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Speaker 1: Less than forty eight hours to wild Card weekend, and

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Speaker 1: there is so much action to discuss. We've got our

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Speaker 1: to preview the tastiest six pack you're going to crack

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Speaker 1: open this weekend. Tyreek Hill's agent says that he is

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Speaker 1: committed to the Dolphins. A newly service video suggests, dam

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Speaker 1: maybe the Cheetah feels a little bit differently. We will

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Speaker 1: tell you the latest out of Miami on their star receiver.

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Speaker 1: I mean, while the Bills hope this is the year

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Speaker 1: they snapped their Super Bowl drought and nothing is more

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Speaker 1: important than keeping number seventeen uprights starting on Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Broncos, Bills right tackle Spencer Brown will be here

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Speaker 1: to talk about whatever he's wearing there and also whether

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Speaker 1: he thinks he can keep us from getting sacked. Welcome

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Speaker 1: inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappaport, Judy Batista, and

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Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo.

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Speaker 2: I am Tom Peliserro. Yes, that is right.

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Speaker 1: We are two days away from six games starting on

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Speaker 1: wild Card weekend, not all at the same time. They

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Speaker 1: actually spread it out over three days so you get

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Speaker 1: to enjoy all of them, not concurrently, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a good thing you will also get to enjoy.

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Speaker 2: It appears.

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Speaker 1: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts being on the field another good sign.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, Hurts officially listed as a full participant on

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Speaker 1: the practice report as he continues to make his way

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Speaker 1: through the concussion protocol, also dealing with a finger injury

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Speaker 1: on his non throwing hand. It is still pending clearance

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Speaker 1: from an independent neurologist that could come as soon as Friday.

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Speaker 1: With full participation today, everything appears to be tracking Judy

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Speaker 1: Ford Jalen Hurts being out there Sunday against the Packers.

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Speaker 3: Also out of Philadelphia, wide receiver AJ Brown missed practiced

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Speaker 3: on Thursday. He was listed as knee slash rest. He

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Speaker 3: was listed as limited rest on Wednesday. He's been managing a.

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Speaker 4: Knee injury for a few weeks.

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Speaker 3: He of course, had the Week eighteen game off, as

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Speaker 3: did a number of veterans for Rest. There does not

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Speaker 3: seem to be a ton of concern among the Eagles

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Speaker 3: about his availability for Sunday. He looks to be good

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Speaker 5: Another person who is expected to be good to go,

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Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers charting quarterback Jordan Love was a limited

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Speaker 5: participant earlier in the week dealing with that right elbow injury,

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Speaker 5: a funny bone injury which led to him kind of

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Speaker 5: deal with some grip issues during the game. That thought

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Speaker 5: it would get better as the week progressed, it has

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Speaker 5: gotten better. He was thrown in front of reporters say

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Speaker 5: upgraded to a full participant, Mike, he should be good

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Speaker 5: to go this week for the Packers.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Ian.

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Speaker 6: I was watching hard Knocks in the season with the

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Speaker 6: AFC North and they showed John Harbaugh's reaction. You could

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Speaker 6: hear it after this play, like, oh, no, is he hurt?

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Speaker 6: Is he here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Zay Flowers almost like he knew immediately it was gonna

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Speaker 6: be pretty bad, bad enough that he is out for

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Speaker 6: the game against the Steelers. Didn't practice all week. Seem

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Speaker 6: he is back for the divisional round if the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: The Ravens Steelers game in primetime on Saturday Day night

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Speaker 1: as part of a doubleheader following the Chargers in Texans game.

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Speaker 1: He had a triple header on Sunday and then on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. It is Vikings Rams. That game still as

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Speaker 1: of this moment, set for Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: NFL has made contingency plans to potentially move it to Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Rams players actually were sent home earlier today as another

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Speaker 1: fire broke out or continue thoughts with everybody in southern

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Speaker 1: play out on exactly where that game will be. Another

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Speaker 1: big move in Las Vegas today. A couple of days

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Speaker 1: after the man on the right, Antonio Pierce, was fired

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Speaker 1: as head coach, Mark Davis fired the guy to his

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Speaker 1: right to to LESCo, the general manager, let go after

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Speaker 2: To LESCo will have an.

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Speaker 1: Impact on the roster for years to come, with his

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Speaker 1: statements say they relieved Tom Telesco of his duties as

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Speaker 2: We wish Tom and his family all the best.

