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Speaker 2: Theredairs. You heard at the Los Angeles Rams left for

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Speaker 2: dead before the season started, or in the precipice of

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Speaker 2: being a playoff team in the NFC. After another win

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Speaker 2: thirty to twenty two over the Saints, a game which

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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford continued his dynamic play in the second half

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Speaker 2: of the season, and we got another monster game from

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Speaker 2: Puka and Nukua. This team is dangerous and they beat

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Speaker 2: a Saints team that continues to fade. It's the Around

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Speaker 2: Mark Sessler and Mark again the Rams. They're not a

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Speaker 2: perfect team, special teams, sneaky disaster and I kind of

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Speaker 2: think when their season ends, whatever it is, whether it's

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Speaker 2: regular season or playoffs, probably some type of special team's

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Speaker 2: gaff that gets them, But there are so many other

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Speaker 2: aspects of this team that are intriguing, and right now,

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Speaker 2: it's that offense with Stafford, Puka Cup, Kyron Williams that

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Speaker 2: really makes them dangerous no matter who they play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's two teams kind of going in

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Speaker 3: they are today is completely different than the team they

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Speaker 3: started the season with. You know, it's like people that

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Speaker 3: Nakua is just like he's a rookie really. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's so productive in this passing game. With Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 3: life six catches for eighty two yards, anchored them in

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Speaker 3: a tough spot out of the gate because cars blown

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Speaker 3: pass right before the half incomplete, and the Rams go

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Speaker 3: it's execution, it's coaching. It's weird decisions where the Rams

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Speaker 2: You know, if things stay where they are and we

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Speaker 2: in this season where teams have been kind of playing

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of coaches you can make a case

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Speaker 3: I mean, because these are this was a roster that had,

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Speaker 2: even say, like, this is why Derek Carr drives people nuts,

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Speaker 2: not certainly, not when it mattered. But when they pile

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Speaker 3: Joy st you're operating with house money for the rest

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Speaker 5: Remember hoping Derek Carr has a great game. The Saints

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Speaker 5: bringing the game for their fourth win in a row.

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Speaker 5: This is a really important game for us. Both teams

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Speaker 5: is seven and seven and we need it. Rams are

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Speaker 5: gonna win his playoff, Baby Williams is gonna go off

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Speaker 5: for three touchdowns tonight. Two touchdowns Williams two touchdowns, Pookah

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Speaker 5: and my long shot is two touchdowns hickbee.

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Speaker 4: I think that Kamara's gonna go off a Lobby's gonna

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Speaker 2: And I think this score is gonna be twenty one

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Speaker 2: to seventeen.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be.

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Speaker 6: Close Stafford tonight and predicting, you know what, a good

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Speaker 6: at least two fifty possibly three tugs. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 6: him about fifteen fifteen yards rushing tonight. You know what, Hey,

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Speaker 6: possibly possibly a close game throwing a late rushing tug.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it's gonna be a great victory,

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Speaker 5: that's for sure. Right, we're gonna take it tonight, of course, right,

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Speaker 5: and you know well, Stafford is gonna put it down today.

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Speaker 5: He is gonna have three touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: I cannot calckilate homa yards, but it's gonna be probably

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Speaker 5: over three hundred yards. And guess what we just gonna

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Speaker 5: end up going back. We're gonna go on Victoria. It's

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Speaker 5: only matters, man, make the damn playoffs.

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Speaker 2: There we go. Well, those fans are passionate, don't tell me,

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Speaker 2: LA football fans don't get it. They were fired up

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Speaker 2: for this game, and not all of them nailed their predictions.

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Speaker 2: But uh, fun vibe. So far. Yeah, I tended.

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Speaker 3: I'd say overall, it seemed like the Rams fans very

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Speaker 3: optimistic and came relatively close in theory. The Saints fans

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Speaker 3: not so much. Their predictions didn't pan out on any level.

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Speaker 2: But you know who really delivered, Greggy. He took the

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Speaker 2: kids to the game, took the wife to the game.

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Speaker 2: So Otani up close. That's great. By the way, Otani.

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Speaker 2: Otani visits the Rams and he's on the sideline and

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Speaker 2: he's sitting, you know, in the in the in the suite.

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Speaker 2: They give him a jersey and he's all over Twitter

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Speaker 2: and everything, and it's like Otani's been here. Otani was

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Speaker 2: on the Angels for the past like five years. Like

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Speaker 2: they're the Los Angeles Angels, and that I mean, don't

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Speaker 2: tell rank because I love Rank, but like that's pretty

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Speaker 2: like sand indictment of where the Angels are within the

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Speaker 2: the greater sphere of sports here in Los Angeles, although

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Speaker 2: they are if you don't if you know the area,

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Speaker 2: the Angels are like the Orange County team, and it

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Speaker 2: is that it is a Dodgers town here in this

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Speaker 2: area of the city or state, I should say. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: never mind that Greg took his kids to the game.

