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Speaker 1: The volume. This week on Prime Cuts, Matt Mosey and

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Speaker 1: I talk about the Dallas Cowboys future, and there went

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Speaker 1: over the Chargers, Chad Millman, Sharper Square. But first my

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Speaker 1: top takes of the week, let's talk about the Jets

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Speaker 1: upset of the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, Philadelphia, as the saying goes,

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Speaker 1: had been playing with their food for the last four

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Speaker 1: think they missed Shane Stike and the offensive coordinator from

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Speaker 1: last year who is now the head coach of the Colts.

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Speaker 1: We all recognize that coordinators matter. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Niners defense is quite as good as last year. Demiko

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Speaker 1: who won another game with rookie quarterback c J. Stroud.

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Speaker 1: So I just think the Eagles are a really good team,

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Speaker 1: struggling to find in identity and four turnovers. Jets didn't

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Speaker 1: have any. And I also think Robert Salla and his

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Speaker 1: staff deserve credit. This is a team that has one

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Speaker 1: real playmaker on the outside, Garrett Wilson, nice running back,

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Speaker 1: O line is suboptimal, tremendous defense. They're playing into Zach

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Speaker 1: go and get into trouble. Didn't love all their play calling.

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Speaker 1: If you looked at the box score outside of the turnovers,

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Speaker 1: you would have thought the Eagles won. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the box score USC Notre Dame, you would

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Speaker 1: have thought USC one. It doesn't matter. Limit turnovers, limit

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Speaker 1: the trouble. Zach Wilson can get you in play great defense,

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Speaker 1: take the ball away. You know when I watched Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and I think Julian Edelman was on my show about

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Speaker 1: four or five days ago, three or four days ago

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Speaker 1: at Fox, and he said, every September, you know, Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick's worst month of his career. With September. He said,

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Speaker 1: every single team, even super Bowl winning teams, the next September,

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Speaker 1: if you had ninety percent same roster, he goes, every

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Speaker 1: team had a different identity. And Bill believed the first

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Speaker 1: four to five weeks of the season, you found your identity.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia can't find one. But they're really, really talented, and

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Speaker 1: so the quest is can we figure out exactly what

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Speaker 1: we are? Obviously Jalen Hurts made some mistakes today. Also

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Speaker 1: makes you know Philadelphia usually is a very good, big

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Speaker 1: moment team with this roster, but it's not a surprise.

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan had an MVP with Kyle Shanahan. Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 1: leaves slowly. He's not the same quarterback Philadelphia is. You

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Speaker 1: can be two things, very good and lacking a true identity.

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Speaker 1: For years, Michigan under Harbaugh was really good, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't until about two three years ago they found that

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Speaker 1: true Michigan identity. We're going to physically, at the point

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Speaker 1: of attack, dominate you. Ohio State may have better players

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, they feel like they've kind of

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Speaker 1: that's where Philadelphia is. I think they'll be fine eventually.

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Speaker 1: They've got a playmaker at quarterback. AJ Brown's remarkable. They

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Speaker 1: have so many talented guys in that front seven. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: but good for the Jets. I think they've kind of

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Speaker 1: more confidence now. He's put game after game after game

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Speaker 1: three in a row where he's played pretty well. First

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Speaker 1: it's Kansas City, then it's Denver, Philadelphia did the best

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Speaker 1: of his opportunities. You don't have to win pretty, you

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Speaker 1: just gotta win. Good for the Jets. There's been this

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Speaker 1: discussion about San Francisco having the best roster, but Brock

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Speaker 1: Purdy's excellence is due to the roster and the coach.

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Speaker 1: And I thought there was a moment at the end

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Speaker 1: last drive of the game against Cleveland's defense, and that

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Speaker 1: into field goal range and the kicker misses. The rookie

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Speaker 1: kicker misses. He did his job. If Tom Brady was

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Speaker 1: missing Gronken Edelman against this defense, drove down, got the

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Speaker 1: that's that's what really good franchise quarterbacks do. Ninety percent

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Speaker 1: the end. Got it to the right people, moved the

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Speaker 1: very good job to build a roster, but this was

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Speaker 1: going to be a really hard day for San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: right they come off this dominating national TV performance over Dallas.