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Speaker 1: Ian A couple of days ago, when the initial news

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Speaker 1: came down that Antonio Pierce was out. The word out

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Speaker 1: It still sounded like a came as a surprise today,

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Speaker 5: I would say a surprise not a shock to those

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Speaker 5: Mark Davis met with his inner circle, which of course

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Speaker 5: we know includes Tom Brady and some others, decided last

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Speaker 5: night that there was time to fire. Tom Telesco walked

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Speaker 5: mentioned the draft class. A lot of good things that

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Speaker 5: Tom Telesco has done to not hit it big on quarterback,

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Speaker 5: at least not yet. Obviously that was a big plan

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Speaker 5: this offseason, but a really really good draft class. What

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Speaker 5: it sounds like this is about is getting alignment between

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Speaker 8: It is easier for them.

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Speaker 5: They think to build this foundation with alignment from all

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Speaker 5: they just wanted to start new and how they will

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Speaker 3: You might be thinking alignment with a minority owner who

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Speaker 3: owns only ten percent of the franchise. Yes, I go

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Speaker 3: back to that October meeting in Atlanta when Tom Brady

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Speaker 3: was approved as a minority owner and how happy Mark

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Speaker 3: He talked about how he had wanted him to play

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Speaker 3: Davis has been candid that he does not have the

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Speaker 3: he wants to lean on other people to get that

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Speaker 3: It's pretty clear that Tom Brady is going to be

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Speaker 6: It's just the timeline for how this sort of came together.

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Speaker 6: They had a good conversation. Mark Davis sounded like with

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Speaker 6: At that point some people thought he was still good.

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Speaker 6: But at that point you go, well, it didn't make

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Speaker 6: but you keep the general manager. I understand the draft

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Speaker 6: class and all that, but none of this really added up.

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Speaker 6: And I get what you guys are saying about Tom

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Speaker 1: I would also note we used some file footage there

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Speaker 1: from when Tom Tellsco was the Chargers GM. The very

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Speaker 1: first clip we showed was Telesco's shaking hands with Reggie McKenzie,

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Speaker 1: who has fired as the Raiders GM in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: This will now be the fifth GM they have hired

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Speaker 1: since McKenzie was let go. A perpetual state of turnover,

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Speaker 1: but now something where they are certainly trying to turn

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Speaker 2: To a guy who's won a whole lot of football games.

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Speaker 9: Hoping that he has his fourth of the day right here.

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Speaker 1: At Tyreek Hill, Dolphins wide receiver, had some interesting comments

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Speaker 1: confirming what Mike McDaniel had more or less said publicly,

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Speaker 1: which is that Tyreek Hill chose to pull himself out

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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, But this certainly feels like a situation

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Speaker 3: Right, especially because Drew also said that he could not

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Speaker 4: To talk to him about it.

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Speaker 3: So you know, that was Drew trying to say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Still use him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, when I thought that this was crystal clear, because

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Speaker 6: But when I thought it was crystal clear that Tyreek

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Speaker 6: not interested in any kind of you turn, including from

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Speaker 6: So I if the Dolphins decide that, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a time when Tyreek Hill said, whatever

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Speaker 9: I was cleaning that right here.

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Speaker 8: I love doing my job at Alan kicks the staff

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Speaker 6: That's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 5: You love a good micd up to call attention one

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Speaker 8: We'll get to that in a second.

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Speaker 5: The Bills play the Broncos this week in a massive,

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Speaker 8: You see some of those guys.

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Speaker 5: Those are the quarterbacks, the guys protecting the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 8: Far, far, far more important.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of that totally totally related Spencer Brown, the offensive

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Speaker 8: Spencer, nice job and the micd up.

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Speaker 5: I'll start with this, and this is a very very

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Speaker 10: I'm appearing on the Insiders because I was told to

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Speaker 4: Always listen to Derek Boykok. Congratulations.

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Speaker 3: You're about to start the postseason obviously, and you go

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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, that's something to look back on and get

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Speaker 5: Let's talk about Denver a little bit, because you know

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Speaker 10: Yeah, just this rush Lee well as a group, they

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Speaker 3: Well to that point you are, I want to make

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Speaker 9: Yeah, just don't make it out to be more than

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Speaker 10: I know it's the status for the old line, but

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Speaker 9: Obviously not afraid to use his legs.

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Speaker 10: Everybody knows that, but he's definitely help us out in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Josh Allen has had He does a

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Speaker 10: The answer number one, yes, that is my bias and

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Speaker 9: Stats.

