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Speaker 1: Arra follow as we wrap up the front part of

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We still have Monday Night football to come

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Speaker 1: here in week four, but we wrap up a lot

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Speaker 1: of texts the weekend that was a lot of text

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Speaker 1: is a lot of news. So nom the metabk, the

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Speaker 1: Ravens defensive tackle. Again, I keep saying that like maybe

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Speaker 1: the casual, casual fan doesn't know who he is.

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Speaker 2: No, I know a lot of people do not know

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Speaker 2: who he is.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know, first of all, I made this

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Speaker 1: case on Good Morning Football the other day after they

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Speaker 1: lost to the Lions. He makes twenty four million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year and it's probably not enough. But this being said,

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Speaker 1: he does have any neck injury that is going to

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Speaker 1: knock him out for the rest of the season. John

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Speaker 1: Harball saying that today just an enormous loss there for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens because you saw the impact or the impact

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Speaker 1: get closer to the trade deadline, look for some help

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Speaker 1: at the defensive tackle position. We shall see, but there's

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Speaker 1: just no replacing that guy. Ian. Let's get to the

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Speaker 1: Giants here, because game one of the Jackson Dart era.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it last week. We expected him to

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Speaker 1: provide a spark to this team. He did just that.

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Speaker 1: I am now seeing the reaction to it, which was,

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Speaker 1: this is not sustainable. He's going to get hurt. He's

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Speaker 1: running too much. Look, the bottom line was, and we

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Speaker 1: say we can go with him now because we don't

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Speaker 1: have to put him in spread formations and have him

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball down the field and throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: forty times a game. We knew this was going to

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Speaker 1: be part of it. He did that, and he did

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Speaker 1: a nice job in Game one to get the Giants

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Speaker 2: A couple of things there.

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Speaker 3: First of all, you know, we were on air all

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Speaker 3: week talking about like, you know, the spark that the

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Speaker 3: Giants want and like the good you know, you were saying,

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Speaker 2: Of juice in the locker room. That's cool for us

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Speaker 2: to say. You can really see it on the field,

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Speaker 2: Like that was all pretty real, you know, And I

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Speaker 2: thought that was cool. I mean, this is like, you know,

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Speaker 3: He's fast, he's a good athlete.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was, you know.

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Speaker 3: Sort of exactly the juice that the Giants were looking for.

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Speaker 3: The dance, I have some questions about maybe that's something

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Speaker 2: I don't think him running is a problem. Two things.

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Speaker 3: One, I'm not convinced that a quarterback sitting back in

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Speaker 3: opening up the entire offense for the Giants was so noticeable,

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Speaker 3: like Russ through the ball. Fine, you know obviously didn't

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Speaker 3: play well enough to not get benched, but this is

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Speaker 3: exactly what they needed in Yes, like losing the league,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was in part one of the podcasts. You

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Speaker 2: I remember you broke it, and I was so happy

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Speaker 2: in it because I went to go vote at a

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Speaker 1: Voting in May. Your story doesn't check out. You vote November.

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Speaker 1: It it was in May primary.

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Speaker 2: No, it was March. It was traded in May.

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Speaker 1: May. I'm at March whatever. It's not November usually that's

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Speaker 1: coming out of it's gonna make us a better offense.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to run it the way like we're

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Speaker 1: not just forcing the ball to one Jackson Dark could

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Speaker 1: Wondale Robinson. I got it Line Target and a friend

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Speaker 1: of yours that you met the Derby. You're gonna mention

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Speaker 1: do it. Matter of fact, you sent a picture back

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Speaker 1: thrust into a bigger role alongside Darius Slayton. Maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: is there a free agent option or a trade op?

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hyatt also a little more Jalen Hyatt.

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Speaker 1: All hi it too. The problem is that at this point,

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Speaker 1: the Giants make a trade for a guy in season

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Speaker 1: to build around him, Like there's a lot that goes

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Speaker 1: how that's going to go for the Giants. It was

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Speaker 2: I would say that sums it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's like and Elik Neighbors get towards ACL.

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Speaker 1: So the good news is there's no it doesn't sound

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Speaker 2: The Eagles, I.

