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Speaker 1: Ladies and Jules.

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Speaker 2: You want experience during your football season, Well, buckle up,

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Speaker 2: sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world.

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Speaker 2: This is I want your flex with Dan Bayer and

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down everything you need

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Speaker 2: to set your lineups, from position rankings to starts and sits.

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Speaker 2: The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now

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Speaker 2: let's get your flexod Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Well we made it to the end of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: There are sixteen games left that Mike Harmon will cherish

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Speaker 1: in him up at Swollen Dome. You can also find

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Speaker 1: him on Blue Sky at Mike Carmon. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on Blue Sky at Dan Bayer and also on

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Speaker 1: X at Dan Byer on Fox. The show's executive producers

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Speaker 1: Ian Roddy, Happy New Year to you all. You can

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Speaker 1: get Ian on X at Ian Underscore Roddy and Ian

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Speaker 1: can we get you on Blue Sky yet?

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Speaker 3: You can now find me on what WHOA five Geez?

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Speaker 3: Happy twenty five fellas. You can now find me on

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Speaker 3: Blue Sky at Ian Dash Roddy.

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Speaker 4: He put the put underscore.

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Speaker 1: He puts the dash in Ian Roddy. There is sure enough,

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Speaker 1: this is him one follower and he is following Blue Sky.

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Speaker 5: I don't even I didn't even know I had a follower.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tiko Ramao, Hello, Tiko Ramao, assistant lecture at the

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Speaker 1: University of Alberta.

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Speaker 4: How about that cool?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not too bad?

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Speaker 4: So follow thinks it's the other Ian, Roddy, who is

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Speaker 4: a Canadian, right, He's.

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Speaker 1: Only following twenty nine thousand other people on Blue Sky,

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Speaker 1: So just tweet tweet back at him. Thanks for the

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Speaker 1: follow man.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I used to feel special when I had back and

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Speaker 6: forth with Chuck d and he followed me, and then

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Speaker 6: I realized how many people he followed.

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Speaker 1: It happens, so you know, if you respond to with you, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's cool.

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Speaker 6: I've had some cool exchanges with a bunch of celebrity

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Speaker 6: one offs, and then there's really not a whole lot

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Speaker 6: of conversation thereafter.

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Speaker 4: But that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that's all yeah, yeah, it's absolutely all good. I

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Speaker 1: sent out a TikTok from the Rose Bowl and I

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Speaker 1: put this on all the social you know. I put

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Speaker 1: it on Twitter, and I think I put it on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: which then accidentally went to Facebook because of the settings one. Sure,

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Speaker 1: so the whole deal, but I put I spread it out.

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Speaker 1: It's maybe pouring it out, but I just figure, let's

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Speaker 1: just do it on the platforms. And there is a

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Speaker 1: full right versus left war going on in the comments

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Speaker 1: of my TikTok Rose Bowl video of the flyover. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I just posted it, guys as a seller bration of

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Speaker 1: football of the new year? What has scene the Rose Bowl?

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Speaker 1: How cool it is, the flyover of the fireworks, And

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Speaker 4: I feel like I need to go read all the comments.

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Speaker 1: It truly is. It's it's you know, it's just kind

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Speaker 4: Well I just looked at it. Four twenty six likes. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: pretty good. Yeah, if they wanted to go political.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's yeah. That's the thing is like people have liked

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Speaker 4: Yeah goose bumps and all this amazing area instincts and chi. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wait till you.

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Speaker 4: Find the political patch.

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Speaker 1: Huh. Well there's there's uh is.

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Speaker 4: Not lost people. We just need to get rid of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's three million dollars in tax money. Will

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Speaker 1: never get back, shut up comedy. I gathered by this

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Speaker 1: comment you don't understand that these pilots are getting flight time,

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Speaker 1: Every flight is a training flight for peace. It's also

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Speaker 1: a tool for interest in our nation's military. In other words, marketing.

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Speaker 6: Guy wrote a little bit of love to a cool

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you filmed it beautifully.

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Speaker 1: fantasy football in a second. Was because you can kind

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Speaker 1: But that's why it took so long. Was if I

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Speaker 4: Hey, you know, if it gets folks and tongues wagon.