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Speaker 10: Don't say that, but yeah, I look at the film

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Speaker 3: I'm sure, being up there in Buffalo, you probably have

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Speaker 4: How aware are you of that? How aware are you

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Speaker 10: I know, I mean I was. Yeah, I wasn't born

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Speaker 9: So you know, we got four games stretch to make

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Speaker 5: You guys have been such an interesting team this year, right,

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 9: He's awesome. You know.

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Speaker 10: It's just that's what you can do here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 10: You can be yourself. Everybody loves you. If if that's

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Speaker 3: Right before we let you go, I got to ask

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Speaker 4: You mentioned that Colin who walks in without choosing.

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Speaker 4: It looks like you're wearing a bear.

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Speaker 10: All right, Well, shout, it's not a bear. It's a buffalo.

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Speaker 10: Come on, it's buffalo Bill the Bison.

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Speaker 8: Its gonna be so much fun, great atmosphere, no doubts.

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Speaker 5: Benjamin, thank you very much for hanging out with us

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Speaker 5: on the Insiders and good luck on the field this weekend.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, thank you, guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Obviously he was wearing a buffalo coming up on the Insiders.

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Speaker 3: Omar Ruiz joins us from Houston to talk about the

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Speaker 3: first game of Wildcard Weekend. That's Saturday afternoon, Chargers and

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Speaker 3: Texans when we return.

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Speaker 1: Falcons general manager Terry Fontina, having his season wrap up

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Speaker 1: press conference today, said the team expects Kirk Cousins to

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Speaker 1: move forward as the backup quarterback following the benching several

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Speaker 1: weeks ago in favor of rookie Michael Pennix Junior. This

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that Kirk Cousins is due twenty seven

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Speaker 1: point five million dollars fully guaranteed in twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: and another ten million in twenty twenty six would become

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed if he's on the roster come March sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Cousins also has a no trade clause. The most likely

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Speaker 1: situation continues to be the Cousins is released sometime before

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Speaker 1: that extra ten million dollars vess though, Mike, I'm reminded

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Speaker 1: of the words of the great philosopher George Costanza.

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Speaker 2: It's not a lie if.

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Speaker 6: You believe it. Wow, this is what they have to say, right.

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Speaker 6: They have to make it seem like they want him

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Speaker 6: part of the team. And if you want a trade

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Speaker 6: for him, you got to prime away. But you're right,

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Speaker 6: Cousin's got that no trade clause as well. So there's

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Speaker 6: just too many things that need to align here. And

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Speaker 6: and Kirk Cousins is not happy with how this played out, certainly,

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Speaker 6: so you know what, why would he facilitate that? Either

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Speaker 6: you're gonna pay me the extra money that kicks in,

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Speaker 6: like you talked about the extra guarantee that kicks in,

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Speaker 6: or you're gonna release me, and then I'm gonna go

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Speaker 6: find where i want to go play, and it'll be

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Speaker 6: a sort of a Russell Wilson type thing where the

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Speaker 6: Falcons are picking up most of the tab and the

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Speaker 6: next team can then pay him much less, and everybody's

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Speaker 6: happy because then he's got a situation where he could

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Speaker 6: be a starter potentially.

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Speaker 3: I would just say this, it's looking January ninth, January nine,

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Speaker 3: We've got two full months of this to play out.

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Speaker 3: With all kinds of statements like this to position themselves.

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Speaker 4: It's impossible to.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that he will remain on.

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Speaker 6: The Falcons roster.

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Speaker 3: Impossible to imagine that something's gonna give. We've got a

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Speaker 3: long way to.

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Speaker 6: Go, Mike. Thank you, Tom. We have got a big

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Speaker 6: matchup coming up this weekend between the Chargers and the Texans.

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Speaker 6: There are the fired up Chargers right there, looking to

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Speaker 6: go into Houston on the regular Saturday afternoon of wild

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Speaker 6: Card weekend that we're so used to seeing the Texans play.

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Speaker 6: Our buddy Omar Ruiz is coming in here He's gonna

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Speaker 6: be covering this game as well as Brian Baldinger joining

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Speaker 6: us as well. Look at that Texans logo behind Omar.

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Speaker 6: He is for real, for real inside the Texans facility.

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Speaker 6: Let's talk about what a couple of pass rushers, Daniel

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Speaker 6: Hunter and Will Anderson are saying about this matchup here. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and what a great matchup this is.