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Speaker 2: He saw Tani. His wife probably you know, was thinking

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Speaker 2: about greg Or Otani. Where should I go? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We'll get back to you mission anyway. But he did

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Speaker 2: give us a report from the game. Maybe he'll talk

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Speaker 2: about Otani.

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Speaker 4: Let's hear all right here at Sofi Stadium, Rams Saints.

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Speaker 4: I gotta say Rams fans brought it tonight. They get

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Speaker 4: a lot of grief, but they brought it. Show Hey,

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Speaker 4: Tani brought it. We saw him on the sideline before

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Speaker 4: the game. Matthew Stafford brought it all. The trick shots

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Speaker 4: are fun to see in person, like the angles are crazy,

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Speaker 4: bust the rhymes brought it at halftime. That was good Walker,

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Speaker 4: My family brought at Walker. You got anything to say?

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Speaker 4: Who's whose Okay?

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Speaker 2: PoCA rules. That's it from so far.

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Speaker 1: Good night at the game.

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Speaker 4: Thank you from the Rams, making my kids happy.

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Speaker 2: Ran a podcast all right. That was Who Will Deliver,

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Speaker 2: presented by Uber Eats, the official on demand delivery partner

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Speaker 2: of the NFL Order. Now we've talked about how Greg

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Speaker 2: and he tries to play it off, but he's been

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Speaker 2: turning Walker, training Walker to be a little like a

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Speaker 2: football robot, A twin, So it is I think instructive.

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Speaker 2: It tells us that that Walker's training is going on

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Speaker 2: that if he only says two words puka nakua, because

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Speaker 2: that was the story. So and Walker Walker was just

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Speaker 2: locked locked in on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not I'm not surprised he's They're all there

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Speaker 3: are rams family. I would ask you this though, because

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Speaker 3: I remember when we were young. One of the reasons

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Speaker 3: we got into this what we do is because of

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Speaker 3: w F A N. And they had this incredible show

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Speaker 3: on Sunday where you know, I was a Browns fan.

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Speaker 3: It's like you're you're getting you're looking for any morselivan

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Speaker 3: information pre internet, right, and they'd take They had like

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Speaker 3: that six hour long show where they'd go to beat

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Speaker 3: reporters at the stadiums for like three or four, you know,

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Speaker 3: thirty forty seconds each. You could barely hear them. But

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Speaker 3: that Greg report had that essence in that feel where

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Speaker 3: it's like, this guy is trying to get his message

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Speaker 3: across to us clearly with about eighty thousand people behind him,

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Speaker 3: going absolutely bonkers with about six beers in the meach.

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Speaker 2: How about this idea? That's our show? Now we every

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Speaker 2: week we send Greg to a stadium. You and I

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Speaker 2: do forty fifty sixty seventy minutes. Maybe we get Colleen

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Speaker 2: in the mix. Yeah, you know, shookey CLAYBN, you know,

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Speaker 2: typical ATM setup. Greg's still very much a part of

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Speaker 2: the ATN universe, but now we're just sending him to

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Speaker 2: different parts of the country to give us ninety second dispatches.

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Speaker 2: And that's It's an important part of the show. It's

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Speaker 2: maybe a smaller part of the show, but equally important

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Speaker 2: and gets us closer to the game, which I think

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Speaker 2: makes the show better. And I think even Greg would agree,

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Speaker 2: whatever makes the show better is probably the way we

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Speaker 2: should be doing this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd have to agree. I mean, it's sort of

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Speaker 3: our version of reimagining our operation as the Rams have

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Speaker 3: done over the past three hundred and sixty five days.

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Speaker 3: And I think it gets that It ignites that natural

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Speaker 3: reporter in Greg. Even if it's only forty to fifty

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Speaker 3: seconds per episode, it would really bring him back to

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Speaker 3: his roots.

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Speaker 2: Good, good, good. So that's settled. Then do you want

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Speaker 2: to make the phone call? I feel like you might

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Speaker 2: want to make that phone call.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, No, it's just to be informative.

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Speaker 2: I'll let them know, all right, good stuff. This was

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Speaker 2: the close of the triple header for Around the NFL

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Speaker 2: on Thursday. You could check out the Week sixteen preview,

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Speaker 2: which went up earlier today. Wherever you get your podcasts,

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Speaker 2: you can check out NFL plus the Dreamatorium. Mark and

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Speaker 2: I were going at it, and now you have this.

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Speaker 2: Next time you hear from us, it will be Sunday

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Speaker 2: and the flagship recap till then he'd the call baby,