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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December twenty sixth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we have thoughts.

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Speaker 2: On Charles, entertainment, cheese.

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Speaker 1: It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by

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Speaker 1: Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones.

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Speaker 2: Florio, How was your Christmas Day? Sir? It was great.

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Speaker 2: I ate and I pretty much didn't do much else

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Speaker 2: besides I.

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Speaker 3: Watched football and I ate food, and I'm still trying

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Speaker 3: to digest it all it was.

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Speaker 2: It was tough getting out.

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Speaker 3: Of bed the morning after Christmas as you eat all

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Speaker 3: that food.

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Speaker 2: But you guys have kids. How was your guy was?

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Speaker 2: How was your Christmas? Lakwan? It was good.

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Speaker 4: Kids opened the presents pretty early. I mean Mason lost

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Speaker 4: his complete mind getting him his Imbop soccer jersey. I

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Speaker 4: mean he was just completely ecstatic about it. So that

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Speaker 4: made my Christmas day.

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Speaker 1: Do you have him saying things like top of the

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Speaker 1: table and coaches getting sacked.

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Speaker 4: Parking the bus, losing the dressing room, Yeah, all that

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Speaker 4: type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: The dressing room, the dressing room. Yeah, setting your child

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Speaker 1: up to be mocked when.

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Speaker 3: He gets Yeah, he's gonna be like, oh, did you

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Speaker 3: see the players in the dressing.

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Speaker 4: Room, And they're gonna be like what, I'm getting him

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Speaker 4: to say that the jerseys are kids. I'm getting him

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Speaker 4: to say the field is the pitch. Like he's he's soccer.

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Speaker 4: He's out there. He got the vocabulary, vocabulary down soccer jersey.

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Speaker 2: What was the big gift in the Grant house? Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know what it was?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, he's got this little box now. It's called The

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Speaker 1: Two Knees. It plays stories and sing songs and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And like he took to him even more than I

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Speaker 1: thought I thought he'd like it. He loved it even more.

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Speaker 1: So that's a win. We're eating that w right now.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. Uh. Anyway, it is Week seventeen,

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Speaker 1: which means championship week for a lot of you out there.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about you sickos and nerds who want

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Speaker 1: to play Week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Friends don't want friends play Week eighteen. But for the

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Speaker 1: rest of you's championship week. So we're gonna go through

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Speaker 1: some of our superlatives for the week, but with one

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Speaker 1: quick fantasy headline. So I think we talked about on

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Speaker 1: NFL fantasy lives. So one of your thoughts about this,

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Speaker 1: Lakwan Jalen Hurts still not practicing.

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Speaker 2: He is still in the concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: Were just a few days away from Philadelphia's Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: matchup against the Dallas Cowboys. Normally it would be Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett would be the next guy in, but he's dealing

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Speaker 1: with a rib injury. Tanner McKee is on the roster.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles also went out and signed Ian Book. So

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Speaker 1: assuming it's not Jalen Hurts, especially if they go deep

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Speaker 1: down the depth chart, obviously we know you're starting Saquon,

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Speaker 1: who else are you possibly starting beyond that?

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Speaker 4: I think it's a hard start with AJ Brown because

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Speaker 4: you really don't have any other pivot options. And honestly,

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Speaker 4: when you get a backup quarterback, I think the objective

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Speaker 4: is is to get it to your best wide receiver

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Speaker 4: and that's AJ Brown. And we saw that with Kenny

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Speaker 4: Pickett last game where he was able to get the ball.

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Speaker 4: The Devonte Smith and AJ Brown, like the wide receivers

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Speaker 4: were the clear tunnel vision focus and the game plan,

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Speaker 4: and I don't see that being different against the Cowboys,

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Speaker 4: where their defense they're kind of been up and down

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Speaker 4: the past Rush has been an elite, but that secondary

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Speaker 4: you've been able to get on top and put some

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Speaker 4: good fantasy production for the wide receiver position.

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Speaker 1: I do love the Kenny Pickett knew the assignment he

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Speaker 1: came on and he just started feeding aj Brown target.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we appreciate that, mister Pickett. Hopefully Tanner

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Speaker 1: McKee and or Ian Book get the same memo when

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Speaker 1: they get on the field. So it's time to see

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Speaker 1: who will deliver presented by Uber Eats. Time now for

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Speaker 1: our superlatives or calls for Week seventeen. We will start

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Speaker 1: with Club Dub the non quarterback. Who will be the

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Speaker 1: top or quarterback whatever. I don't care anymore. It's Week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a I say that because I looked

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Speaker 1: at the I looked at who's on the list here,

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Speaker 1: and I see your Week seventeen Club Dub option, and

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Speaker 1: I honestly look on I will allow it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's fine, Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I like breaking the rules sometimes, but I really want

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Speaker 4: the game in.

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Speaker 2: It's fun to do bad things.