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Speaker 11: Mike and Baldi, Will Anderson Junior Daniel Hunter the third

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Speaker 11: most prolific sack tandem in the NFL this year, going

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Speaker 11: against Joe Alt and Rashawn Slater, two of the best

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Speaker 11: tackles this year, allowing the fewest sacks for their respective positions.

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Speaker 11: It's the type of matchup that Will Anderson Junior told

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Speaker 11: me earlier today that you come to the NFL for

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Speaker 11: He wants to show what he can do on the

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Speaker 11: big playoff stage against that level of competition. As Demiko

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Speaker 11: Ryans said, they're good, We're good. This could be the

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Speaker 11: matchup of the game. As far as Anderson's pairing with

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Speaker 11: Daneil Hunter, he told me earlier today that he's fire.

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Speaker 8: Hunter is ice.

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Speaker 11: He said, he plays so emotionally, but Hunter the season

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Speaker 11: vet has a calming effect on him.

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Speaker 2: And together they've been effective.

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Speaker 11: Hunter saying that the way he plays is so fundamentally sound.

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Speaker 11: He feels he can line up anywhere on the defensive

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Speaker 11: line position and that allows his teammates to play in

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Speaker 11: their strongest points, helps them get better. So when you

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Speaker 11: look at this matchup on.

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Speaker 2: Tape, Baldy, what has you excited about this one?

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Speaker 12: Well, I mean just what you just identified right there

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Speaker 12: with Alton Slater against Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter. I

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Speaker 12: mean you go back to the draft and the decision

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Speaker 12: that the Chargers made with that fifth pick. Do we go,

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Speaker 12: you know, more talent for Justin Herbert, do we get

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Speaker 12: ourselves the right tackle on Joe Wall And they went

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Speaker 12: with all It was the right pick and as a result,

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Speaker 12: Justin Herbert has turned the ball over a total of

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Speaker 12: five times, the fewest interceptions in the league, with three

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Speaker 12: two fumbles. And so those guys that you're speaking of,

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Speaker 12: Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter, it's not enough just get

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Speaker 12: to the quarterback.

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Speaker 7: They want to affect the quarterback.

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Speaker 12: They want the ball to come out, they want the

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Speaker 12: ball to get tipped, they want takeaways. And so that's

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Speaker 12: really the challenge is to protect the edges here against

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Speaker 12: Justin Herbert, and I think that's going to be if

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Speaker 12: you're really watching this game, you know, on Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 12: that's kind of where your eyes should go right into

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Speaker 12: the pits and to see if some of those guys

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Speaker 12: up front for the Texans can change this game the

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Speaker 12: way Justin Herbert has played all year.

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Speaker 6: I do appreciate them defining who's fire and whose ice.

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Speaker 6: I covered a Giant's team that had three running backs,

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Speaker 6: Brandon Jacobs, I'm on, Bradshaw, Derek Ward. They were called

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Speaker 6: earth win in fire, Jacobs was Earth. We established that

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Speaker 6: the big guy, the big rock, you know, the big guy,

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Speaker 6: but we never knew which one was wind or fire.

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Speaker 6: They never really fully defined. So thank you for defining that.

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Speaker 6: Right there, Will Anderson and Danil Hunter. On the flip

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Speaker 6: side of the ball, we've got a Texans offensive line

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Speaker 6: going up against a tough Chargers defense. What are they

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Speaker 6: telling you? They're oh, mar inside the Texans facility.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, with Baldi in the house, you know, we have

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Speaker 11: to talk the trenches here. And I spoke with Laramie

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Speaker 11: Tunsall a little earlier today and he was talking about

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Speaker 11: how Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa after all these years,

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Speaker 11: still as consistent, still as effective as they've been. And

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Speaker 11: it's not just those two superstars that are still playing well,

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Speaker 11: it's the depth of that Chargers pass rush, and Tunzell

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Speaker 11: said that they do have a chip on their shoulder

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Speaker 11: coming into this one. He said, they've heard all the

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Speaker 11: noise that they don't belong to be here. And Rex

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Speaker 11: Ryan saying that the Chargers are playing a bye going

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Speaker 11: they're looking forward to introducing their identity to the masses,

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Speaker 11: and that is strong and tough and physical upfront, he says,

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Speaker 11: they find inspiration in their running backs and Joe Mixon

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Speaker 11: and Damian Pierce. How physical they run straight downhill certainly

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Speaker 11: adds to their run games. And then they know it's

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Speaker 11: going to be a physical contest even in the secondary.

