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Speaker 1: be a football feast. It all starts in Detroit, where

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Speaker 1: the Lions and Packers go at it in a matchup

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Speaker 1: that could.

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Speaker 2: Reshape the NFC North.

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Speaker 1: The AFC East runs through New England, where Marcus Jones

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Speaker 1: has spent this season getting paid and making plays. So

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Speaker 1: how far can these Patriots go? We'll ask them when

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Speaker 1: Marcus Jones joins the show tonight. It's almost fantasy playoff

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Speaker 1: time and the waiver wire.

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Speaker 2: Could make or break your season. Good thing.

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Speaker 1: We got michae lef Florio here tonight with some tips

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Speaker 1: to keep you charging towards that title. Welcome inside with

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Speaker 1: the Insiders, presented by Progressive Insurance, alongside Judy Batista and

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Speaker 1: Mike Garafalo or just me Tom Pellisero. Hi, it's the Insider.

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Speaker 1: There's two more the Insiders. There's three of us and

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Speaker 1: we are presented by Progressive Insurance. Week twelve is indeed

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Speaker 1: in the books, and what do you know on a Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of AFC North quarterback news.

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Speaker 1: Let's start out in Pitchford, where Aaron Rodgers last week

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Speaker 1: was pushing to play but was held out by the team.

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Speaker 1: In Chicago because of a fracture in his left wrist.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin sure making it sound today though, like things

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Speaker 3: Optimistic about a couple returns. Aaron obviously man worked his

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Speaker 3: I mentioned over the course of the weekend, it was

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Speaker 3: we're comfortable with the general trajectory. But I'll keep you

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Speaker 3: updated and his level of participation, in the quality of

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Speaker 3: a be a greatest indicator.

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Speaker 1: Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow also expected back this week and

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Speaker 1: they're still in it in the AFC North. Burrow is

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Speaker 4: My perspective, I'm a football player, and if I get hurt,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to go through the rehab process, and then

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Speaker 4: I'm going to let everybody know when I feel like

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Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think I should go out

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Speaker 4: Guys are gonna get concussions. You're gonna break bones, tear ligaments.

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Speaker 4: I can control how I'm attacking my rehab and attacking

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Speaker 1: There are sometimes when I'm watching Bengals press conferences that

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm having flashbacks Mike, because not just

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Speaker 1: because Joe Burrow coming back from another injury and he

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Speaker 2: They could make a run.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna have to be the same type of deal

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Speaker 6: They're theoretically going to have to win out right, Like

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Speaker 6: I think this is more judy about getting Joe Burrow

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, Joe Burrow being back on the

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Speaker 7: That was as expansive as you'll ever hear Joe Burrow

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Speaker 8: This is what he does. He's a football player.

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Speaker 8: The last few weeks are very winnable games.

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Speaker 1: I'm now having a flash forward to the Monday Insiders

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll get there. When we do, they will

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Speaker 1: let Jamar Chase back this week. That is a big deal.

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Speaker 8: I'm not guaranteeing it. They're not guaranteeing it.

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Speaker 6: But the fact that the door is open here with

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Speaker 7: Tough guy you know who's eventually going to be back

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football Panthers and forty nine Ers, Christian McCaffrey's

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Speaker 1: They're right there in it, but you can already see

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Speaker 7: It's time for good coverage presented by a progressive Marcus

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Speaker 8: And now, to top all of that.

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Speaker 7: Welcome to the show. That's Brian Baldinger. I am Judy Batista.

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Speaker 7: First I got to ask you, like, how do you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, first of may means a lot.

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Speaker 11: You know, just being drafted to the New England Patriots

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Speaker 9: Marcus, are you ever going to lose another game? I

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Speaker 11: Our main thing every week is definitely to win, you know,

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Speaker 11: But taking a one week at a time is very important.

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Speaker 7: Actually, take us behind the scenes a little bit because

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Speaker 7: Can they tell us what he has been doing that

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Speaker 9: Marcus. One of the things, and just I was getting

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Speaker 8: It will mean a lot.

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Speaker 11: You know, our fan basemen I love them, you know,

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Speaker 11: So being able to, you know, bring that back to

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Speaker 8: Like I said from the beginning, but you know, we.

