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Speaker 1: We will have a full breakdown on those matchups. Nine

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers, Broncos and more to stuff their stockings

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Speaker 1: by Sunday. You could also lock up your fantasy championship

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Speaker 1: this week, assuming the Santa Claus of your season didn't

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Speaker 2: In week four. Michael lef Floria.

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Speaker 1: Will guide you like Rudolph with the final touches on

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Speaker 1: your championship wide up. Welcome in with the Insiders, presented

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Speaker 1: by Progressive Insurance alongside Judy Batista. I am Tom Pellicero.

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Speaker 1: It is not just Christmas Eve, and we appreciate you

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Speaker 1: and then it's gone. We have football for you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We got two games. It's on Netflix. It all starts

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Speaker 1: on those games. We'll break down the matchup. Let start

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Chiefs have not yet wrapped up the

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Speaker 1: Packers became the latest team to wrap up their playoff

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Speaker 1: presented by Progressive Insurance, Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pellisero,

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Speaker 1: joined now by Mike Garafalo as well as our front

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Speaker 1: office guru, Mark Ross. Mark, big win for the Ravens

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Speaker 6: Well, much like they did against Pittsburgh is don't beat themselves.

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Speaker 6: Because I've said this all year about the Ravens is

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Speaker 6: And at one point the most penalized team in the league.

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Speaker 6: They gave that title up to the Tennessee this weekend,

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Speaker 6: They had the worst pass defense in the league for

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Speaker 6: most importantly, if they can just have Lamar play like

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Speaker 6: there's no mystery about how the Ravens can win. Get

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Speaker 6: But they rebounded right away with the Marlin Humphrey picked six.

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Speaker 6: So I just love the Ravens potential. I've loved them

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Speaker 6: all season long. I don't think there's any team that's

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Speaker 6: Mike and Tom, the ceiling is a root for this

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Speaker 7: One guy that's had a big impact Kyle van Noy

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Speaker 7: ten and a half sacks in the season, a career

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Speaker 8: Has never made the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 7: Having a career year, Maybe this is the year for

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Speaker 7: On the other side of this game, mark the Texans

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this's going to be a tough one for the Texans.

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Speaker 6: Really struggling all season long, they put together win so

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Speaker 6: Now he loses Tank Dell, So all seems to be

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Speaker 6: And could that be this year? It's Texans team where

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Speaker 6: Now we're really talking about them limping into it. Well,

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Speaker 6: there for the Texans too. We're just waiting for CJ.

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Speaker 6: Stroud to have a CJ. Stroud game? Could that be

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mark, don't Mark do not hit the egg

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Speaker 1: knock just yet. A lot more to you to come

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Speaker 1: here shortly. I know tomorrow you're going to be watching

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Speaker 1: like all of us, when the NFL hits Netflix. It's

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Speaker 1: a doubleheader. Chief Steelers, Ravens, Texans all live on Netflix

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Speaker 1: in a very special Christmas game day.

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Speaker 5: Let's welcome our Jeffrey Chadilla back because he has a

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Speaker 5: seasonally appropriate column. His first recolumn this week is all

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Speaker 5: about buying and selling, in this case, buying and selling

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Speaker 5: teams as Super Bowl contenders. So let's start on the

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Speaker 5: Who are you buying as Super Bowl contenders?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with the team we saw last night

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Speaker 4: I've liked them all year long, and they are ascending

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Speaker 3: Jordan Love has cut back on the turnovers, josh Aka

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Speaker 4: And you look at this defense.

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Speaker 4: So I love their potential. I'll go to the Rams next.

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Speaker 3: Because when they were one and four, I thought they

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Speaker 3: You look at what they've been able to do in

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Speaker 3: go with the Ravens. He saw Mark Ross talking about

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Speaker 3: And then of course you've got Derek Henry who has

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Speaker 5: All right, Obviously there's been an awful lot of selling

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Atlanta Felcons, And I know Michael

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Speaker 3: Pennix has replaced Kirk Cousins, so the chances of the

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Speaker 4: I'll go to the Texans after them.

