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Speaker 1: Christmas Rider around the Corner live in Chicago. It's The

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Speaker 1: Herd wherever you may be, however you may be listening

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Speaker 1: the playoff picture. We've got clarity, Denvers for real, the

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Speaker 1: Bears are for real, Packers probably trending the other way.

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Speaker 1: New England's still fine, but we all knew with New

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Speaker 1: England kind of.

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Speaker 2: Still in a rebuild.

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Speaker 1: Second half yesterday banged up whole line sort of proved it.

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Speaker 1: But we do it every Monday at this time. We

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Speaker 1: take swings. I'm wrong often, and here we.

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Speaker 2: Go where Colin was right.

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Speaker 1: I said all off season and I've said for the

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Speaker 1: last month. I think the Chiefs are in a rebuild,

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Speaker 1: not just a red tool next year. They're forty four

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Speaker 1: million over the cap. They got shut out in the

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Speaker 1: second half. Isaiah Pacheco was their leading rusher, at twenty

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Speaker 1: one yards. I don't think they're talented enough. I think

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Speaker 1: they need to address the O line, the D line,

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Speaker 1: the running back room, the tight end room. I had

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Speaker 1: them as a wild card team, and yeah they've had

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Speaker 1: some close losses, but there was no question watching yesterday,

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Speaker 1: this is not a team that's just you know, a

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Speaker 1: player or two away.

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Speaker 2: Where Colin was wrong.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've always said Dan Campbell builds a great culture.

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Speaker 1: I don't consider him a scheme guy. But since he's

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Speaker 1: taken over the play calling, he's been great. Detroit's number

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Speaker 1: two in total offense, number one in yards per play.

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Speaker 1: He is unlocked Jamison Williams.

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Speaker 2: He's done a great job.

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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell is a much better coach calling plays than

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Speaker 1: I would have imagined. That offense is not the problem

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Speaker 1: Brian Branch. Losing him in the back end at really

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Speaker 1: hurts because you got to win some shootouts in the

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Speaker 1: NFC the way the quarterbacks are developing. But I've been

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Speaker 1: a little hard on Dan Campbell. I think he's done

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Speaker 1: a great job taking over play come.

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Speaker 2: Where Colin was right.

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Speaker 1: All my concerns with Brian Schottenheimer have surfaced. With extra

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Speaker 1: time to prepare that offensive performance two for twelve on

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Speaker 1: third down just not good enough.

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Speaker 2: Six seven and one.

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Speaker 1: They're now a bad red zone team, eighteenth in the league.

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Speaker 1: And again, that's with Dak, that's with a run game,

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Speaker 1: that's with elite wide receivers. They're just not a consistent team.

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Speaker 1: I do think the future is brighter than many believe.

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Speaker 1: But all the things we worried about getting out coached

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Speaker 1: in big spot situationally being mid they've all surfaced.

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Speaker 2: Where Colin was wrong.

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Speaker 1: I was okay with Pete Carroll being hired with the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I thought he would steady the ship. It's been a disaster.

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Speaker 1: He's lost his fastball seventy five total yards against Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the Raiders do well.

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Speaker 2: They are.

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Speaker 1: They are the worst team in the NFL, and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can point to outside of Max Crosby and

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Speaker 1: Not a great deep ball thrower, though he was eight

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Speaker 1: Well, the Jags are a franchise I never trust, but

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest. His arm didn't have a ton of juice.

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Speaker 1: Stroud, I keep hearing wow sophomore slump. Listen, dude throws

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Speaker 1: Stroud, I'll defend him. That's a franchise quarterback. He'll run

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Speaker 1: if he has to. But he's developed a really keen

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Speaker 5: Now, let's go the top ten NFL teams according to

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Speaker 5: College number ten.

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Speaker 1: I'll put Philadelphia in seven of their nine wins, though

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Speaker 1: face better quarterbacks. Their defense it's excellent, the roster is excellent,

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Speaker 1: But this offense feels like it's been broken since week one.

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Speaker 2: Number nine the Jags.

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Speaker 1: You can't run on them, and Liam Cohen has done

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Speaker 1: They have the number one scoring offense and number two

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Speaker 1: the closest version of the Trevor Lawrence we all fell

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Speaker 2: I have the Jags at nine. Number eight. The Bills.