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Speaker 7: Marcus, thank you so much for taking time out to

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Speaker 8: Lots of lot the rest of the way for sure.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Marcus Jones. Here's your playoff picture.

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Speaker 6: Remember earlier we're talking about how the Bengals need to

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Speaker 2: The records are just unbelievable.

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Speaker 6: It's just stacked in the AFC right now and perhaps

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Speaker 6: Let's start in Philadelphia. I'll be down there on Friday.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna take some notes here. He'll me talk about

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Speaker 5: Yeah, stop me if you heard this before.

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Speaker 12: The Eagles passing offense needs to get fixed sometime soon.

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Speaker 5: This is a big problem for this team.

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Speaker 12: It's been a problem all year long, and it was

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Speaker 10: Jeffrey, I'm just going to go down ninety five and

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Speaker 10: talk about the Ravens offense.

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Speaker 2: Who needs to wake up.

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Speaker 10: Of course, the resurgence of their defense has fueled this

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Speaker 10: winning streak. You know they're playing the bum of the

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Speaker 10: week offenses but we'll talk about that later. But Lamar

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Speaker 10: Jackson this offense, and I know Lamar has had a

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Speaker 10: different injury every week showing up on the injury report

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Speaker 10: and they say he's fine. Well, Lamar is not fine,

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Speaker 10: And it is clear to me he is not decisive

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Speaker 10: in the pocket. He hasn't been accurate, he hasn't looked comfortable,

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Speaker 10: and most glaring to me is when he takes off

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Speaker 10: the run. He does not have that same explosiveness, that

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Speaker 10: same magic outside of the pocket. So in order to

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Speaker 10: get and play those better teams in the playoff teams,

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Speaker 10: Lamar and that offense is going to have to get

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Speaker 10: a lot lot better.

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Speaker 6: Mike Lamar has been listed with a hamstring, knee, ankle,

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Speaker 6: and now a toe injury. It's just basically they put

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Speaker 6: something they put up there because he's going to take

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Speaker 6: the first day of the week off and then practice

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Speaker 6: the rest of the week, which he's been doing. Chad

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Speaker 6: Steel with the Ravens media relations department down there, you

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Speaker 6: have my permission to next week just put general sort

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Speaker 6: of us.

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Speaker 2: We're good with that. Enough name in the body parts.

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Speaker 6: We talked about Philadelphia, a place that I spend a

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Speaker 6: lot of time Now, how about a place that you

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Speaker 6: spend a lot of time at place you live, Kansas

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Speaker 6: City Jeffrey.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, they're starting to wake up now on defense, but

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Speaker 12: they need more of a wake up call here because

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Speaker 12: previous two weeks against Denver and Buffalo, they had a

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Speaker 12: lot of problems dealing with Josh Allen and James Cook

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Speaker 12: and bow Knicks. Just saw the change in this game

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Speaker 12: against the Colts, a big win. That defense got four

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Speaker 12: to three outs in the last quarter in overtime, they

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Speaker 12: held the culture two and fifty five yards twenty points

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Speaker 12: season lows. But the big thing here is they started

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Speaker 12: to get pressure again, and that's where the wakeup call comes.

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Speaker 12: They got to get pressure with the front four in the.

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Speaker 10: Blitz Mark Well, we could just keep using that same

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Speaker 10: clip there because I'm gonna talk about that Colts offense.

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Speaker 10: And look, it's been a magical season for the most

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Speaker 10: part for Daniel Jones in this offense. But in their

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Speaker 10: two losses, Daniel Jones has had eight turnovers and then

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Speaker 10: against Kansas City in the second half, they did absolutely nothing,

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Speaker 10: ended the game with four straight three and outs. So

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Speaker 10: maybe the book is now out where if Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 10: can't get going and dominate games, and you put the

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Speaker 10: game in Daniel Jones' hands. Of course he has the

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Speaker 10: propensity if he presses too much to have the turnovers,

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Speaker 10: and then if they played two conservative you see what

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Speaker 10: happened against Kansas City where they just can't generate much offense.