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Speaker 3: I look at the injuries they took on against the Chiefs,

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Speaker 4: Firepower is not there.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know how they are going to be

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Speaker 4: And then finally I'll go to the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: You know, they've been a great story all year long,

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Speaker 4: See them beating anybody ahead of them. So I just

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Speaker 4: can't trust Pittsburgh any longer.

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Speaker 5: Very big game coming up for them tomorrow. Read more

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Speaker 5: go enjoy your holiday. And when we return on The Insiders,

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Speaker 5: he's one of the NFL's leading tacklers and he's also

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Speaker 5: a friend of the show. We're going to talk with

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Speaker 5: Charters linebacker Dan Henley. Next on The Insiders, Saints.

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Speaker 1: Chance for green Bay to wrap up a playoff spot.

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Speaker 1: As we get to the game flow of the Week

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Speaker 1: presented by Progressive Jordan Love coming out and well, it

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Speaker 1: didn't take long for them to basically bury these Saints

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Speaker 1: even subject you to the rest of this game. Bottom

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Speaker 2: I can bet you watched at least some of that

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Speaker 2: the turning point.

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Speaker 1: If there was one for a Packers team that basically

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Speaker 2: You down for this one. So Emmanuel Wilson got.

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Speaker 7: Chargers linebacker Deon and joining us hair on the Insiders.

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Speaker 7: Merry Christmas. You got plenty of lines today, Dan, you can.

438
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Speaker 7: You can have the run of the place today, So

439
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Speaker 7: we appreciate you joining us. Give us the vibe there

440
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 7: and charge your land. And how was that coin toss

441
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Speaker 7: right there?

442
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Speaker 9: I mean, the coin toss was great. Judge Judy of

443
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 9: all people, just amazing. You know, she's been she's been

444
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Speaker 9: prominent or a dominant force in what she does for

445
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Speaker 9: a very long time. So it was just it's just

446
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Speaker 9: very problem for me to just be up there.

447
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Speaker 10: First.

448
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Speaker 9: I was my first coin toss in like eight years,

449
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Speaker 9: and that's like back in high school. So it was

450
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Speaker 9: it was a little I was a little nervous. So

451
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Speaker 9: I looked to my big bros our captism, like, so

452
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Speaker 9: what do I do? And They're like, don't do anything.

453
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Speaker 10: So I'm like, day, like this, this is supposed to

454
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Speaker 10: be my big day. I don't get to say nothing.

455
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Speaker 10: I don't get to say heads tills.

456
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Speaker 9: I probably knew I wasn't gonna get that, but I'm like,

457
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Speaker 9: at least I got to say what's up to the

458
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Speaker 9: next the opponents. But it was a blessing. It was

459
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Speaker 9: amazing to buy teer up. We're going to another big game.

460
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Speaker 9: It's holiday spirit right now. We're just going to get

461
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Speaker 9: ourselves a gift. You know, we're trying to wrap up

462
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Speaker 9: ourselves after Christmas. I guess a New Year's gift right now,

463
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Speaker 9: you know, trying to get ourselves into a good spot

464
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Speaker 9: for January and February.

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Speaker 5: Well you'd be in a really good spot. You kick

466
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Speaker 5: off the Saturday triple header in New England and it's

467
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Speaker 5: straight up winning in for you guys, what's the message

468
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Speaker 5: been like this week about how to just wrap this

469
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Speaker 5: all up in a bow right now?

470
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Speaker 10: Man?

471
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Speaker 9: I mean the message so far has just been it's

472
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Speaker 9: been a playoff game for us, like since last week,

473
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Speaker 9: So I think that that's been a big message.

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Speaker 4: Win and you're in.

475
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Speaker 9: We wouldn't win it any other way. We like to

476
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Speaker 9: take care wrong own business. And that's the best part

477
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Speaker 9: about it, that we control our destiny. And that's how

478
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Speaker 9: we looked at last week. It's like, we need to

479
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Speaker 9: win this game so we can get, you know, into

480
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Speaker 9: this position and our ups of creator jesse mentor a

481
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Speaker 9: heck of a leader. The first thing he said to

482
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Speaker 9: us was all you guys talked about was getting to

483
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Speaker 9: the playoffs. And this was last week and he was like, congratulations,

484
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Speaker 9: didn't the playoffs. We're in the playoff right now was

485
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Speaker 9: the playoff And that's what the feeling is right now.