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Speaker 2: Spoke with Nico.

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Speaker 11: Collins, he knows he's going to have to play physically

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Speaker 11: to get separation from the likes of Derwin James and

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Speaker 11: some of those Chargers corners. So all sides talking the

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Speaker 11: Chargers yesterday the Texans today, expecting this one to be

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Speaker 11: extremely physical and tough football game, as explosive as both

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Speaker 11: these teams potentially can be at least offensively.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Baldi, Thank you Omar Baldi.

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Speaker 8: I'n gole far.

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Speaker 6: We're bringing you right back, oh Mar. We appreciate your

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Speaker 6: inside looking forward to your coverage leading up to this game.

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Speaker 6: We are all heartbroken here at the NFL Network because

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Speaker 6: the raging wildfires across the Greater Los Angeles region. Family

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Speaker 6: is affected by these fires urgently need support health. The

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Speaker 6: these disasters. You can donate today to support relief efforts

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Speaker 6: by going to Redcross dot org. Slash NFL.

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Speaker 2: Breaking news into the NFL Network newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Monday nights Vikings Rams playoff game has officially been moved

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Speaker 1: to Glendale, Arizona. This in the face of the wildfires

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Speaker 1: that continue to rage throughout southern California. The league just

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Speaker 1: moments ago releasing this statement saying that in the interest

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Speaker 1: of public safety, Monday's Vikings Rams Wildcard game has been

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Speaker 1: moved from SOFI Stadium in Englewood, California, to State Farms Stadium,

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Speaker 1: the home of the Arizona Cardinals. The decision was made

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Speaker 1: in consultation with public officials, the participating clubs, and the NFLPA.

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Speaker 1: Tickets will go on sale at ten am Pacific time

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Speaker 1: on Friday for this game. So once again, the Vikings

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Speaker 1: Rams game not an unpreceded step. Ian To move a

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Speaker 1: game based upon whether it be weather or a natural

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Speaker 1: disaster certainly unusual, to say the least, for a playoff

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Speaker 1: game to get moved. We also know the NFL is

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Speaker 1: always conscientious about drawing any resources away from the people who.

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Speaker 2: Might need them in this event.

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Speaker 1: As this continues to spread here, it does make sense

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Speaker 1: for the NFL to move forward to move this game

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Speaker 1: to Arizona.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it certainly does, and you said it correctly. I

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Speaker 5: mean there's there's obviously the football game which needs to

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Speaker 5: be played, but there's all the infrastructure around it. There's

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Speaker 5: the first responders, there's security and you know, fire and

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Speaker 5: on the ground in California and the Los Angeles area

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Speaker 5: doing far more important things than preparing for a football game.

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Speaker 8: The NFL never wants to.

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Speaker 5: Pull resources from people who need it more frankly, which

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Speaker 5: of course was one reason why this game was moved

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Speaker 5: from Los Angeles area to Arizona.

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Speaker 8: It just, you know, I think even before the.

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Speaker 5: Rams closed the locker room guys, it became evident that

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Speaker 5: this game is simple was not happening in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: The players have dealt with plenty of challenges personal professional

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Speaker 5: It is part of it. The COVID years will certainly

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Speaker 5: give us plenty of examples of that. It is another

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Speaker 5: obstacle for the players to overcome to know they are

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Speaker 5: dealing with so much, especially the Rams, so much personally,

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Speaker 5: but then have to go out and play a professional

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Speaker 4: Well, this tells you. You mentioned the RAMS practice.

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Speaker 3: There was a small fire that erupted not far from

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Speaker 4: Reporters could see smoke billowing very close to the facility.

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Speaker 3: That tells you the unpredictability that still exists with the situation.

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Speaker 3: There are also concerns about what the air quality will

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Speaker 3: be like. All of this is just hard to predict

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Speaker 3: this many days out. This is just the safe decision

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Speaker 3: to make sure that the game can be played in

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Speaker 3: good conditions, and as you mentioned, not to draw any

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Speaker 6: And I saw some folks say, why not just play

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Speaker 6: the game in Minnesota. They've got the best record. Anyway,

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Speaker 6: the NFL wants to make sure that they keep at

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Speaker 6: least from a competitive advantage to the division winner. There's

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Speaker 6: still the belief that the division winner should host the game.

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Speaker 6: We've had some sub five hundred teams where we said,

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Speaker 6: well we should flip it. So you put it in Arizona.

