got

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Speaker 11: to go out there and make it right and get

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Speaker 11: out there Sunday and just get after it. He's he's

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Speaker 11: been telling us, you know, it's important all years. We

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Speaker 11: had a tough schedule to play some tough games and

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Speaker 11: lost in some tough battles and won some good games.

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Speaker 11: So we know how we feel about ourselves as a team.

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Speaker 11: But we got to go out there and improve to

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Speaker 11: everybody else. So we really got to go out there

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Speaker 11: and get after it and just have a good game.

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Speaker 1: This Sunday Ian mentioned it winning out that's going to

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Speaker 1: be breaking the rhythm of your season.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's been lost.

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Speaker 1: Win lost when it's been the last back to October fifth,

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Speaker 1: I think was the date. And I think it's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily a bad thing. I think at some point some

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Speaker 1: of those losses may have sunk a team and you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have bounced back. But how do you now say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: now it's time to string them together.

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Speaker 2: I think you limit the mistakes.

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Speaker 11: You know, we've we've made the mistakes in those games

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Speaker 11: that we've lost. Even coming out last week, you know,

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Speaker 11: we going in with the lead and having the ten

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Speaker 11: point lead and just kind of letting it go and dwindle.

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Speaker 11: I think we know where we've lost, so that's important

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Speaker 11: to know how we can overcome those losses and just

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Speaker 11: know there's not much room for here in this league.

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Speaker 11: You know, it's a tough league, a lot of tough teams,

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Speaker 11: a lot of teams battling, and now we're at that

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Speaker 11: point where we've put ourselves in the hold with only

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Speaker 11: people that can get us opposite us. So I think

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Speaker 11: we embraced that feeling backs against the wall a little bit,

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Speaker 11: but nothing We're built for it.

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Speaker 2: Look forward to seeing how it all shakes out. DJ.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us on the insiders.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations on this very prestigious honor off the field. Obviously

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Speaker 4: good luck around the time of the Super Bowl when

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Speaker 4: it comes to announcing the big winner, and obviously good

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Speaker 4: luck over the next three weeks on the field.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 12: I believe in fantasy football Adam Rank the Week six

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Speaker 12: the fantasy Godfather.

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Speaker 1: We come to you on the day of your or

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Speaker 1: the weekend of your fantasy semifinal match for some thoughts

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Speaker 1: on some players. This weekend in Fantasy football, we shall

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Speaker 1: start Godfather with a Mecca Abuka.

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Speaker 2: Ah, Mecca Buca. He's a good kid.

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Speaker 3: I like him.

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Speaker 10: I like him, but let him know that as I

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Speaker 10: put him on my bench. It's not personal, it's just business.

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Speaker 10: As we sit here, we look at the numbers that

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Speaker 10: Sarah Walsh put up earlier. Now those are fine numbers,

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Speaker 10: but what have you done for the family lately?

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Speaker 2: Not much.

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Speaker 13: He has scored just more than ten fantasy points once

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Speaker 13: since Week six. We can't have that kind of production

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Speaker 13: and expect to go out there and be successful in

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Speaker 13: the Fantasy football playoffs. So for this reason, in Mecca,

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Speaker 13: we like you, but you're gonna have to sit on

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Speaker 13: the bench.

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Speaker 4: I feel like the music is for like an old

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Speaker 4: school movie, but maybe I'm wrong. Godfather, what say you

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Speaker 4: about Tyler Warren? How would you like to counsel this

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Speaker 4: young man again?

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Speaker 13: I like this Tyler Warren very much. He's a good kid.

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Speaker 13: But now I have to turn my back on you. You

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Speaker 13: got me to this point, but now that time is over.

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Speaker 13: God over.

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Speaker 2: Mike.

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Speaker 10: Hey listen here, Mike arera fulla. We go back a

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Speaker 10: long way, and I know you've been blowing up my segment.

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Speaker 10: Since the days of Good Morning a Football weekend, we're

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Speaker 10: not doing that here. I just want to point out

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Speaker 10: that he is at fewer than five fantasy point.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me, it's very emotional time for me.

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Speaker 13: He's at more than five fantasy points in each of

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Speaker 13: the last two games. So now he's got the old

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Speaker 13: man Philip Rivers out there. I can't trust him. He's

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Speaker 13: gotten me to this point and I appreciate everything that

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Speaker 13: he's done for a fantasy football family.