486
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Speaker 4: It's like we're not trying to get in.

487
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 8: We're already in.

488
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Speaker 9: But we can't afford the loss. Now, we can't afford

489
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Speaker 9: the loss. The next game is just the The cension

490
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Speaker 9: urgency is at an all time high right now, Dan.

491
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Speaker 7: You joined us over the summer on the Insiders, so

492
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Speaker 7: a repeat performance that means you were great the first

493
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Speaker 7: time around. We couldn't wait to get have you back

494
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Speaker 7: on again. And we asked you back then about Jim Harball.

495
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Speaker 7: You hadn't yet played a game with Jim Harball as

496
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Speaker 7: your head coach. We asked you about his personality. How

497
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Speaker 7: has that evolved? I mean, what have you learned about

498
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Speaker 7: him over the course of the season.

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Speaker 9: Well, first, for starters, I want to say thank you

500
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Speaker 9: for having me back because you know we're missing we're

501
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 9: missing the first we're missing a guy. And I remember

502
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Speaker 9: us talking about it last time. It was you know,

503
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Speaker 9: if you play well, you'll be back. So I think

504
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Speaker 9: doing all right. I'm doing all right, you know what

505
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Speaker 9: I'm saying. I'll be back hopefully. And then now I'm here,

506
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Speaker 9: so I think that's like the best thing about it.

507
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Speaker 9: But the vibe from then to now, I will say

508
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Speaker 9: Harbor as a coach is very consistent, Like he's exactly

509
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Speaker 9: as he presents himself. He is a man who loves football.

510
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Speaker 9: He's goofy, but he is very intelligent and he loves

511
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Speaker 9: the details. He's a man who cares about the details

512
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Speaker 9: more than anyone else in the building, and that's how

513
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Speaker 9: he attacks today. But beyond that, I think the biggest

514
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Speaker 9: thing about Hardball and the man he is as a

515
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Speaker 9: head coach is that he's a very honest individual. He

516
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Speaker 9: has no problem telling the hard truth. He doesn't sugarcoat anything.

517
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Speaker 9: So when we got into the situations of needing these

518
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Speaker 9: wins and getting to the playoffs, and he talked to us,

519
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 9: he was like, team, this is the time where you

520
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Speaker 9: guys take accountability. This is the time where we lean

521
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Speaker 9: on each other and you guys put your heads down

522
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Speaker 9: and work because it doesn't matter what happens moving forward.

523
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Speaker 9: We have to be like you know, like I said

524
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Speaker 9: just a second ago, we have to have that urgency.

525
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Speaker 9: We have to get into that win. But he is,

526
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Speaker 9: like I said, even then, he's that goofball, that like

527
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Speaker 9: energy that his birthday was yesterday. His birthday was yesterday

528
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Speaker 9: and everyone knew about it, not because it was posted

529
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Speaker 9: on team works, because he announced himself in the team meeting.

530
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Speaker 10: So like, that's the.

531
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Speaker 4: Type of guy he is.

532
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Speaker 10: Like he's he's Google Ball and we love him.

533
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Speaker 9: And I started coaching, like I said consistent guy from

534
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Speaker 9: then to now.

535
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Speaker 7: It comes into team meeting and says, hey, it's my birthday, guys, how.

536
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Speaker 4: Did he do it?

537
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Speaker 9: He was like, so, guys, you know, he starts, he

538
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 9: has his list right of things he wants to talk about,

539
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Speaker 9: and he's going over the.

540
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Speaker 10: List of things he's giving out.