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Speaker 10: So we'll see going forward if Daniel Jones can take

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Speaker 10: a step or the Colt Shanstyke and can find a

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Speaker 10: way to get Jonathan Taylor the ball a lot more

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Speaker 10: Mike even when teams trying to shut him down.

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Speaker 6: Jeffrey, the Bills are banged up and missing bodies up

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Speaker 6: from and they brought back Shack Lawson, third time that

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Speaker 6: they've brought back a guy who was originally a first

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Speaker 6: round pick for them.

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Speaker 2: They need some help up front. And you're saying that

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Speaker 2: they need some help up front.

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Speaker 12: Why, yeah, Well, that run defense in Buffalo has been

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Speaker 12: talked about as much as that passing offense in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 12: and for a good reason. This team is given up

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Speaker 12: one hundred and eighty nine yards rushing six times this season,

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Speaker 12: and their biggest upset losses have involved huge run games

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Speaker 12: by Atlanta by Miami. The problem here is they used

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Speaker 12: to be able to outscore people. But if Josh Allen

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Speaker 12: gets shut down like he did against Houston, they don't

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Speaker 12: have an answer for that. And so this Georgian defense

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Speaker 12: is ring thirtieth in the NFL right now. They got

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Speaker 12: to start getting better. Mark They're not going to go

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Speaker 12: anywhere where they want to go.

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Speaker 10: In January, great segue again, Jeffrey talking about that Houston

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Speaker 10: defense was absolutely dominant against the Bills and have been

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Speaker 10: absolutely dominant all season long, first in yards per game,

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Speaker 10: had been first in points per game, and then the

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Speaker 10: Rams just overtook down. But this offense, in order to

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Speaker 10: beat the better teams, you know, I'm talking about all

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Speaker 10: these teams as playoff teams and making a playoff run,

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Speaker 10: this offense will have to get something going. Of course,

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Speaker 10: Davis Mills filled in admirably for CJ.

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Speaker 5: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: Now CJ.

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Speaker 10: Stroud seems to be back, but even before that CJ.

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Speaker 10: That offense was a little struggling a little bit. And

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Speaker 10: look the margin of error for that offense. You don't

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Speaker 10: have to score much, you don't have to do much

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Speaker 10: the way that defense is playing. So Texas offense, CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 10: just get to twenty, you'll probably win the game.

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Speaker 6: NFL dot Com Slash first read for Jeffrey CD's look

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Speaker 6: at units that need to step up across the NFL.

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Speaker 6: Michael left Florio is going to be joining us later

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Speaker 6: in the show, and I know he's throwing things when

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Speaker 6: you were talking about that Bill's run defense. He is

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Speaker 6: a big Buffalo Bills fan. Appreciate you both. Just clock out.

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Speaker 2: You're done for the rest of the night. Stacy Dale's

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Speaker 2: has not done.

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Speaker 6: Stacy Dale's gonna be covering the game in Detroit, as

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Speaker 6: I believe she has done every year for like the

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Speaker 6: last fifteen years for NFL Network, and it's a big

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Speaker 6: one this year. Dale's along to talk about this game

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Speaker 6: coming up on The Insiders.

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 1: Today, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh announced the team is opening

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Speaker 1: running back Omrio Hampton's practice window. Hampton has not played

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Speaker 1: since foring an ankle injury back in Week five, but

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Speaker 1: there he is.

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Speaker 2: You'll be the judge.

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Speaker 1: They got twenty one days to activate him from injured reserve,

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Speaker 1: a move that could come sooner than later. Chiefs also

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Speaker 1: getting a backfield boost this week. Coach Andy Reid said

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Speaker 1: today Isaiah Pacheco will return from his knee injury on

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Speaker 1: Thursday against the Cowboys. Had been dealing with an mcl

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Speaker 1: sprain was close last week. Now Pacheco is ready to rock. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: we got a reunion in Seattle. Veteran safety Quandry Diggs

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Speaker 1: announced he is rejoining the Seahawks, with whom he played

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Speaker 1: five seasons and made three Pro Bowls. Nothing that Digs

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Speaker 1: likes more than breaking his own news on social media.