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Speaker 1: Listen, they got totally worked for the first half of

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Speaker 1: they scored on five straight touchdown drives. Okay, they do

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Speaker 1: And in the last couple of weeks they have almost

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Speaker 2: I have him at eight. Number seven.

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Speaker 1: Elite coaching, maybe the best coaching staff this year in

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Speaker 1: the league, sala on defense doing it with smoking.

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Speaker 2: Mirrors in Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: Four wins in a row, all by ten plus points,

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Speaker 1: Seattle's got a big boy defense Sam Donald. Yes he

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Speaker 1: also play with a lead. They can play conservatively and

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Speaker 1: win because they can run the ball well coached played defense,

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Speaker 1: twenty three straight games not allowing somebody one hundred yards rushing,

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Speaker 1: I still like the Patriots. They had a bad half.

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Speaker 1: They're good defensively. They need another draft. I've been saying

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Speaker 1: what they don't do. They play in bad weather very well.

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Speaker 1: They run the ball, they're dynamic, great offensive coach, excellent

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Speaker 2: What don't they do? They're built for January. Well, you

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Speaker 1: A Caleb's completion percentage. Lord, he's so gifted. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna eight and two over their last ten games. Number

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Speaker 1: the conference championship. Tell me what they don't do complete

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Speaker 1: bubble screens. Okay, you got me there. That's what college

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Speaker 2: Number three.

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Speaker 1: I think the Texans defense is the best unit in

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Speaker 1: that Rams offense early in the season held in the

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Speaker 1: fourteen points. And I've always liked CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud. I don't get the criticisms. If you give.

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Speaker 1: Him two and a half seconds, he's outstanding. I really

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Speaker 1: like Houston. I think they're gonna make the AFC Championship.

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Speaker 1: I think the Texans right now are a bye bye

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Speaker 1: bow Knicks. I've been comparing him to Caleb Williams for weeks.

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Speaker 1: I wish he was a little more consistent, but the

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Speaker 1: guy is an unbelievable athlete. He doesn't take sacks. I

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Speaker 2: And they beat you up. Number one. Listen.

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Speaker 2: I'll live with that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna live with Josh Allen, Mahomes and Caleb throwing

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Speaker 6: Well, listen, all you could have hoped for this year

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Speaker 4: Trust his arm too much.

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Speaker 6: But it's hard to watch that throw through four defenders

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Speaker 4: I watched him twice landed Steam.

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Speaker 6: where you and I, Colin, are just different broadcasters because

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Speaker 4: We both thought he wasn't very good.

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Speaker 6: But you have none of you like Hey, new information,

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Speaker 6: My gut tells me that that Packers game is more

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Speaker 4: But I have to be fair and be open to.

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Speaker 6: The possibility that I was wrong about him. Thus far,

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Speaker 1: I think Kansas City missing the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's cold water to the face. It's like forty percent

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Speaker 1: Still you're not sure and that this is a great league.

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Speaker 1: You can do New England. You can literally go awful

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Speaker 6: super Bowls in the league in the last three years?

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Speaker 6: I understand that. Listen, this Chief season, let me be

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Speaker 6: very clear, even if Mahomes hadn't been hurt, this season

441
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Speaker 6: was a failure.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 6: I had held out hope that the team they showed

444
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Speaker 6: they could be against the Ravens and the Lions was

445
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Speaker 6: the team they were going to be and then after

446
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Speaker 6: the bye they were bad every single week. They were

447
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Speaker 6: bad against the Broncos, they were bad against the Cowboys,

448
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Speaker 6: they were bad against the Colts and lucky to win

449
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Speaker 6: that game, and then bad against the Texans. And against

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Speaker 6: the Chargers they have a thirteen to three lead going

451
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Speaker 6: into halftime and then give away a touchdown right four

452
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Speaker 6: half like a bad team. So they deserve to take

453
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Speaker 6: their medicine here, and you are correct in this regard.