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Speaker 6: It's still drivable for Rams fans if they're not in

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Speaker 6: danger of the fires. That can make the game so

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Speaker 6: five to six ish hours, I want to say, plus

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Speaker 6: they get two hours to buy tickets if you're a

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Speaker 6: Rams season ticket holder, ahead of everybody else in the

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Speaker 6: NFL still trying to make this as much of a

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Speaker 1: Of course, you had the forty nine ers during COVID

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Speaker 1: was played in Detroit because the snowstorm caused the roof

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Speaker 1: are I was there. They will do everything from I'm

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Speaker 1: sure again, we're getting just this information in the past

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Speaker 1: few minutes, but painting the logos on the field, the

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Speaker 1: sounds of the game to the extent that they can

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Speaker 1: have fans have an easier path to get there. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of those accommodations that are commonly made. The

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Speaker 1: NFL always has contingency plans in place. So once again,

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Speaker 1: if you're just joining us or trying to read the

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Speaker 1: close captions while you're at Happy hour, right now, this

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Speaker 1: is real. This is an official the Vikings and Rams

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Speaker 1: Wild Card playoff game now Monday night at Glendale.

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Speaker 2: Arizona and State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We got five playoff games that are going to happen

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Speaker 1: prior to that, including a good one Saturday night only

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Speaker 1: on Prime. It is Steelers and Ravens TJ. Watt trying

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Speaker 1: to take down Lamar Jackson. So why not put the

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Speaker 1: two of those guys in the same poster. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: in Sam Schwarstein, Prime Video in Thursday Night Football's analytics

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Speaker 1: expert to use next in instats to help us break

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Speaker 1: down this matchup. Sam, it's not Thursday Night Football, it's

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Speaker 1: a Prime game. It's now on Saturday night, So hopefully

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Speaker 1: you remember it's not tonight, you're not late, you didn't

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Speaker 1: miss it two days away. I'm sure you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able as a our analytics focused guy that you are

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Speaker 1: to figure this thing out. You know, they split the

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Speaker 1: season series between these teams. What do you make of it?

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Speaker 1: And one of those games tell us about what we

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Speaker 1: might see here in the rubber match.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, you can use every cliche in the book, throw

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Speaker 13: out the record books, no love loss, and it's actually

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Speaker 13: real with this group. These two games that they played

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Speaker 13: are defined by chaos. In the first game, Justin Tucker

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Speaker 13: missed multiple kicks, they had multiple fumbles out of Offensive

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Speaker 13: Player of the Year Derrick Henry. But then a huge interception,

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Speaker 13: one of the four interceptions that Lamar Jackson's thrown all season.

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Speaker 13: And that's a huge part of it why there was

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Speaker 13: a low success rate, the lowest success rate the Ravens

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Speaker 13: had in the week eleven and actually one of the

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Speaker 13: lower success rates they had in Week sixteen. Now here's

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Speaker 13: the thing. In Week sixteen, the luck went the way

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Speaker 13: of the Ravens. We all see the big score differential,

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Speaker 13: but there were multiple plays turnovers that led to nine

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Speaker 13: percent win probability on am off punt, four and a

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Speaker 13: half percent win probability on a fumble, and fourteen percent

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Speaker 13: win probably lost on that pick six to Marlin Humphrey.

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Speaker 13: And when they cannot make those plays and the Steelers

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Speaker 13: don't have the offensive firepower to do it, it's.

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Speaker 7: Gonna be tough for them to win this game.

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Speaker 13: But anything can happen when these two teams play.

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Speaker 1: So when the Steelers were playing their best football this

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Speaker 1: season was after they made the move to Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: established that deep passing game. Maybe the worst they've played

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Speaker 1: the season is the past four games with russ still

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Speaker 1: in the lineup.

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Speaker 13: What changed, Right, They're gonna live by the deep ball,

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Speaker 13: die by the deep ball, and using completion probability, which

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Speaker 13: is a machine learning metric that helps identify what's the

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Speaker 13: likelihood each catcha we made, we are to see that

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Speaker 13: when those plays, those fifty to fifty balls or those

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Speaker 13: sub fifty percent balls are caught. This is one of

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Speaker 13: the best offenses in the NFL. They had thirty one

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Speaker 13: totally PM passes under fifty percent. When you look at

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Speaker 13: the last four weeks, they really really struggled and they

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Speaker 13: were negative EPA on those deep balls. George Pickens coming

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Speaker 13: back in the lineup. He hasn't been the same since

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Speaker 13: the Kansas City game. They're gonna be able to need

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Speaker 13: to make those play because even on the season, the

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Speaker 13: best CPOEE, which is completion percentage over expected quarterback in

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Speaker 13: the NFL, is Russell Wilson. If they're able to make

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Speaker 13: those plays and get turnovers on defense, they can win

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Speaker 13: this game.