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Speaker 1: We know in the NFL, one of the things I've

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Speaker 1: if they have a capable quarterback who gets blown out

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Speaker 1: the previous week. So it was one of those circle games.

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Speaker 1: You know, the line changed dramatically because of the quarterback play,

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Speaker 1: but I thought, you know, Cleveland moved the ball enough,

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Speaker 1: deserved to win. But to me, the story was another

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Speaker 1: example of Purdy is more than capable of at home

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Speaker 1: position to win the game. So, you know, how do

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Speaker 1: you define a franchise quarterback? Tonight? Trevor Lawrence is a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, doesn't practice all week, bad knee, facing a

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Speaker 1: He's on the road, one of the louder stadiums. Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: A very tidy twenty for twenty nine, two hundred and

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. It's not having to play great, it's just

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Speaker 1: making enough plays to win a road game when you

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Speaker 1: don't practice all week. Derek Carr at home has Alvin Camara,

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Speaker 1: life of a running back. I am not anti Derek Carr,

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Speaker 1: was almost a sympathetic figure. Right weird ownership, kooky organization,

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Speaker 1: He got all of them with the Saints, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like he's standing in the way of success. Weaker division,

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Speaker 1: least a good run blocking line. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: a quarterback who didn't practice and loses. And years ago,

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Speaker 1: would say, you know, I think Derek Carr is about

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Speaker 1: the twelfth best quarterback in the league. He's around that

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott level. And I really did believe that. But

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Speaker 1: what's happened is Derek's not in his prime. He's just

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Speaker 1: out of it, and the league's gotten better at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: There's just five or six guys that weren't around five

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Speaker 1: I would take Kyler, Murray, Dak and Tua above Derek Carr.

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Speaker 1: And I watched them play against c J. Stroud last

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Speaker 1: with more confidence. So now he's the fifteenth best quarterback

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Speaker 1: what the Saints can do in free agency. And I

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, you know, Derek Carr, Jimmy Garoppolo, ask yourself,

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Speaker 1: half the league make a call on them. No for Garoppolo, Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: And these are both very proud. You know, Huskies have

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Speaker 1: behind it, despite both of them having NFL players all

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Speaker 1: What else do they do well? Not much. Colorado's got

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Speaker 1: else do they do well? Is that college sports is different.

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Speaker 1: Even with NIL. Not everybody gets paid. It is about

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Speaker 1: It wasn't about the NIL even though we know Oregon

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Speaker 1: but indicates that the holding calls defensively have gone down sharply.

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Speaker 1: And so when you look at the numbers of the

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Speaker 1: holding calls defensively, it's now understood that you're allowed to

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Speaker 1: grab receivers down the field. It's just understood. It was

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Speaker 1: not three years ago that was we would all as

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Speaker 1: fans go, that's a penalty. Now you can do it

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Speaker 1: while the balls in the air. If it's not you know,

434
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Speaker 1: lurching at the player and disrupting him. And so what

435
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Speaker 1: does that mean? My theory is that that will punitively

436
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Speaker 1: punish the mediocre to below average quarterbacks. Daniel Jones can't

437
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Speaker 1: even get a touchdown this month, So the Tannehills, the

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, the backups. The gap between starters and stars

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Speaker 1: in backups Tannehill and Mahomes. Now five years ago, he

440
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Speaker 1: could be competitive. The gap now between Daniel Jones and Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: It's like junior varsity. Varsity underdogs are not covering the

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Speaker 1: best quarterback. If Baker is better than Derek Carr, and

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Speaker 1: I think he is leads already leads in seven divisions.

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Speaker 1: The exception is brought Party. He's not as good as Stafford,

445
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Speaker 1: but he's better than Arizona's backup and arguably better than

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith. So my point being is, I've always been

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Speaker 1: a fan of underdogs, but increasingly this year my winning

448
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Speaker 1: bets are on superior quarterbacks covering and Warren Sharp detailing.

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Speaker 1: This is really hurting scorings down. But there are more

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Speaker 1: blowouts in two years than we've ever had, and the

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Speaker 1: score scoring is declining, even for Kansas City, Cincinnati, Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: and so I look at my bets this week and

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Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't have made these bets a year ago.

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Speaker 1: But I'll throw one at you. Ravens minus three at

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Speaker 1: home against the Lions. So I watched Baltimore. I thought

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Speaker 1: their first half against Tennessee was the single most impressive

457
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Speaker 1: half of the season by a quarterback in any game.