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Speaker 6: I think we are going to see over the next

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Speaker 6: few weeks Colin where numbers be damned, how much Patrick

456
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Speaker 6: was holding together on his own. I think they're going

457
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Speaker 6: to lose to the Titans. I think with the offensive

458
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Speaker 6: line with four starters or four tackles down, with no

459
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Speaker 6: running game, with the issues they're having right now, and

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Speaker 6: Gardnermanshoe playing quarterback, you're going to see how much Patrick

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Speaker 6: was carrying, even though his numbers had been suffering the

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Speaker 6: last month and a half.

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Speaker 4: As well.

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Speaker 6: With that set, I don't think it is a complete overhaul.

465
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Speaker 6: They have rebuilt the offensive line. The left tackle they

466
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Speaker 6: drafted in the first round was excellent. He got his

467
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Speaker 6: wrists broken and was out. The left guard is a

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Speaker 6: second year player, who's five players and not great players.

469
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Speaker 6: Fine player in Suamattaya create humper. You mentioned Trey Smith,

470
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Speaker 6: is that center, right guard, right tack will be a

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Speaker 6: question mark.

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Speaker 4: That's one spot.

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Speaker 6: The wide receivers need to develop. They have spent I've

474
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Speaker 6: seen Rashi Rice be great and Xavier Worthy as great traits.

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Speaker 6: They need to develop on the other side of the ball.

476
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Speaker 6: They need a pass rush other than Chris Jones. So

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Speaker 6: it's by no means of you know, a flawless team

478
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Speaker 6: right now, even a great team.

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Speaker 4: But they're about to have the.

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Speaker 6: Tenth eleventh something like that pick of the draft and

481
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Speaker 6: a third place schedule, and Patrick is going to come

482
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Speaker 6: back with a vengeance. You address pass rush in the draft,

483
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Speaker 6: you sign or and or draft a running back. You

484
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Speaker 6: continue to develop your secondary the way they have ever

485
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Speaker 6: since Bags has been there, and they'll be fine. But listen,

486
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Speaker 6: this is the end of a chapter. It is as

487
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Speaker 6: good of a seven year run as any team in

488
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Speaker 6: NFL history has ever had seven Final fours, five Super

489
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Speaker 6: Bowl appearances, three rings. Nobody's ever done better than that

490
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Speaker 6: over the course of seven years. You could argue the

491
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Speaker 6: steel curtain Steelers, that's kind of a tomato tomatol thing.

492
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Speaker 6: They didn't make as many Super Bowls, but they did

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Speaker 6: win one more. But this is now a new chapter

494
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Speaker 6: and they need to see how they take advantage of

495
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Speaker 6: a better draft pick than they've had in a decade,

496
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Speaker 6: a potentially softer schedule and they've had in a decade,

497
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Speaker 6: and Patrick Mahomes post injury. It is the exact same

498
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Speaker 6: process Tom had to go through. Win in his eight

499
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Speaker 6: year as a starter, he blew out his knee. The

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Speaker 6: next year they won ten games. They weren't that great.

501
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Speaker 6: The year after that they were a fourteen win juggernaut.

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Speaker 6: Once again, We'll see what the Chiefs look like a

503
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Speaker 6: year from now, but I think it's more significant tweaks

504
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Speaker 6: than it is total overhaul. And if he's back week

505
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Speaker 6: one next year, they will be the AFC West favorites

506
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Speaker 6: again if Patrick's back.

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Speaker 2: So that's how I look at it.

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Speaker 1: With chapters, there was the Bo Nicks I'd bench him

509
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Speaker 1: chapter and Bo Nicks is now Steve Young chapter.

510
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Speaker 2: So we both talk in chapters.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's one way to do it.

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Speaker 6: I suppose that's one way to do That's why you're

513
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Speaker 6: the greatest, That's why you're the greatest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Nick, right, First things first, listen a new information.

515
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Speaker 2: Bonnick's stunk in the first month, and now he looks

516
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Speaker 2: pretty great to me.

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Speaker 1: You know, J Mack, I'm a bit of a traditionalist,

518
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Speaker 1: and this time of the year, I don't know, I

519
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: get the warm and fuzzies here I'm gonna I took

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Speaker 1: out a pencil, number two pencil and uh, some note cards,

521
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: and I wanted to set her. You know, people I've

522
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Speaker 1: wronged in college and pro football over the last couple

523
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Speaker 1: of months. You know, I'm big enough man to acknowledge

524
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Speaker 1: I've hurt some feelings.