541
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Speaker 9: Like, you know, just who played well, and then he

542
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Speaker 9: goes not to mention it's my birthday. So like we're

543
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Speaker 9: all like, and that up. He doesn't want to tell

544
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Speaker 9: us how hod he is. I know, I don't know

545
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Speaker 9: if he knows about Google. Be coach, we can find out,

546
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Speaker 9: I want to say. He says like, this is.

547
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Speaker 10: Like the thirtieth anniversary of his twenty ninth birthday, and

548
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Speaker 10: I was like, okay, that's about right.

549
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Speaker 4: Maybe a little more okay.

550
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Speaker 10: Okay, coach, Hey man, it's nothing nothing wrong being old.

551
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Speaker 10: You why you old? That's my guy though he's the

552
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Speaker 10: hell of a dude.

553
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Speaker 5: All right, Dan, you have had a breakout season, your

554
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 5: fourth in the league and tackles. You've had like nine

555
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,479
Speaker 5: games of at least ten tackles. Harbor was singing your

556
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 5: praises the other day about that. You also have maybe

557
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 5: the greatest hype man imaginable. Shaquille O'Neill has taken up

558
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 5: your cause, pushing you to be voted in as a

559
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 5: pro bowler. How on earth did this come about?

560
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Speaker 9: I mean, Shaq has been around the family for quite

561
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Speaker 9: some time. Him and my dad are very close friends,

562
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Speaker 9: so he's always been, you know, watching over my football journey,

563
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 9: and so I'm pretty sure like my pop's probably reached

564
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 9: out or something was like, is this is no time

565
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Speaker 9: greater than now for Shaq to do what Shaq do?

566
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Speaker 9: And he's He's a huge dude, both in the physical

567
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 9: world and on the internet. So him to be able

568
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Speaker 9: to just show some love, that's my UK and I

569
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Speaker 9: can't help but appreciate that.

570
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Speaker 3: Man.

571
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Speaker 9: And as far as those tackles, I don't know if

572
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Speaker 9: you guys can see him on me, but I feel him. Man,

573
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 9: one hundred and forty two tagles feel like one hundred

574
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 9: and forty two tagles. I want everyone to know that

575
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 9: they don't feel any better than you would think, but

576
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 9: I accept them. I literally go hunt for them, and

577
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 9: it's what I love to do.

578
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 10: Man.

579
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Speaker 9: I love being physical in this game and it keeps

580
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 9: me happy. And I'm just thankful for the staff we

581
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 9: have here in that training room that keeps me healthy.

582
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Speaker 10: But like I said, back to the shock, shout out

583
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Speaker 10: my unk.

584
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Speaker 9: And yeah, he's I want to say, it wouldn't be

585
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 9: he wouldn't do it if I didn't.

586
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Speaker 4: Have a reason to go.

587
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Speaker 9: I guess I would think that's probably the best thing

588
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 9: to say, is like, at least I have something behind me,

589
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 9: like some substance to the to the calls. You know

590
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 9: I'm playing at a well leveled Shout out my coaches,

591
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 9: coach Leavar, Bowman, Jesse Mentor, and forgetting me to where

592
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 9: I'm at right now and my team, like no nobody

593
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 9: better than when I got in front of me.

594
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 10: Then four guys in front of me and them guys

595
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 10: around me. They are the reason I'm more I'm at

596
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 10: right now.

597
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Speaker 7: Diane's got connections to many folks in the entertainment industry.

598
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 7: Nipsey Hustle. His dad's a legend. You gotta go back.

599
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 7: We covered that on the interview back in June. I

600
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 7: want you to go back and watch that one to

601
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Speaker 7: get all the backstory. You soak up this one. There's

602
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 7: gonna be another one coming. I'll tell you what I

603
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 7: know something he's going to be on an NFL network.

604
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: In the next couple of days.

605
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Speaker 7: You're gonna be on the NFL Network because you are

606
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Speaker 7: part of our triple header of Action Chargers Patriots one

607
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 7: o'clock Eastern, Broncos Bengals four and then the night cap

608
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 7: Cardinals and the Rams.

609
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Speaker 8: I don't know if we lost Dan.

