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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily Where the Giants landed. There, Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Rosenthal here in stage five with my friend

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Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland.

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Speaker 2: We are fresh off a taping of game debut. You

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Speaker 2: can check us.

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Speaker 1: Out on NFL Network Friday night, Sunday morning, whenever. But

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Speaker 1: we're going to go through our picks against the spread

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Speaker 1: as always. Cynthia, you're coming off a winning week, and

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Speaker 1: we're also going to talk a little bit about John Harbaugh,

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Speaker 1: the new head coach of the New York Giants. At

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Speaker 1: the back end, get you an analyst like Cynthia who

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Speaker 1: can do everything, not just pick the games.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk some ball.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk some coaches, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: I heard from last week, like the coaching kind of

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Speaker 1: dot connecting we did, and some of it's some of

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Speaker 1: it's born fruit.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, I can't wait to see where everyone

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Speaker 3: ends up, especially now that the Steelers have the opening

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Speaker 3: as well. Like lots of turnover, lots of turnover.

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Speaker 1: I know, any want to pat ourselves on the back

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Speaker 1: too hard, but everyone going like this shocking coaching.

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Speaker 2: Cycle, all these shocks here and there.

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Speaker 1: I was like, if you were listening to the NFL

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Speaker 1: Daily Last month, we were saying, like we thought Tomlin

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Speaker 1: and Harbaugh that there was a real chance that both

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Speaker 1: of them would be gone. That's what happened. But let's

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Speaker 1: get into the games. Only eight teams left, and so

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Speaker 1: this makes it tougher to make our picks. You went

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Speaker 1: too and one last week. I went one and two.

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Speaker 1: I am blaming the Packers for everything wrong that happened

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Speaker 1: to me last weekend. And in my life, I'm still

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Speaker 1: at thirty six and twenty one on the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling great.

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Speaker 1: But you're eight and one over the last three weeks

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Speaker 1: on this show, so that means you get to go first.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious what your most confident pick in because I

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Speaker 1: gotta admit, if this was a normal Sunday, I think

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Speaker 1: there's only at most one of these four games that

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Speaker 1: would have made my best picks of the week where

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Speaker 1: I just like knew right away what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious where you go first.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to go with a team that burnt

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Speaker 3: me last week, but I think this week, in freezing

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Speaker 3: cold conditions, they pull through and they win by more

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Speaker 3: than four points, and that's the rams I understand it's

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Speaker 3: going to be two degrees and we're gonna hear a lot.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be those you know, I'm calling it now.

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Speaker 3: You know the temperature thing where they stick Stacy Dale's

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Speaker 3: and You're like, poors, why are they doing this to her?

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Speaker 3: She could easily go inside a concourse. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Stacy's a real one. She'll be great at But I

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Speaker 3: do think that the Rams, they do have a big

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Speaker 3: advantage in my opinion, in this matchup because they're not

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Speaker 3: relying on kind of miraculous things at the end.

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Speaker 4: Remember the Packers, they are without Micah Parsons.

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Speaker 3: They did have to reconfigure their defense and it still

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Speaker 3: took a miracle as well. I mean, relying on a

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Speaker 3: guy to perform who didn't even complete half of his

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Speaker 3: passes in that game and on fourth down you just

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Speaker 3: nailed that fourth Absolutely, no shade to Caleb Williams, he

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Speaker 4: Well, it's just it's hard to win that way to.

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Speaker 3: Live, and they have been and they've been defying kind

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Speaker 3: of my math and the odds all season long. But

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford also has a whole bunch of fourth quarter wins.

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Speaker 3: And it's only four points this time, not ten that

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Speaker 3: I need him to win by. And you know, as

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Speaker 3: DeVante Adams. I think pretty sure he remembers his days

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Speaker 3: at Green Bay. So I'm looking at this one and

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Speaker 3: I think this is where we see Matthew Stafford, the

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Speaker 3: first ballot Hall of Famer really be Matthew Stafford, the

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Speaker 3: first ballot Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: Then, and none other than Chauncey Gardner Johnson, who's going

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Speaker 1: to be back for this game for the Bears, said

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Speaker 1: on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: About the weather, whooped dee.