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Speaker 2: So I thought i'd i'd write some letters. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's start.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's led the Steelers to the number three

528
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Speaker 1: red zone offense.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: Dear Aaron, I said this offense was a rotary phone

531
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Speaker 1: in a smartphone world, dated, clunky and unnecessary. But like

532
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: fries in a sandwich, Pittsburgh didn't know they needed you.

533
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: Now they can't live without you.

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Speaker 2: Buy Awuasca, Colin.

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Speaker 1: You know I was tough on Dak Prescott and the

536
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Speaker 1: Cowboys this year, so I grabbed that number two pencil.

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Speaker 1: Dear Dak, I once said you were not the guy

538
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,479
Speaker 1: you would back up the Brinks truck for Consider this

539
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: my Texas size surrender.

540
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: You can lead a team and a league.

541
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Speaker 1: If you were on my team, I'd back up the

542
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: Brinks truck, the Ben and Jerry's truck, the Budweiser truck.

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Speaker 1: Your friend Colin leads the NFL in passing yards.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm going to.

545
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Speaker 1: Send one to his billionaire friend, Jerry Jones. Happy Ye Holidays, Jerry,

546
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Speaker 1: I said, you run the Cowboys like an impulse buy

547
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Speaker 1: at uckies that you like. Headlines over hardware and splash

548
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: over substance. This year's trade big splash, a cannon ball

549
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: off the yacht. Still you swung, So I'm holding up

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00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: a ten, Colin. How about rookie Jackson Dart. I was

551
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: tough on that kid. Dear Jackson, you spend more time

552
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: in a tent than an RII salesman, yet somehow come

553
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: out tougher, sharper, and more polished.

554
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 2: You're like a developing polaroid.

555
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: I can't see the full picture yet, but I'm glad

556
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: you're shaking things up. Okay, scatted, go for now, Colin.

557
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: How about forty four year old Philip Rivers, recently unretired

558
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: deer coach Rivers. I'm not sorry you talk trash. I'm

559
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: sorry the media did.

560
00:29:59,160 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 5: Now.

561
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: Sure, you win the X Games, but.

562
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: You went out there, grabbed your kids skateboard and landed

563
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: the trick. Bozo's like jamac doubted you, not me. Happy holidays, Colin.

564
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: How about my letter to Sam Darnold. Dear Sambo, I'd

565
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: like to apologize to absolutely nobody. You got the Hawks

566
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: at eleven and three, poised to be a number one seed.

567
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: I was early, I was loud, I was right. Colin Coward,

568
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: your thirteenth man.

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Speaker 2: Happy holidays.

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Speaker 1: How about this one to USC coach Lincoln Riley. I

571
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: just finished this one this morning. Dearest Lincoln, here's my

572
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: Lincoln letter. I said your Trojan tenure was drifting, momentum gone,

573
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: like a film that ran out of budget. Then you

574
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: recruited the number one recruiting class. My apologies, you're green.

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Speaker 1: Let for a trilogy, probably a spin off. Stay streaming, Colin.

576
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: And finally, the new Louisiana State football coach Lane Kiffin.

577
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: Dearest Lane, I warned that heading to LSU would be chaotic, combustible,

578
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: and short lived. You know what I'm gonna hang onto

579
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: this for a few more weeks. I'm not gonna send

580
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: this one out yet. I mean, he did crush it,

581
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: old mess, but the governor's on his butt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: Anyway, a couple of holiday letters. I saw this, J Mack, Well, wait,

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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on.

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00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 7: I'm really proud of you for single handedly saving the

586
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Speaker 7: US Postal Service with all these letters and stamps. I mean,

587
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 7: well done, and getting in a dig at me and

588
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 7: calling me a bozo.

589
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Speaker 4: I like it, man, that's good stuff.

590
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: That was fun.

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Speaker 1: So I saw this story, and you know, I like

592
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Speaker 1: the Mannings, met all of them, like all of them.

