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Speaker 1: Welcome to another NFL Daily where we missed the hell

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Speaker 1: out of Cynthia Freeland.

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Speaker 2: Last week.

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Speaker 3: We missed you.

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Speaker 1: We needed her me, we got her in the studio. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm back in the Chris Wesley podcast studio with my

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Speaker 1: friend Cynthia Freeland.

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Speaker 2: We missed you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was in London last week. Neil Reynolds stepped in

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Speaker 1: and picked games for you. He didn't win a single game,

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Speaker 1: he went oh to three. But because we're professional, we

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Speaker 1: did get your picks. The listeners are going to just

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Speaker 1: have to trust us on this one that you went

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Speaker 1: to and one great on your pick.

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Speaker 2: Sel.

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Speaker 4: I mean, listen, we can show them the email proof.

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Speaker 4: It's not like it's not there.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is absolutely true. You had Washington wrong last week.

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Speaker 1: But you got that half a freaking point. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: you got the Texans covering easily and the Bears covering easily.

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Speaker 1: When I saw your Bears pick, I was like, why

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Speaker 1: didn't I take the Bears? I felt so strong about

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Speaker 1: that game there in London, and then it happened I

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Speaker 1: went too and one as well. I got the Lions

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers both covering comfortably and the Giants not

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Speaker 1: even coming very close. So two and one for me

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Speaker 1: gets me to eight and ten on the season. You're

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Speaker 1: nine and nine. My extra picks did poorly last week,

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Speaker 1: so I'm down to eleven and six and my extra

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Speaker 1: picks we do have a couple. Eleven and six is great,

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Speaker 1: still very good, but I went zero and three last week. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's start well, I'll let you start every week. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if you're new to the show, both Cynthia

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Speaker 1: and I, two of the foremost prognosticators in the business,

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Speaker 1: picked three games against the spread.

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Speaker 4: Okay, for my first pick this week, I would like

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Speaker 4: to go with Listen, I'm i woof this one's gonna

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Speaker 4: be spicy, but I'm going with the Jets plus one

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Speaker 4: and a half. Okay, I think the Jets went out right,

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Speaker 4: So if you're gonna also give me another point and

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Speaker 4: a half, I will take it.

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Speaker 2: I have the Jets winning this game as well.

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Speaker 1: On our show debut, which, by the way, people could

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Speaker 1: they can dvyards on early Friday mornings on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Morning early if you're on late night specific Saturday, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's very early. What do you like?

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Speaker 1: Does your model put a DeVante trade into the mix

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Speaker 1: and how much does that change anything. Does it put

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson into the mix? Does that change anything there?

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Speaker 4: You know, the Russell Wilson thing just added more passes

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Speaker 4: with actually added more volatility because the Jets defense is

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Speaker 4: very good. And then if you look on the other side,

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Speaker 4: Davante Adams has been the reliable option for Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 4: on quick passes basically for ever since they were together, right, So,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, it kind of bolstered the Jets odds

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Speaker 4: no matter what. And I think the line moved half

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Speaker 4: a point with Davante and I'm like, fine, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't care, but you moved at another a point or something.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I went over and above, Yes, whatever the movement was.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you have them. When I like that, I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. But that's not going to be one of

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Speaker 1: my three picks I'm going to make. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: continue to make the mistake of picking the Patriots it

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Speaker 1: to cover the spread.

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Speaker 3: I have it too.

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Speaker 2: Five and a half is okay?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, you got to have a code as someone

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Speaker 1: that's picking games, and one of my codes, one of

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Speaker 1: my ways I would I do this would be some

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Speaker 1: teams just aren't worthy of being heavy favorites and the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars are one of those teams like you can put

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Speaker 1: any NFL team out there against the Jaguars. I do

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Speaker 1: not think they should be a five and a half

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Speaker 1: point favorite in any scenario whatsoever, and this is that scenario.

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Speaker 1: It's a neutral field game, you could say JAG's home game,

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Speaker 1: but it's not gonna really matter. I'm sure the Patriots

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Speaker 1: fans will actually travel pretty well and it'll be even,

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Speaker 1: but it'll be mostly just people enjoying the game.

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Speaker 2: It'd be fun atmosphere. They're at Wimbley.