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Speaker 1: Doo, citing the Rams and what they did last year

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Speaker 1: to his Eagles. He was still on the Eagles right

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Speaker 1: at that point, going up and down the field and

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Speaker 1: really testing them in a way that no one else did.

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Speaker 1: During that Super Bowl run for Philadelphia in the snow,

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Speaker 2: This was my pick that I said I would have taken.

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Speaker 4: In and oh is it okay?

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Speaker 1: So I'm going Rams minus three and a half. We

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Speaker 1: both were off on them last week. Look, I just

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Speaker 1: think a team that doesn't have a pass rush, and

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Speaker 1: the NFL, it's kind of drying dead against the Rams. Like,

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Speaker 1: of course, there's a route to them winning this game.

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Speaker 1: It's a magical team. They can run the ball like

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Speaker 1: they're a good team, but that is such a disadvantage

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Speaker 1: to start from a team that can't really stop the

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Speaker 1: run teams in the league. I think the Rams finished

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Speaker 1: I think the Rams are a little more equipped to

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Speaker 1: the one game this week where I don't think the

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Speaker 3: I also, I think their coaches also embody where these

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Speaker 3: teams are at in terms of their life cycle. Remember

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Speaker 3: there was a couple of years ago when the Rams

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Speaker 3: were playing Chicago, Sean McVay just simply named all of

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Speaker 3: everyone's like he's a genius, and it was actually the

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Speaker 3: thing that was genius about it was that he wasted

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Speaker 3: our time. You know, he didn't have to say anything,

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Speaker 3: whereas like now Ben Johnson's out here like being sneaky

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Speaker 3: and and I like.

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Speaker 4: The passion in it, but it just that feels.

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Speaker 2: Like you are a hater, You're a lot.

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Speaker 3: It just feels like it just feels like someone who

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Speaker 3: the prestige of a Sean McVay sitting there being like

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Speaker 3: just wasting the media's timing like Montees what Kyler Gordon

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Speaker 3: like genius. That's it was hilarious, but not for the

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay also alluded to the fact, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: his friend a call this week to get any you know,

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Speaker 4: They all do always yes, and they always.

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Speaker 1: He basically said, what do you think so Matt Laflair

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Speaker 1: giving them extra INFI to be his arch rival, but ultimately, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do think they're better.

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Speaker 2: And I've been wrong a lot about the Bears this year.

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Speaker 1: My record would be better if if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: the Bears, partly because of these low probabilities, hype of

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Speaker 1: of magical team that can get it done, because I

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Speaker 1: do think Caleb Williams is playing his best ball right now,

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Speaker 1: even though it's inconsistent. He had five or six throws.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just that one in that game that was

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Speaker 4: Like they targeted him between times.

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Speaker 1: Not really the guy that you want. And they've given

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Speaker 2: All Right, we both have the Rams. What is your

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Speaker 4: In Denver?

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Speaker 3: Picking Denver in the home upset against the Bills. I

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Speaker 3: think it's weird that they're not favored.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I think it's flipped around. It kind of depends

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Speaker 1: on like when you even listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Show that it's flipped around.

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Speaker 1: At first it was the Bills were favored, yes, and

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Speaker 1: then I think the public or who knows who it is,

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Speaker 1: I guess Whale could be the sharps move the line,

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Speaker 1: and now it's like it's more or less a pick them.

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Speaker 1: I think it's now one as of this taping for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. But either way, you're right started as underdocks.

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Speaker 4: They did start as underdocks.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I just feel like that's crazy, disrespectful

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Speaker 3: considering this defense is very, very good. So I think

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Speaker 3: that the Broncos in this one, I think that they win,

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Speaker 3: and I think they win by more than one point.