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Speaker 1: Want to get to them because it's all about style

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Speaker 1: points for them. And here's to make any sense, not

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Speaker 1: to me. And I did make the case and I

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Speaker 1: I was going for based on like what do we

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Speaker 1: have to do to win this game? And there was

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Speaker 1: a game in Kansas City. It was a tightly contested,

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Speaker 1: They needed to have a comeback against the Rams, needed

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Speaker 1: to start airing it out and throw some fifty to

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Speaker 1: and they went again this game against Tampa yesterday. They

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Speaker 3: I don't argument is this is Sirianni coaching to win

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Speaker 1: And I think yes, And I think it's one, let's

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Speaker 1: still early in the season. And yes, we haven't had

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Speaker 1: The problem is in Philadelphia. They remember two thousand or

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown's posting stuff on social media, which I was

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Speaker 1: just about to mention there they don't need that. There's

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Speaker 2: In What does that even mean?

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Speaker 1: So it was a Bible a Bible verse.

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Speaker 2: He's not appreciated enough.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was a it was a It was a

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Speaker 1: Bible verse. And there's a fuller context for what he's

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday or Thursday and say, but I had nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with football or the offense. Don't care. Can't

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Speaker 1: put that out that after a game like that. Got

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Speaker 1: to understand the contest.

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Speaker 2: He will not say that he might.

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Speaker 1: He might if you're not welcomed. So this is a

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Speaker 1: whole Uh, this is the whole thing in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: Don't go to the gentiles of the Samerians, but only

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Speaker 2: But you know this podcast for Bible analysis. This would

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Speaker 2: be that this is your time, Yes, right now is

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Speaker 1: And I would say I would say that in the

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders uh the Monday of Week four,

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Speaker 1: The Ravens now nom Di Matabike. We mentioned this the

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Speaker 1: This does not look right. There's a lot of injuries.

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Speaker 1: How much can they possibly overcome? Next week they have

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Speaker 3: It's a lot. It is a lot now for the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: I refuse to believe that any of this matters because

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Speaker 3: I believe the Ravens are too talented and going to

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Speaker 2: Think they're going to be okay because I love the roster.

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Speaker 2: Nobody cares work harder?

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Speaker 1: Nobody cares work harder? If you're not watching us on video.

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Speaker 1: Here it is Lamar Jackson wearing it at a press conference.

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Speaker 1: That is a motto inside the Castle, which is what

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Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Work harder, Nobody cares that you're injured. A

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ian for suggesting I don't start. I picked them

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Speaker 2: Casting them playing really well.

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Speaker 1: Didn't do it. Went with Travon Henderson again, who actually

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Speaker 1: the production So frankly, I'm going to be one in

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Speaker 1: three in fantasy boomy. Your thoughts, your thoughts in the

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Speaker 3: The Vikings are actually staying out there and go and

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Speaker 3: You know, people always ask like, well, you know, what

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Speaker 1: a plotting thing. It's more of a gliding surface, and

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Speaker 1: so when you try to play it beyond my understanding

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Speaker 1: with the surfaces. Internationally, and you haven't had those kinds

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Speaker 1: of issues where we said, hey, maybe we shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: playing the NFL games at Wembley where they're not used

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Speaker 1: to playing NFL games, where way beyond that, the quality

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Speaker 1: of the games has been excellent. You play a nine

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Speaker 1: thirty AM game and it's you're watching the night game

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Speaker 1: and you see highlights of that game, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I remember that game. It feels like it happened like

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago. That's how long these days tend to be.

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Speaker 1: But it's nice to have NFL football in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Here your thoughts on the Steelers overall, because this is

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Speaker 1: a team that has not been shy about talking Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl and talking high expectations, and it's a team that

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks say they'll be good, they'll be

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Speaker 1: around nine to eight like they always are. Can they

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Speaker 1: put it all together? Can they get above that?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I feel fine about the Steelers. I thought.

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Speaker 3: I liked the game plan and Judy told us some

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Speaker 3: about this in pregame show, moving dk Metcalf around, featuring him,

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Speaker 3: putting him in different positions in the offense and getting

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Speaker 3: the balltim Millenium run. I liked that if they can

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Speaker 3: stop the run, as they did some yesterday. I think

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Speaker 3: they're going to be fine or more than fine, as

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Speaker 3: long as Aaron Rodgers stays healthy.

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I mean. They looked like, honestly,

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Speaker 2: look like every Steelers team has for the last like

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Speaker 2: five years. It's just like, can they get good quarterback

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Speaker 2: plane if Rogers avoid some of the lower body injuries

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Speaker 2: that he had last year, like hamstring, ankle, like I

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Speaker 2: kill us before that, I think they are.