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Speaker 1: So giving the Jaguars five and a half points after

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Speaker 1: a week where I think Olie Connelly on our recap

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Speaker 1: show said it well, watching the sidelines, He's never seen

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Speaker 1: a more disconnected team emotionally in his life, and now

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Speaker 1: they got to go spend a whole week together in London.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's miserable. People think the head coach is gonna get

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Speaker 1: Patriots straight up. I'm not ready to go there because

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Speaker 1: the last thing I did before I came in to

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Speaker 1: a reminder this is a bottom five defense. Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: They're just more talented than the Patriots when their offense

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Speaker 1: There they're not beginning coach very well, so that maybe

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars win this game. But five and a half points.

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Speaker 1: With Drake may making some plays last week that was

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Speaker 1: he is very volatile, so it could go really well

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Speaker 1: and he probably could have some negative plays. But this

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Speaker 1: this Jag secondary hasn't made any plays all year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Andre Cisco had like the one good play

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Speaker 4: and then there was allegations that he said their team quit.

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Speaker 3: So yes, I don't know what's true or not.

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Speaker 4: I just know that it looks like a mess and

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Speaker 3: Front watch their defensive front.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they like do hockey line substitutions like you know,

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Speaker 4: they're they're like summing out five layers.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the one part of the game that does

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Speaker 1: worry me a little. Bit Trayvon Walker has had some

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Speaker 1: So that matchup against the Patriots offensive line. But that's

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why. Just as a little bonus

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Speaker 1: on our show game debut for my write this down

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Speaker 1: this week, I was like, Drake May over rushing yard

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Speaker 1: in total, so that was like twenty nine and a half.

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Speaker 1: That's not one of my picks here. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: an extra pick. I'm throwing that in the xtra pick

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Speaker 1: in the box because he's gonna when I think they're

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Speaker 1: telling Drake May. Essentially, if you don't see anything and

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Speaker 1: the rush comes quickly, like run dude, and he did it. Well,

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Speaker 1: is that going to be one of your three pills?

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Speaker 4: My next one is Washington by seven and a half

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Speaker 2: Okay, that that makes a lot of sense to me.

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Speaker 2: Explain why?

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Speaker 3: Well what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Number one, Listen, there's so many good things to like

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Speaker 4: about Jayden Daniels, but the one thing I want to

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Speaker 4: the fact that no Jonathan Allen now, and now that's

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Speaker 4: going to be difficult to overcome. But I actually have

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Speaker 4: seen their defense defending passes a little bit better in

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Speaker 4: recent weeks. I'm not gonna call them a good pass defense.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say that they're not going to give

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Speaker 3: What I am going to say.

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Speaker 4: Is that their ability to contain these chunk plays on

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Speaker 4: every single down is limited more than Jayden Daniel's ability

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Speaker 4: to create such things on the other side. So I

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Speaker 4: think seven and a half, I have them an eleven

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Speaker 4: my model seeing eleven points seven and a half is

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Speaker 4: like you know, the big gapes, yeah, I'm way more

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Speaker 4: conservative than most models.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that one too, if I had to

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Speaker 1: pick that one. Andy Dalton's playing just well enough that

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Speaker 1: you could see him like scoring some late touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: make you sweat it. But that defense is just just terrible.

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Speaker 1: Jadavin Clowney is still out of practice. Deontay Johnson out

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Speaker 1: of practice the first couple of days of the week,

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Speaker 1: of his teammates said that he will play.

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Speaker 2: Xavier Laget said, well.

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Speaker 4: If Xavier Laget says it, it must be true.

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Speaker 1: Xavier Legett also says he has if he scores two

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in this game, he has like a second part

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Speaker 1: of his horse galloping celebration.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been.

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Speaker 4: Tracking, but there's a second part.

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Speaker 1: He has, the second part that he's ready to unveil,

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Speaker 1: but he has to score two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what you are saying is unlikely.

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Speaker 1: Washington, that's your second pick minus seven and.

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Speaker 2: And a half.

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Speaker 3: Yep, don't forget that hook.

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Speaker 1: I'm so I'm like on the fence of what my

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Speaker 1: with the one I feel better about. Okay, Seattle plus

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Speaker 1: three yep, this is more of a hunch. Byron Murphy

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Speaker 1: they've been getting pushed around in the middle. If he's there,

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Speaker 1: he can make everyone around him better. I like the

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Speaker 1: extra rest factor. The Seahawks play on Thursday night. Falcons

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Speaker 1: off of a normal week like that. The Falcons are

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Speaker 1: also the the they can't keep getting away with this team,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like every week it's just like, okay, Falcons,

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Speaker 1: like they've won three in a row, the Seahawks have

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Speaker 1: lost three in a row. And when sometimes that happens

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Speaker 1: and I see two teams that I believe are pretty

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Speaker 1: those streaks are gonna end. That's how it works out. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's not like a statistical way to really look at it,

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Speaker 1: but I do think Mike McDonald, their defensive coach, with

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Speaker 1: this Falcons offense, which is limited in the passing game,

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins every week he can't move. It's the play

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Speaker 1: actions not working. You're probably getting Tarrek wollenback for this

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Speaker 1: but I think Seattle can throw on them.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Seattle plus three, okay.