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Speaker 4: So I'm looking at that.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at the opportunity here for the short pass

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Speaker 3: A short pass can be a proxy for a run

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Speaker 3: screen passes. I know it's not like a sexy thing

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Speaker 3: to talk about, but Sean Payton said in August, and

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Speaker 3: I was there, I did preseason with them, Sean Payton said,

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Speaker 4: He was nuts. This defense is strong enough.

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Speaker 3: As long as Bonicks does not take unnecessary sacks, and

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Speaker 3: as long as this offensive line can keep Bonis from

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Speaker 3: being sacked when it really penalizes us, then we're going

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Speaker 3: to go to the super Bowl, and we could even

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Speaker 3: that in August and it's kind of played out like that.

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Speaker 3: For a long time, this offense did not have the

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Speaker 4: They didn't have.

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Speaker 3: You know, at the end of the season last year,

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Speaker 3: Bonis was completing like crazy deep pets, like it looked great.

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Speaker 3: We were like, oh, against the angles, this is the

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Speaker 3: stuff bo Nicks is made out. And then it kind

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Speaker 3: of regressed in the beginning of the season, and now

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Speaker 3: we're just in a situation where all he has to

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Speaker 4: And what is the weakness of the Bills defense the

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Speaker 4: run game or short passes that approximate to run.

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Speaker 1: That's fair, and you can imagine Sean Payton having a

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Speaker 1: really good game plan for that, because no one is

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Speaker 4: Do you know who's really petty?

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Speaker 2: Sean?

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Speaker 3: I love how petty he is, right and you know

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Speaker 3: he does not like that he got spanked at Orchard

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Speaker 4: Thirty one to seven in that game. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: Sean Payton probably has like specific plays and cut ups

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Speaker 3: being like, if this happens again, I will kill you.

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Speaker 4: I that in a good way, not really killing.

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Speaker 1: I thought about that this was my stay away game

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Speaker 1: all week long, that this was the game of just

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Speaker 1: like I'm taking the bills because we have to take

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Speaker 1: a team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to, and I.

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Speaker 1: Took the bills, but for this exercise, I was thinking

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Speaker 1: it was going to be my stay away. I'm doing

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Speaker 1: some emotional gymnastics when it comes to the Texans, and

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Speaker 1: so I'll just be real with the listing the game

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Speaker 1: of all the games, and the numbers that stuck stuck

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Speaker 1: goes against my rule, which is I don't like going

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Speaker 2: I'll just take the points. I'm not gonna overthink it.

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Speaker 1: Now it's to three, I'd still take the three because

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Speaker 1: So because of that, I'm gonna I will go against

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Speaker 2: I don't want it to be my official pick.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a matchup thing.

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Speaker 2: But I have to admit.

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Speaker 1: I'm putting myself in pretzels here because I'm a Patriots

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so my counterpoint, my only counterpoints.

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Speaker 3: To that would be I would feel a lot different

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Speaker 3: Shavers and Gabe Davis, just for the additional numbers I

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Speaker 3: like Khalil Shakir and Brandon Cooks.

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Speaker 2: How about a little Keon Coleman.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, Gabe, Gabe Davis, Josh Palmer and Tyrol

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Speaker 3: Keon Coleman has been healthy scratches, so something's weird with that.

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Speaker 3: the tight Ends. I'm Khalisha here, but like, does that

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Speaker 3: does that feel like enough?

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Speaker 2: How about the Galaxy Brain?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you guys are so good with your outside cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: You're so good stopping wide receivers. We don't have any

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be.

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Speaker 1: All tight Ends. Dalton Kincaid, Jackson Hawes. Okay, the double DK.

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Speaker 4: I do think the DK?

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Speaker 3: Can I think someone with an initials DK will score

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't feel that strong about that. You know what,

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Speaker 1: Ed Oliver, we didn't mention this on our previews show,

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Speaker 2: There is a chance that.

