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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Mike Garriffolo. I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Peldicero. We think he and Rapport is where everybody

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Speaker 1: rejoin us for this show. Judy Batista parts unknown, we're

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Speaker 1: holding it down for you. This is part two of

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Speaker 1: this particular YouTube and the podcast vision. If you missed

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Speaker 1: part one, it doesn't matter. You can listen to them

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Speaker 1: watch them in either order. Also, I explained that that

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Speaker 1: one I lined by saying a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 1: that was the final podcast in YouTube show. There happens

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Speaker 1: to be a wild card game tonight. It is the

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Speaker 1: Vikings and the Rams. More on that matchup in a

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Speaker 1: little bit of news in just a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: let's talk here Mike about a couple of items, starting

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Speaker 1: out with the AFC playoff games that we saw over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. The Ravens one of the bugaboos for Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it's playoff success as a whole is one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest ones. But the Steelers definitely have been

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Speaker 1: that for him. They've been a kryptonite sort of a thing,

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Speaker 1: particularly in the postseason. But this Washy a matchup where

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Speaker 1: whatever you thought kind of the your concerns about the

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Speaker 1: Steelers would be going into this thing. They all showed

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Speaker 1: up in the first half, and by the time the

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Speaker 1: Steelers seemed to wake up in the third quarter, you're

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Speaker 1: down twenty one nothing and there was very little chance

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Speaker 2: Is there a questionnaire just like, yeah, it's I I

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Speaker 2: I really actually liked this matchup for.

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Speaker 3: Baltimore going forward. I we don't make picks in the game,

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Speaker 3: but I would I would appreciate Baltimore going on the

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Speaker 3: on the road with that running game, with the way

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Speaker 3: that they're playing, and and the way that they really

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Speaker 3: dictated things against the Steelers. They're playing with a swagger,

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Speaker 3: a confidence. Uh, It's it's quite impressive what they're doing

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Speaker 3: Traveling in the playoff, I think is coming to fruition

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Speaker 3: and will continue to come to fruition. The possibility of

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Speaker 3: getting Zay Flowers back, which we all expect that that

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Speaker 3: you know, Buffalo There were a couple of moments early

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Speaker 3: distant memory that Denver really came out and scored that

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Speaker 3: it was like, okay, Bo Nicks and the Broncos came

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Speaker 3: this is gonna be quite the match. This is gonna

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Speaker 3: be the game of the weekend, I think in the

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Speaker 3: NFL Ian.

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Speaker 1: Still mute, Buddy, yep, just unmute, Just push the button.

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Speaker 3: You're still you may you know what happened. I think

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Speaker 3: you pulled the connection.

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Speaker 1: All the plug out when you moved.

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Speaker 3: You may be muted on the thing on the on

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Speaker 4: Now there he is here. Here's what uh, here's what

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Speaker 4: I was thinking the.

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Speaker 5: Watching the Bills and Josh Allen and watching the Broncos.

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Speaker 5: I felt like everybody was weirdly nervous and Romo kind

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Speaker 5: of who was who was on the call?

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Speaker 1: Was it? Romo was right on the Bills game. Yes, yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Romo kind of called it out.

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Speaker 5: He's like, they look nervous, and I'm like, they do

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Speaker 5: like Josh Allen had literally no chance but just to

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Speaker 5: they advanced and I think this game is gonna be

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Speaker 5: It's like, do they need to be like shocked into

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Speaker 1: So to clear up any confusion that might have been

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Speaker 1: caused by comments on the various broadcasts, this week, the

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Speaker 1: Bills host the Ravens in the divisional playoff round. The

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Speaker 1: it felt like the momentum started to go away from

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Speaker 3: they're the team that capitalizes on opportunities. They're the team

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Speaker 3: Uh No, that was yesterday. That was yesterday. We were

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Speaker 3: I just can't see them getting through with this offense

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Speaker 4: I have Texans thoughts.

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Speaker 5: So we do a thing where if a team has

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Speaker 5: I would I don't also don't pick games, but I

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Speaker 1: And this is obviously we all assumed a lot of

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Speaker 1: Mike Frabel takes over and he's gonna make them better.

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Speaker 1: Only there's any question just knowing how smart Mike is

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Speaker 1: for the years to come. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs,

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Speaker 4: One is Mike.

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Speaker 4: They just need someone to build up the infrastructure.

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Speaker 5: And like Mike, he is such a per perfect hire

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Speaker 4: I think it's a great hire.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be you know, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: You know you're gonna be everything that. I think the

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Speaker 3: Rabel's that kind of guy. Now can he do it

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Speaker 5: H'm how much should they spend? When he was coaching Tennessee,

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Speaker 5: how much did they spend?

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Speaker 4: Range? I cannot I try to think of this today.

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Speaker 3: They signing in?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, who did they bring in from the outside?

