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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Alli. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson and Matt. We had a game last

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Speaker 1: night to San Francisco. Forty nine is clinched the NFC

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Speaker 1: West beating the Seahawks. Really wasn't that close. It really wasn't.

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Speaker 1: San fran is good and it's to me clearly the

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Speaker 1: best defense in the league. Yeah, they're pretty They're pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Um So, looking at this week's games, now, the remaining schedule,

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Speaker 1: we got three games on Saturday, you got the Colts

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Speaker 1: at the Vikings of Colts four and eight, the Vikings

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Speaker 1: ten in three, Minnesota favored by four and a half

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Speaker 1: the over under now when it's forty eight and a

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Speaker 1: half high over under now for this year anyways, Um,

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Speaker 1: Vikes these pretty bad, especially against the pass. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have no faith in Matt Ryan, but I gotta

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Speaker 1: think is ailing Bones are happy about to buy and

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Speaker 1: Pittman and especially Taylor get the ball a lot. How

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Speaker 1: about this little stat The Vikings are four and oh

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Speaker 1: against the a f C this year they played the

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Speaker 1: a f C East. Wow, that's true. Impressive. Everybody saying

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Speaker 1: the Vikings aren't very good. Well, they say, they beat Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: they beat Miami, they beat the Jets, they beat they

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Speaker 1: beat the Patriots. That's four good wins. Um. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is a blowout though. I think the Colts is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if the Vikings are

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Speaker 1: blow blow you out kind of team. They're not running

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Speaker 1: the ball spectacularly either. I think they win and they're

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Speaker 1: the better team. Yeah, Jefferson against Stefan Gilmore, I think

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Speaker 1: is worth watching without a question. I mean, Jefferson gets

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Speaker 1: his no matter what. Yeah, he's his numbers since Hawkinson

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Speaker 1: showed up. Is he the best receiver in the league, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Davante Adams has a very very

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Speaker 1: strong case. I think Tyreek is the one I'd like

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Speaker 1: the play against least. That's how but it's different and

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Speaker 1: it's not the best. Jefferson is very much in the conversation. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the four thirty game on Saturdays, when Steeler fans can

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Speaker 1: certainly watch. If Steelers play both of these two teams,

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Speaker 1: they still have them both remaining on the schedule. The

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Speaker 1: nine and four Ravens at the five and eight Browns.

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Speaker 1: Cleveland favored by two and a half. The over under

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Speaker 1: thirty seven. We know Huntley's gonna play in this game.

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Speaker 1: Is that just a not lamar thing that they're getting.

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Speaker 1: I'll take two points with that all day long. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier in the week that Cleveland has no

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Speaker 1: linebackers left. The defensive tackles are really really rough. They've

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Speaker 1: been bad against the run all year. I mean, Baltimore

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that they're going to allow with

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Speaker 1: hardly anything on the ground. Watson needs to play really well.

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Speaker 1: You're an e p A guy. The last two weeks

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Speaker 1: with Watson at quarterback, the brown Z e p A

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Speaker 1: of minus twenty six point to eight is better than

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Speaker 1: only that of the Texans offense. They can't run the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore leg and it's it's you know, it's it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be all into Shawn in this third game back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a little better last week than the first one,

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Speaker 1: but he better take a big step forward. I think

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Speaker 1: Baltimore wins. I think they do too. I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: the spreads on the opposite, I can't. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: get that it opened there because you didn't know what

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Speaker 1: this quarterback situation was going to be. But as soon

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Speaker 1: as Huntley is ready to go, you're like, okay, right,

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Speaker 1: it's not brown out there playing. Yeah yeah. Both writers

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Speaker 1: on ESPN also picking the Ravens and yeah, twenties says

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Speaker 1: Eric Moody. Seth Walters says of seventeen Ravens over the Browns.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect a lot of points. Uh. The night

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Speaker 1: game going to be played in apparently once again a blizzard.

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Speaker 1: The eight and five Dolphins at the heading three bills,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo favored by seven and a half. The over under

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Speaker 1: forty two in a in a snowstorm. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that there's not a blueprint against tour. Snowstorm is

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Speaker 1: not the worst thing. No, it's not the wind. It's

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Speaker 1: the winds. Yeah yeah, Um, I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: the snow will slow down the pass rush all that much.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a little worried about Miami's protection. Miami

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Speaker 1: has no run game, and I know Buffalo isn't known

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Speaker 1: be big in this game. Yeah. I did you make

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Speaker 1: and they're bigger quarterback problems and they could lose this week. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Um did you see twas said, people act like I've

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Speaker 1: never played in snow before. It's snowed once in Alabama