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Speaker 1: It just was. It was good. It was. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was actually a good chuckle to see it and

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Speaker 5: Shut up, Cami is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, America, It's yeah, it's it's great.

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Speaker 4: But and the Canadians that follow Ian's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, absolutely, he's big in Alberta. All right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's uh, we're going the week eighteen as funky. Everybody

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Speaker 1: Saturday's about, guys, the matchups of the AFC North. The

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Speaker 4: Welleah, no question about it. If nothing else, it's also a.

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Speaker 6: Good week to go to a game and a lot

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Speaker 6: love that it's an AFC North ONLYFC North Saturday, like

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Speaker 6: Gallary seventeen dollars to see the commanders at the Cowboys

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Speaker 6: But if you ever just wanted to go to an

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Speaker 1: Well, I will also say this, Mike and I throughout

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Speaker 1: the year, on various episodes, we talk about our issue

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Speaker 1: with the NFL scheduling, whether it be the same division

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Speaker 1: wasn't there last year, Mike where a team I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was weird last year. Well, this

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Speaker 6: I mean, look at the Steelers still playing a meaningful

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Speaker 6: Like it's just an odd convergence of circumstance that you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, none whatsoever. And you know, with the high letting

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Speaker 1: you know, like we could we could see Ravens Texans,

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Speaker 1: But point number one and twenty nine on why they

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Speaker 1: schedule stinks. So all right, let's get to the ranking. Gas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 6: Keep beating the dead horse with this matchup. Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: let's get into your hot plays, cold Soores and Ninjas. Again.

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Speaker 6: the guy to take you to point see? No, but

436
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Speaker 6: you know they did some heavy work there, so sure,

437
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Speaker 6: why not? Why not have the conversation like anything that

438
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Speaker 6: costs you whatever.

439
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Speaker 4: Lunch is lunch in a little bit of your time.

440
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all it is.

441
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Speaker 4: It's just lunch. Isn't that like a dating app?

442
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it might be something like that I had.

443
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Speaker 1: I don't want to search it on any of my

444
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Speaker 1: good point Yeah no, in trouble with the wife.

445
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Speaker 6: No, that's a bad Yeah, good job by you. Good

446
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Speaker 6: protect this house. I had a friend when I was

447
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 6: at Santa Clara doing my MBA that was a thing

448
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Speaker 6: a site called Date my Friend. I don't know if

449
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Speaker 6: it got bought and respun out or whatever, but it

450
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Speaker 6: was the curiosity of you know, here are people that

451
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Speaker 6: are vouching for you. Oh so it was a verification

452
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Speaker 6: of them vouching for you before you ever got set.

453
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Speaker 1: Up on it. Not a idea. It seemed like a pretty.

454
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Speaker 4: Good structurally sound thing.

455
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Speaker 5: You think of that, you it looks like it is

456
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Speaker 5: called It's just lunch. See there it's still yeah, there

457
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Speaker 5: you go, he's.

458
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Speaker 4: He was he was good with it.

459
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do have a girlfriend, but she's not.

460
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Speaker 1: You're on a work competer too, so someone else.

461
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 4: So time of day, who was in that studio?

462
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 6: All right, let's get back to the hot play is

463
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 6: how about Jalen Warren thirty three touches over the last

464
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 6: two days. He was back at practice, so that bodes well.

465
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 6: Najee Hair is also worth a look. See you a

466
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 6: little bit first meeting. Seventy five yards and a touchdown.

467
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 6: Fifty four receiving yards on six catches, So take a

468
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 6: look there. Zay Flowers, welcome to the Pro Bowl, even

469
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 6: though you've done nothing the.

470
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Speaker 4: Last three weeks. Six point two points per a game.

471
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Speaker 6: So curious what fantasy owners did with him in the

472
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Speaker 6: playoffs either way, an opportunity against Cleveland here and then

473
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Speaker 6: going back to that Michael Panix, let's bookendate here. Drake

474
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 6: London again quiet his last four but opportunities, had some

475
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Speaker 6: target opportunities. Let's see if they can make some hay

476
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Speaker 6: here in week eighteen.