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Speaker 10: But as I said earlier in the show, we got

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Speaker 10: to go with Colston Lovelin. He's a bigger earner now,

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Speaker 10: so that's where we got to go.

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Speaker 2: Tight end, another young tight end.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about godfather this this

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Speaker 1: brock Bowers.

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Speaker 2: He's a terrific player, but the offense, the quarterback go,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know what to do. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what to do. It's a tough situation.

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Speaker 10: If you see Brock Bowers out there, let him know

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Speaker 10: I always liked him, but it's going to be tough

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Speaker 10: to start him this week.

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Speaker 2: Now. Am I gonna sit here and put Gunner helm

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Speaker 2: in over him? I'm not. But if I have somebody

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Speaker 2: like Kyle Pitts, who's.

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Speaker 10: Gone out there and really redeemed himself over the last

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Speaker 10: few weeks.

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Speaker 2: I gotta put him in my line.

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Speaker 13: If you look at this Raiders, this Raiders team, you know,

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Speaker 13: back in the day, we used to cut off the

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Speaker 13: supply chains the people out there in the desert who

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Speaker 13: were not coming through like he did that. You didn't

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Speaker 13: even can't even trust this Raiders seem to go out

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Speaker 13: there and get seventy five yards an offense, a total offense.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how I can play him this week.

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Speaker 2: It's tough. He's a good name, he's a good boy.

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Speaker 2: I like him.

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Speaker 10: Let him know again, But I'm gonna have to look

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Speaker 10: in other directions if you can't go out there and earn.

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Speaker 10: This family's all about earning. This is not a time

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Speaker 10: for nostalgia. I've spoken my piece.

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Speaker 14: That's a good as that we were looking for them.

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Speaker 14: I remember that scene with Johnny Fontane. Anyway, would you

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Speaker 14: like to reliate the scene in the garden now, I'd

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Speaker 14: prefer we didn't, Mike Arepool. I'd prefer you just get

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Speaker 14: on the Baldi's breakdown if you could, please.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, Baldy leaps with the fishes. You're gonna make

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Speaker 2: me chalk on the gauze.

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Speaker 15: Please at the wheelhouse, why are we now showing that

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Speaker 15: dodge because we're gonna revisit this So Giants fans, if

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Speaker 15: you haven't already tuned out, feel free to turn to

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Speaker 15: tune out for the final segment.

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Speaker 2: Make it off or you can't refuse this again. It's

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Speaker 2: like the old times, Fola.

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Speaker 10: When I come back for the bump, that's when you know,

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Speaker 10: it's like doing the panel at the Tonight Show.

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Speaker 2: You've done a good job. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, I gotta get up out of here because

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Speaker 1: I gotta go cover Eagles at Commanders tomorrow. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: can clinch the NFC East with a Week sixteen win

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Speaker 1: against the Commanders, be the first repeat champions in the

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Speaker 1: NFC East since two thousand and four.

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Speaker 2: In between then and now, this happened in.

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Speaker 1: Fact, fifteen years ago to the day the Miracle at

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Speaker 1: the Metal Lands too. I covered this game. I was

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Speaker 1: on the beat covering the Giants. I cannot believe what

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Speaker 1: I saw. To the point of me at that point,

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Speaker 1: twenty one point lead for the Giants early in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I took to social media the then Twitter

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now that this game is over, here's.

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Speaker 1: Your next question, what do the Giants need to do

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Speaker 1: to clinch the NFC East?

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Speaker 2: And literally after.

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Speaker 1: I set this out, boom there goes Brent Sellick. Here

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Speaker 1: comes the comeback, and here's me saying whoop. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got crushed for this, deservedly show one of my

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Speaker 1: lessons to not really say the game is.

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Speaker 2: Over Ian until the game is over. Now, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you I've been doing my own research.

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Speaker 4: Look what I found there is the Mike Garif article back.

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Speaker 3: In the day.

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Speaker 2: I read this is what I have a team of researchers.

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Speaker 2: I read I actually got it back as you would

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Speaker 2: do the Super Bowl one. I want that. I want

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Speaker 2: that on you on the Super Bowl. Get that have

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Speaker 2: no idea