593
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: It says here Arch Manning is wise for staying at Texas.

594
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: This is the headline because he can still be the

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Speaker 1: quarterback one in the twenty twenty seven draft. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you why. I am really cynical of that. So

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00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: he went to a high school that was a smaller

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Speaker 1: school in some question, the competition not his.

599
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: Fault, a reality. So I thought, well, let's just see

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Speaker 2: him at Texas well.

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Speaker 1: The first two years he sat, he had Sark, great

602
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Speaker 1: offensive coach and Texas talent, and then year three starts

603
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: with Texas talent and Sark and I can't unsee it

604
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: the first half of this year. Go back and look

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Speaker 1: at the UTEP game UTEP and that's my thing to

606
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: be a number one pick. The first time Caleb Williams

607
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: was thrust into a game, was not prepared for it.

608
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: At Oklahoma, he was brilliant the first time. Trevor Lawa

609
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: it started one of Natty as a freshman. Andrew luck

610
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Speaker 1: may have red shirted, but our first glimpse of him, Wow,

611
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Speaker 1: those guys's number one picks feel sort of generational.

612
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: Like John Elway.

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Speaker 1: Arch sat for two years, had Sark had Texas and

614
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Speaker 1: they slowly crafted him, slowly developed him. That doesn't feel

615
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Speaker 1: like something that becomes the number one pick. Like Fernando

616
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Speaker 1: Mendoza was at Cal. He didn't set the world on fire.

617
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Speaker 1: But Cal's got no you know, they've got like second

618
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Speaker 1: tier talent. The minute he got elite talent, not Ohio

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Speaker 1: State talent, for good talent around him. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: been unbelievable this year. So I think my take is

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Speaker 1: at arch Manning. Generally speaking, Kobe at seventeen eighteen years old,

622
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: had the greatest workout. Jerry West, the late Jerry West

623
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Speaker 1: said he'd ever scene. Lebron, at seventeen, was called the

624
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: best high school basketball player ever. I think when you're

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00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: I think generational talent. Caleb Williams first snaps whoa Andrew

626
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: Look redshirt freshman year Trevor Lawrence. It doesn't mean certain

627
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: players can't develop slowly, but I do think you know

628
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: what's the page Becker's the Yukon basketball player. I think

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Speaker 1: she got a scholarship offer in the sixth grade. I

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Speaker 1: think generally, and remember this an example is he had

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Speaker 1: such an advantage being a Manning. All the family members

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Speaker 1: most played in the NFL. That's an advantage. So I

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00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: guess my take is he could be an NFL quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I like his athletic ability. I think he's got a

635
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: pretty good arm. But when I number one pick, I

636
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: think Tiger Woods, Cooper Flagg, Lebron. I think just generational stuff.

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Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot of misses, but I don't know.

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00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like next year, if Dante Moore

639
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: came out and Arch Manning came out, that would be

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00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: an easy decision for me. It would be Dante Moore.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the Manning family may not want

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Speaker 1: the number one thing. I mean the number one pick.

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Speaker 1: You often go to an awful team if you slide

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00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, often a huge advantage. But

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00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: the Serenas and Rory McElroy's and the traditional kind of

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00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 1: number one.

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00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: Pick kind of I don't know. I just think.

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00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: Eli Manning was underrated, so was Archie Peyton was fairly rated.

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00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: At this point. There's just stuff I can't quite unsee yet.

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Speaker 1: Here's sark on arch Manning coming back for another year.

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Speaker 8: He's a young man who's gotten considerably much better as

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00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 8: the season's gone on, and not only physically, but I

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Speaker 8: think mentally maturity wise. Of assuming that position, I would

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Speaker 8: think he's going to want another year of that growth

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Speaker 8: to put himself in position for or hopefully a long

656
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Speaker 8: career in the NFL. And he's got some unfinished business

657
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 8: for him. I think the competitor in him is going

658
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 8: to say, man, I'm sure would like another crack at

659
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 8: trying to do those things.

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Speaker 1: So he's going to be twenty two in April. He's

661
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: not that young, and I guess he could be a

662
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Speaker 1: slow developer. I mean, Joe Burrow, like junior year, You're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure and then all of a sudden he

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Speaker 1: popped and.