477
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Speaker 1: I would also say, I'm not sure you really have

478
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Speaker 1: any cult stares because there's so many guys on benches

479
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: and whatnot.

480
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 6: No, yeah, a lot of them it just becomes the

481
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Speaker 6: engineer injury cautionary tales.

482
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 4: Sure, I go nowhere.

483
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Speaker 6: Near my Bears offense against Green Bay, even if they're

484
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 6: just playing for seeding. I still don't want any part

485
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 6: of that defense the way they've played the last Caleb

486
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 6: Williams is twenty first quarterback fantasy wise the last four weeks,

487
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,479
Speaker 6: so he's been fairly useless to you in that regard.

488
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 6: I did appreciate him coming up and again, not to

489
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 6: make it all about the Bears, but you know, fantasy

490
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 6: owners went heavy in on Bears players for sure, yes,

491
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Speaker 6: and are still reluctant to take them out based on

492
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Speaker 6: percentages that I saw starting in the final weeks, you know, thinking,

493
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 6: you know, Caleb was one play away here, one play

494
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Speaker 6: away there. I did appreciate him standing up, and I

495
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 6: think the line is still bad, but he did take

496
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Speaker 6: some accountability for the sixty seven sacks, saying look a

497
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 6: throwaway here, run here, check down here, faster In my progressions,

498
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 6: I have much many fewer sacks, so I bear the

499
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 6: brunt of some of the responsibility of that. That's what

500
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Speaker 6: I said all year long, right, I'd love to sit

501
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 6: with people evaluating the all twenty two as they do

502
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Speaker 6: ex quarterbacks X linemen coordinators whoever to say, all right,

503
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 6: let's let's give the who are we putting the share

504
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 6: of the blame on each of those sixty seven and

505
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 6: to do that with quarterbacks to be more fair because

506
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 6: it's not always the line's fault. They don't have to

507
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 6: be great, but it's not always on them.

508
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Speaker 1: No, no, And honestly, it's just good business for him

509
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: to shore as well, whether he means it or not.

510
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Speaker 4: Sure, I'm not sure those guys.

511
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not trying to make him sound insincere

512
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: at all. It's just yeah, it's just a smart thing

513
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Speaker 1: to do.

514
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, So, yeah, that was the one I was going

515
00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 6: to see. The other is, you know, on the other

516
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 6: side of that matchup. As much as I love Josh Jacobs,

517
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 6: we've espoused the virtues of him all along. You have

518
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 6: no idea what his workload's going to be, sure, right,

519
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 6: It's like we were saying with Saquon Barkley, like at

520
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 6: this point, Jacobs is in and it's the quote rivalry

521
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 6: gain the Bears never win. So I don't know if

522
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 6: it's a rivalry, but they certainly do talk a lot

523
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 6: about each other. And hate each other, and Aaron Rodgers

524
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 6: even talking about his old love of that kind of stuff,

525
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 6: while also declaring the Jets the best two years of

526
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 6: his career, which the whole other topic and philosophical thing

527
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 6: for another time. But you know, you have no idea,

528
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 6: right might be ten carries before he seeds way, he

529
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 6: might run the whole game. You just don't know.

530
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Speaker 1: Well, Bears and Packers just probably try to stay away.

531
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so Chase Brown's injured, so we look at other options.

532
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 6: He'll play, But the question of how much of the

533
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 6: pain threshold he has if it's a legit high ankle sprain,

534
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 6: that's a tough turnaround. Right back on that, McConkey was

535
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 6: back at practice. But again, as much as the Chargers

536
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 6: can say, hey, we want to go all for it,

537
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 6: do they really because that's really their main guy with

538
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 6: the playoffs already secured, So cautionary tale. And then Jerry

539
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 6: Judy I already mentioned it's Bailey's appy under center. I

540
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 6: don't know if I want to go down that road.

541
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, dtr could see some snaps, but yeah, to that point,

542
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,479
Speaker 1: I Baltimore is a nineteen and a half point favorite

543
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: as well.

544
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean, you may get some garbage time,

545
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 6: like if it plays to form, then maybe there's that opportunity.

546
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 6: But just straight up, I gotta think, you know, Baltimore,

547
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 6: they lost the first matchup to these guys. I want

548
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 6: to go in as strong as they are.