610
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 7: I didn't mean to kiss him off like that, but

611
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 7: I want to wish him Merry Christmas, thank him for

612
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 7: another amazing appearance on The Insiders, wishing them all the best.

613
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 8: We want to see you in the postseason.

614
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 7: We want to see you keep on showing out and

615
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 7: hopefully those tackles don't keep adding up to that physical.

616
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 8: Feel that you got in your body.

617
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: Deliver the blow coming up. Michael at Florio joins.

618
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Speaker 7: Us next to talk about fantasy rookies that might help

619
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Speaker 7: you bring home the fantasy gold. That's what I'm going for,

620
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Speaker 7: thanks for thanks to Florio's help, He's up next to

621
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Speaker 7: The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Time now to go inside with NFL Fantasy Live on

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Speaker 1: The Insiders. Tom Peliicero, Mike Girafolo joined now by our

624
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: friend Michael F. Florio, who is plainly in the holiday spirit.

625
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about Florio because it

626
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: is Fantasy Championship weekend. I think, first of all, though

627
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: Mike has a little something for you.

628
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, mister Florio, my assistant general manager. Look, that

629
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 7: was not even the completion of the game. There wound

630
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 7: up being one hosts one six to one oh eight.

631
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 7: The outsiders are in the Fantasy Bowl. I have never

632
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 7: won this league. This is the Star Ledger. He used

633
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 7: to cover the Giants with the Star Ledger in the

634
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 7: Star Ledger League for like twenty years at this point,

635
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 7: probably nineteen, I would say, starting in five.

636
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 8: I've never won the league.

637
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 7: And I am the football reporter and writer this whole time,

638
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 7: and I'm the only one that hasn't won this league.

639
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 8: I've got to get it done with Florio's help.

640
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 7: I'm telling you right now, the seventy fourth pick in

641
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 7: this year's draft for the Ledger League, Jaydeen Daniels.

642
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 8: Got me to this point.

643
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 7: I'm gonna ask you the question about what quarterback we

644
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 7: should start here, and I know the answer, Florio, But

645
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 7: tell the folks, look, it's Jaydon Daniels.

646
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Speaker 11: He has been a league winner all year, Drafted in

647
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 11: the ninth tenth round sometimes even as a backup quarterback.

648
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 8: He is the QB for this season.

649
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Speaker 11: He is averaging twenty nine fantasy points per game in

650
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Speaker 11: the last four games, so he's coming through when it

651
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 11: matters most. He got the outsiders into the championship, and

652
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Speaker 11: I think you will finish the job this week against

653
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Speaker 11: the Falcons, who will out the most passing touchdowns in

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Speaker 11: the NFL, seventh most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, he's.

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Speaker 2: Been winning your games all year.

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Speaker 11: He just has to get the job done one more time,

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Speaker 11: and I think he comes through Michael.

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Speaker 1: Who are some wide receivers who can be Championship Fantasy

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Speaker 1: winners this week?

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Speaker 8: Look Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 11: It's hard to be a league winner when you're drafted

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Speaker 11: in the first round, but when there is no receiver

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Speaker 11: within sixty Fantasy points of you and only three within

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Speaker 11: one hundred.

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Speaker 8: You qualify. And I know people are worried about the matchup, but.

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Speaker 11: The Broncos have allowed the fourth most yards to wide

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Speaker 11: receiver since Week four. Chase his matchup proof. Patrick Sartan

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Speaker 11: will have to bounce around between him and t Higgins.

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Speaker 11: You could also argue that Joe Burrow and Chase Brown

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Speaker 11: are potential league winners this week and the whole season.

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Speaker 11: Jackson Smith and Jigba is a big league winning candidate.

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Speaker 11: He was drafted outside the top forty wide receivers and

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Speaker 11: he is the wide receiver six on the season, twelve

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Speaker 11: targets and two straight eleven or more fantasy points in

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Speaker 11: eight He's averaged twenty one fantasy points per game in

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Speaker 11: that span. Now he gets the Bears, who have struggled

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Speaker 11: against receivers, so I think the real Seahawks wide receiver

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Speaker 11: one JSN goes off this week and then look, I

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Speaker 11: got Brian Thomas Junior last week when he caught that long,

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Speaker 11: unguarded touchdown. But he definitely qualifies as a league winner

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Speaker 11: because he was barely drafted as a top fifty wide

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Speaker 11: receiver and he is a top seven fantasy wide receiver

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Speaker 11: right now.