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Speaker 4: We got the Christians guests added away. I'm on the

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Speaker 4: naughty list after for next year. But Anyway, Carolina Reaper,

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Speaker 4: I'm loving this nickname for Bryce Young because he did

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Speaker 4: your boy a huge service last week knocking those Desert

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Speaker 4: Birds out of the playoffs. Like I was just completely

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Speaker 4: a static, but more so, he put up twenty seven

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Speaker 4: fantasy points and he's coming off one of his best

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Speaker 4: fantasy games this season. And look, since we Kate, he's

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Speaker 4: became the starter. He's had at least one passing touchdown

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Speaker 4: in every start he's had, and that hasn't been done

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Speaker 4: since Cam Newton since twenty eighteen. So therefore, against this

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Speaker 4: Bucks defense, who are aligned the second most fantasy points

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Speaker 4: for a game to quarterbacks, it looks like it's an

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Speaker 4: easy layup for him because last time he played it

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Speaker 4: almost threw up three hundred yards on them. So I

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Speaker 4: expect him to go out there put up a huge

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Speaker 4: club dub for your boy because we're rolling the club

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Speaker 4: and all black with the Carolina Reefer dame.

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Speaker 1: Another thing though, I like about the Bryce you in

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I've pointed out three rushing touchdowns

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Speaker 1: big kind of sneaky key to it. We always talk

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Speaker 1: about the the Konami codes with quarterbacks. He's not gonna

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Speaker 1: get you a ton of rushing yards, right, You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna look up and he's gonna have like eighty rushing yards.

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Speaker 2: But if he finds the end zone that goes.

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Speaker 4: A long way toward him, that's him scrambling for his life.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it is. But look, they

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Speaker 1: don't ask how, they ask how many. That's all. That's

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Speaker 1: all they really care about. Speaking of guys who run

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Speaker 1: a lot and score touchdowns. There there's your club dub guy, Florio.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, who I feel like we haven't spoken about

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Speaker 3: that could just be the warm up because he gets

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Speaker 3: to New York Giants. Like I mean, we've seen the

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Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson is legitimately up in the air for this week,

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Speaker 3: which obviously you hope he plays, but if he doesn't,

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Speaker 3: that probably means even more running the ball for Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 3: Probably means more dump offs for him. And I'm not

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Speaker 3: even worried about him being the focus of the Giants defense. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 3: like he's still gonna run all over you guys, no

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Speaker 3: doubt about that. So yeah, Jonathan Taylor, I think is

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Speaker 3: gonna eat and win people titles this week.

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Speaker 2: It is wild.

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Speaker 1: We have not talked a lot about Jonathan Taylor because

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Speaker 1: most of our conversations about the Colts have been about

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson and what that means for the pass catchers.

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Speaker 1: And so you're right, Jonathan Taylor has definitely flown under

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Speaker 4: He gets go back home to some good pizza man

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Speaker 4: Big Jersey, so he's I know he's going to show about,

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Speaker 2: Now we don't want Do you think he's a Taylor

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Speaker 2: hamm or a pork roll guy. He's definitely a pork

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Speaker 2: roll guy. Where is he from all them.

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Speaker 4: New Jersey that's in the North area. But I'm pretty

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Speaker 4: sure he's going to say pork role if we ever

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Speaker 1: All Right, that's one thing we'll have to put on

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Speaker 1: the list if we ever get to talk to Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Here for sure, mineus Jamiir Gibbs going against the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers. The Niner run defense has been pretty bad

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Speaker 1: ton of work now with no David Montgomery. I think

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be kind of a back and forth game.

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Speaker 1: I think the Lions win this one, probably by a

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Speaker 1: I think he scores multiple touchdowns in this game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't need to tell you to start Jamiir Gibbs,

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Speaker 1: but if for whatever reason you're being weird about it,

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Speaker 1: start Jamir Gibbs. I mean, there's there's just really nothing

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Speaker 1: else to say about that one at this point. That

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Speaker 1: those are the guys that we are excited about now,

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Speaker 1: the guys that make us a little bit nervous for

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 2: Lakwan, who's your red flag? Ooh?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 4: I hate talking bad about my guys, man, and I

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Speaker 4: say my guys as a Rams fan. Man Cooper cup Man,

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Speaker 4: he is the biggest red flag going into this championship.

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Speaker 4: Big dance is it has not been great in the

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Speaker 4: last month, man, he has not looked like that reliable

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Speaker 4: wide receiver in the last four games, only one game

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Speaker 4: you look at Pookin'ako getting a detention from Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 4: So I look at this this Cardinals defense, and they've

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks. I do not see this changing for

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cup. So he's a huge red

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the thing, Cooper Cup. You know I

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Speaker 1: gave you the zero in week fifteen. He improved in

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Speaker 1: week sixteen, but that improvement was what like three points,

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Speaker 1: three point four points something like that. Yeah, not great,

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Speaker 1: not great at all, Bob for sure. Who with so

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Speaker 1: your red flag Florio other side of that same game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyler Murray, who I know last week had his

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Speaker 3: best game and quite some time still I don't believe

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Speaker 3: finished as a QB one five passing touchdowns in his

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Speaker 3: last seven games, not running as much as we wanted

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Speaker 3: him to. The wild stat less than ten points not

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Speaker 3: like fantasy real life points allowed in back to back games.

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Speaker 3: And then Kyler has one or fewer passing touchdowns in

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Speaker 3: four of his last five games against them. And I

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Speaker 3: it was all burning Trey White for two long touchdowns

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Speaker 3: to Marvin Harrison Junior and Trey White. If you watched

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday because he's not a ram anymore. So, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Because the Jaguars.

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Speaker 4: Mac Jones QB one.

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Speaker 3: You look a mir of doula because if it's not broke,

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Speaker 1: A happy, safe and healthy, do good, and live well.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy Thursday night football as well. We got the Seahawks

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