549
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: They can and all of this, so go handle it

550
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: and get out exactly. So there they are the cold source.

551
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: Any ninjas, any sneaky plays.

552
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Speaker 6: Well, you know for daily Fantasy, maybe you throw a

553
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 6: buck on Drake Man. He's gonna play against Buffalo, who's

554
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 6: probably gonna sit a lot of starters, you know in

555
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 6: Queen's way. Josh Allen, as we talked about Monday, you know,

556
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 6: he's gonna show up to keep his game streak going.

557
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 6: Not like when Gino Smith took over for Eli Manning

558
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 6: and screwed that whole thing up back in the day

559
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 6: with the Giants. That are not going to do that

560
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 6: to Josh Allen here. So we'll keep his streak going.

561
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 6: But Mac Jones against Indianapolis again, think they've quit rashein

562
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 6: a lee, you know with Justice Hill has been already

563
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 6: been declared out in another situation, if it plays to form,

564
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 6: they're beaten the snot out of the Browns, So Derek

565
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 6: Henry's not playing a full game and a full compliment

566
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 6: of touches, so maybe an opportunity there. Jacoby Myers four

567
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 6: more catches, nine straight games going up against the Chargers.

568
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 6: We've already seen the Raiders don't care about their draft status,

569
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 6: not quite sure what the philosophy is in the building,

570
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,239
Speaker 6: but they keep playing. Adam Thielan's been on a big

571
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 6: run five or more receptions five straight games, three touchdowns

572
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 6: the last two weeks. So against Atlanta as they try

573
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 6: to play spoiler in this whole thing, maybe you get

574
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Speaker 6: another game out of here. Khalil Herbert against Pittsburgh because

575
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 6: again the Chase Brown injury, so maybe you see a

576
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 6: little bit of that once upon a time he was

577
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 6: a tough runner for the Bears. So and then gainwell

578
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Speaker 6: going up against the Giants again, assuming the plan goes

579
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 6: to form that Berkley doesn't actually suit.

580
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Speaker 1: Up, I'm gonna just be extremely negative because why not,

581
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Speaker 1: Number one, let's go stupid. How stupid is it to

582
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: have the Raiders and Chargers open the season and then

583
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: have the Raiders and Chargers close the season. It's like

584
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: you start on this journey and then you're like, okay,

585
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: well just meet at the end, like maybe it's like

586
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: a trip to the mall and for for however long,

587
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: and then you just meet by the water fountains at

588
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: the center of the mall at that time, and you've

589
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: got all your bags and leave. This is the schedule

590
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: process again. So you have you have season opener division game,

591
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: and then you have a season ended. What did we

592
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: learn about this? That just makes no sense at all

593
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: to me. That's gripe number one.

594
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 6: But that goes back to the you know, week one.

595
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 6: I've always argued, look over, we're thirsty for football. You

596
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 6: can put a bunch of crappy games like that. Are

597
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 6: the schedule fillers elsewhere that we moan about. It's like

598
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 6: people are gonna watch whatever in record numbers. Sure have

599
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 6: the standalone for the Super Bowl champion. Make it a

600
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 6: big matchup, you know, out of conference whatever, and do

601
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 6: that kind of thing. Have at it, Sunday night football,

602
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 6: Monday night football. Give the rights holders their love. But

603
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 6: the reality is for the rest of it, we always

604
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 6: talk about September and feeling out games right as you're

605
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 6: just getting because you haven't done any real work, you know,

606
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,959
Speaker 6: hitting and all and we always talk about sloppy tackling

607
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 6: and kind of the numbers and all of those things.

608
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 6: The first couple of weeks, Week one should not be

609
00:31:59,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 6: a division game.

610
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 4: Just it just shouldn't be.

611
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 6: Like if we're, like to your point of being consistent

612
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 6: about where the value is, like we we should put

613
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 6: everything on the same slate as best we can.

614
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand it. But again, why should

615
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: I try? And then again, you know, and I think

616
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: I said this on the last pod that that we

617
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: did our little when we did the show on Monday night,

618
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: I sat in for Jason on Your Guys Show and

619
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Speaker 1: we did the Josh Allen thing. If this game meant something,

620
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was gonna play like the Eli Manning thing was.