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Speaker 1: I thought Lamar was spectacular. Detroit has been on a

459
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Speaker 1: little bit of a streak. They've won on the road.

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Speaker 1: This is a whole different ballgame. Baltimore is one of

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Speaker 1: the hardest places to play. I still think the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I told you last week it was my favorite bet

463
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Speaker 1: are undervalued. So again plus three Detroit hot would have

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Speaker 1: been my pick. I'm gonna go Baltimore minus three Sharper square.

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Speaker 4: So it's definitely sharp. Speaking of I think, I think

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Speaker 4: Warren's uh sort of inclination about the holding penalties is interesting.

467
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Speaker 4: But you could also argue that teams that are underdogs

468
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Speaker 4: aren't covering because not because there's holding calls, but because

469
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks haven't been making plays. Just look this past weekend.

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Speaker 4: How many downfield throws that could have made a difference

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Speaker 4: did Baker miss? How many downfield throws that could have

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Speaker 4: made a huge difference to justin Herbert miss. I think

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Speaker 4: there's a combination of a lot of things that are

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Speaker 4: impacting some of these games. Some of them are sort

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Speaker 4: of factors that are are not repeatable. Some of them

476
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Speaker 4: are a regression. Some of them are things that are

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Speaker 4: going to be patterns. Certainly, offense is down considerably and.

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Speaker 1: Sacks are up, by the way, so online plays, so

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Speaker 1: media with pressure and holding defensive holding, like, the sacks

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Speaker 1: are way up, so if you can escape it, you're okay.

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 4: I think right now the average yards per attempt, yards

483
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Speaker 4: per completion, it's something like ten point six. It's amongst

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Speaker 4: the lowest and in the modern era of the NFL.

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Speaker 4: So certainly defenses are on the up and offenses are

486
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Speaker 4: leveling out, which probably means when the Competition Committee meets

487
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Speaker 4: in the spring, they will figure out a way to

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Speaker 4: make it easier for offenses.

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Speaker 3: Tu score the football.

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Speaker 4: You know, But to your point about the Ravens, yeah,

491
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Speaker 4: it's the sharp side. The line opened at two and

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Speaker 4: a half. Everybody believes the Lions are way over valued.

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Speaker 4: You're talking about a team that was eleven to one

494
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Speaker 4: to win the NFC before the season began. They're now

495
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Speaker 4: down to six to one, just behind the Dallas Cowboys

496
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Speaker 4: and obviously the Niners and the Eagles. And you have

497
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Speaker 4: to take a look for a second at who the

498
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Speaker 4: Lions have beaten, right, the Panthers, the Bucks. They have

499
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Speaker 4: not beaten very good teams, the Packers, and meanwhile, well,

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Speaker 4: the Ravens. A they scored twenty eight points against the

501
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Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns, which is an historically great defense. And your

502
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Speaker 4: point about Lamar is spot on, like they've been red

503
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Speaker 4: zone inefficient in certain games. That game against the Steelers.

504
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Speaker 4: They should have won. We talked about this last week.

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Speaker 4: A lot of drop passes that would have made the

506
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Speaker 4: difference and put the game away. He's actually playing really well,

507
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Speaker 4: and Lamar, when he is a short favorite, is actually

508
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Speaker 4: very very good against the spread. Bigger favorite, not so

509
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Speaker 4: much short favorite. I like it. Wise, guys like it.

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Speaker 4: You're sharp.

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Speaker 1: Eagles minus two and a half another favorite hosting Miami.

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Speaker 1: I think Miami. I've got a pretty good read. They're

513
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Speaker 1: a heavy weight with a glass chin. If you punch

514
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Speaker 1: him back, can get a rush with four. They fold

515
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. Lane Johnson should play. That's a more comfortable

516
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Speaker 1: quarterback against the less comfortable quarterback. Miami will score. But

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Speaker 1: if you look at their defensive front for Miami and

518
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Speaker 1: the offensive front of Lane Johnson plays, this could be

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Speaker 1: ball control dominant. I'm going to take for the record,

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia night game at home. Watch the Phillies games lately,

521
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Speaker 1: like it's just different. I'm gonna take Eagles minus two

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Speaker 1: and a half.

