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Speaker 1: Welcome to Between the Horns, presented by your Southern California

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Speaker 1: Too a dealer, proud partner of the La Rams. I

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Speaker 1: am J D Long, joined by my radio broadcast partner

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Speaker 1: de Marco Farr, who's done the school drop off. And

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Speaker 1: I think this morning cup of coffee absolutely I took

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Speaker 1: all her stuff down and put me up. See right there.

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Speaker 1: Since Kurt Warner has a movie, you know, I might

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Speaker 1: as well put one up in the background, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Undergo Underdog story. Now I know, it's BTh Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and it is game week. It's Monday night football against

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and so we bring in a special guest,

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Speaker 1: Kirk Morrison, who handles our pregame, halftime and postgame coverage

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Speaker 1: on our flagship radio station. And Kirk Man, those royal

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Speaker 1: and Soul colors look good on you. You're necessary, you

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Speaker 1: know what. It looks good on me, you know. And

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Speaker 1: it's okay to be able to have two teams that

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Speaker 1: you're root for, genuinely, Okay, fans are dying by the day.

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Speaker 1: Come on now, hey, that's just what it is. Man.

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Speaker 1: I grew up with Giants and an A's fan in

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. What can else could I do? I

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Speaker 1: love it? Come on in, let's start with the NFC

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Speaker 1: playoff picture. Why don't we Arizona is a top They're

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Speaker 1: the one, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Dallas in position to

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Speaker 1: win their divisions. Then the Rams as the five seeds,

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Speaker 1: So any hope of climbing to the top of the

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Speaker 1: NFC West requires a win in Glendale on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: football and DeMarco, let's start with a quick rehash of

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Speaker 1: that Jacksonville win. Do you understand the fan sentiment, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you beat a two win opponent, I want to wait

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Speaker 1: and see what it looks like against a two loss foe.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's fair. Absolutely. I thought Jacksonville was a great

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Speaker 1: sparring partner for the Rams getting ready for this game.

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Speaker 1: And that's funny, JB. That's exactly what I saw from

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Speaker 1: the sideline, especially from the defense. I think they had

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Speaker 1: what fifty five snaps and it was all out go

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Speaker 1: after Laurence stopped the run. It was a great day

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Speaker 1: defensively so, but what I did see it seemed like

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Speaker 1: guys were testing their conditioning, Like it wasn't about beating Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: This was about Okay, this is an extended practice for

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna see on Monday night. So yeah, a

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Speaker 1: lot at steak. But if you just boil it down, man,

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Speaker 1: it's just ball. It's the Rams versus the Cardinals, and

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Speaker 1: I know the Rams are still sick about what the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals did to them the first time they saw it

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Speaker 1: was embarrassing. So this is your only chance for get

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Speaker 1: back to date. So I know there's a lot at steak,

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Speaker 1: but this is old school about one team versus the

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Speaker 1: next and one coach versus the other. Kirk humility is

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Speaker 1: only a week away in the National Football League, But

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Speaker 1: couldn't the same also be true if swagger right? Like,

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Speaker 1: I know it's the Jacksonville Jaguars, but still, that was

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Speaker 1: just what the doctor ordered for the Los Angeles Rams.

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Speaker 1: You know, jab honestly, I think you hit it right there,

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Speaker 1: because that was the one thing that I wanted to

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Speaker 1: see in the game against the Jaguars. It wasn't about

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Speaker 1: the yards. It wasn't about could the offense get back

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Speaker 1: solid game. To me, I felt like this Rams team

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Speaker 1: is they weren't having fun. It didn't look fun. And

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Speaker 1: think about it compared to like the early weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season, where you've got Sean McVay the head coach,

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Speaker 1: running all the way up to the tunnel to congratulate

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Speaker 1: it to Sean Jackson or a Cooper cup or a

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. I hadn't seen that in a long long time.

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Speaker 1: So for me, it was really about, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: regaining that swagger, seeing OBJ with a little touchdown celebration right,

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Speaker 1: seeing that magic that we saw earlier in the season.

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Speaker 1: That to me was really about what I think the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars win was is getting back on track, having fun

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Speaker 1: and realizing we're still a darn good football team. We're

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Speaker 1: eight and four with everything still in front of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, the only time I'm want to watch Aaron

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Speaker 1: there when it's cold, So that ain't fun. I get that, right.

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Speaker 1: And did you know what that touchdown celebration was from OBJ? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I do. You did immediately immediately, well immediately when I

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Speaker 1: was like, did he just revive himself? And so I

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Speaker 1: thought he got hurt. No, they're younger, and you're you're

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Speaker 1: more of a gamer than demarcoll and I are, and

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Speaker 1: apparently Sean McVeigh is, because he was not aware at

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Speaker 1: least first claims did you guys watched though the Rams

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Speaker 1: platforms had it, NFL films had it. Sean McVeigh miked

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Speaker 1: up in that game and saying, this feels like us,

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Speaker 1: like reacting to the moment. I think that expresses the

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Speaker 1: to be. But Kirk, I wonder, is this a new

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Speaker 1: it better not be. And I think that when you

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Speaker 1: look at what the Rams have down the stretch, right,

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Speaker 1: I look at the three games against divisional opponent San

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Speaker 1: Francisco Seattle still upcoming. But I think one that quietly, JB.