621
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: They're just trying to keep the streak when they didn't

622
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: want to play him anymore. So it's you know, for

623
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: anybody to want to compare it and say, oh yeah,

624
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: what about that, it's they're not the same scenarios. The

625
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: Geno Smith replacing Eli Manning was solely just to keep

626
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: Eli streak going. Playing Josh Allen a few snaps to

627
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: keep his streak going is legit because you would have

628
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: played the whole game if it meant something.

629
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they hate ELI obviously had odds the coaching staff

630
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 6: and them too, and they were directionless with no way home.

631
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: But yeah, a couple of just quick things. Actually, you

632
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna do it on the other side, Yeah,

633
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: we'll do in our final segment, We're gonna do some incentives.

634
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: I'll give you some stat numbers that I just think

635
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: are interesting entering the final week of the season. Ian's

636
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: gonna hop back into the pod. It's gonna be a

637
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: good time. Mike Carmen, Ian Roddy, I'm Dan Byer. It's

638
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: all next here, and I want your flex wrapping digs

639
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: up here, and I want your flex again. You could

640
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: get all of us on Blue Sky. I'm at Dan Byer,

641
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: Mike's at Mike Carman, and Ian is at Ian Dash Roddy.

642
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: I almost said underscore again, but Ian Dash Roddy, that's

643
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: where you can find him. And you can find us

644
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: on next Ian Roddy Underscore, Dan Byer on Fox Swollen Dome.

645
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: I got it all right, right, Yeah sounds right, yeah,

646
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: all right, perfect. We I've only done it thirty six

647
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: times so far this season. It's our final two episode

648
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: week here of I want your flex moving forward throughout

649
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs and all the way through the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: We'll have one new episode a week. Is Mike and

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Speaker 1: I will take a look at the playoff matchups, what

652
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Speaker 1: it means, maybe some daily fantasy plays and a whole

653
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Speaker 1: lot more. But before we bid a dude to the

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Speaker 1: regular season, we're going to dive into some incentives and

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Speaker 1: how they could play out in Week eighteen. But I

656
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Speaker 1: just want to bring up a point of stats and

657
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Speaker 1: maybe it'll look different Mike when Week eighteen ends up ending.

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Speaker 1: But we are so enamored with Saquon Barkley in the

659
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Speaker 1: two thousand yards, the gaps between Barkley and even Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry and everyone else, another big one. Derrick Henry is

661
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Speaker 1: about four hundred yard next almost five hundred yards more

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Speaker 1: rushing yards than Kyra and Williams so far this year.

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Speaker 1: And what is super striking to me? In the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver business, because you mentioned Brian Thomas Junior of Jacksonville,

665
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Speaker 1: it was pointed out on social media that Brian Thomas

666
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Speaker 1: is currently second in yard in the AFC for wide receivers.

667
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Speaker 1: Just for anybody second in receiving yards in the AFC,

668
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, geez, that just sounds odd. Eleven seventy

669
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Speaker 1: nine for Brian Thomas puts the fifth in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But you have Jamar Chase sixteen hundred, you have Justin

671
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Speaker 1: Jefferson fourteen seventy nine, and then you have fifteen guys

672
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Speaker 1: sandwiched right now between eleven ninety four and ten thirty four. Now,

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Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney's probably going to be a thousand yard guy,

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Speaker 1: and I know there could be some others with incentive wise,

675
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Speaker 1: but there's just this logjam of guys, Mike, that are

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Speaker 1: gonna be at, you know, between probably about thirteen hundred

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Speaker 1: and twelve fifty, you know, and around one thousand. Its

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Speaker 1: just it's crazy. There seems to be no separation. You

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Speaker 1: have fifteen guys basically within one hundred and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: of each other.

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Speaker 6: It's insane. It's a four hundred and thirty three yard

682
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Speaker 6: gap between Chase and Thomas in the see that's just insane. Yeah,

683
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Speaker 6: and then you look at where we're at, just beyond

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Speaker 6: the thousand yard mark you mentioned Mooney Nikua needs ten yards. Well,

685
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Speaker 6: everybody else is sitting down. I got to imagine they

686
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Speaker 6: at least give him a thrower two to get him.