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Speaker 4: Ed Oliver's really good against the run too.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I say their rookie defensive tackle doesn't

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Speaker 4: I don't know if this again. It's good to have

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're taking your Texans at the Texans

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Speaker 4: I don't. Here's here's my problem with that Texans pick.

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Speaker 3: I have the Texans by two, so technically I have

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Speaker 3: the Patriot Sorry, the Patriots by two, so the Texans

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Speaker 3: George Kittle and Sam Donald has no bleak injury, I

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Speaker 3: just think the Niners keep it.

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Speaker 4: I just think seven and a half or whatever, that's.

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Speaker 2: What you're going for. Yeah, I'm with you, We're going

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Speaker 4: Okay, because I just think that's too big of a number.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I just don't like three three.

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Speaker 3: If it was four and a half, then one hundred

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Speaker 3: you get some weird, some weird someone misses a field

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Speaker 3: just don't.

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Speaker 1: So we're taving this Thursday evening. Nico Collins is almost

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Speaker 1: certainly missing the game. He's not a practice that looked

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Speaker 1: like a bad concussion.

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Speaker 2: It was Monday night.

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Speaker 4: He literally was a horrible confession.

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Speaker 1: There hasn't been a player all season that's missed Wednesday

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Speaker 1: Thursday practices completely in the concussion protocol return, so you

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Speaker 1: can basically cross them off. Christian Abdalas, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: is at practice. There's not a guarantee that he gets

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Speaker 1: It sounds like he is progressing in ways that usually

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Speaker 1: he would be available.

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Speaker 4: There at such a.

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Speaker 1: St We're both staying away, ultimately from the Texans, and

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Speaker 1: we're both going for the forty nine ers. Now, I

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Speaker 1: gotta be real, I can't remember a divisional round like this,

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Speaker 1: where like I just I don't have really strong feelings

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Speaker 1: I just thought, even though it feels like that seven

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Speaker 1: forty eight. Definitely, they want forty nine Ers to take

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers every time. Brock Perti's face this

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald defense. For the most part, it has not

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Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey was one tipped pass away from scoring a

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Speaker 3: touchdown though, which could have changed some of the shooter

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Speaker 4: So I mean, I just feel like.

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Speaker 1: I just think these two teams have played each other

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Speaker 1: The second time the Seahawks win, the total scoreling gets

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Speaker 1: the sixteen. I like the number being low in this game,

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Speaker 1: and I just think, having seen each other just now,

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Speaker 1: I just think it's the forty nine Ers are a

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Speaker 1: to keep it close. It will know Fred Warner, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it has been good. Fred Kyleshalman, who I

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Speaker 1: know you call the lion liar who lies. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: lie this bad, he said. Fred Werner will not be

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Speaker 1: activated even though.

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Speaker 4: The Ricky Piersall.

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Speaker 3: One could be a lie because it kind of feels

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Speaker 3: that does inform a little bit of my six points there.

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Speaker 3: So but because remember in that first matchup, Ricky Piersoll

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Speaker 4: Was a big But point B.

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Speaker 3: That's where that is where the Kyle Shanahan fibbing fibber

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Speaker 4: I'm still picking them either way.

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Speaker 3: I think they find a way to get it done

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Speaker 3: because even though they're not telling us, they don't actually

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Speaker 3: owe us. He's not breaking any rules. They know what

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Speaker 1: And Trent Williams is back. Obviously he played last week.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't there for the week eighteen game. D Winters

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Speaker 1: could be back. Who's a starting linebacker for them? The

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Speaker 1: big story last week? How you know they were down

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Speaker 1: some help there, Eric Hendricks, Ultimately, you only have it

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Speaker 1: So it's not like a huge Bronc.

