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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Fortnight is You've Got Mail? Podcast

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Speaker 1: sponsored by Manscape. Really excited this week to be joined

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Speaker 1: by for our Fox broadcaster Chris Myers, who will be

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Speaker 1: covering this forty Niners Rams game on Sunday in Week twelve,

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Speaker 1: a rematch that I know a lot of faithful are

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Speaker 1: looking forward to. First things first, Chris, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. How's everything on your end? Good here? Kan,

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Speaker 1: It's but a challenging year for everybody, for not only

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Speaker 1: the teams, but as you know, for those of us

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Speaker 1: covered the teams having to adjust in a dat but

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Speaker 1: thankful that we're getting to go to the games, uh

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Speaker 1: and and get to broadcast the games, and having covered

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners quite a bit last year on their

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl run and then a couple of times earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, looking forward to this because it's a great,

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Speaker 1: great rival regardless of where the forty Niners are in

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Speaker 1: the standings, and it's just a matter of health at

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Speaker 1: COVID as to who's going to be available. But it's

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Speaker 1: the Rams know that they're in for a battle when

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Speaker 1: they face these these forty teams that that Kyle Shannon

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Speaker 1: had his coach. Yeah, saying that you covered this team

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Speaker 1: during that Super Bowl run. You're pretty familiar. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of questions, especially fan questions about

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Speaker 1: this forty Niners team and like you said, dealing with

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Speaker 1: a number of injuries and a lot of questions surrounding COVID.

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Speaker 1: But I want to talk about you in your role

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Speaker 1: first before we jump into this game. How different has

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Speaker 1: it been for you, uh covering teams this season with

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Speaker 1: Fox amid COVID protocols and changes that we're all constantly

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Speaker 1: getting used to. It's been different in the in the

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Speaker 1: sense in a number of ways. Obviously we you know,

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Speaker 1: we missed the fans of the in the day of

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Speaker 1: the game. But even going to the game, you have

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Speaker 1: to be careful and you you stay with your mask right,

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Speaker 1: go directly into your booth instead of it of the

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Speaker 1: the field. So so some of that other information you

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Speaker 1: would gather that way is it is sacrifice. But the

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Speaker 1: teams in the league has been very helpful, cooperative with

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Speaker 1: so we feel like we're they're talking to them, and

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Speaker 1: that's the other thing you missed. Normally, you know, you

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Speaker 1: being out here in California, I'd have the chance to

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Speaker 1: go up uh you know Santa Claren much much the Niners.

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Speaker 1: So you don't have that will still allow us sometimes

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Speaker 1: And so you'll lose a little bit of that chatter

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Speaker 1: and what you gain on a Friday as the broadcast

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Speaker 1: as crew of the network game. So yes, so we're

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Speaker 1: team of the NFL and the network has has put

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Speaker 1: out for us. And we understand, you know this is

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Speaker 1: that spreads and we've had to make sacrifices again and

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Speaker 1: um that we do have NFL on on on days

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Speaker 1: Seattle forty Niner game and alwaysn't a great game for

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Speaker 1: course they had the injury to Kittle and Garoppolo, which

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Speaker 1: changed things, I guess in the in the big picture

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Speaker 1: and what is football said? You know, the NFL's the

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Speaker 1: toughest division. Wholeheartedly agree with it. I've said that a

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Speaker 1: the toughest division, at least in the NFC that I've

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Speaker 1: Everybody's remote and that's how you're speaking with the players

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Speaker 1: the NFL coordinating that so we are visually on on zoom.

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Speaker 1: In that case, it's me Greg Jennings, the former receiver

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Speaker 1: And in this case, having chatted with him and some

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Speaker 1: it's really a an important game for the forty Nights

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Speaker 1: good communication and access. But there's nothing he had to like,

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Speaker 1: he can now use that against me fastward now becoming

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not going to get back to

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Speaker 1: always rooting for overtime. Yeah, we don't have to miss

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Speaker 1: let's start just looking at these last ten weeks eleven

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Speaker 1: the season. Well, I think it's really one of the

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Speaker 1: your get tough and physical philosophy, and if we have

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Speaker 1: work hard on Shanahan, that offensive coaching staff do uh,

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Speaker 1: They moved on from Wade Phillips where they gave up

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Speaker 1: Nan took advantage of that last year. So if we

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Speaker 1: up the fewer the fewer points, think Pittsburgh's number one.