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Speaker 1: He is going to start out on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: We are headed for Thursday football. It is the John

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Speaker 1: Medden Thanksgiving celebration. And what a group of games. We

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Speaker 1: got three games on tabs, start with the Packers Lions,

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Speaker 1: followed by Chiefs, Cowboys, and wrapping up with the Bengals

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Speaker 1: and the Ravens. Welcome back to the Insiders presented by

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Speaker 1: Progressive Insurance Tom Pilisaro. Join now by our friend Stacy Dales,

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Speaker 1: who has a timeshare in Detroit that she uses for

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Speaker 1: a couple of nights every year. Right about this time.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one this year, Stacy. With the Packers

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Speaker 1: against the Lions. I saw the Packers last week against

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. That defense is just absolutely buzzing. How do

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Speaker 1: they go about trying to slow down all the things

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Speaker 1: Detroit can do offensively.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is a good partnership right here, Tom, because

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Speaker 13: they are sizzling defensively. You are absolutely right, by the way,

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Speaker 13: no two teams have met more on Thanksgiving than these

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Speaker 13: two foes in the Packers and the Lions. When you

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Speaker 13: talk about this defense, who would have thought, Tom, we

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Speaker 13: would be calling them the bread and butter of the

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Speaker 13: Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 8: They have been sensational.

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Speaker 13: In fact, Matt Lafleur after that Vikings victory this past

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Speaker 13: weekend said, our defensive performance allowed us to play the

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Speaker 13: way we played, get a lead, get to run the ball.

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Speaker 13: They ran it forty two times down the throat of

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Speaker 13: the Vikings to just twenty two passing attempts. They handed

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Speaker 13: the Vikings a season low in total yards offensively one

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Speaker 13: forty five. But what's interesting is they also handed the

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Speaker 13: Detroit Lions back in Week one a season low in

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Speaker 13: total yards two hundred and forty six total yards of

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Speaker 13: offense only for Jared goffin company to forty.

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Speaker 5: Six rush yards.

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Speaker 13: That being said, they are getting ready to face this

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Speaker 13: Green Bay team, getting ready to face a Lions team

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Speaker 13: in Detroit that is maybe looking for some revenge I mean,

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Speaker 13: they know, they understand what's at stake in this game.

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Speaker 13: We will talk about this division until the very end

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Speaker 13: because it's that competitive. And the Keys, as I spoke

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Speaker 13: with Xavier McKinney, one of their star safeties, one of

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Speaker 13: their star defensive players and one of the star safeties

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Speaker 13: in the NFL, is just like week one. He said,

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Speaker 13: we got to be physical, be on our keys, and

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Speaker 13: have really good eyes in play action. There's no quarterback

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Speaker 13: that's been better over the last two seasons Tom in

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Speaker 13: play action situations than golf. And then the guy on

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Speaker 13: the screen, Jimior Gibbs, he went absolutely off like a

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Speaker 13: video game this past weekend, a career high two hundred

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Speaker 13: and nineteen rush yards. Obviously it went to overtime, but

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Speaker 13: he had two hundred and sixty four yards from scrimmage

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Speaker 13: Jamior Gibbs did, and so you've got to keep pace

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Speaker 13: with him. As Xavier McKinney told me, got to slow

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Speaker 13: this guy down. He's a one cut potential home run hitter.

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Speaker 13: We got to slow him down.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, it was Emmanuel Wilson running into the end

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Speaker 1: zone a couple times for the Packers last week, as

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs was not out there against the Vikings.

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Speaker 12: I know this.

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Speaker 1: Jacobs wanted to play on Sunday. He's already said he's

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Speaker 1: definitely playing on Thursday. We'll see exactly if the Packers

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Speaker 1: allow him to do that with that thigh contusion and

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Speaker 1: the bone bruise he's dealing with here. But if he's back,

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Speaker 1: or even if not, Stacy, can they keep up? Can

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Speaker 1: the Packers offense keep up with Detroit?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is the question. Tom Wilson was fantastic by

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Speaker 13: the way this Lion's team at home, they averaged their

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Speaker 13: twenty four points per game. Okay, so if you're the

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Speaker 13: Green Bay Packers since Week nine, they've only mustered in

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Speaker 13: their last four games about seventeen and a half points

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Speaker 13: per game. That's since that loss they suffered to Carolina.