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Speaker 4: Take, but ULTI four games, we had to pick one.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the points, so I will take the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers as well. So to review, we are on

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Speaker 1: the opposite sides of Bills and Broncos, and I'm.

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Speaker 4: A Bronco Yurra Bille Yes, and both rams.

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Speaker 1: We're both on the Rams and we're both on the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. So an interesting where we're on the

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Speaker 1: same side for a couple of things. Now, before we

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Speaker 1: get out of here, Cynthia, let's talk about the news

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Speaker 1: that broke overnight on Wednesday into Thursday that John Harbaugh

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Speaker 1: is the next head coach of the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: I recommend everyone read our friend Connor Orr's article about

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Speaker 1: the dinner that helps seal the deal at Aliah's in

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Speaker 1: East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Speaker 3: Everyone knows and that whole area East Rutherford's, We're just

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Speaker 2: York that's where they live. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Do you think this is the right guy for Jackson

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Speaker 1: dar and the Giants.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the best. Here's kind of how I

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Speaker 3: to have a little bit of control or help shaping

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Speaker 3: the roster that will be where the success or lack

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Speaker 3: of success of this team, to me lies, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what that configuration will be like.

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Speaker 4: It's not been told to any.

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Speaker 1: Joe Shane their gms. There is at the dinner Joe Shan's.

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Speaker 1: At the dinner, you ordered a ribbi.

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Speaker 4: Here's the question, what was the temperature?

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Speaker 3: Because if he ordered that thing well done, then we Connor.

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Speaker 1: Or thought I thought this was very provocative. There are

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Speaker 1: a lot of greaty details from this article. Number one,

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was there with the Giants Brass just a

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Speaker 1: couple of days before they took him there for his interview.

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Speaker 1: But for McCarthy, he ordered, you know, just like they

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Speaker 1: When John Harbaugh came, they made a special menu just

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Speaker 1: for Harbor. A special fish, a special steak, a special

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Speaker 1: something else.

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Speaker 2: Connor did the first two day of the.

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Speaker 3: Week, was it because in fairness, going out on a Wednesday, Remember,

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Speaker 3: Monday night is like industry night.

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Speaker 1: In the rest Okay, okay, either way, okay, but so

444
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Speaker 1: the first you know, they try to get Harbor to

445
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Speaker 1: order first, and Mark, you know, Harbot, and Siss Mara,

446
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Speaker 1: Chris Mara, who's kind of taking over.

447
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Speaker 2: This is sneaky story too, with the.

448
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Speaker 1: Giants as the John owner because because John Mara is sick,

449
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Speaker 1: he d is the fish John Mara, John Harbaugh orders

450
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Speaker 1: the fish, and then Connor thought, in a major power move,

451
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Speaker 1: Joe Shane goes for the Ribbi, because like, if you're

452
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Speaker 1: not paying for the meal, do you go with the Ribbi?

453
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Speaker 1: But I would think Joe Shane has been free loading

454
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Speaker 1: off the Giants for a while. He feels no shamee

455
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Speaker 1: you know a bout ordering the Ribbi. I don't know, Sorry,

456
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Speaker 1: I went way deeper.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, But the thing is is, and I'm trying

458
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Speaker 3: to say this delicately, I don't know if Joe Shane.

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Speaker 4: Thought about it that deeply.

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Speaker 2: I like, I.

461
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Speaker 3: Think some people would have that, like would would go deeper.

462
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Speaker 4: And Connor's smart, so of course.

463
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Speaker 3: He he he does a great job.

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Speaker 1: But I just don't know if that's where I don't

465
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Speaker 1: think Joe Shane's going on that level.

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Speaker 2: I don't answer your question on that level.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Joe Shane is going to have a

468
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Speaker 1: lot of control. I don't know what the setup is

469
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Speaker 1: going to be with John Harbaugh. I would assume John

470
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Speaker 1: Barba is making the decisions not just in personnel, but

471
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Speaker 1: in the people that he puts into the personnel department.