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Speaker 3: They rehapped a lot of their own guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they do. They have a lot of money

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Speaker 3: you're in a great position. Travis Hunter is gonna be

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Speaker 3: The point is they're in position to make something happen

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure he'll find some guys that uh played

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Speaker 3: Taylor Decker had that video yesterday and that you sent

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Speaker 4: Suck different church, same pew or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Who was it was Taylor Taylor Wan what I say,

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Speaker 5: Taylor Deck, Taylor little one is what I meant.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, absolute person, thank you. I always every time your

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Speaker 5: Taylor one is the reason I got kicked out of

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Speaker 3: When was there, Tom's on his listen, Tom's on his

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Speaker 1: Talking about how you are entertaining guys right interviews on

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Speaker 3: Like talking about the players. Hey, it's gonna suck, uh,

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Speaker 3: but you're gonna win. Basically, that tell what story?

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Speaker 5: Whether he got a story how I got kicked out

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Speaker 1: I believe, I believe I have yes, all right, tell it.

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Speaker 4: I was uh in training camp.

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Speaker 5: It was me and Willie McGuinness were at Titans training camp.

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Speaker 5: Rabel was there was it was either his last year

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Speaker 4: Was, and we start chatting and Brabel sees sees us

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Speaker 5: You know you're not allowed to talk to put and

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, you called me.

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Speaker 5: I don't know anywhere to go, right, So I stand

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Speaker 5: And then but like, what am I gonna do? Freaking

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Speaker 4: And I see if Rabel walk up.

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Speaker 5: I'm really sorry that I interrupted your practice by talking

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Speaker 5: to Taylor Awan and he goes, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the very good story the media core

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Speaker 1: that's used to the combination filibuster and non answer Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 1: Like Bill, Bill had a way of cutting you down

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Speaker 1: just by staring at you. Rabel will actually mf you

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Speaker 4: Ben Volan, you know.

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Speaker 1: Why you gotta do Ben like that? Why you gotta

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Speaker 5: Not Doug Kide, not Tom Currin, nor Karen's gonna want it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Karen. Yeah, but Karen got a nice shout out

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I didn't name her right there. Another

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Speaker 1: Ve gets MF something something's wrong, something's really gone gone

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Speaker 1: sideways there, all right? So the remaining head coaching vacancies

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Speaker 1: So you've got the Jets, who have done a ton

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Speaker 4: You got the.

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Speaker 4: Uh, Well, it's gonna take forever. I mean you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be sitting there in New Orleans and unable

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Speaker 3: I will be because you know it's not coming. At

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Speaker 5: guess is we have six openings. Now my guess is

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Speaker 5: we'll have only three hired Biomobile, That is my guess, Nate, We've.

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Speaker 3: Got we've got six, not including Rabel.

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Speaker 4: What do we got?

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Speaker 1: Yew boys made it six, right, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, So I mean that's three it's gonna be now.

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Speaker 5: You know, we a lot of times we know who's

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Speaker 5: getting the jobs when the super Bowl starts, because but.

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Speaker 4: Like I think it'll take a while.

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Speaker 5: And I think the way the NFL has forced everyone

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Speaker 5: to take a breath and make it long probably helps

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Speaker 5: the process, but it doesn't help us, which is obviously

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Speaker 5: the most important.

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Speaker 1: Vikings Rams the last game of wild Card weekend. It

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Speaker 1: kicks off the night in Glendale, Arizona. Our thoughts, certainly

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Speaker 1: with everybody in southern California. We're dealing with life disruptions,

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Speaker 1: major and minor, property loss challenges, loved ones, all those things.

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Speaker 1: Certainly thinking about all of you, and if you're watching this,

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Speaker 1: glad that you took some time for us to hopefully

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Speaker 1: let you think about something other than the devastation there.

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Speaker 1: The Rams also were dealing with this. Through the course

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Speaker 1: of the week. There was a fire that broke out

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Speaker 1: very close to the team facility. It was within twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours after that ian that the NFL announced the

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Speaker 1: game was officially moved to Glendale, Arizona, where for people

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Speaker 1: watching it home, if you've not paid attention to the

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Speaker 1: world in the past week. You might not be able

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Speaker 1: to tell tonight that they're not playing this game at

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Speaker 1: Sofi Stadia.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be you know, first of all,

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Speaker 5: like I would echo those thoughts, it is unfathomable with

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Speaker 5: having happening in LA and it's just yeah, really truly terrible.

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Speaker 5: I think the Cardinals are doing something very cool. They're

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Speaker 5: hosting the playoff game for the Rams. They're turning their

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Speaker 5: stadium in Area Zona into you know, Ram's House or

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Speaker 5: whatever I think it's I mean into Sofi South or

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Speaker 5: West Southwest, whichever direction. I talked to Michael Bidwell, the

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Speaker 5: Cardinal's owner, about this as I was driving my son

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Speaker 5: Max to hockey the other day, and he kind of

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Speaker 5: went through all the different things that they were doing

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Speaker 5: and it was so cool. First of all, he was

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Speaker 5: like the NFL asked, I'm like, can you be ready?

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Speaker 5: He's like, even before we had the ghost sign, we

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Speaker 5: were talking about like.

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Speaker 4: How do we do it?