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Speaker 4: Sharper square, totally sharp through is This line opened at

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Speaker 4: one and a half and moved up to two. Now

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Speaker 4: it's a two and a half. It is a pros.

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Speaker 4: Joe's game right. The wise guys are one hundred percent

527
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Speaker 4: on the Eagles. The Joe's, the amateurs, the squares, they

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Speaker 4: are on the Dolphins. And you mentioned a couple. You

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Speaker 4: mentioned two things that are really important here. One, Lane Johnson,

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Speaker 4: if he plays, this is a significantly different team. When

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Speaker 4: he doesn't. I think they're ten and twenty two without

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Speaker 4: Lane Johnson, and when he plays, they're a super Bowl

533
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Speaker 4: caliber team. Two, Jalen hurts against pressure not so good.

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Speaker 4: Jalen hurts when he's not against pressure with teams that

535
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Speaker 4: can't pressure him more than forty percent of the time.

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Speaker 4: I think he's twenty and five in his career. So

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Speaker 4: you're talking about a Miami Dolphins team that is not

538
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Speaker 4: great at pressuring the quarterback, and you're talking about an

539
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Speaker 4: Eagles team that is coming off a loss that they

540
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Speaker 4: were headed for. You and I have talked about this,

541
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Speaker 4: Like the Eagles have been winning because they have a

542
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Speaker 4: really good head coach, they have a really good quarterback,

543
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Speaker 4: they have really good weapons on the edges, but they

544
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Speaker 4: haven't been gelling offensively at all. And also last week

545
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Speaker 4: Jalen Carter didn't play right. He was resting, so this

546
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 4: week he should be back on defense, and the Eagles

547
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Speaker 4: had that moment like, Okay, we've been stealing wins. We

548
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,959
Speaker 4: were embarrassed by the Jets. We understand better now what

549
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 4: we need to do. We're going to come back because

550
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Speaker 4: that's who we are. The wise guys are on the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: One more favorite I think I would take. I'm not

552
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Speaker 1: sure I love it, but I'm going to wait for

553
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Speaker 1: the injury report. Minnesota is just not that good. I

554
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Speaker 1: hear about how unlucky they are. Maybe that's not the issue.

555
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Speaker 1: Forty nine ers off a loss are a really good

556
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Speaker 1: football team. Minnesota is not. I don't think it's a

557
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Speaker 1: great locker room. I don't think I don't think they

558
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: create pressure situations for offenses. I think San Francisco will

559
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Speaker 1: control the ball at some point. If you do something

560
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Speaker 1: five or six weeks in a row, you're not unlucky.

561
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Speaker 1: It's who you are. And I don't think Minnesota is

562
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Speaker 1: very good. I think quietly in the building they're moving

563
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Speaker 1: off Cousins. They moved off to Alvin Cook. I don't

564
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Speaker 1: think it's I just I don't love this team. I'm

565
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Speaker 1: gonna take the Niners minus six and a half. Sharper square.

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Speaker 4: You are who your record says you are. Didn't some

567
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Speaker 4: brilliant coach say that one will parselves. The Vikings are

568
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Speaker 4: not a very good football team. They weren't very good

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Speaker 4: last week against a terrible team and the Bears. The

570
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Speaker 4: only reason they won that game is because a second

571
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Speaker 4: stream quarterback who's a rookie who had never played, came

572
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Speaker 4: in off the bench, fumbled scoop and score for the Vikings.

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Speaker 4: That was the difference in the game. Otherwise the Bears

574
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Speaker 4: with a backup quarterback win that game, right, And so

575
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Speaker 4: this has been the sentiment on the Vikings all year.

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Speaker 4: People were fading the Vikings. They did not expect them

577
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Speaker 4: to win at the rate they did last year. There

578
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Speaker 4: was gonna be a regression because of how many one

579
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Speaker 4: score games they won. This line has moved up from

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Speaker 4: six and a half it did seven. The wise guys

581
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Speaker 4: are hesitant to come in on big road favorites, but

582
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Speaker 4: in this case they are aligned with you.