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Speaker 2: I expect that it will be.

473
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Speaker 1: Very similar to the situation that Mike Brabel had last year. Remember,

474
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Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh, is Elliott Wolf going to keep

475
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Speaker 1: his job? Elliot Wolf was kind of run in the

476
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Speaker 1: front of it, and everyone's in the Patriot's like, yes, yes,

477
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Speaker 1: he's keeping his job. Heck he got to stay at

478
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Speaker 1: the podium at the combine. But you know what, Mike Brabel,

479
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Speaker 1: the first thing he did was was hire his guy

480
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Speaker 1: from Tennessee Cowden, I forget his first name, Yeah, And

481
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Speaker 1: he brings him in and Brabel's really making the decisions,

482
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Speaker 1: and Cowden is his right hand man, and he's probably

483
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Speaker 1: like number two. And Elliot Wolf is still there and

484
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Speaker 1: he's helping facilitate it all. And that's kind of where

485
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Speaker 1: I see Joe Shane. No matter what the title is

486
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Speaker 1: going to be, John Harbaugh has about as much juice

487
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Speaker 1: as the coach of the Giants as any coach in

488
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Speaker 1: the league has, and it sounds like he got carte

489
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Speaker 1: blanche and he's bringing in everyone he wants. Todd Monkin

490
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Speaker 1: is coming to New York, so that's a huge get

491
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Speaker 1: for him, and he wants to bring Anthony Weaver to

492
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Speaker 1: New York. We'll see Anthony Weaver ends up going, but Weaver,

493
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Speaker 1: who is with him in Baltimore previously wind up going

494
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Speaker 1: to New York.

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Speaker 4: So there's two things that I'm going to be looking for.

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Speaker 3: Number One, who does he hire as that Number two

497
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Speaker 3: as that right hand person, because that matters. I mean

498
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Speaker 3: Chad Alexander, our guy from the Chargers who was getting

499
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Speaker 3: looks like he's the I believe he's the AGM right

500
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Speaker 3: at GM. I don't know is the title, but that

501
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Speaker 3: guy could be someone that could come over in that

502
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Speaker 3: sort of mold.

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Speaker 4: I'm just looking at.

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Speaker 1: It's tricky because do you go fire Joe Sheet? Is

505
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Speaker 1: there a chance Joe Shane just gets flat out fired?

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Speaker 1: That seems unlikely considering he's at these dinners, but who knows?

507
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Speaker 2: Are you just there?

508
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: But you see, if you're not watching on YouTube, then

510
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Speaker 3: you missed the look. But I'm looking at this one

511
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Speaker 3: and okay, so that's the first thing. The second thing.

512
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Speaker 3: You will know who's in charge if the players start

513
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Speaker 3: coming back on the sideline. They If you've noticed, for

514
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Speaker 3: the past several years, pretty much since Hard Knocks, there

515
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Speaker 3: have not been any are near the number of former

516
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Speaker 3: players you know that come back to bang the drum,

517
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Speaker 3: to do whatever whatever the fun stuff that the Giants

518
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Speaker 3: do to really rally the troops and training camp all

519
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Speaker 3: of the things. Right the Giants used to be like

520
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 3: straighthand would go back every year and blah blahlah, they

521
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Speaker 3: all were there. Now it's pretty sparse. So I have

522
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Speaker 3: forecast that we'll see some cool name come in that

523
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Speaker 3: maybe don't know but be a right hand, and then

524
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Speaker 3: once the players start coming back freely, then you know

525
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Speaker 3: kind of what's going on there.

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Speaker 1: I think Harbaugh, for where the Giants were at, ultimately

527
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Speaker 1: a good hire, great higher I don't think it's without risk.

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Speaker 2: He's sixty three years old.