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Speaker 1: and I played. Let me tell you, Alabama snow much

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Speaker 1: different than Buffalo. Yeah. I guarantee he hasn't seen as

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Speaker 1: much snow as he'll see in the first quarter of

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Speaker 1: this game in the rest of his life, oh up

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Speaker 1: played I mean he plays the FC East, though. I

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Speaker 1: mean I don't know his career well enough, but he's

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Speaker 1: had to play some cold weather games cold weather, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I mean it's act like all the good in

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Speaker 1: the snow when you're not a big arm quarterback to

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Speaker 1: begin with. I know he's not the strongest, biggest body

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Speaker 1: seen snow before. I mean it's cold at the Senior

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Speaker 1: Bowl from time to time, but not like a couple

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Speaker 1: of the state of Alabama. Moody picking the Bills thirt

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Speaker 1: Seth Walter picking the Dolphins thirty eight. I mean I

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Speaker 1: have some Bills concerns, but not that much, not to

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Speaker 1: that point. I'm not I'm not just like a big

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Speaker 1: power running team coming in. I'd be like, okay, they

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Speaker 1: can close, you know. Uh the Sunday games. Now we

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Speaker 1: move on to the six and seven. Lions are at

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Speaker 1: the seven and six. Yet no bread on this one

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Speaker 1: because the quarterback situation and a half. But it is

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Speaker 1: gonna be Zack Wilson, and well that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I was leaning towards the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Their defense is gonna have to win it. This game

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Speaker 1: could get I mean, this this could be ugly. I

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Speaker 1: was worried about away from home outdoor golf, you know,

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Speaker 1: you talked about like EPA and stuff. Though he's like

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Speaker 1: it up. But this is a tougher test. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a close game. I think even their road

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Speaker 1: games so that they played were indoors. They played the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: so he hasn't had to go outdoors in December New York, right,

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Speaker 1: that that part worries me. Yeah, it is, uh. And

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Speaker 1: I think they're a good team. I mean, I hope

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Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, but teams like that usually take

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Speaker 1: three steps forward and then the one back. You know.

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Speaker 1: is ready for primetime? Now? We actually picked this game

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Speaker 1: in a close one. Now, I can't bet on Wilson, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Moody picking the Lions, Seth Walter picking the Jets. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can see both ways. Jets. We have to run

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Speaker 1: the ball well. And you know, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be a problem. I think I

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Speaker 1: conversation for number two. Uh, the twelve and one Eagles

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Speaker 1: are at the three and ten Bears. Philadelphia favored by nine,

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Speaker 1: the over under forty eight and a half. This would

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Speaker 1: be the Jalen Hurts versus Justin Fields Trek Meat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think this is close at all,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so I'm shocked the spreads not well, the

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Speaker 1: big the big spreads have gotten beat this year. Yeah right,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a trend of if you're gonna give

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Speaker 1: you double Ledger points or whatever, take it. It's just

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Speaker 1: that this is like doctor at level mathematician looking at

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Speaker 1: this for a living. You're like, this is what they

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Speaker 1: strive to become with Fields, and they're so far away. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: both writers picking the Eagles. Moody says says thirty four six,

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Speaker 1: Walters says, uh three, there's gonna dominate both lines. I

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Speaker 1: in the mismatch of the week. Is this enough points

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Speaker 1: eleven and one Texans Kansas City respectable? Last year, Kansas

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Speaker 1: City is favored by fourteen the over under forty nine

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Speaker 1: Like if I'm Andy Reid, I'm kept the number down

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Speaker 1: a little bit, Like, yeah, you guys know Dallas a

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Speaker 1: I know the chief defense isn't great. It matters. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not there either. Moody picking the Chiefs forty one fourteen,

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Speaker 1: pushing Yeah. Um. The FPI prediction is Kansas City eighty

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Speaker 1: I mean this is close to one verse thirty two

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Speaker 1: start the Chiefs defensive fantasy this week or the Jets Chiefs? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Doc made a lot of mistakes in that game, but

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Speaker 1: that really isn't who he is in my opinion. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the beginning of a trend. I think

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Speaker 1: to the wire. I'm a Lawrence believer. Yeah, he's playing well. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars have lost twenty consecutive games against NFC teams

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Speaker 1: that they've had a whole bunch of those this year though,

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Speaker 1: it's just not an unfamiliar opponent that you have a

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Speaker 1: Walters went out in the limb of the this week.

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Speaker 1: This week, the Falcons at five and eight are at

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Speaker 1: the Saints four and nine the Ritter Bowl. If the

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Speaker 1: be winning the not right now, they'd be winning it.

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