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Speaker 13: Not to mention, over these last three games they've had

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Speaker 13: just under three hundred yards. They haven't surpassed the three

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Speaker 13: hundred yard mark of offensively. And at the same token,

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Speaker 13: I would tell you this Lions group now, Dan Campbell,

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Speaker 13: they're not underestimating Jordan Love and company by any stretch

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Speaker 13: of the imagination. Dan Campbell called him dynamic this way

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Speaker 13: this week. He said the offense starts with him. We

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Speaker 13: understand Josh Jacobs is likely going to play to your point, Tom,

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Speaker 13: but I spoke with Derek Barnes, linebacker and his ability.

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Speaker 13: I know he's been really good in the pocket inside

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Speaker 13: the pocket this year. In fact, Jared Goff has a

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Speaker 13: one zero six passer rating inside the pocket. But they

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Speaker 13: want to fluster excuse me, Jordan Love. He's been outstanding,

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Speaker 13: but they want to fluster him. They want to make

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Speaker 13: him think, they want to distort things to fact and

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Speaker 13: certainly take away Josh Jacobs and all that great contact

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Speaker 13: balance that he has. Thursday will be a lot of

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Speaker 13: fun in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: Not many days, Stacy, that I get to sleep in.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is one of those days. One thing is going

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Speaker 1: to get me out of bed watching you on game

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Speaker 1: day kickoff before that game in Detroit.

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Speaker 2: We'll look forward to seeing you then. For now, Judy, Well,

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Speaker 2: Stacy just said it.

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Speaker 7: We're going to be talking about this division to the

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Speaker 7: very end because of how competitive is this is the

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Speaker 7: NFC North standings as they are right now, the Chicago

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Speaker 7: Bears lead the NFC North Packers Detroit Vikings. Let's bring

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Speaker 7: back our Brian Balding or Baldi. I wrote about narratives

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Speaker 7: that maybe we can finally put to bed now that

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Speaker 7: we're getting into the stretch run of the season. The

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Speaker 7: first one I want to talk about is about the

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Speaker 7: Chicago Bears. The Chicago Bears are no mirage. People may

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Speaker 7: have thought that early in the season. In beating the

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Speaker 7: Steelers last week, they finally beat a team that has

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Speaker 7: a winning record. I know they did it with Aaron

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Speaker 7: Rodgers not playing, but the Bears also were missing six

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Speaker 7: defensive starters in this game, so pretty good showing by them.

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Speaker 7: We have seen Caleb Williams blossom before our very eyes.

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Speaker 7: The idea that the Chicago Bears are going to go

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Speaker 7: away needs to be put to Ben Baldy.

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Speaker 9: Well, Judy, They'll see the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday, Black Friday,

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Speaker 9: and it'll be another good test. But I thought they

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Speaker 9: outplayed Pittsburgh in that game. I thought they were out

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Speaker 9: they out coached Pittsburgh. I thought that they continue to

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Speaker 9: take the ball away in record numbers were twenty four takeaways,

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Speaker 9: two more interceptions won by Dayshaun Wright was a fantastic

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Speaker 9: play on his part, But you know they played their

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Speaker 9: third team middle linebacker and DeMarco Jackson. He had fifteen tackles,

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Speaker 9: and so I feel like the Bears they started Ousie

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Speaker 9: Trapilo for his first game at left tackle. No matter

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Speaker 9: who the Bears put on the field right now, they

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Speaker 9: are playing at a high level. And that's a result

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Speaker 9: of good coaching from Ben Johnson. You have to take

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Speaker 9: him serious.

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Speaker 7: Right The next narrative I want to put to bed

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Speaker 7: here is the fact that the Vikings were correct in

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Speaker 7: turning over the team to JJ McCarthy immediately. It seems

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Speaker 7: like that maybe was a bit premature. He has certainly

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Speaker 7: struggled this season in his first as the starter. He

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Speaker 7: didn't have a rookie season because of the preseason injury,

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Speaker 7: But frankly, since he came back from his injury this

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Speaker 7: year in the middle of the year, he's actually regressed.