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Speaker 1: I thought most of the lines like I think Seattle

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Speaker 1: hosting the Cardinals. I thought, initially if it was six

585
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Speaker 1: and a half, I really like Seattle. I think people

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Speaker 1: have figured out Arizona, so it's seven. So if Blazing

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Speaker 1: five was on Monday, I would have taken Seattle. Now

588
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Speaker 1: the numbers not good. My question is if it's seven,

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Speaker 1: do you take Seattle seven and a half? You don't seven,

590
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Speaker 1: do you? No?

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Speaker 4: No, I agree with you, And I think what happened

592
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Speaker 4: with Arizona is like it's another sort of Cinderella story

593
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 4: where the shine has come off a little bit and

594
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Speaker 4: people we know what they figured about out right, and honestly,

595
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Speaker 4: the biggest challenge for them they lost James Connor. Like

596
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Speaker 4: he was bull rushing over everybody, right, and he was

597
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Speaker 4: really powering their offense. And without him, they really don't

598
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Speaker 4: have any weapons that scare anybody. So to me, seven

599
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 4: is a pass. If you could have gotten itto six

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Speaker 4: and a half, you know, like you could still get

601
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Speaker 4: San Francisco, you can get it at six and a half.

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Speaker 4: I think those are the two sort of bigger favorites.

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Speaker 4: The other game that's really interesting and this one is like,

604
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Speaker 4: remember for years we've been doing segments like this together

605
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Speaker 4: and every year I'm telling you you got to take

606
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Speaker 4: the Jags when they were terrible. It's they're plus thirteen

607
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Speaker 4: and a half on the road. You got to take

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Speaker 4: the Jags. That's what the wise guys are gonna do

609
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 4: the New England Patriots have become the jab.

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Speaker 3: I can't. I told you I can't.

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Speaker 1: When I can't watch a team, I can't bet them.

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Speaker 4: So you can watch the Green Bay Denver.

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Speaker 1: Game, fascinated by Sean Payton and Russell Wilson fascinated And

614
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Speaker 1: is Jordan Love gonna make it or not? If Jordan

615
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Speaker 1: Love is a lousy Sunday, we have to be honest

616
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Speaker 1: here sitting for three years completing fifty of his throws

617
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Speaker 1: with Matt Lafleur. If he can't move the ball, we

618
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: got a white flag thing here, like you can't keep

619
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Speaker 1: defending him. So that game's got a lot like we

620
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Speaker 1: know Russell's not gonna last. But if Jordan Loves struggles,

621
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Speaker 1: you cannot sit there by the way, C J. Stroud,

622
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Speaker 1: no offensive lineman, can't run, rookie play caler rookie coach

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Speaker 1: game one good. You can't be in a place four

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Speaker 1: years and complete fifty five percent of your throws. I

625
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Speaker 1: don't want to hear about Kristin Watson's not available.

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Speaker 3: Give me a break.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think that game is actually whatever

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Speaker 1: the word is the French word for so ugly it's attractive,

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Speaker 1: that's Green Bay, Denver.

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Speaker 4: You know it's interesting. So I come from a startup

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Speaker 4: culture with Action network, right, you're building a really valuable, strong,

632
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Speaker 4: incredible business with the volume. Yeah, if you're in a

633
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Speaker 4: venture backed business. One of the best phrases I ever

634
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Speaker 4: heard some of the folks who helped to who bankrolled

635
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Speaker 4: Action when we started, is are you being intellectually honest

636
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Speaker 4: about what you're looking at? Meaning? Can you look at

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Speaker 4: the data? Can you make a decision not based on

638
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 4: what you want it to be, not based on what

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Speaker 4: you think it could be if X factors hadn't impacted

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Speaker 4: the numbers. It's like, can you look at the numbers?

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Speaker 4: Can you say, Okay, this is what's happening, and then

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Speaker 4: can you make decisions about the business going forward based

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Speaker 4: on those numbers, regardless of your input into deciding how

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Speaker 4: you got to that point or if it's going against

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Speaker 4: what you believe it should be. Same goes if it's

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Speaker 4: going well, like can you be intellectually honest about examining

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Speaker 4: what you see in front of you? Can the packers

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Speaker 4: be intellectually honest about Jordan Love if he continues to

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Speaker 4: be a fifty five percent completion rate. Pastor who who

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Speaker 4: misses open looks.

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Speaker 1: As always Chad Miller. It's good seeing you always a

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Speaker 1: pleasure brother. The volume