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Speaker 2: Throw with like sixty touchdowners. I think it outrageous at LSU.

666
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: But the headline is the thing that caught my attention.

667
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: Arch Manning is wise for staying at Texas. He could

668
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: still be quarterback one. I think what's going to happen.

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00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: Jade and Mayava going back to USC. Dante Moore could

670
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: stay at Oregon. Ty Simpson could stay at Alabama. Next

671
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: year's class could be could be pretty profound.

672
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: We'll see.

673
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: I do think this year's class got a lot of criticism,

674
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: but I think Jackson.

675
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,439
Speaker 2: Dart, we have to be fair.

676
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart is absolutely I saw him as kind of

677
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: a second round talent. Jackson Dart's been good, too many

678
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: trips of the Blue Tent. But you know what, Drake

679
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: may spend some time in the Blue tent his rookie

680
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: year than Herbert put his head down, tried to run

681
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: over linebackers in safety, so did Baker Mayfield. You get

682
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: popped about six seven times, and all of a sudden

683
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: you look at the Blue Tent and it's like that

684
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: place you don't want to go, right, So it'll be

685
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: a different j Max this weekend I think an interesting game.

686
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's played a much lighter schedule than Denver. I do

687
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: think keep your eye on Jacksonville. I don't see a

688
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: lot of upsets.

689
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 7: Oh no, I do a little closer, my friend, Oh.

690
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Speaker 2: You have one.

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00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean listen, we touched on it a couple

692
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: times this week.

693
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 2: I read it to you before the show.

694
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 7: The Kansas City Chiefs injury report screams a team that's

695
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 7: just going to shut down a lot of dudes and

696
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 7: have them play maybe on Christmas Day at home against

697
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 7: the Broncos, in like a Travis Kelce Sendoffracy Rice's concuss

698
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 7: doesn't look like he's going to go. My fantasy team's

699
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 7: not happy. But you look around that team and there's

700
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 7: a lot of McDuffie.

701
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 4: May not play now. I know Tennessee doesn't want to win.

702
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,240
Speaker 7: But there's still a bunch of professional athletes where young

703
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 7: looking to make an impression on the GM and keep

704
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 7: their jobs. Kim Ward's not gonna suddenly stop trying. I

705
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 7: think the Titans win that outright. This line has come

706
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 7: down four and a half to three. I think it's

707
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 7: gonna keep coming down if the injury report keeps getting

708
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 7: bad for Casey.

709
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Speaker 1: You know what, can I give you a sharp pick?

710
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking Ravens. I like New England. Oh I think

711
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: three is too many points. I like New England at Baltimore.

712
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: That is, if they lose, it's close.

713
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: The other thing.

714
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Speaker 7: I just submitted, by the way, Ravens Patriots will be

715
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 7: in headlines tomorrow. Just just laid the wager on one

716
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 7: of those teams. No tease, Just gonna put that out there.

717
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: Okay, any strong feeling Chargers at the Cowboys?

718
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 4: Cowboys probably how I see.

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Speaker 2: I thought earlier in the week you were Chargers.

720
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Speaker 1: I you know, when you get humiliated or you play

721
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: really poorly in a big spot and the owners ripping

722
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. I think Dallas is going to have

723
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: one of those kind of circle the wagons kind of

724
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: like play as well as they can POPI playing. It

725
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: feels like the Chargers are just figuring out ways to

726
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: win ugly and that may bite them.

727
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 2: At some point.

728
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Speaker 7: They didn't look good Colin. I mean, they somehow won,

729
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 7: but a lot of it had to do with the

730
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Speaker 7: Chiefs just stink. Yeah, you know, the Chargers offensive line

731
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 7: is horrible.

732
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Speaker 4: I mean, look at.

733
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Speaker 7: Justin Herbert's passing number since he's got the broken hand.

734
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Speaker 1: Not good our number three, Todd McShay, stop spot men,

735
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: doz a dart? What would you do if you're the

736
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Speaker 1: GM in New York?

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Speaker 2: Blaze it up right up, it's Collins blazon. Fuck Dockers

741
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 2: at Bears.

