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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where neither snow, nor rain, nor

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Speaker 1: us from getting our picks. And yes, we are back.

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Speaker 1: I'm in my somewhat smoky garage. I admit, got to

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Speaker 1: get back inside. And Cynthia Friedland is down the coast

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Speaker 1: a little bit. How are you doing this week, Cynthia.

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Speaker 2: I am in better shape than you. We're a little

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Speaker 2: further it seemed like further south was better. So we're

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Speaker 2: good here. We're just the puppies and I are hanging

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Speaker 2: out making sure that they stay. I'm like really psycho

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're fine. That's the thing. We're close and we're

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Speaker 1: right there. But it's also so crazy to be like

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Speaker 1: If you just don't look, if you look two degrees

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Speaker 1: to see both of that and then to drive into

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Speaker 1: just start feeling for everyone out there. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: mentioned on the preview show with Patrick Claybond that the

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Speaker 1: NFL is encouraging people to donate to Redcross dot org

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Speaker 1: slash NFL, so just mentioning that again, and I mentioned

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Speaker 1: personally Meals on Wheels West does a lot of great

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Speaker 2: Have not been to Costco in Southern California and in

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Speaker 2: But I'm also like a big pet fan, so I

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of like a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of pets that are displaced as well, So in addition

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Speaker 1: Yes, your beautiful dog. And and we've got Nori in

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Speaker 1: be saying, like, why are you doing a podcast? Look,

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Speaker 1: we've got the whole rest of the day. I've got

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Speaker 1: good distraction a little bit for a few hours, as

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Speaker 1: And by the way, before I get further in the show,

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Speaker 1: recap show live with Bill Barnwell on YouTube. So I

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Speaker 1: I'm here, yeah, you know, like and subscribe it there

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Speaker 1: and you can support us there in Cynthia's YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: as well numbers game and just just check her out

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Speaker 1: as well. So all that out of the way, get

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Speaker 1: into our picks. We did not have a good Week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Let's just ignore it. We literally didn't win a game.

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen got us with all the sitting starters and

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to start down in I guess

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Speaker 2: it's Sunday night, and down in Tampa. I think that

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Speaker 2: I don't look at anything, and I'm like, I feel

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Speaker 1: I'm joining you. I had a feeling both of us

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Speaker 3: Gonna go this one like the points make me like

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Speaker 2: I have Houston at home upsetting the Chargers. The Chargers

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Speaker 3: Number one, the.

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Speaker 2: Injury report for the Chargers includes both of their starting

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Speaker 2: But I think that if you're especially for giving me

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going against each other here. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: keep repeating myself. Ultimately, I lean Chargers. In a week

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, look, I was gut wise. I was

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Speaker 1: They have great players, a great team, like they're they're

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Speaker 2: I want to say that I want to take Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: I think I think we could make our picks assuming

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Speaker 1: It's up to you. We could we could both put

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Speaker 1: I don't love it that much more. But this is

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Speaker 2: I look, I'm gonna tell you the numbers. Say right now,

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Speaker 2: I technically like the Rams plus one and a half,

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Speaker 1: Well, that's not much. Do you want to just go

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Speaker 3: And all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with I'm going to go

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Speaker 2: with the Eagles to cover four and a half points,

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Speaker 2: I think four and a half points is a manageable

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Speaker 2: number for a team that has this defense. Because for me,

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Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs is the key that makes this offense work

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Speaker 2: He has the most yards, the most yards after contact,

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Speaker 2: So getting the outside run going, and like that's Zach

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Speaker 2: going to be very hard for the Packers to sustain english,

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Speaker 2: now been great against the Blitz. Why because he's been

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Speaker 2: no reason. This is a team that's so pot committed

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Speaker 2: like massive numbers. So you mess with with Josh Jacob's

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Speaker 2: ability to be efficient forecasts for a hard game for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't talk about that much on the previous show,

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Speaker 1: And yes, in this game, the Eagles defense and that

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Speaker 1: We are together on two and we're opposite on one,

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Speaker 3: He should be. I think I have a Bobby Lane

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they absolutely should be there. They just have so

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that if the Lions are fully staffed.

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Speaker 3: Feeling pretty good about it right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had. I had Bill's Lions, and I had

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if I'm gonna pick the Eagles

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we didn't have game debut this week. Do

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Speaker 3: You got to pick something else.

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Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, wear this.

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Speaker 3: One with me if you like.

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Speaker 2: And it is cam Akers to have more than twenty

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Speaker 3: I love a good narrative thing.

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Speaker 2: That matches my math, So like anger alongside revenge alongside

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Speaker 1: And he's been running really well lately. He passes the

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Speaker 2: I want to see like the like is George Pickens

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Speaker 1: got difficult with the game debut schedule to do it live.

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Speaker 1: So I really appreciate everyone who has supported the show

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Speaker 1: all season long. Let's let's let's get the community going

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Speaker 1: show up Saturday night. We'll go live on YouTube probably

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Speaker 1: about ten minutes after the game with one of the

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Speaker 1: best in the business, Bill Barnwell, talking about two big

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Speaker 1: AFC games, so I'm really looking forward to that. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to check out Numbers game on your YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: in the new time. Thank you, Cynthia. Yes, when we

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Speaker 1: take the super out of Super Wildcard weekend, you can't

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Speaker 1: say Super anymore. It is just Wildcard weekend. That is

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Speaker 1: when you know football is back and you'll see Za