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Speaker 1: He's been a very specific situation with good quarterback play

530
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Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco in, great defensive leadership and then great

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Speaker 1: quarterback play. Lamar Jackson sort of famously saved John Harbaugh's

532
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Speaker 1: job when they were losing that season. A couple of

533
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Speaker 1: seasons back to back, it looked like he was on

534
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Speaker 1: possibly the outs, and then Lamar comes in and plays great,

535
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Speaker 1: this is a different situation. I do love the fact,

536
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Speaker 1: if the reporting is true, that he's getting Todd Monkin

537
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Speaker 1: to come with him, that he did the kind of

538
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Speaker 1: he did the research on Jackson Dart and he thinks

539
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Speaker 1: there's something to play with there, and I would agree,

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Speaker 1: and I think Monkin would be a good fit for

541
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Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, and I do think there's talent there. So

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Speaker 1: I think Harbaugh looked at all the situations around the league.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he was maybe gonna have every single

544
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Speaker 1: job like everyone was making out to be. But that's

545
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Speaker 1: what an agent does. He creates leverage that I need

546
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Speaker 1: that agent. His agent is Kevin Harlan's brother.

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Speaker 4: Bruhh, yeah yeah you told me that. Yeah, yeah, okay,

548
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Speaker 4: got it.

549
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Speaker 1: So I think ultimately it really felt like this whole

550
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Speaker 1: thing was like we need like it's been a long

551
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Speaker 1: time since Tom Coffin's been here, Like daddy, come help us, John,

552
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Speaker 1: you know. I felt like that was the situation. Can

553
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Speaker 1: some like grown man just help us we don't know

554
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Speaker 1: what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's actually probably true, And also I

556
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Speaker 3: think if you're gonna give Jackson Dart a shot, and

557
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Speaker 3: looking at the quarterback now we have, you know, the

558
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Speaker 3: kid from Organ's not coming out, So it's not like

559
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Speaker 3: you have. It's not like this is like the best

560
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Speaker 3: quarterback crop of recruits coming out ever like this, That's

561
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Speaker 3: not how it is. It's very different now, especially with

562
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Speaker 3: you know the transfer portal and everything. So I think

563
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Speaker 3: what they said was take a calculator risk. We want

564
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Speaker 3: to have the right, We want to make it work

565
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Speaker 3: with Jackson Dart. Can you add pieces in this specific

566
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Speaker 3: way to give him the best opportunity to succeed because

567
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Speaker 3: we don't think there's a guy out there that could

568
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Speaker 3: replace him. I don't, and I don't mean to sound

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Speaker 3: harsh or whatever. I like Jackson Dart a lot, like

570
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm a big fan. I think that there's a

571
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Speaker 3: lot of great things there. I love his attitude, I

572
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Speaker 3: love you know, the showmanship. I'm here for all of it,

573
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Speaker 3: and I think he's a great quarterback. I just also

574
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Speaker 3: think that does factor into it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got Andrew Thomas, you got Malik Neighbors,

576
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Speaker 1: you have Dexter Lawrence. Though I crossed my mind, like

577
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Speaker 1: would he be a guy that they potentially look to

578
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Speaker 1: trade at this point something I think.

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Speaker 3: I would imagine some of that defensive front is up

580
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Speaker 3: for grabs because that is where they have surplus value.

581
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Speaker 3: And if you're going to trade bait anywhere, that would

582
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Speaker 3: be where you'd look to because they need help in

583
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Speaker 3: the secondary. They need help a lot of other places.

584
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Speaker 3: They need more than just one olignement.

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Speaker 1: So I mean Keevon Thibadau is another guy entering the

586
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Speaker 1: last year on his contract.

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Speaker 2: He would make sense.

588
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Speaker 1: But you have Abdul Carter, you have Brian Burns, you

589
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Speaker 1: have some real deal talent, and ultimately.

590
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Speaker 3: And Abdul Carter that contracts a lot more affordable than

591
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Speaker 3: some of the other ones.