742
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: I like the Bears at home minus one and a half.

743
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: They're eight and two over their last ten games, and

744
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: those losses are only road losses. Caleb Williams has one

745
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: or fewer giveaways and all fourteen starts, so they won't

746
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: give the game away. And the def like most defenses,

747
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: is better at home. It's number six in the league.

748
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: I like the roster, and they're much healthier than Green Bay.

749
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: By the way, teams that play the Broncos, which the

750
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: Packers just did, are three to ten the week after

751
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: playing Denver. They're beat up, missing several stars, not just starters.

752
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: Run game for the Packers feels dead. Run game for

753
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Speaker 1: the Bears been on fire. All season. I like the

754
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Speaker 1: Bears to win and cover twenty seven to twenty three.

755
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: Vikings had Giants upset. I like New York here for

756
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: of their last five losses by one score. They are

757
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: running the ball last six straight games, one hundred plus

758
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 1: rushing yards without Scataboo, so they're pounding the rock. Jackson Dart,

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Speaker 1: I was wrong. I didn't think of me as good

760
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: as a rookie his last five games. It's got a

761
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: ninety five passer rating, and he didn't have a number

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Speaker 1: one starbacker, a number one wide receiver. And the Vikings

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00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: they've lost four of their last six. Their wins or

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00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: over two atrocious defenses. Commanders and Cowboys. JJ McCarthy, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take the better quarterback at home. I trust him more.

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00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: Let's keep him out of the blue ten. I'll take

767
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: the points. Giants win twenty eight twenty seven. Bengals and Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite pick of the week. I'll take Cincinnati

769
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: minus four and a half. They've scored thirty points in

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Speaker 1: two of their last three games. And Burrows in a

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00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: bad mood because he mailed it in the team did

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Speaker 1: against the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, this is weird.

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Speaker 1: Not only has he won eight of his last ten starts,

775
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: he is unbelievable late in the season. In Week sixteen

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Speaker 1: and eighteen in his career, he's seven.

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00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: To zero Miami.

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00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: Five of the dolphins six wins this year have come

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Speaker 1: against the Jets twice, the Saints, the Falcons, the Commanders,

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Speaker 1: and now they're starting quinn Ewers. I have no idea

781
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: what I'm getting from quinn Ewers, but I know this.

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Speaker 1: He's not Joe Burrow. I'm going to take Burrow in

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00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to win thirty to twenty.

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00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: In cover Patriots, said Ravens. I don't get this line.

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00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Patriots in the field goal six

786
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: and zero on the road out gain their opponents in

787
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: nine straight games coming off a loss, so they'll be salty,

788
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: and Drake Made's completion percentage is still seventy. They'll move

789
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: the chains consistently, and they dominated Buffalo in the first half.

790
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: The Ravens are three and five at home the last

791
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: five games. Their passing game is toast and they're not

792
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: very good on the back end, so I think Drake

793
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: may could have some success down the field.

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00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: I don't really get the line here.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots are a good road team, excellent coach coordinator.

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00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the points. I think the Patriots win

797
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: outright twenty eight twenty seven.

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00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 2: Forty nine ers said Colts. Maybe I haven't.

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Speaker 1: Listening to Jmac, but I like the Niners here minus

800
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: five and a half, four game winning streak, all four

801
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: wins by double digits. Their third down offense has been

802
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: great with Brock Purty. They're not only the Rams are penalized,

803
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: lest pretty healthy offensively and the Colts on the back end.

804
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Also, everybody loved Philip Rivers last week. It was a great,

806
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: memorable game and touching story. His passer rating was seventy three.

807
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: He averaged four point four yards throwing the ball down

808
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: the field. This offense, I mean again, Philip Rivers a

809
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: great story.

810
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 2: He wasn't a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And the Niners have a ton to play for, especially

812
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: after Seattle comes back to beat the Rams. You're gonna

813
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: get a inspired effort by the forty nine ers. They

814
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: can do a lot more with Brock thirty move in

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00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 1: the pocket than the Colts can. I like the Niners

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Speaker 1: to win and cover thirty four to twenty four. Three

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Speaker 1: favorites a couple of underdogs on our Blazing five Picks