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Speaker 1: The voting for MVP and all the major awards happening

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Speaker 1: this week prior to the playoffs, it's a regular season award.

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Speaker 1: But what can Lamar do in this game to maybe

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Speaker 1: show the value that makes him once again an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, if you have a keen eye, you can see that.

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Speaker 13: Teams have to play Lamar different than anybody else the

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Speaker 13: whole season. We started the season we started out every team.

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Speaker 13: You've got to get rid of two high defenses. It's

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Speaker 13: limiting scoring well. Teams can't play too high to Lamar

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Speaker 13: because of his ability to run. He sees the most

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Speaker 13: pre snap single high bringing a safety down near the

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Speaker 13: line of scrimmage to be able to stop the run,

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Speaker 13: and he can still beat them.

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Speaker 7: And that's what the Steelers want to do.

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Speaker 13: They play the most pre snap single high having that

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Speaker 13: extra run defender the second most.

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Speaker 7: In the NFL.

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Speaker 13: But the key thing here is what kind of coverage

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Speaker 13: are they going to play? They played two three most

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Speaker 13: man coverage against the Ravens this season and they ran

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Speaker 13: a lot of man blitz as they had their highest

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Speaker 13: man blitz on the season in Week sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Sam.

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Speaker 1: You can watch Sam as always on tnf's Prime Vision

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Speaker 1: with Next Gen Stats Alternate stream. Saturday Saturday Wild Card

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Speaker 1: Game kicks off seven thirty pm Eastern Time.

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Speaker 14: For the pregame Judy Packers versus Eagles. This is the

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Speaker 14: middle game of the Sunday tripleheader. It's the rematch of

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Speaker 14: the sal Pallo game in Week one that was won.

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Speaker 4: By the Eagles. Let's welcome back our.

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Speaker 3: Brian Baldinger because he was in Brazil for that first

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Speaker 3: meeting of these two teams. So, Baldy, since you know

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Speaker 3: these two teams so, well, what matchup are you most

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Speaker 3: looking forward to?

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Speaker 8: Well, if you go.

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Speaker 12: Back to that game, Judy, I mean that's really Saquon

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Speaker 12: broke out right away in that game.

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Speaker 7: He ran for over one hundred yards.

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Speaker 12: He scored three touchdowns in a game probably could have

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Speaker 12: scored another, they kind of shut it down at the

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Speaker 12: very end of the game, like this is a touchdown

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Speaker 12: throw right here from Jail and they got to match

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Speaker 12: up with a linebacker and he won that battle. But

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Speaker 12: you know, if you look at just the course of

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Speaker 12: the season here, the Eagles ran the ball six hundred

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Speaker 12: and twenty one times this year Judy fifty seven percent

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Speaker 12: of the time, the highest number of rushes and the

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Speaker 12: highest percentage of rushing. And while we wait to see

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Speaker 12: just what the time he is going to be, like

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Speaker 12: with Jalen who's missed a lot of time here at

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Speaker 12: the end with his receivers, I think the Eagles can

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Speaker 12: lean on this run game.

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Speaker 15: Now.

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Speaker 12: The Packers have been good against the run this year

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Speaker 12: by and large, They've stacked up pretty well. So I'm

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Speaker 12: interested to see if the Packers can continue stack up

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Speaker 12: against an offensive line that's got a bunch of Pro

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Speaker 12: bowlers on Philadelphia and a team that has clearly said

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Speaker 12: our best chances and our way that we want to

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Speaker 12: set the table in these games. We want to run

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Speaker 12: the ball, establish it, get Saque into rhythm. So I

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Speaker 12: think that's going to be a key matchup in this game.

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Speaker 12: Up front, right in the trenches.

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Speaker 4: Baldi, thank you.

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Speaker 3: We're all looking forward to that game, and we're also

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Speaker 3: looking forward to the Sunday night and when we returned,

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Speaker 3: Sarah Walsh will join us to talk about Commanders Bocks

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Speaker 3: Jade Daniels versus Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 8: When we return Commanders Bocks this weekend.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a fun I mean, we got those

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Speaker 5: two quarterbacks.