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Speaker 3: Going to be in the playoffs and a team that

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Speaker 3: you would not want to play. Are think gonna win games?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I think they will be a

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Speaker 3: team you do not want to play, which that is

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Speaker 3: for doing all the.

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Speaker 2: Things that did in the offseason. That is progress.

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Speaker 1: I want to get your take on the vikings and

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Speaker 1: the things j jjban officially ruled out. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know we said it was unlikely he was going to play.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's not officially no.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it usually doesn't happen till Friday, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't know if Kevin O'Connell basically had said it. I

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Speaker 1: missed the postgame press conference yesterday. This felt like and

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a gotta have a game

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Speaker 1: against the Browns here on the second half of their

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Speaker 1: European tour here. They were favored in this game against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, to which I actually said to you, I

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Speaker 1: don't understand why they're considered favorites in this game. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it would be more of a toss up.

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Speaker 1: Not that I'm ever right about this stuff, but it

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Speaker 1: just so happened in this case the Vikings and Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz and the long term plan for JJ McCarthy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess you don't necessarily like you want your backup

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Speaker 1: to play well, but in this case, it's like you

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Speaker 1: didn't want him to play.

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Speaker 2: Play too well.

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Speaker 1: They'd never say that you don't want to play too

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Speaker 1: well because you've got to get JJ McCarthy back in there,

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Speaker 1: got to get him feeling good once he's healthy and

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Speaker 1: moving in the right direction. Because this this injury, and

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Speaker 1: there is an injury. I know some people are skeptical

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Speaker 1: there is an injury. Has given him a chance to

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Speaker 1: hit the pause button and to basically reset and come

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Speaker 1: back and hopefully play better. In this case for the

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Speaker 1: Vikings down the stretch on the other end of the game,

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Speaker 1: the Browns. Time for a quarterback change for the Browns.

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Speaker 1: Here it is. This is the promo Vikings Browns Sunday,

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Speaker 1: ninth thirty Eastern. Tune in at seven am Eastern for

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Speaker 1: Pacific to see us on NFL Game Day kickoff. But

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Speaker 1: the Browns at some point got to make a quarterback change,

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Speaker 1: maybe right?

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Speaker 3: Maybe yeah. I mean it feels like it's time, and

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Speaker 3: that's fine. I mean, you know, I think Dylan Gabriel

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Speaker 3: would make sense. I think everybody would like to see it,

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Speaker 3: and I think the season is not gone like you'd want.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see on that one coick thing for the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: You know, Kevin O'Connor was asked like, hey, could you

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Speaker 3: know Carson Wentz keeps starting if he plays well? And

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Speaker 3: he's like, I don't have to answer that question essentially,

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Speaker 3: And he's right, like it'll play out like it plays

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Speaker 3: out like it's j jimccarthy's job. I think it's clear.

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Speaker 3: You hope that the injury has forced him to step

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Speaker 3: back and watch and learn, and you hope that when

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Speaker 3: he comes back he's a better version than he was

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Speaker 3: the first time around.

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Speaker 1: But we will see last time. Ian Rappaport said it's

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Speaker 1: time to make a quarterback change was last week and

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Speaker 1: the Giants did make the quarterback change they did. If

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Speaker 1: the Browns wind up doing it here, you heard it

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Speaker 1: here first from Ian Rapaport. I mean really, but we're

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Speaker 1: going to say that. Okay, that has been it for

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Speaker 1: the Insiders podcast. We appreciate you joining us. Here's where

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Speaker 1: every single day of the week. We are back on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night on NFL Network with Tom with Ian or

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Speaker 1: you off tomorrow. Maybe you are off tomorrow so to

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Speaker 1: be be checking in, perhaps from London. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I haven't really looked at tomorrow's show plan, but I

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Speaker 1: promise you I will do it. Is she gonna be

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm just gonna throw it out

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Speaker 1: there and give her a call. Hey, Judy, we promote

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Speaker 1: it to now you gotta be on it. But she

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Speaker 1: is hustling all over Europe. She is spending another week

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Speaker 1: out there. She will be in London for that Vikings

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Speaker 1: Browns game, providing all the coverage out there, and we

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Speaker 1: will have all the coverage wrapping up Week four into

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Speaker 1: Week five. As we get through the week on the Insiders.

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