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Speaker 4: The ten yards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think so, I would.

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Speaker 6: Think to get him over DeVante Adams needs twenty five

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Speaker 6: yards for one thousand. Courtland Sutton seventeen, which also we

691
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Speaker 6: start getting into incentives and stuff from him. Mike Evans

692
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Speaker 6: needs eighty five to get to that thousand yard mark

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Speaker 6: to keep the streak alive.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's and I'm sure he'll get it. It is

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Speaker 1: a meaningful game, and as you pointed out, he's been

696
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Speaker 1: a target to be able to fight through it after

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Speaker 1: an injury that he had through mid season.

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Speaker 4: No God would opposite him. Yeah, crazy.

699
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Speaker 6: And George Pickens, even though everybody hates him and he

700
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Speaker 6: has missed several games due to injury, and he's really outspoken.

701
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Speaker 6: He had that little back and forth with a reporter

702
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Speaker 6: asking about with the stuff with Russ not being on

703
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Speaker 6: the same page, and they just pulled his you know,

704
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Speaker 6: under armor, under gear over his mouth and didn't say

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Speaker 6: another word like, oh, that's healthy. Fifty eight catches nine

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Speaker 6: hundred yards, averaging fifteen and a half per catch. Geez,

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Speaker 6: and he's one hundred yards from one thousand, despite the

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Speaker 6: injuries and despite that period where he wasn't catching much

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Speaker 6: of anything.

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Speaker 1: The numbers he and Darnel Mooney. AJ Brown also a

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Speaker 1: big yard sper catch guy. You only have right now

712
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Speaker 1: as I look at it, one, two, three, eight guys

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Speaker 1: in double digits for touchdowns and t Higgins had gotten too.

714
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Speaker 1: That Mark fakes to the three touchdown after last week.

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews is actually one of the guys, so kind

716
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Speaker 1: of unique in that case for a double digit touchdown

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Speaker 1: Considering at the beginning of the year, we're like, what

718
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Speaker 1: is with Mark Andrews. But those are just some of

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Speaker 1: the numbers that stood out to me as we wrap

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Speaker 1: up the regular season.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's one guy I want to mention, just

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Speaker 6: because you brought up the double digit touchdowns, we need

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Speaker 6: one more for Westbrook Aikine.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, he's at nine.

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Speaker 6: He's got twenty eight catches, nine touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely that he's on my bench. I got to play

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Speaker 1: him in a week eighteen. Content about that. I don't

728
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Speaker 1: know who to take out, that's the question.

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Speaker 6: That's just insane though, right that level of efficiency, that's

730
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Speaker 6: the old Jerome Betti stat line. When he was teamed up,

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Speaker 6: I think it was Staley, right, So Staley doing all

732
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Speaker 6: the work between the twenties, and then he had Bettis

733
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Speaker 6: five carries, one yard, three touchdowns in a game.

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Speaker 4: That's one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: Out as Cooper cup in his neck, Nick Westbrook Akine

736
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Speaker 1: in my Week eighteen scramble in one of my leagues.

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Speaker 1: All Right, gets these in incentives. You mentioned some of

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Speaker 1: the names. Mike, you can start it out. Uh, you

739
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Speaker 1: mentioned Mike Evans. There's others as well. Who has some

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Speaker 1: interesting incentives heading into the weekend.

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Speaker 6: Five catches, eighty five yards go back to Evans, three

742
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Speaker 6: million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to get that. Yeah, he is going

744
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Speaker 1: to get that.

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Speaker 6: Tony Pollard eighty three rushing yards for an extra two

746
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty thousand. Zach zach Ertz is another one.

747
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Speaker 6: Last week had the trifecta that made him an extra

748
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Speaker 6: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: He can do it again.

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Speaker 6: Nine receptions to fifty ninety yards to fifty two receiving

751
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Speaker 6: touchdowns to fifty that's those are lofty though. Yeah, that's

752
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Speaker 6: a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I that is especially especially in the nine catches

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Speaker 1: in the two touchdowns. Then you know that you're just

755
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Speaker 1: going to be forcing it to him. Yeah, I think

756
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Speaker 1: that's going to be tough to get.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, those are some of the favorite tried off the bunch.