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Speaker 8: All of the names ahead of him were first round picks.

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Speaker 11: So and he's in the midst of his best fantasy

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Speaker 11: stretch of the season, averaging twenty four fantasy points per

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Speaker 11: game in the last month. Got the Titans for eight

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Speaker 11: catches for eighty six yards last time he played them.

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Speaker 11: I think he finishes the job as a potential league

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Speaker 11: winner for a lot of you out there as well.

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Speaker 7: JSN pick number ninety eight in the draft, we got

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Speaker 7: them Florio, nice job on that one. We got Rico

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Speaker 7: Dwell after that, which was not looking great early in

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Speaker 7: the season, but many happy returns for him late in

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Speaker 7: the year.

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Speaker 8: Talking about that running back position, give us a running.

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Speaker 7: Back fantasy finisher and a tight end as well, sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Bucky Irving is a big one.

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Speaker 11: He went undrafted in a lot of leagues, so you

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Speaker 11: could argue he was the waiver wire pickup of the

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Speaker 11: year RBS seventeen on this season right now, but a

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Speaker 11: fantastic matchup against the Panthers, who will owed over three

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Speaker 11: hundred and fifty more rushing yards to running backs than

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Speaker 11: any other team. They've also allowed the most touchdowns most

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Speaker 11: fantasy points. The last time he played them in Week thirteen,

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Speaker 11: he went for over one hundred and eighty yards, scored

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Speaker 11: it time touchdown, and twenty eight fantasy points. And then

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Speaker 11: brock Bawers not even drafted as a top ten tight

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Speaker 11: end this year, he is the best tight end in

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Speaker 11: fantasy football. He needs just six points to surpass Sam

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Speaker 11: Laporta's rookie record set last season, and it's been especially

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Speaker 11: impressive considering who's been.

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Speaker 4: Throwing him the ball.

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Speaker 11: And we know the Raiders they want him to set

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Speaker 11: these rookie records, so they have incentive to throw his way.

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Speaker 11: No defense could slow him now, but you saw what

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Speaker 11: Tucker Craft and every Packer just did to the Saints defense.

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Speaker 11: So brock Bawers comes through like he has all year,

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Speaker 11: with a big Fantasy day when it matters most in

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Speaker 11: winning you all league championships.

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Speaker 1: Florio, Mary Christmas, looks like you already got a jump

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Speaker 1: start on celebrating good luck getting down all those chimneys

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Speaker 1: later tonight. We'll talk to you next week coming up

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Speaker 1: first though, right after this. That's okay, that's here's your

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Speaker 1: summary of the Bears season. You don't need next gen

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Speaker 1: stats to get inside Caleb Williams and how he's feeling

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Speaker 1: right here, but.

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Speaker 2: Sam Schwartztein will still take you inside.

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Speaker 1: A Thursday night matchup that is highly consequentia for the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks and the NFC West Race. That's next on The

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Speaker 1: Insiders Thursday Night, the Seahawks head of the Windy City

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Speaker 1: to keep their division title hopes alive in our final

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football game on Prime this season. It's the Bears,

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Speaker 1: hosting Seatle Live this Thursday eight to fifteen pm Eastern

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Speaker 1: only on Prime Video. Welcome back to the Insiders. We're

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Speaker 1: joined now by Sam schwartzting they're gonna use next Gen

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Speaker 1: Stats to go deeper inside this matchup. And according next

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Speaker 1: to Gen Stats, Sam a fourteen percent chance right now

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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks to make the playoffs. I would think

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Speaker 1: the percentage is slightly higher of them being able to

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Speaker 1: get a win over a Bears team that just can't

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Speaker 1: seem to do anything right for the past couple of months. Here,

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Speaker 1: how do the Seahawks get the job done?