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Speaker 1: Yes, just saying I as someone who lived in New

593
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Speaker 1: York for ten years, I do think it's gonna be

594
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Speaker 1: fun Harbaugh there and just on the back pages, And

595
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot because he's he's a He's

596
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Speaker 1: not as big a personality as Jim, but he's he's

597
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Speaker 1: a controlling guy, but also like he's gonna have all

598
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Speaker 1: these relationships. If it gets hot there, he could fire off.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be a lot, and I'd

600
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Speaker 1: like to think like everything solved, They're gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: They have been the worst team in the NFL for

602
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Speaker 1: a decade now, like just in terms of record, it's.

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Speaker 2: Been them and the Jets.

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Speaker 1: And I do think this is a move that is

605
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Speaker 1: going to raise their floor above the well, get way

606
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Speaker 1: above the Jets. I think, like, I think worst case

607
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: scenario here is still pretty good. It's still like a

608
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Speaker 1: competitive team, and that that's a big change for the Giants.

609
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Speaker 1: So ultimately, Giants fans, I think you got to be

610
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Speaker 1: really fired up. And yes you mentioned it, Dante Moore

611
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Speaker 1: not in the draft. So I think that the Raiders

612
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: are very happy that they got that number one overall

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Speaker 1: pick because the Jets at number two. It's not feeling

614
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Speaker 1: like a draft where you could take a quarterback at

615
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Speaker 1: number two. But maybe that's maybe that's good for them.

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Speaker 1: They've had their own issues forcing it.

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Speaker 4: Which job happens, which job gets hired. Last, the Raiders

618
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Speaker 4: are the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Cardinals. The Cardinals are a weird one.

620
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Speaker 1: But now that Harbaugh's happened, you do think we'll start

621
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Speaker 1: to see something, start to see some movement. I saw

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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel was supposedly at an airport going back potentially

623
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Speaker 1: to Baltimore. Is there a chance that he would either

624
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Speaker 1: get that job or want the offensive coordinator job?

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

626
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Speaker 1: They just had a spiffy picture of him at the airport.

627
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Speaker 1: But we're going to covering all the.

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Speaker 3: Ultimore gets hired next, and then Tennessee and then I

629
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Speaker 3: think Steelers will be at the end too, just because

630
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Speaker 3: their timing is was was later.

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Speaker 1: Steelers have had some fascinating asks that they went to

632
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: Shield House first the Rams passing game, you know, young guru.

633
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Speaker 2: They went to Chris Shula.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I also House, who's very smart.

635
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Speaker 4: But they're like, he makes PowerPoint presentation.

636
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Speaker 2: And he's like thirty years old.

637
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Speaker 4: Like, does that mean I get to be a coach

638
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Speaker 4: because I made a heck of a.

639
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Speaker 2: Deck back in the Why I haven't worked for Sean McVay. Shoot,

640
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Speaker 2: that's that's what really does it?

641
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Speaker 1: And then on Thursday they announced they are interviewing Clay Kubiak,

642
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: the lesser known Kubiak.

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Speaker 3: Someone please, someone please, Cooper Manning. He needs to get

644
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Speaker 3: an interview now too, because.

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Speaker 1: They have a type right now and it sounds like

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Speaker 1: it's it's a guy in his like young to mid

647
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Speaker 1: thirties that they want.

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Speaker 4: To Clay's name also being with a K.

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Speaker 2: Yes kl a y.

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Speaker 1: We will be back Saturday night, so we're going live

651
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Speaker 1: after the Divisional Round game. It is myself and Nick Shook.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to do that show with you. Obviously

653
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: be in your feeds, but check my social feeds and

654
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: Knicks as well if you want to link, or check

655
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: the NFL's YouTube page when it is live or on

656
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: the NFL Daily YouTube page afterwards. Can't wait to talk

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Speaker 1: about forty nine Ers and Seahawks and Bills and Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Best weekend of the year. Divisional Round. Will see that