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Speaker 8: How could it not be fun? Right, I was gonna say,

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Speaker 8: two Pro Bowlers, one is one?

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Speaker 10: Is it?

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Speaker 8: That's all right?

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Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield will get there eventually. Sarah Walsh of course

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Speaker 5: going to be there this weekend. Sarah, thanks for joining

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Speaker 5: us quickly. I want to get to the key injury

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Speaker 5: updates for the Commanders that we're keeping our eye leading up.

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Speaker 8: To that game. Well.

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Speaker 15: Jane Daniels set out the second half of last week's

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Speaker 15: regular season finale with what they were calling leg soren As.

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Speaker 15: He was asked about that this week and he said,

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Speaker 15: all is good.

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Speaker 16: He's a full participant.

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Speaker 15: And then the even better news for him is that

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Speaker 15: his offensive line is getting healthier.

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Speaker 16: His starting center Tyler Biadish missed last week.

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Speaker 15: If he's come back from an ankle injury, he's been

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Speaker 15: limited this week in practice, and then his left tackle

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Speaker 15: Brandon Coleman, who was injured last week, was a full

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Speaker 15: participant today.

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Speaker 16: And then on the defensive side, the one thing everyone.

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Speaker 15: Is keeping an eye on, Marshaw Lattimore continues to be

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Speaker 15: a full participant this week. Dan Quinn said the arrow

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Speaker 15: for him is pointing up huge news for the Commanders

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Speaker 15: because he makes a significant difference when he's out on

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Speaker 15: the field. He's only played in two games for the

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Speaker 15: Commander since being traded from the Saints. Obviously, there is

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Speaker 15: a long and storied history with Mike Evans there.

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Speaker 16: These two go way back.

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Speaker 15: There have been several skirmishes, but one in twenty twenty

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Speaker 15: two had them both kicked out of the game for fighting.

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Speaker 15: Evans was asked about Latimore today. He said he's a

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Speaker 15: really good player. They know each other well. He said

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Speaker 15: he's going to have to be at his best, and

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Speaker 15: he said if Latimore is playing, he looks forward to

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Speaker 15: the matchup now. They did meet in Week six this

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Speaker 15: year when Latimer was still with the Saints and when

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Speaker 15: Lattimore was lined up with Evans.

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Speaker 16: Evans has zero targets. That's about as pleasant as it's

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Speaker 16: going to get probably Ian before kickoff Sunday.

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Speaker 7: Much for a touchdown?

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Speaker 10: Oh, Alan Harris playing all bit up on the route

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Speaker 10: and Randy Moss without even really being able to run

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Speaker 10: as he shoots the moon to the fans here.

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Speaker 7: In Green Bay.

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Speaker 9: That is a disgusting act by Randy Moss.

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Speaker 6: And it's unfortunate that we had that on our air live.

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Speaker 7: That is disgusting by Randy Moss.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, speaking of disgusting, Ian, you want to tell us

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Speaker 1: what's going on in this picture air?

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Speaker 8: What? What okay? So the news breaks.

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Speaker 5: The time till Usco was fired. I was on the peloton.

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Speaker 5: I had to do TV. It was breaking news, and

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Speaker 5: so you put your stuff on based on what you're wearing.

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Speaker 8: So am I wearing workout shorts and socks? I don't know,

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Speaker 8: maybe who's keeping track of these things. It went on

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Speaker 8: the air final.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very important though, on your birthday to

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Speaker 1: get a workout in and also to get a happy

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Speaker 1: birthday from us, right.

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Speaker 4: Judy, Happy birthday, Ian? And you had your favorite meal?

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Speaker 8: Thank you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, happy birthday while you guys were working.

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Speaker 8: I had chicken and dumplings.

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Speaker 6: It was great, right, Happy birthday, Ian? I totally knew

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Speaker 6: that before this segment Number one, number two. I guess

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Speaker 6: my gift to you for your birthday was to cover

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Speaker 6: for me for that breaking news, So thank you very much.

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Speaker 6: Now a bunch of pictures of i en doing life.

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Speaker 1: And instagram chicken and dumplings instead of showing up for

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Speaker 1: his hitting the sea block, so everything really evens out,

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Speaker 1: I think over.

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Speaker 2: The course of time.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Buddy Takes to all of you for watching.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow the final wild Card preview show. We

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Speaker 1: will see you there. Thank you as always for coming

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Speaker 1: with us.