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Speaker 3: I mean I like all that.

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Speaker 4: One thing I really like in this game is a

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Speaker 4: dk Metcalf touchdown, who in large part because the go

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Speaker 4: route has been where he's been so great, and the

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Speaker 4: opportunity here I did see. By the way, it is

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Speaker 4: worth noting that Justin Simmons was on the injury report

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Speaker 4: for the Falcons. Should that be something that happens, then

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Speaker 4: we're gonna want to say, like, maybe look at the

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Speaker 4: numbers for Tyler Lockett or Jack Okay, Jigbud, make them

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Speaker 4: a little higher. But ultimately I think the go route

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Speaker 4: DK metcalf back on track with those games that are

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Speaker 4: like three, you know, one hundred plus. He had three

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Speaker 1: I also like that he has been the main character

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Speaker 1: this week in Seattle, just in the media of everyone

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Speaker 1: why it didn't work out, and it's like he's not

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Speaker 4: This one is going to be someone I know you

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Speaker 3: Number one.

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Speaker 4: A lot of Green Bay's wide receiving corps has ended

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Speaker 1: It was not the name of his book. The name

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Speaker 1: You're the third smart person I've heard make this pick

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I feel like it you might have been.

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Speaker 3: Not for the Raiders, for the Raiders's kind of like that's.

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Speaker 4: I mean I have them at a touchdowns, So I'm

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Speaker 3: So be spicy on the show, be boring in the box.

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Speaker 1: So to review our picks, your picks are Washington minus

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Speaker 2: Yep. You have the Jets winning over the Steelers. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been it's been moving around there. You get

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Speaker 4: This It depends on what happens with like if Mike

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Speaker 4: This one I don't feel great about, like as I

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Speaker 2: That's it so good. It's a tricky one.

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Speaker 1: But even though I really liked them getting nine points

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Speaker 4: Oh. I don't know if the Bengals defense has solved anything,

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Speaker 4: It is nineteen percent. It's up from eighteen percent last week. Great,

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Speaker 4: I will give you a touchdown to the other team.

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Speaker 4: I just think that is that is not good. I

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Speaker 1: I've been rooting Nick Chubb against this Browns team because

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Speaker 1: and that's going to be covering five and a half points.

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Speaker 4: Be clear, the way that you navigate this for fantasy is, yes,

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Speaker 4: you're starting Nick Chubb number one, and yes you're starting

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Speaker 4: David and Joku that's number two, okay. And if you're

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Speaker 4: So again, I don't I'm not saying for your for

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Speaker 4: But or maybe David in joke if you're like really

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: Come for the picks, Come for the picks, Gay Navigation

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Speaker 1: for the DFS Fantasy.

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Speaker 4: What do you love DFS and Fantasy Man.

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Speaker 1: Well, we are not allowed to play DFS as employees,

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Speaker 1: but we can give advice.

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Speaker 3: Cynthia again, I'm I'm not playing.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying what I would do if I were

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: If you want more of Cynthia's numbers lot has so

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Speaker 1: many numbers, like a billion. She has a model that

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Speaker 1: does everything possible. She has a YouTube.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You don't call it a YouTube page,

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Speaker 2: just a YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Your YouTube page is called Numbers Game with Cynthia Friland

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Speaker 1: and the game show like long preview every week, picking

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Speaker 2: It is good stuff. It is possible.

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Speaker 4: Even this week's game, which was a very very like

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Speaker 1: Yes, she's working really hard on that. So people should

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Speaker 1: check out Numbers Game with Cynthia Freeland. Check us out

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Speaker 1: on game debut. We will be back on NFL Daily

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night with Nick Shook and Patrick claybah I

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Speaker 1: went fourteen to o in my straight up picks last week.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen to know.

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Speaker 1: So when the picks are starting to be right, like

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Speaker 1: Cynthia and I, I can feel a hot streak coming.

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Speaker 2: You know, football is back. We'll see us sudden