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Speaker 7: He doesn't seem to be seeing the field very well.

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Speaker 7: He's thrown ten interceptions. Given that this team could have

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Speaker 7: kept Sam Darnold or Daniel Jones, or even maybe brought

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Speaker 7: along Aaron Rodgers who is interested in going there, it

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Speaker 7: seems maybe a little bit early to turn it over

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Speaker 7: to JJ McCarthy, not saying that he can't be the answer.

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Speaker 7: After another off season of work. Maybe he is the

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Speaker 7: long term solution at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, just

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Speaker 7: not right now, Baldy.

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Speaker 9: I agree, Judy, and I don't you know. I mean,

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Speaker 9: the only way to get better is to play. But

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Speaker 9: this was a team that won fourteen games around the

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Speaker 9: quarterback last year. It was a very good team, and

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Speaker 9: you wouldn't know that right now. The way that they're playing,

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Speaker 9: JJ does stare down as receivers. He is wildly inaccurate

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Speaker 9: when he's getting open guys. Jordan Adison right there. They

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Speaker 9: are suffering because of the quarterback play, not just that

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Speaker 9: they haven't played great defensively all year like they did

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Speaker 9: a year ago. So it's not just JJ, but they

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Speaker 9: needed much better production from that position.

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Speaker 2: We should add it.

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Speaker 7: He is currently in the concussion protocol, so it may

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Speaker 7: not be available to play this week, and we'll see

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Speaker 7: when he returns.

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Speaker 6: Bag left over for you boy, I'll take one, Michael

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Speaker 6: left Florio. It's time to go inside NFL Fantasy Live

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Speaker 6: with you our guy to tell us every week who

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Speaker 6: would acclaim on the waiver wire.

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Speaker 5: Quarterback?

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Speaker 2: And I think it's the same guy we've been talking

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Speaker 2: about for three weeks.

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Speaker 8: Straight, is it not.

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Speaker 14: I changed it up last week because I was like,

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Speaker 14: people should not to pick him.

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Speaker 8: People are not listening.

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Speaker 14: I don't know what more Jacoby Prissett has to do

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Speaker 14: for people to add him. Like, like you said, it's

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Speaker 14: not my first time talking him up. I've talked him

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Speaker 14: up as much as I possibly can. And all he

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Speaker 14: has done is gone out and average twenty one fantasy

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Speaker 14: points per game in his six starts, with.

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Speaker 8: Over eighteen in each of them.

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Speaker 14: In those six weeks, he has been a top twelve

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Speaker 14: fantasy quarterback in all of them.

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Speaker 8: And on top of it, this week he gets the Bucks,

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Speaker 8: who are.

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Speaker 14: Top five and fantasy points per game a lot of quarterbacks,

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Speaker 14: and then he has a good fantasy playoff schedule and

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Speaker 14: he gets the Bengals in championship week, yet he is

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Speaker 14: available in over sixty percent NFL dot Com leagues. Please

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Speaker 14: add him this week so I could stop talking about him.

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Speaker 6: We don't usually do impressions around here, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: do one. Here's the eleven other teams in my league

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Speaker 6: right now. Oh, okay, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna go pick

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Speaker 6: up Jacobe. Where is he? He's not here? No, that's right,

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Speaker 6: because this guy listened to Michael le f Florio a

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Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago and never drafted him, and in fact,

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Speaker 6: I've been starting him.

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Speaker 2: So that's how you win in fantasy football running backs.

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Speaker 8: I'm a numb guy, right.

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Speaker 14: He has led the Bear Last week he led the

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Speaker 14: Bears running backs with fifty six percent of the snaps.

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Speaker 14: He had twelve carries and sixteen routes. This is now

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Speaker 14: back to back weeks where he has had a dozen

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Speaker 14: carries and he has been running well, clearly getting.

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Speaker 2: More and more involved.

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Speaker 8: But this past week was the first time that we

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Speaker 8: saw him play over DeAndre Swift. He also got the

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Speaker 8: goal line touchdown there.

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Speaker 14: Maybe it's just a one week thing, but I want

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Speaker 14: him on my roster.