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Speaker 1: I'm still thinking about it, and I shouldn't be. But

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Speaker 1: when you go against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, you

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Speaker 1: better be able to do something different than come out

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Speaker 1: in eleven personnel. So I thought that that thirteen that

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Speaker 1: jumbo package. I call it thirteen T, one back, three

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Speaker 1: Why the T tag on the thirteen T. I loved it,

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Speaker 1: and it was like five yards to carry. But it

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Speaker 1: was also a mentality that I saw too, and finally

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Speaker 1: an outstanding swing tackle that's really been sitting on the

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Speaker 1: him more active. I thought it gave great relief to

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Speaker 1: the tight ends, gave them more edges, gave them more

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Speaker 1: hats on hats, but it also gave me for the

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Speaker 1: first time we in like but the last two or

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Speaker 1: three weeks, we finally saw somebody wide open, like literally

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Speaker 1: off the play action, wide open throw, easy throw for

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Those are the layups that I thought this

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Speaker 1: I think it really was predicated on getting into some

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Speaker 1: that it won't be a one off. What do you

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Speaker 1: call it? Thirteen T thirteen T Yeah, one back, cre

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Speaker 1: I called it? Oh solutely, here it comes now. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: going big, going physical. I think that was growth by

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Speaker 1: Sean mcvaya. Beyonds. Coaches are stubborn men and they think

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Speaker 1: their stuff works against just about anybody, even when it's

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Speaker 1: not working. That's how guys get fired. They stick to

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Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right. Joseph Noteboom could have been

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Speaker 1: Get your butt out there, replace one of those tight ends,

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Speaker 1: and move somebody and run the football. But Sony Michelle

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Speaker 1: going downhill, I think opens everything up for the offense.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, the only way to attract the defense

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Speaker 1: is really make them believe you can run the football

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Speaker 1: at him. Then you'll get safety starting to collapse. Linebackers

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Speaker 1: take a step into the line of scrimmage. That's when

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Speaker 1: you get guys wide open behind. So you know, as

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Speaker 1: long as Matthew Stafford continues to be accurate on play action, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you're getting movement up front, you can get this

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Speaker 1: or four weeks. How did cha they put it to

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Speaker 1: us Monday? Joan Opum, you can't tell us isn't one

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Speaker 1: of our best eleven players on offense, right, So shame

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Speaker 1: on us as a Rams coaching staff if we can't

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Speaker 1: find ways to get him involved in the game plan.

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Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see if they carry that forward

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Speaker 1: to Monday Night football and this stretch run Kirk looking

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Speaker 1: at it through a middle linebackers lens, the Rams become

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Speaker 1: a more difficult team to prepare for this week for

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. What I mean by that is we

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Speaker 1: saw more personnel groupings in that one Sunday against the

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Speaker 1: I think now you have to look at the entire

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Speaker 1: you on Monday Night. It's not just hey, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: come out in eleven personnel. It's honestly, how do you

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Speaker 1: want to defend? And look, they've got some athletic linebackers, right,

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Speaker 1: I think it's shortened up the game. I think our

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Speaker 1: keeping Kyler Murray in their offense off the field, keeping

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Speaker 1: them on the sideline. So what does that do? Shortened

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Speaker 1: by having these different personnel groupings and forcing the substitutions.

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Speaker 1: I mean it looked like a hockey line switch for

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars a couple of times out there JV last

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Speaker 1: week where the Rams bring in this big boy packs,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa there, heroes three? You know, substitutions for

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Will that now happen on Monday night? For

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals having to figure out which is the

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Speaker 1: probably didn't expect to have to do this much work

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Speaker 1: this week their defensive coordinator, but I think it does

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Speaker 1: present some problems. It presents some challenges for the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: the edge as well. For a Chandler Jones, Now instead

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Speaker 1: a regular tight end, he's got to rush off another

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Speaker 1: did you catch that hour He's wearing an l a

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Speaker 1: hat and a rams Paolo, I'm right there. Come on, man,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm all in all let's just keep

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Speaker 1: drawing him in. But you know, Kirk, I think you're right,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I want to say something and I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say it because it's probably in the game plan.

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Speaker 1: But there's so much you can do so in so

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Speaker 1: many ways. You can catch a defense off balance with

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Speaker 1: that formation that thirteen with a tackle you have to

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Speaker 1: align to it properly number one, and you have to

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Speaker 1: know who's eligible number two and hit. So we'll see,

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Speaker 1: and um, I call Chandler Jones, agent Jones. You guys

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Speaker 1: have seen the matrix, right, Remember those agents that move

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Speaker 1: dodging bullets. That's how those guy rushes um. But it's funny. UM.

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Speaker 1: Ask me this question, and I'll ask you two. Who

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Speaker 1: would you rather have? Chandler Jones or Leonard Floyd? Now,

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones has eight and a half sacks, five in

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Speaker 1: the first game and three and a half cents or

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Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd's production week after week after week after week. Man,

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Speaker 1: I think I take Floyd. And that's tough for me

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Speaker 1: to say because I like Chandler Jones. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get Joyd's already got his payday and he's still bringing it.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's interesting, but they're tremendous. I

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Speaker 1: love their linebackers. But like you said, this will give

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Speaker 1: Have the great rest of your Thursday. Looking forward to

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