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Speaker 6: And then Courtland Sutton, who I almost had as one

759
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Speaker 6: of the hot plays because Bo Nicks and everything they've

760
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Speaker 6: been doing.

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Speaker 4: Eighty two receiving yards, two million dollars.

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Speaker 1: He's getting it.

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Speaker 4: Against the Kansas City squad.

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Speaker 1: Well they need it. Yeah, that is.

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Speaker 6: We'll see what they do playing defenders and how intense

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Speaker 6: that is.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I take that away. I take that back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to get it. It

769
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Speaker 1: seems absolutely reachable, but I don't know if he's going

770
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Speaker 1: to get it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's had a couple of quiet weeks in the

772
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Speaker 6: last few so I mean it's certainly. I mean he

773
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Speaker 6: had options opportunities against Cincinnati in that you know, thirty

774
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Speaker 6: twenty four loss but scored a touchdown, but just fifty

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Speaker 6: five receiving yards before that, fifty yards, thirty two yards,

776
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Speaker 6: one hundred yard game back against Cleveland to start the month.

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Speaker 6: But otherwise you're looking at seventy to eighty yards most weeks.

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Speaker 1: Ian Roddy, you got any incentive plays that pique your interest?

779
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Speaker 3: I like Kyler Murray fifty rushing yards and one rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 3: So if he gets both of those, he gets seven

781
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars or.

782
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Speaker 1: Seven it's not much incentive.

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Speaker 5: He'll get you five bucks.

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Speaker 4: Here's your five dollars.

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Speaker 6: You spent a bunch of money at the movies, and

786
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Speaker 6: they give you the extra five bucks towards popcorn.

787
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there no Kyler Murray fifty rushing yards and one

788
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Speaker 3: rushing touchdown away from seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars

789
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Speaker 3: salary that way.

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Speaker 1: That is a lot, that is, but it's also a

791
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Speaker 1: lot to get.

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Speaker 3: It is, but he hasn't been running a lot this year,

793
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Speaker 3: so I feel like like if he'd been running more

794
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Speaker 3: to his usual standard, he would have hit this already.

795
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Speaker 5: We know that he's capable.

796
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Speaker 4: Of doing this.

797
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Speaker 5: It's just a matter of yeah, well.

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Speaker 1: He he had a touchdown run against the Niners in

799
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Speaker 1: their first meeting. But now again with nothing to play for,

800
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Speaker 1: do you really want your quarterback running around the field

801
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Speaker 1: like he is. It's almost like, okay, if he gets

802
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: fifteen yards like on an early scramble, would you continue

803
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Speaker 1: to play him just so he gets it? I think

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Speaker 1: that's I think that's going to be tough. That's the

805
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: thing with Saquan as well, Like going for the rushing

806
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Speaker 1: record like one hundred and one hundred yards is not

807
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Speaker 1: going to be easy, especially when everybody knows you're trying

808
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Speaker 1: to get him one hundred yards. So you know the

809
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Speaker 1: point of everybody having to play. You know, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about incentives here, not necessarily records, but it's not going

811
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Speaker 1: to necessarily be as easy that you know then you

812
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Speaker 1: would think, especially with some of these numbers hovering around

813
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Speaker 1: eighty or one hundred or whatnot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the barklay one, just the debate has been fascinating

815
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Speaker 6: to me. Right, we talked about it on the show Monday, Dan,

816
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Speaker 6: and I think you made a point that that many

817
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Speaker 6: have missed.

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Speaker 4: To encapsulate it quickly.

819
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Speaker 6: Was just, you know, the run game being much harder

820
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Speaker 6: back then because most teams.

821
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Speaker 4: Ran the ball, yeah more frequently now.

822
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Speaker 6: He does have thirty four fewer attempts than Dickerson did

823
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Speaker 6: in his record setting season. So all of that on

824
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Speaker 6: games and whatever else. I think the point of a

825
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 6: spread out offense and not being able to stack the

826
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Speaker 6: box like he once did. Again making the point you

827
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Speaker 6: did more eloquently. Is a big deal that's getting lost

828
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Speaker 6: in this conversation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's to me, it's a completely different game. And

830
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Speaker 1: another people try to like stack up carries and it's

831
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Speaker 1: just not it's not an all numbers thing, Like we're

832
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Speaker 1: talking about numbers, but it's not all about numbers.