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Speaker 5: They you know, two hundred gallons of paint driving for

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Speaker 5: Mississippi to make sure they have the proper RAMS colors.

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Speaker 4: He flew everyone in h two chartered planes.

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Speaker 5: They gave families a list of like here's your nearest

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Speaker 5: ice cream parlors. Here's your list of babysitters, Like how

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Speaker 5: do your families manage?

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Speaker 4: Here's your hotels.

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Speaker 5: They gave handed over the locker room, like Kuka Nakua

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Speaker 5: is in Marvin Harrison's locker, like open the doors to them.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I guess they could have done it anyway,

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Speaker 5: but like it's they're a bitter rival, you want to win,

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Speaker 5: and they're just putting football aside and being good humans.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's a really cool thing. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think it's gonna look awesome on TV tonight. And

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Speaker 5: I think the Cardinals are doing a really good thing.

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Speaker 4: Mike to make this happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, did a nice job. And I think the NFL

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Speaker 3: did a nice job of trying to make this as

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Speaker 3: much of a Rams home game as possible, giving him

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Speaker 3: the chance to buy tickets first and you know, keeping

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Speaker 3: as close to l as you possibly ken reasonably and

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Speaker 3: everything that Kevin Demoff said. Because you know the decision,

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Speaker 3: you go, okay, yeah, yeah, you got to move the game.

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Speaker 3: But then everything he talked about with regard to we

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Speaker 3: don't want a first responder being at a game and

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Speaker 3: not being able to provide help elsewhere, or maybe he's

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Speaker 3: at the game and then he can't work the next

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Speaker 3: shift because he's tired. And everything that he talked about

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Speaker 3: with the resources that going, you know, stuff you don't

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Speaker 3: think about, right, So you know, they did a good

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Speaker 3: job of explaining it why the decision was made, why

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Speaker 3: was the smartest decision for everybody involved in for the

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Speaker 3: community as well. So it'll be a spirited performance by

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Speaker 3: this Rams team, I'm sure, and they're playing a really

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Speaker 3: good team in the Vikings. This is gonna be a

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Speaker 3: good game that we're looking forward to tonight here and

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Speaker 3: whoever comes out of this game I think is going

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Speaker 3: to give the Eagles a run for the money as well.

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Speaker 3: So this is shaping up to be. We've got four

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Speaker 3: to one, eight games left. We've got eight We've only

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Speaker 3: got eight games left.

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Speaker 5: No, don't do that, No, I know, I do it.

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Speaker 5: We've got the best games that we got the best games.

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Speaker 3: No, but they're the last games. They're the last games.

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Speaker 3: I'm already into that postseason depression. So yeah, give me

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Speaker 3: eight good ones NFL. Okay nine if you count the

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Speaker 3: College Football National champions But we've got eight games left.

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Speaker 1: Two quick news things just because there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of injuries in this game. Both the Vikings and Rams

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Speaker 1: are are pretty healthy within the context of any injuries

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Speaker 1: they suffered earlier in the season. Cam Akers, who was

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Speaker 1: questionable with an illness, he was sick last week. He's

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Speaker 1: good to go.

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Speaker 4: You already, cam Acres news governor.

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Speaker 1: He's played great down the stretch. He's all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden that you know, emerged. They kind of kept him.

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Speaker 4: Help well, it was the trade was that last year.

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Speaker 1: This year both they've traded for him twice. This time

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Speaker 1: it was from the Texans. Uh last time, I believe

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Speaker 1: it was from the Rams. So uh Acres is good

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Speaker 1: to go, so expect him. And Aaron Jones he's gonna

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Speaker 1: spell him the way that he has in recent weeks

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Speaker 1: here and then for everybody wondering, you know, the Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones thing, which has been like this hyperventilation for certain people,

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Speaker 1: especially in the media and on social media, when's he

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Speaker 1: going to be up? Could he take over? I'm told

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be the number three tonight. Their stick with

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Speaker 1: Nick Mullins is the two hard to fully ramp up

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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback when Sam's getting all the reps in

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Speaker 1: practice anyway here, So they've always we talked about this

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Speaker 1: the week after he signed, and you know, certain people

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Speaker 1: were being like, Oh, he's gonna make this much money

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna be elevated immediately. Like, No, they were

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Speaker 1: always taking a long range view of this, the talent,

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Speaker 1: what potentially he could be, depending how every thing shakes

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Speaker 1: out here, what they might be able to develop if

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Speaker 1: he's on the team in the future here, but they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna rush him up. Could happen later in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but for tonight, if something were to happen to Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 1: it'll be Nick Mullens and then Daniel Jones as the

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Speaker 1: emergency number three. So I would end with yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: end it right there, so I know Ian's got a jump.

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Speaker 1: I've missed seven phone calls during this as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks everybody for coming to this podcast and YouTube edition again.

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Speaker 1: We're back for real this time NFL Network every weekday

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Speaker 1: through the Super Bowl seven pm Eastern time. I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: how long I can make this go on. While Mike

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Speaker 1: and Ian slowly pulled away, Okay for Ian and Mike,

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Speaker 1: come tom we'll see it