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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Friday, November thirtieth edition of

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Speaker 1: Between the Horns. Miles Simmons here to give you the

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Speaker 1: top storylines from the practice week as the LA Rams

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Speaker 1: prepared to play the Detroit Lions. And there are a

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Speaker 1: few significant stories this week, including the potential return of

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Speaker 1: cornerback a Keebe to leave. The Rams have already designated

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Speaker 1: to leave to return off of injured reserve, and he

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Speaker 1: is back at practice. However, as of this recording, he

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Speaker 1: has not quite yet been activated to that fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster. That being said, head coach Sean McVay seemed

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Speaker 1: pretty optimistic on Thursday when discussing to leaves potential availability

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Speaker 1: for Sunday's game in Detroit. Yeah. I think the anticipation

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Speaker 1: is we'd like that to be able to happen. You know,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean in terms of snap count, what

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Speaker 1: exactly that role is? You know, really it is something

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Speaker 1: that we're going to continue evaluate based on the way

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Speaker 1: that his ankle responds. If things go the way that

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Speaker 1: we anticipate, we hope and what we expect, and then

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Speaker 1: I think you can expect to see him playing. How

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Speaker 1: much we'll be determined as the week progresses. With the

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Speaker 1: rain in the LA area on Thursday, los Angeles actually

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Speaker 1: had to alter its weekly schedule of bits, so the

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Speaker 1: RNs had the most strenuous practice of the week on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday instead of Thursday as they usually do it. So

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Speaker 1: that actually allowed Los Angeles to gauge to leeds ankle

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Speaker 1: and how it would respond earlier in the week. According

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Speaker 1: to McVeigh, till he got through Wednesday's practice pretty well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he did a good job. You know, he did a

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Speaker 1: nice job. I think he got more and more comfortable

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Speaker 1: as the practice progress which was a positive thing. Where

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Speaker 1: you know, typically wonder do you actually feel like it

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Speaker 1: starts to bother you as it progresses, and it was

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Speaker 1: the exact opposite. So, you know, he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: he's played a lot of football. He's got such a

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Speaker 1: good field, but his presence out there is such a

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Speaker 1: big boost to our football team. As far as what

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Speaker 1: that means for his role this weekend, we're figuring that out,

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Speaker 1: you know, as the week progresses, But it was definitely

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Speaker 1: only a very good step in the right direction with

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Speaker 1: the way yesterday went. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips has a

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Speaker 1: lot of familiarity with to leave given their history together

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Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl in Denver, and Phillips said that

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Speaker 1: one of the best parts about the corner is how

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Speaker 1: upfront he is about how he's feeling. That gives Phillips

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the staff a sense of trust.

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Speaker 1: He's a veteran player that I trust that would say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm hurting or I'm not I can play or I

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Speaker 1: can't play. So you know, I think we'll just see

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Speaker 1: what happens the rest of the week and see where

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Speaker 1: he is. But but he'll give you an honest You

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Speaker 1: know some players, you know, I'm gonna play, but I'm

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Speaker 1: hurt a little bit, And you know he's he knows

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Speaker 1: he needs to be one hundred one hundred percent healthy

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Speaker 1: to be able to play. So that's a good good

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Speaker 1: thing with him. So what will to Lee bring when

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Speaker 1: he's back on the field to leave himself? Address that

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Speaker 1: on Monday? Just sharping up our communication a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think we get our communication in order to we

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Speaker 1: eliminate two or three big players a game, and it's

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Speaker 1: that much better on defense when it comes to is

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Speaker 1: teammates safety John Johnson and cornerback Nakel Ruby Coleman both

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Speaker 1: talked about how to leave is a calming presence, not

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Speaker 1: just for the secondary but also for the entire team. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think he'll just put everyone at ease. He brings

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Speaker 1: that swag to him, he brings that knowledge of the

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Speaker 1: game to him. You know, we came in with him,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like we've been missing something and

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Speaker 1: him coming back and just just be like a security

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Speaker 1: listening to a veteran call some called things out watch

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Speaker 1: out for this, watch out for that. So he's real

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Speaker 1: good at things like that, recognizing situations and learning how

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Speaker 1: to master those situations. So having him back out on

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Speaker 1: the field, it'll kind of like settle down the young

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Speaker 1: guys that's in the back end, and now we can

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Speaker 1: just really you know, feel more confident and playing you know,

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Speaker 1: When we got him back, it's like all our confidence

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Speaker 1: the second key storyline of the week. Donikan Sues returned

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Speaker 1: to Detroit. The defensive Lineman played the first five years

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Here he is being asked specifically about that.

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Speaker 1: I'll refrain from my comments about the organization. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: the city is an amazing city, great people there. I

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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing a bunch of people. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: we're going in on a Friday, so I have some

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Speaker 1: time to catch up with folks, But refrain from the organization,

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Speaker 1: say a week, all right. He then Sue also called

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Speaker 1: way of getting to where we want to go. So

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Speaker 1: Sue didn't have time for flowery platitudes about his former team.

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Speaker 1: That's all well and good. However, he did actually admit

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Speaker 1: that putting a championship on his resume was a significant

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Speaker 1: factor that attracted him to LA in free agency. I

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Speaker 1: think everybody wants a Super Bowl from and obviously I

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Speaker 1: have been very very blessed to have individual accolades as

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Speaker 1: well as some team mccolades always result back to the

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen team that I was within Detroit. Amazing year,

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Speaker 1: amazing coach that I had there. In turn, call well,

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Speaker 1: do some special things, broke some records. So I think

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Speaker 1: the next steps is continue to go further in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and hopefully get a championship. And finally, the Rams

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Speaker 1: have a chance to clinch the NFC West this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That'll happen with a win against Detroit or a Seattle

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Speaker 1: loss to San Francisco. But given that the Rams can

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Speaker 1: control their own fate in this it's something that they

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Speaker 1: have brought up internally this week. As Sean mcvayh likes

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Speaker 1: to say, it's not something they're shying away from. Here's

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff and to kill Robie Coleman. We've given ourselves

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Speaker 1: this opportunity. We've we've learned this opportunity, we've worked for it,

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Speaker 1: We've won the games to put ourselves in this opportunity.

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Speaker 1: So go take advantage of it and go have fun

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Speaker 1: and then go, you know, to see some moment and

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Speaker 1: this is these are the games that you know, truly

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Speaker 1: can you know, make things happen and we know that,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know it's not going to change anything

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Speaker 1: we do throughout the week, but definitely gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: make it a little bit sweeter when when you win

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, hopefully that is this week. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're a tough team and we've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: but you know, hopefully at the end of the day

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Speaker 1: we can do that. It's definitely been on the top

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Speaker 1: of our to do list. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: goals that we've been trying to accomplish this whole season. Um,

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Speaker 1: the fact that it came at week thirteen is a

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Speaker 1: good day. Um. We control our destiny, so uh, coming

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Speaker 1: out here being the teams were supposed to be. That's

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Speaker 1: that's that's vital. That'll do it. For this Friday, November

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Speaker 1: thirtieth edition of Between the Horns, I'm Miles Simmons and

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Speaker 1: thanks everybody for listening. For all the latest RAMS news

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Speaker 1: Tomarco far and I will see you for RAMS pregame

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Speaker 1: kick off at Ford Field in Detroit scheduled for ten

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Speaker 1: a great one, everybody,