833
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Speaker 6: So just the game being played much differently. We talk

834
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Speaker 6: about the thousand yard receivers, we talk about running backs

835
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Speaker 6: as pass catchers. Right back when Dickerson was playing, they

836
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Speaker 6: know a guy like Roger Craig was invaluable, yet in

837
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Speaker 6: the annals of history, like he's a guy that's left

838
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Speaker 6: out of a Hall of Fame consideration and discussions, no

839
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Speaker 6: matter how integral he was to what the forty nine

840
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Speaker 6: ers were doing as an offense.

841
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 4: You know.

842
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 6: So, and now the game has changed that way to

843
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Speaker 6: where we talk about guys as past catchers all the time.

844
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Speaker 1: Well, I think there's a whole generation of running mix

845
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Speaker 1: that should be in the Hall of Fame that aren't

846
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Speaker 1: because of the dual threat. And for a while it

847
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,280
Speaker 1: was all about rushing and now it's not about rushing

848
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Speaker 1: at all. But that's that's for another day. Nicky Waters,

849
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Speaker 1: Come on, I've said Ricky Waters, Fred Taylor or done

850
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Speaker 1: Teky Barber. The whole shebang should be should be in

851
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Speaker 1: Seahawks quarterback Gino Smith one hundred and eighty five yards

852
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Speaker 1: away from two million dollars. Curious about that, Ian, Did

853
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Speaker 1: you have any others any.

854
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there was one more. It was Dobbins JK. Dobbins.

855
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got fifty eight rushing yards away from three

856
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars bonus.

857
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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no.

858
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 3: He's actually no sorry, he's already secured the three hundred

859
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. But if he gets fifty eight more rushing yards,

860
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Speaker 3: that becomes four hundred and fifty thousand.

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Speaker 1: Gosh. I don't know for a guy who's already injury

862
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Speaker 1: prom I dismissed time this year. Yeah, I just don't see.

863
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Speaker 3: That interesting though. It's not like it's, you know, some

864
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 3: insane line. It's it's tough, but he could he could

865
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Speaker 3: feasibly do that.

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Speaker 5: And it's against the Raiders too, he's playing the Raiders.

867
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Speaker 6: Yeah, just I think your offense needs him too much

868
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Speaker 6: to risk him this week right now off of CBS

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Speaker 6: Sports like the Geno Smith has two other incentives, so

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Speaker 6: this could be a six million dollar game.

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Speaker 1: Spot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sixty nine point seven completion and then another win

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Speaker 6: and the win. The win would get him to ten wins.

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Speaker 6: Ten wins, which is another two million.

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Speaker 1: She's unreal. All right, let's end on that notes.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to get into an angry thing. Damn,

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Speaker 4: I really wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Ten and seven.

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Speaker 4: I want your.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, gosh, Kyler Murray, just why'd you chuck it

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Speaker 1: at Trey McBride's helmet like you had the rams beat?

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Speaker 4: He did a nineteen eighty movie Flash Gordon when it

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Speaker 4: hits Flash Gordon quarterback New York Jets in the head

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Speaker 4: and it ends their little attempt at a breakout. Same

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Speaker 4: thing Trey McBride.

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Speaker 1: When Art imitates life. Absolutely, oh man. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: the regular season has been fun. We're gonna have some

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Speaker 1: fun in the postseason as well, so you'll want to

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Speaker 1: stick around. New episodes will be out probably every Tuesday morning,

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Speaker 1: but as they usually do, as we look back at

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Speaker 1: the week, and then we'll look ahead at the playoff slate,

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Speaker 1: and the next time we get together we will have

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Speaker 1: a playoff slate. We will know who is where and

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Speaker 1: doing what. So for Ian, Roddy and Mike Carmen, we

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Speaker 1: wish you all a happy New Year and can't wait

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Speaker 1: to talk to you in the postseason. Right here, and

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Speaker 1: I want your FLEs