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Speaker 12: Look, it's a huge game for the playoff game for them.

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Speaker 12: Not much online other than vacation for the Bears. But

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Speaker 12: they need to protect Gino Smith because it's going up

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Speaker 12: against this tough Bears defensive line. But Gino Smith is

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Speaker 12: a completely different player when he's unpressured versus when he's pressured.

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Speaker 12: And the big issue here is he's faced one hundred

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Speaker 12: and twelve quick pressures, which means pressures under two and

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Speaker 12: a half seconds, and when he's not pressured is a

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Speaker 12: four point six complete a percentage over expected. That means

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Speaker 12: we're looking at what an average player would complete in

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Speaker 12: a similar spot, and how much better Gino Smith is.

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Speaker 12: And the big thing that's come on this year is

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Speaker 12: to building the target Jackson Smith and Zigma from the slot.

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Speaker 12: He's been the key player for who they've gone to.

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Speaker 12: He's become the number one option when you look at

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Speaker 12: all advanced metrics, and they need to keep him Gino

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Speaker 12: Smith upright so he can find JSN.

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Speaker 1: So the Bears defense, particularly since the Fire and madiebra

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Speaker 1: Flus have not exactly been the monsters of the midway here,

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Speaker 1: what do we know about exactly what's going on and

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Speaker 1: what is a bright spot if there is one for

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Speaker 1: what Chicago's doing.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, madibra Flus, he taught a lot of grit and

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Speaker 12: he was really focused on how do we get these

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Speaker 12: guys to play fast? And they actually have that up

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Speaker 12: front and their front four they're one of those, you know,

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Speaker 12: those normal teams defenses, and we want to be able

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Speaker 12: to get pressure with our front four and only bringing

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Speaker 12: four rushers, and they do that and they actually have

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Speaker 12: a lot of pressure thirty seven percent of dropbacks. The

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Speaker 12: problem is they don't convert all those pressures to sacks

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Speaker 12: eighteen percent pressure to Sacerate. That's twenty second in the NFL,

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Speaker 12: and it goes even deeper. They bring a four man

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Speaker 12: rush seventy one percent of the time and they actually

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Speaker 12: one of the highest pressure weights when bringing four. But

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Speaker 12: Gino Smith he's going to be able to move around

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Speaker 12: because they don't actually close the deal. The Bears made

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Speaker 12: a big blockbuster trade for Montes what trading the second

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Speaker 12: round pick and then also adding on top of that

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Speaker 12: paying him a big contract. He has not performed at

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Speaker 12: the same level some of the free agent dns were

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Speaker 12: this year in Jonathan Gernard and Daniel Hunter.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons that this Bears job, despite all that,

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Speaker 1: is going to be attractive in the offseason is the

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Speaker 1: presence of Caleb Williams. And you're going to have guys

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Speaker 1: like Ben Johnson, who he just saw his offense throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball all over him last week interested in this job.

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Speaker 1: When you look at Caleb the losing streak here, what

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Speaker 1: do you see right now from the number one pick?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we see the same kind of guy that we saw. Wow,

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Speaker 12: this is generational talent. He can throw the football, but

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Speaker 12: he's not doing enough throwing of the football. When he

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Speaker 12: drops back, he gets sacked far too often, and we

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Speaker 12: use EPA. It's expected points at it. It helps us

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Speaker 12: track how much you're helping your team chance of scoring

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Speaker 12: by looking on where you started the play to where

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Speaker 12: the play ended. He looks at all yards credit equal.

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Speaker 12: When you look at how much EPA he's lost on sacks,

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Speaker 12: it's twenty five more than the next closest player. The

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Speaker 12: average starting quarterback of the NFL has lost fifty five

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Speaker 12: EPA on sacks. He's over double that. And it's not

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Speaker 12: just his what caberm is doing, it's the unblocked pressures.

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Speaker 12: The old line's got to stay up as well.

