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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, everybody, and we'll save up. Let's start

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Speaker 1: you to twenty twenty one off rights with your good

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Speaker 1: morning football headlines in the NFL Network, Dolphin's quarterback Ryan

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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick testing positive for COVID nineteen yesterday, and we'll miss

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Speaker 1: Miami's must win game against Bills to a tuna by

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Speaker 1: law was already set to start Sunday, although head coach

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Speaker 1: Brian Flores benched tour in the fourth quarter of last

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Speaker 1: week's win at Las Vegas. The NFL conducted contact tracing

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Speaker 1: following Fitzpatrick's positive test, and no other players were identified

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Speaker 1: as high risk close contacts and if all. Networking cider

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Speaker 1: Ian Rapperport and Tom pellas Sarah both reporting that Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: could also miss Wildcard weekend based on a ten day

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Speaker 1: quarantinam Wow Well. Meantime, the Browns also dealing with some

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Speaker 1: COVID issues heading into their win and in week seventeen

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Speaker 1: game against the Steelers. Tom is reporting that two more

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Speaker 1: positive tests came in Thursday, goes in the facility again,

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Speaker 1: laying backer Melton Smith and Ted and Harrison Bryant testing

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Speaker 1: positive for COVID nineteen. On the plus side, here for

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Speaker 1: Cleveland the club we'll get back for receivers, including Jervis Landry.

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Speaker 1: When this last week's loss, the Jets's close contacts, head

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Speaker 1: coach Jim Stefanski says, this team's adjusting to this new

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Speaker 1: normal and a Sunday's game against Pittsburgh. I'm just really

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Speaker 1: dealing with it day to day, hour by hour in

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Speaker 1: terms of what we have going on. So we're in

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Speaker 1: constant communication with the league, with our medical staff and

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Speaker 1: finding out what we can do. Coaches, We've been burning

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Speaker 1: the cell phones up, a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: phone calls and a lot of zoom calls, so what

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Speaker 1: we're getting our work done, and then we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: really lean heavily on the medical professionals and follow their guidelines,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we've done today. Well, the Packers high

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Speaker 1: powered offense took a major hit Thursday, with all pro

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Speaker 1: left tack David Baktieri suffering a tour acl and practice.

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Speaker 1: This is quarant to NFL Network in sati Ian Rappaport.

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Speaker 1: The devastating injury comes just six weeks ever signing into

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Speaker 1: a record four years, one hundred and three million dollar contract.

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Speaker 1: The pack are also still trying to secure the NFC's

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Speaker 1: top overall seed with a win over the Bear Sunday

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. Well, some good news for Washington fans and

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Speaker 1: for not practicing on a Wednesday, quarterback Alex Smith stretched

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Speaker 1: with the team and took first team reps, an individual

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Speaker 1: and team drills on Thursday. Our Tom Pella Sero says

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Speaker 1: the plan has been to ramp of Smith with the

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Speaker 1: hope that he can practice fully Friday at coach Ron

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Speaker 1: Rivera gave his own update on his quarterback following yesterday's session.

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Speaker 1: I did continue and that was good to see. You know.

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Speaker 1: I thought he handled it well. I thought he had

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Speaker 1: a good day, you know. But as again I always

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Speaker 1: say it with a little trepidation, that's always will see

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Speaker 1: how he as small morning. But it was a positive

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Speaker 1: step I think in the right direction. I do agree

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Speaker 1: with you what you said initially, and that was this

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Speaker 1: is the most we've seen from him early on. So

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Speaker 1: again it was a plus that the positive sign today. Now,

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Speaker 1: if Washington wins at Philly, they are division champs. Giants

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Speaker 1: are in. With the win over the Cowboys and a

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Speaker 1: Washington loss, Dallas takes the NFC East crown with the

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Speaker 1: win over the GMN and a Washington lost the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: they'll seem to have gotten their groove back because they

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Speaker 1: are looking for the fourth straight win and a possible playoff.

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Speaker 1: Broth and coach Smick McCarthy is grateful to be playing

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Speaker 1: meaningful games in December. This is obviously the position you

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Speaker 1: want to be in, always having the opportunity to play

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Speaker 1: in the in the playoffs. But the messaging really is,

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Speaker 1: you know, similar, because you know, December football, in my view,

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Speaker 1: is very similar playoffs because you know it's the playoff

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Speaker 1: type games and you just see the intensity down the

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Speaker 1: stretcher because because everybody's playing to get into the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and every every one of our games the last three weeks,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody who was on a customer needed to

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Speaker 1: win those games to the continue their playoff hope. For

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Speaker 1: a complete preview of every NFL game on the slate

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Speaker 1: Four years we start the new year off, we're a

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Speaker 1: couple of Big ten guests. Well, Bears red hat running

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Speaker 1: back David Montgomery and Steelers had advanced McDonald's they stopped

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Speaker 1: by their virtual breakfast table or some good mojo ahead

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Speaker 1: of their week seventeen games. We don't want to miss

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Speaker 1: those interviews. That's from seven to ten Eastern. Well, I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoy your New Year's Day and we'll sell.

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