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Speaker 8: In case it's not a special if you are a

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Speaker 8: DeAndre Swift manager, if he is out there, he is

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Speaker 8: my top ad.

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Speaker 2: Of the week.

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Speaker 6: Then how about another impression Christopher Watt. Now I'm not

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Speaker 6: gonna do wide receiver. Who are we picking up at

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Speaker 6: the wide receiver position?

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Speaker 8: I can't do impressions.

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Speaker 14: I can only tell you to go pick up Christian Watson,

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Speaker 14: who is someone that I've spoke up on this show before.

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Speaker 14: Look in each of the last three weeks he has

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Speaker 14: led the packers and snaps and routes.

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Speaker 8: That is a trend. He is their new wide receiver one.

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Speaker 14: And in that stretch he's been more of a floor play,

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Speaker 14: which is pretty funny because.

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Speaker 8: For most of his career he's been a boom or

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Speaker 8: bust option.

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Speaker 14: He still does have that high ceiling though, and I

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Speaker 14: think we could see it this week indoors against the Lions,

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Speaker 14: who've allowed the most yards on deep passes since week eight.

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Speaker 14: They also play man at a high rate. Jordan Love

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Speaker 14: has excelled against it. So before he goes off on Thursday.

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Speaker 14: On Thursday, when you're watching, why not see if he's

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Speaker 14: out there and if he is Adam and get him

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Speaker 14: on your fantasy team.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I was looking at him a couple

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Speaker 6: of weeks ago. Yeah, he's been claimed in my league.

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Speaker 6: I was looking at him the potentially claiming. But you

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Speaker 6: know what, this roster is so tight right now because

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Speaker 6: I've been listening to all year long, not a lot

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Speaker 6: of holes in my roster, so tight end position where

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Speaker 6: I am set.

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Speaker 2: But if you're not, who are we picking up?

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Speaker 8: Breton Strange?

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Speaker 14: I think is a really good ad right now. He

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Speaker 14: returned last week and he led the Jags with ninety

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Speaker 14: three receiving yards and he saw five targets. He's been

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Speaker 14: sitting around ten fantasy points pretty much every game but

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Speaker 14: one this season, and there's like four must start tight

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Speaker 14: ends and a handful of others you could feel good about.

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Speaker 14: So if you're one of those managers streaming, go get

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Speaker 14: Breton Strange. And speaking of streaming, there's a good amount

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Speaker 14: of depth at the tight end position this week. Add

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Speaker 14: Darren Waller if he is out there. He is a

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Speaker 14: fantastic playoff schedule, but he has some upside wide receivers.

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Speaker 14: So yeah, if you're in need, check for all these

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Speaker 14: names because they might be out there in your league.

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Speaker 2: Yes they are. I got a couple of claims in

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Speaker 2: on those guys.

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Speaker 6: Plus I'm streaming defenses, So hopefully I make the right

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Speaker 6: call this week not to get the Giants, because all

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Speaker 6: those all those eleven people I was talking about that

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Speaker 6: were going to make waiver claims, they're going to make

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Speaker 6: waiver claims, and I don't want them to know who

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Speaker 6: I put claims in for.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael ef.

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Speaker 1: If those three games on Thanksgiving look tasty, check out

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Speaker 1: what we got for dessert on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Bears and Eagles, two teams at.

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Speaker 1: Eight and three in the mix for the number one

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Speaker 1: seed in the NFC. Our guy Sam Schwarztein has normally

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Speaker 1: seen on Thursdays. This time it's going to be on

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Speaker 1: Black Friday on Prime Vision with the good folks over

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Speaker 1: there at Prime Sam. A fantastic matchup here, and a

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Speaker 1: big part of that is because Ben Johnson's arrival has

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Speaker 1: helped Caleb Williams really evolve in terms of the way

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Speaker 1: that he's playing football. What are the next gen stats

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Speaker 1: tell us about what type of evolution we're seeing from

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Speaker 1: Caleb this season?

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Speaker 5: Caleb William's number one overall pick high expectations. Last year,

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Speaker 5: he had sixty eight SATs more sacks than any other player.