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Speaker 1: You can watch Sam on TNF Prime Vision with next

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Speaker 1: Gen Stats Alternate stream. Thursday's coverage of Seahawks Bears on

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Speaker 1: Prime Video and NFL Plus begins at seven pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Sam as always, thank you very much. Coming up after this,

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Speaker 1: we are going to set the table one more time

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Speaker 1: for that Christmas football feast. All starts out with the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Steelers, followed by the Ravens against the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Let's look into the future. What are we gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about after those games? Besides how much we over

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Speaker 1: eight before them let's guess it. Next on the Incentives

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Rookies. That is where you can

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Speaker 1: vote on the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Week

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Speaker 1: Jane Daniels. I don't know if you get a trophy

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Speaker 1: or a medal or something, but he's got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of them already this season. Bo Nix, Caleb Williams, brock Bowers,

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Speaker 1: You've seen those names quite a bit in there as well.

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com slash Rookies. To cast your vote, you

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Speaker 1: can do that on your second screen while watching the

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day doubleheader on Netflix. It is all live starting

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Speaker 1: at one pm Eastern Time ten am Pacific, which is

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Speaker 1: right in the middle of present opening. Don't worry, your

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Speaker 1: kids will wake you up early. Chase Steelers followed by

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Speaker 1: Ravens Texans, all live on Netflix, which means we will

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Speaker 1: have a couple of games to be mulling over and

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Speaker 1: dissecting as we come back. No insiders this Thursday. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back on Friday. I'll be how Good Morning Football

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, Judy, what are we going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about coming off of two pretty big games?

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Speaker 5: First, we're going to be talking about how much we

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Speaker 5: ate and we're going to be talking about Beyonce, but

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Speaker 5: onto football. I expect that we're going to be talking

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Speaker 5: about how good the Ravens look, and that the Ravens

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Speaker 5: seem to be headed in the right direction after a

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Speaker 5: few sort of shaky weeks, that the Ravens are ascending

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Speaker 5: at exactly the right time of the season.

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Speaker 7: We're going to be talking about how great the Netflix

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Speaker 7: stream is and how consistent it was and reliable it

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Speaker 7: was after that Tyson fight, but this time around it's

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Speaker 7: going to be a lot better.

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Speaker 8: That is my prediction. That's my understanding regarding this one.

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Speaker 7: So confident on that one, and a lot of our

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Speaker 7: friends going to be part the broadcast as well, So

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Speaker 7: looking forward to seeing that. They're gonna be using our studio.

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Speaker 7: We're getting residuals for that, we're collecting. What's that sub letting, Judy,

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Speaker 7: you live in Manhattan. I believe that's called subletting, I guess,

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Speaker 7: is what we're doing for them. So looking forward to

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Speaker 7: seeing that broadcast as well, and maybe we'll be talking

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Speaker 7: about the fact that this Chiefs team is going to

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Speaker 7: be able to coast in their Week eighteen game. We

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Speaker 7: shall see, you know, the Chiefs on a holiday. Lately,

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Speaker 7: that seems to be the case. At least they're on

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Speaker 7: the road for this one. Seems to have been a

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Speaker 7: home for every other one of these that they've played on.

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Speaker 7: But they've played on every day of the week except

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Speaker 7: what they played on Friday. They played on Thursday, Wednesday,

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Speaker 7: and Tuesday.

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Speaker 8: Tuesday is the only day of the week they didn't

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Speaker 8: play on this year.

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Speaker 1: Yes, got all that. We'll e's bee talking about Ian Rappord,

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Speaker 1: who you may or may not see on Netflix. You

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Speaker 1: actually skipped this show tonight's the Christmas Eve Special in

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Speaker 1: order to fly to la and do something on a

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Speaker 1: streaming service, so we know where Ian's priorities live. He

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Speaker 1: is our resident elf on shelf. Don't worry, he will

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Speaker 1: be back next year. Thank you all for spending your

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve with us. Don't drink too much haggnog. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you can't sleep in a little bit tomorrow if if

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Speaker 1: that's allowable. Thank you very much for being here. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: that Christmas Eve Christmas Day doubleheader.

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Speaker 4: We'll see it