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Speaker 1: But offensively, you know, I think people I didn't think

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Speaker 1: you know he was trying to play hurt or whatever

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Speaker 1: he was trying to do. It really affected the Rams

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Speaker 1: last year. So they drafted Darryl Henderson, the issiar cam

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Speaker 1: Is and they still have Malcolm Brown and so they're

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Speaker 1: using kind of a three pronged attack and they're all

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Speaker 1: averaging over four yards and carry so and they may

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's why they were overlooked. But

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Speaker 1: the you know shop, they's using them very well, shaping

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Speaker 1: the obviously knows Kyle Shanahan similar offensive philosophy is coming

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Speaker 1: and then the week before Russell Wilson or at least

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Speaker 1: of the least. So that's what I mean about for

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Speaker 1: them of winness game, run the ball, don't turn it over.

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Speaker 1: I know this is basic stuff, but their defense has

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Speaker 1: to play stronger against this Ram offense so the RAM

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Speaker 1: offense doesn't explode and put up thirty points. All right, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you slightly on the spot here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: is there a matchup on Sunday that you are eyeing

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Speaker 1: most when it comes to this divisional game against the

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Speaker 1: Rams are looking for Yeah, that's a good question. I

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Speaker 1: just in terms of uh, with our analysts will go

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Speaker 1: over obviously, you know cal Shanahan calling a play is

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Speaker 1: going to be aware of you mentioned where is right?

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Speaker 1: We do they want to run at him? And if

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Speaker 1: they do, then they better have a double team, triple team,

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Speaker 1: and and have the right guys if they want to

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Speaker 1: run away from him. Uh. They like their chances, but

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Speaker 1: they got to make sure they set that up. So

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Speaker 1: that's one. One matchup On the other side is you

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Speaker 1: know who covers Cooper Cup and how do they do that?

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Speaker 1: Is it is you know the sherman come in and

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Speaker 1: and follow him or do they his Fred Warner sometimes

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Speaker 1: because Cup likes to come out of it in different

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Speaker 1: positions in an area of the field where Warner can

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Speaker 1: move back for So those are leased to me. Some

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Speaker 1: of the key players from the Rams point of view.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, other than Aaron Donald, the Ramps

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Speaker 1: are gonna be missing Mike a Kaiser. Uh. I just

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Speaker 1: want to intre preserve he's he's their linebacker. Who's their

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Speaker 1: top tackler. Troy Reader will come in, who started some

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Speaker 1: games last year, and and so he's gonna be in

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Speaker 1: a tough spot to read the complex running game of

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners again, assuming some of those other guys

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Speaker 1: are back that we're talking about. So those are those

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Speaker 1: are a few matchups, So I think that we'll keep

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Speaker 1: our eye. I love it all right. Last thing before

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Speaker 1: we let you go, the question that that's on a

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Speaker 1: lot of people's minds. We talked about Week six a

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Speaker 1: million times, but we're gonna bring it back to their

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Speaker 1: one more time. Do the forty Niners have the chance

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Speaker 1: for another upset against the Rams? And if so, what

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Speaker 1: is that key statistic? What do they need to do

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Speaker 1: if they are to have another upset? Yeah, this to

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Speaker 1: me would not be a shocking upset because they have

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Speaker 1: they to me, they match up well, it's funny. The Rams.

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is eleven and two in his coaching career

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Speaker 1: in the West against both Seattle and Arizona. So but

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Speaker 1: but against the Niners and he's obviously lost the last three,

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Speaker 1: so um, it wouldn't shock me. But I think in

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Speaker 1: the Rams, because they lost earlier this year, they felt

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Speaker 1: like they got pushed around by the forty Niners. So

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Speaker 1: they're not going to come into this. They've already said

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Speaker 1: earlier this week. We can't come and flat against these

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Speaker 1: guys because they got physical and they beat not way

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Speaker 1: this year. But you know they kind of owned us year.

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Speaker 1: Now Kittle again was it was a part of that.

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Speaker 1: So I would say, let's just watch the physical plan.

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Speaker 1: It's a physical game anyway, but the harder hits, the

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Speaker 1: guys who deliver the hits, the ones who take the

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Speaker 1: hits to keep on going for yardage. I think it's

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Speaker 1: just something that will be eye catching that will determine

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Speaker 1: whether the Niners are gonna pull the upset or not,

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Speaker 1: and whether the Rams are ready to withstand that kind

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Speaker 1: of physical play on both sides of the ball from

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Speaker 1: the Niners. Chris Myers is an absolute pleasure, haven't you

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Speaker 1: on the forty Nights You've Got Mail podcast? We cannot

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Speaker 1: wait to hear you on Sunday and uh for us

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Speaker 1: faithful that are listening, hopefully you're calling a forty Nights one.

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Speaker 1: All well, thanks, We always hope for a good game,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for having me on. It's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: You take care you do the same things so much.

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