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Speaker 5: But this year he's evolved. He's given a lot of tools,

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Speaker 5: and we'll go into that later from Ben Johnson. But

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Speaker 5: Caleb's reacting to pressure so differently. Last year he had

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Speaker 5: a twenty six percent pressure to sack errate, one of

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Speaker 5: the highest of the NFL. Now it's a thirteen percent

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Speaker 5: pressure to sack rate. When he sees pressure, he makes

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Speaker 5: up his mind. He's the ability to avoid the pass

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Speaker 5: rush is huge. Sibility to actually scramble and gain yards

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Speaker 5: downfield has been massive. But he doesn't have as many

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Speaker 5: negative plays, and when you watch the film, he should

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Speaker 5: actually be better because his teammates aren't always making the

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Speaker 5: plays when they need to. He's able to extend plays

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Speaker 5: like he does here.

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Speaker 1: I mean that type of a throw where he's going

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Speaker 1: to his left throwing it across his body to the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field. It's a very rare type of tray.

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Speaker 1: What I'm struck by is how controlled Ben Johnson has

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams playing a lot of the time. What types

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Speaker 1: of tools, as you put in, is Ben Johnson giving

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Speaker 1: Caleb to help him grow.

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Speaker 2: The game the way he is right?

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Speaker 5: We can see him do all the crazy we did

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Speaker 5: in that last clip, but here it's the easy buttons,

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Speaker 5: their pressure, play action, making everything with the same to

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Speaker 5: the defense, trying to make them bite on the run.

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Speaker 5: Think of the easy throws over the middle, which he

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Speaker 5: where he makes teams pay. So when we use expected

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Speaker 5: points at it, which is contextualizing yards based on down

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Speaker 5: Disan's location on field. He is nineteen point two total EPA.

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Speaker 5: Fifteen point eight of that comes on just play action.

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Speaker 5: Make them play easy for Caleb. Let his arm do

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Speaker 5: the talking.

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Speaker 1: When I was looking at the Eagles Cowboys game last week,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty one to nothing. When I get back to

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Speaker 1: my hotel in Green Bay. By the time I go

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Speaker 1: to dinner, they're somehow tied. What do the Eagles have

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Speaker 1: to do to bounce back after letting that type of

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Speaker 1: lead slip away?

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Speaker 5: This team is built not by the coordinators but the

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Speaker 5: peral manager to focus on game one on one matchups

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Speaker 5: to then be able to have the shot plays and

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Speaker 5: always win. And that's what they like to do. On

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Speaker 5: deep passes. Jalen Hurts has thirty nine point five EPs,

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Speaker 5: that's third in the NFL. He has only four point

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Speaker 5: seven total EPA on the season. That means in every

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Speaker 5: other aspect of his game, he's hurt reading his team's

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Speaker 5: chances of scoring. And what they do is they throw

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Speaker 5: the go ball sixty two percent of the time. It's

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Speaker 5: the second highest rate of a deep throw of full

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Speaker 5: time starters in the NFL. And the only is a

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Speaker 5: forty three percent completion percentage when he does it. If

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Speaker 5: they come down with the deep ball, they got to

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Speaker 5: some one off Friday.

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Speaker 1: Sam Swort singing ketch him on the Black Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of Prime Video Next Gen Stat's alternate streams. Sam, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. We will see you next week. Still

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Speaker 1: more to come here on the Insiders. And while you wait,

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Speaker 1: how about over at NFL dot com slash Rookies and

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Speaker 1: vote for the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the week,

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Speaker 1: some familiar name, some new ones.

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Speaker 2: Go vote.

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Speaker 6: You think there's a drama inside the Eagles locker room,

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Speaker 6: how about a Vic Fangio's press conference today?

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Speaker 5: We didn't get offentime. What's that? When you're shut up finished,

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Speaker 5: then they're wasting.

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Speaker 6: The hardest press conference is to get a question in,

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Speaker 6: so sometimes you jump all over the answer to try

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Speaker 6: to make it happen.

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Speaker 8: I can never get HI minute I stopped going.

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Speaker 2: Police are on the fistfight for the filly media this time.

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Speaker 2: We've seen that before.